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Scott Adams, best known as the (now-canceled) creator of the comic strip DILBERT and also a bestselling author, is also a trained hypnotist and an expert in persuasion.  Although the Democrats in Congress were lying their heads off during the first day of the impeachment inquiry --- and no doubt will continue to do so --- he warns that at least some of them were using some very effective persuasion techniques that, unfortunately, work like a charm on uninformed people.  That’s what we’re up against.  This is excerpted from his Friday podcast:

“Are you watching the impeachment inquiry?  [It’s] a little laboratory where you can learn about persuasion and what’s wrong with the government, and you can see every example of everything.  Now, AOC had her ‘moment’ where she argued passionately against the impeachment inquiry and the thought that Joe Biden had done anything wrong.  (under his breath: ‘Oh my God…’)  [Her performance] is a master class in persuasion.  So her persuasion game is super-strong…

“...First of all, the whole situation around the Bidens is too complicated for 95 percent of voters.  So [they’ll] never know what is actually happening.   So in that situation, who is the best persuader wins.  They can be completely divorced from reality; they just have to persuade.

“So given that the public has no idea what really happened with the Biden situation, she, first of all, acts very confident.  The confidence itself is part of the persuasion.  And I watched her ask a witness questions, and then act as though the answer to the question proved her point, when it didn’t even come close.  But because the people watching it can’t tell the difference, she made it look like they proved her point…

“...When you watch her asking questions, the assumption that you have is that those questions ever made sense, or that the answer is in the right context.  It was actually just complete blah-blah-blah that her mannerisms sold as proving her point.  It was kind of a genius move; it was really good.  There was no connection to facts or process.  She just got somebody to say ‘yes’ and ‘no,’ and then sold it to the public as though she had just won a case.  And none of it was even connected, like, to a case, just the most random bunch of (bleep).  It was brilliant, really brilliant.”

Have to say, this is probably the first time we’ve ever seen the words “genius” and “brilliant” applied to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  She obviously had the words in front of her at the table while saying this, and she’s been coached in the art of selling something that’s (bleep) but that she doesn’t even know is (bleep).  But, yes, what she did will play well with the uninformed and/or already brainwashed.

We’d also add that to better assess her natural skill at this, it helps to watch those Democrats who were trying the same technique but much less successfully.  New York Rep. Dan Goldman’s attempt to feign righteous indignation while trying to rough-up calm-and-cool legal professor Jonathan Turley landed like an anvil and only succeeded in making him look even more ridiculous than he already did.  Surely by now his party has trotted him out enough times to know that he NEVER makes his side look better.

Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi went the furthest of all, misstating and (surely) deliberately lying about Turley’s previous statements in other cases.  Trying to discredit one of the most even-handed legal analysts you’ll ever see, he waved around papers like Sen. Joe McCarthy in the 1950s, suggesting that Turley had defended polygamy and had defended Tom Green, a polygamist who was convicted of child rape.  (By the way, isn’t it interesting that the party that still talks about the blacklist of the 1950s is making blacklists of its own in the 2020s?  They say that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, but in this case, the Democrats are remembering the past and STILL repeating it.)

Anyway, when Turley tried to correct this smear and explain why it was untrue, the congressman wouldn’t let him speak.  Krishnamoorthi quickly left the floor once his time had ended, leaving Turley to continue as a witness.  It took 30 minutes for Turley to be given the chance to correct the record.  Later that day, Turley wrote a column about the toxic environment currently dominating our halls of power for the DAILY BEAST (where he most definitely was not preaching to the choir).  This was “one more sorry sordid moment in our politics of personal destruction,” he wrote.  It’s a definite must-read...

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/09/30/the-green-scare-and-the-new-mccarthyism-a-response-to-rep-raja-krishnamoorthi/#more-210165

So, AOC exhibits “genius” simply because she’s better at lying than the others because she senses or has been advised when she’s approaching a line she’s better off not crossing?  They’re ALL lying, and we all better wake up to the tactics, especially when they’re being used more skillfully.

Another tactic pointed out by Adams (also by us, last Friday) was the constant criticism of the hearing over not presenting “fact witnesses.”

“But did that matter?” Adams asked.  “No.  The right question was, ‘Does it matter…’  And the answer would’ve been, ‘No, not for the inquiry.  For the inquiry...we can show you the documents, and the documents serve as the evidence.  That’s why we’re here...None of it matters; it’s not relevant to the inquiry.’”  [Aside:  that’s what we’ve been saying nonstop, both before the hearing and after.]

“It’s just something that sounds good, if you didn’t know anything about how anything works.  But it sounded really good...really persuasive.”

And with that, Adams was done with the topic.  It would’ve been nice for him to go on to talk about how else Republicans can counter this constant gaslighting.  Are we going to let a partisan idiot like AOC (and the media) run over us when we have mounting evidence on our side?

Later in his podcast, Adams addressed the use by Democrats of the term “MAGA extremist.”  He thinks this was coined by someone who, if not a hypnotist, is particularly well-versed in persuasion skills.  He sees this as “weaponizing the government against ordinary voters.”  MAGA is simply make-America-great-again, ordinary conservative thinking, while extremist is...extremist.  They are two different things.  But by constantly putting them together, he makes them synonymous.

“What would be an appropriate thing that you could do with an extremist?” he asked, given that an extremist is “probably dangerous.”  So “the legal system has to deal with extremists.”  Now, they’ve found a way to “slime the word MAGA.”  Anyone who’s MAGA “is part of the extremist framing,” so that “pretty soon, MAGA and extremist will sound like the same thing.”

“That’s called...hypnosis.”  He thinks a professional came up with this, not just a politician.  “It’s too good,” he said.  He called this weaponized persuasion because “it can get somebody killed.”

“So, basically,” he said, “it’s giving permission for violence against, and legal action against, ordinary Republicans.”  Adams is not one to easily invoke Hitler’s name, but he likened this to what Hitler was doing with the Jews, “where you [gradually] move the country toward that hatred.”

He suggested the MAGA brand be changed to something specific such as “Anti-Corruption.”  The reason?  “They’re going against a man who’s corrupt.”

We thought of something a little catchier: “MAGA ‘Trumps’ Corruption.” It ties the familiar slogan, as well as Trump’s name, to fighting corruption.  And running the rats out of the government has got to be THE key issue in ‘24.

On Sunday, Adams did point out something Trump posted on Truth Social that he thought was really effective: “Crooked Joe Biden has three major problems, and all of them start with the letter ‘I’ ---  inflation, immigration and incompetence.”

“Oh, that’s...good,” he said with respect.  “Good stuff, persuasion-wise.”  It also happens to be true.

RELATED READING ON IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY:

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/29/scott-fitzgerald-impeachment-inquiry-joe-biden

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/bruce-dubinsky-newsmax-impeachment/2023/09/28

As Oversight Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky anticipated Tuesday, the committees in charge of the House impeachment inquiry of President Biden have released more information that supports allegations of special treatment for Hunter Biden.  As it contains personal tax information, it had to be voted out of committee by House Ways & Means (and yes, Hunter’s attorneys, they’re allowed to do that.) Here’s a link to everything that was released on Wednesday.

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/event/meeting-on-documents-protected-under-internal-revenue-code-section-6103-2/

I know, overwhelming.  They released 700 pages, the entire testimony of the IRS whistleblowers, after which a number of Democrats came to the mic to say there was still NO DIRECT EVIDENCE implicating President Biden in this.  I’m sure they had all read and analyzed every page, just like they read 2,000-page budget bills overnight.  When they still insist on repeating this talking point, it’s downright amusing.

In fact, Jessica Tarlov on Fox News’ THE FIVE became quite impassioned on Wednesday afternoon, trying to explain why a $260,000 payment from Chinese business associates showing up at then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s home is okay.  She said James Comer “is misrepresenting this case completely” over the issue of the address, as Comer had acknowledged Hunter used the Delaware home address “during this period.”  I like to cut Tarlov a little slack, because she always has her work cut out for her at a table full of non-leftists --- sitting next to Judge Jeanine Pirro, no less, who usually decimates any opponent --- but have to say that this time she got off too easy because of the time constraints of broadcasting.

Just two facts should cancel out her ravings about Republicans “embarrassing themselves”: (1.) Indications are that Hunter was NOT living at his father’s house but in California when the transfers arrived, so he would not have been the one to receive them, and, especially, (2.) the finances of Hunter and Joe Biden are known to have been co-mingled.  Their business and political lives were enmeshed --- to what extent?  That’s what investigators are trying to determine.  Of course, they have the email from Hunter complaining about having to give 50 percent of his earnings to his dad.  Meanwhile, the very real arrival of a huge Chinese payment to Hunter showing up at the doorstop of his presidential-candidate father, Hunter’s “asset,” just looks dirty, because it is.

Another thing that’s always good to say when leftists defend the indefensible about the Bidens:  I wonder what you would be saying about this right now, given the same scenario, if it involved Don Trump, Jr., and HIS father.  And then just walk away.  (I guarantee you, WE would not be defending it.  That seems to be one of the main differences between Republicans and Democrats.)

Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith spoke at a press conference on Wednesday, saying that if what is in these 700 pages is okay with you, “then we live on two different planets.”

One item Smith released was a text message from June 6, 2017, from Hunter that referred to his father as “my family’s only asset.”

Smith said, “These documents show a clearer connection between Joe Biden, his public office, and Hunter Biden’s global influence peddling scheme that resulted in over $20 million in payments to the Biden family...The evidence shows a pattern of Hunter Biden creating for-profit entities to shield out at least $20 million from foreign sources from taxes and hide the trail of payments that led to members of the Biden family.”

Something else that emerges from these pages, as reported in REDSTATE, is that James Biden, Joe Biden’s brother, tried to help Chinese energy company CEFC buy key U.S. energy assets while knowing the firm’s leader had direct ties to Chinese President Xi Jinping.  Specifically, they were trying to buy a liquid natural gas facility on Monkey Island off the coast of Louisiana.

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/09/27/released-interview-with-james-biden-reveals-attempts-to-arrange-sale-of-us-energy-assets-to-china

Here’s the entire interview the FBI had with James…

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-09/T19%20Exhibit%20401-Memo

According to FBI notes, “James B noted (Hunter) portrayed CEFC to him as Chairman Ye was a protege of President Xi.”

As Georgia Rep. Austin Scott said Wednesday, “It just means that it’s even worse than even I thought it was, that they would go that far.  If you look at some of those ports in Louisiana...like Port Fourchon, that area of Louisiana, just a tremendous portion of the energy that we use inside the United States comes through those hubs.  And the idea that you would help the Chinese acquire assets in that area to give, you know, an adversary the ability to control the energy supply inside the United States, I don’t understand how much more of a traitor you could be than to do such a thing.”

https://slaynews.com/news/joe-bidens-brother-james-admitted-to-fbi-the-biden-family-tried-to-help-chinese-firm-tied-to-xi-jinping-buy-key-us-energy-assets/

During Smith’s press conference, he showed a map with 23 countries that were allegedly involved in Hunter’s business enterprise.  (This in itself is not evidence, but it points to how wide the investigation needs to be.)  Also, to demonstrate how the IRS investigation had been interfered with, he displayed an email from Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf instructing the investigators to remove references to Joe Biden (“Political figure 1”) from a search warrant.  And there’s an investigators’ memo saying a CNN producer had received a memo from Hunter saying he expected that when his father became President, all this “stuff” (his tax investigation) would “go away.”  Good detail here; a must-read...

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/27/new-evidence-confirms-investigation-into-evidence-about-joe-biden-was-cut-off-in-hunter-probe-n2164384

Smith also showed a text Hunter allegedly sent a business associate describing the family “brand” as an asset.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/27/house-investigators-documents-supporting-irs-whistleblower-testimony/

Finally, Ways and Means also released a very interesting 2016 memo from the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma to Yuri Lutsenko, the new prosecutor who replaced Viktor Shokin after Joe Biden apparently got Shokin fired.  This was at the time Hunter was on Burisma’s board.

“As Members of the Board of Directors,” it says in part, “we respectfully request that allegations of criminal activity made by you and/or members of your office cease…”

It appears Burisma was getting its money’s worth in terms of influence.  Much more here…

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/09/27/bombshell-hunter-biden-signed-off-on-burisma-memo-to-ukrainian-prosecutor-warning-against-investigation-n2164389

Spending deal reached

October 2, 2023

It's telling that after hearing for days about the cataclysm that would ensue if Congress didn’t pass a stopgap government funding bill, they did pass one just before the midnight Saturday deadline, and President Biden signed it…

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/30/government-shutdown-live-updates-congress-faces-funding-deadline.html

…Yet all anyone is talking about is the side drama among the Representatives.

On the Democrat side, there’s male “Squad” member Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who caused an interruption and building evacuation during the rushed negotiations by pulling a fire alarm.

https://www.westernjournal.com/critical-detail-seen-alcove-rep-bowman-pulled-fire-alarm-no-way-didnt-notice/

Bowman first offered a rambling, incoherent explanation with more “homina-homina’s” than Ralph Kramdon, followed by a written statement claiming he mistakenly thought the fire alarm would open the doors. He claimed he was just trying to rush back to the Chamber to vote and found the doors marked “emergency exit only,” and was not by any means trying to delay the vote. Unfortunately for him, the whole thing was caught on video, and it doesn’t seem to match that story very closely. He apparently pulled signs off the doors warning that they were emergency exits only and threw them on the floor before pulling the clearly-labeled "FIRE alarm."

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/30/exclusive-capitol-sources-jamaal-bowman-threw-signs-warning-door-was-emergency-only-on-floor-before-pulling-fire-alarm/

Critics pointed out that this requires us to believe either that Bowman is blind and didn’t see the signs, or he’s a former school principal who never saw a fire alarm before, or that he just can’t read, which I could maybe believe of a Squad member. AOC was even willing to vouch for how easy it is to get confused by things like “fire alarms” and “exit” signs, have a moment of panic when you can’t find your way out of a vestibule, and do something stupid.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/10/01/aoc-ridiculous-defense-of-jamaal-bowman-on-cnn-even-jake-tapper-isnt-buying-it-n2164555

Republicans suspect he was trying to delay the vote to buy Democrats more time or even to force a government shutdown that could be blamed on them. Matt Margolis of PJ Media even questioned the narrative that the bill’s passage was a win for Democrats, because they repeatedly tried to delay or stall the vote, signaling that they really wanted a shutdown.

https://www.westernjournal.com/new-low-kevin-mccarthy-appalled-dems-obstruction-democratic-process/

Donald Trump tweeted that Bowman’s act was “a very dangerous ‘Obstruction of an Official Proceeding,’ the same as used against our J-6 prisoners. Actually, his act may have been worse. HE MUST SUFFER THEIR SAME FATE. WHEN WILL HIS TRIAL BEGIN???” This being DC, where laws only apply to Republicans, that likely won’t happen. But the incident is under investigation and a lot of Republicans are demanding some action against Bowman, even as harsh as expelling him.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/01/bowman-draws-skepticism-with-claims-that-fire-alarm-was-inadvertent/

FYI: Here’s why pulling that fire alarm might be a crime three times over.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/jamaal-bowmans-obstruction-of-congress-is-a-crime-perhaps-three-times-over

Meanwhile, there’s also post-deal drama on the GOP side, with Rep. Matt Gaetz so angry at Speaker Kevin McCarthy for shepherding the bill that didn’t include any conservative priorities (but it didn’t include any more funds for Ukraine) that he’s launching another effort to remove him as Speaker. McCarthy responded, “Bring it on.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/01/mccarthy-to-gaetz-bring-it-on-ill-survive-as-speaker/

Other Republicans are privately complaining about all this intra-party warfare when they have such a small majority. There was even a report that Gaetz was offering Democrats on the Biden impeachment inquiry committee subpoena power to help them shut it down in return for their support in ousting McCarthy, which Gaetz denied. As he should, because it would spell the end of his career in GOP politics.

My advice: This bill is just for 45 days. Spend the next month-and-a-half working on a better funding bill instead of forming circular firing squads.

Between all the back-biting, pulling fire alarms and violating the dress code, our Congress seems to be a collection of the oldest high school students since “Beverly Hills 90210.”

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

Blessings on you and your family from all the Huckabee team! 

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Today’s Huckabee Video Link

If you missed it, or would like to share it, here is my interview from this weekend’s “Huckabee” on TBN with the Romeike family.

https://www.huckabee.tv/guests/the-romeike-family

They are apparently the only people the Biden Administration wants to deport. After 15 years of being exemplary American residents, they’re being threatened with expulsion back to Germany, where they face punishment and persecution for being Christians who homeschooled their children. If deported, their younger children who are American citizens could be taken from them and put into foster care. I’ve also heard reports that their adult children who were homeschooled could be classified as “uneducated” in Germany, making it impossible for them to get decent jobs.

This is one of the most outrageous miscarriages of justice I’ve seen in a long time, especially in an age when we have millions of unvetted illegal immigrants, some with criminal records, streaming into the US with no fears of deportation. I hope you will join me in praying for them and in taking direct action to express your support.

You can learn more about their case and sign a petition to the Biden Administration here: https://hslda.org/post/romeike

And contact your Congress member here to voice your support for a bill to extend them permanent resident status. Thank you for your aid and support.

https://hslda.org/post/congress-can-stop-deportation-for-romeikes-but-we-need-your-help


Newsom chooses Laphonza Butler

California Gov. Gavin Newsom picked an interim replacement to fill the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s seat until the 2024 election. He kept his promise to ignore qualifications and nondiscrimination laws and consider only black females (not the way he’d put it, but more accurate), which should be considered an EEOC violation, but he’s a Democrat so the laws don’t apply. To nobody’s surprise, he chose Laphonza Butler, who has no experience as an elected representative, but she checks off more Democrat boxes than a Bingo champion, being LGBTQ+, a former government workers’ union president who pushed for higher taxes on the rich, and most importantly, president of Emily’s List, the PAC that funds pro-abortion political candidates.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-names-laphonza-butler-former-kamala-harris-adviser-replace-feinsteins-senate-seat

In short, whenever she drives, she’d rather make three left turns than one right turn.

The pick was bad news for California’s top Democratic Senate candidates, Reps. Barbara Lee, Katie Porter and Adam Schiff, because if Butler decides she likes the job and enters the race, they’ll be running against an incumbent instead of for an open seat. It’s also bad news for America because with the state of insanity prevailing in California, no matter what happens, one of those four horsemen/women of the loony leftist apocalypse is going to be the state’s next Senator.

One problem that might prevent Butler from running: she was immediately hit with a scandal when it was reported she’s a resident of Maryland, not California. I find it hard to believe that California didn’t have any black socialist lesbian abortion activists of its own.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/10/02/newsoms-first-black-lesbian-senate-appointment-hit-with-scandal-immediately-cover-up-underway-n2164566


Spending deal reached

It's telling that after hearing for days about the cataclysm that would ensue if Congress didn’t pass a stopgap government funding bill, they did pass one just before the midnight Saturday deadline, and President Biden signed it…

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/30/government-shutdown-live-updates-congress-faces-funding-deadline.html

…Yet all anyone is talking about is the side drama among the Representatives.

On the Democrat side, there’s male “Squad” member Rep. Jamaal Bowman, who caused an interruption and building evacuation during the rushed negotiations by pulling a fire alarm.

https://www.westernjournal.com/critical-detail-seen-alcove-rep-bowman-pulled-fire-alarm-no-way-didnt-notice/

Bowman first offered a rambling, incoherent explanation with more “homina-homina’s” than Ralph Kramdon, followed by a written statement claiming he mistakenly thought the fire alarm would open the doors. He claimed he was just trying to rush back to the Chamber to vote and found the doors marked “emergency exit only,” and was not by any means trying to delay the vote. Unfortunately for him, the whole thing was caught on video, and it doesn’t seem to match that story very closely. He apparently pulled signs off the doors warning that they were emergency exits only and threw them on the floor before pulling the clearly-labeled "FIRE alarm."

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/30/exclusive-capitol-sources-jamaal-bowman-threw-signs-warning-door-was-emergency-only-on-floor-before-pulling-fire-alarm/

Critics pointed out that this requires us to believe either that Bowman is blind and didn’t see the signs, or he’s a former school principal who never saw a fire alarm before, or that he just can’t read, which I could maybe believe of a Squad member. AOC was even willing to vouch for how easy it is to get confused by things like “fire alarms” and “exit” signs, have a moment of panic when you can’t find your way out of a vestibule, and do something stupid.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/10/01/aoc-ridiculous-defense-of-jamaal-bowman-on-cnn-even-jake-tapper-isnt-buying-it-n2164555

Republicans suspect he was trying to delay the vote to buy Democrats more time or even to force a government shutdown that could be blamed on them. Matt Margolis of PJ Media even questioned the narrative that the bill’s passage was a win for Democrats, because they repeatedly tried to delay or stall the vote, signaling that they really wanted a shutdown.

https://www.westernjournal.com/new-low-kevin-mccarthy-appalled-dems-obstruction-democratic-process/

Donald Trump tweeted that Bowman’s act was “a very dangerous ‘Obstruction of an Official Proceeding,’ the same as used against our J-6 prisoners. Actually, his act may have been worse. HE MUST SUFFER THEIR SAME FATE. WHEN WILL HIS TRIAL BEGIN???” This being DC, where laws only apply to Republicans, that likely won’t happen. But the incident is under investigation and a lot of Republicans are demanding some action against Bowman, even as harsh as expelling him.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/01/bowman-draws-skepticism-with-claims-that-fire-alarm-was-inadvertent/

FYI: Here’s why pulling that fire alarm might be a crime three times over.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/jamaal-bowmans-obstruction-of-congress-is-a-crime-perhaps-three-times-over

Meanwhile, there’s also post-deal drama on the GOP side, with Rep. Matt Gaetz so angry at Speaker Kevin McCarthy for shepherding the bill that didn’t include any conservative priorities (but it didn’t include any more funds for Ukraine) that he’s launching another effort to remove him as Speaker. McCarthy responded, “Bring it on.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/01/mccarthy-to-gaetz-bring-it-on-ill-survive-as-speaker/

Other Republicans are privately complaining about all this intra-party warfare when they have such a small majority. There was even a report that Gaetz was offering Democrats on the Biden impeachment inquiry committee subpoena power to help them shut it down in return for their support in ousting McCarthy, which Gaetz denied. As he should, because it would spell the end of his career in GOP politics.

My advice: This bill is just for 45 days. Spend the next month-and-a-half working on a better funding bill instead of forming circular firing squads.

Between all the back-biting, pulling fire alarms and violating the dress code, our Congress seems to be a collection of the oldest high school students since “Beverly Hills 90210.”


A new White House ban

Fox News Digital revealed that the Biden White House has banned senior officials from traveling to international conferences that promote “carbon-intensive fuels,” including oil, gas and coal. The document reads, "This guidance sets out a presumption that agencies and departments will pursue international energy engagement that advances clean energy projects," and anything else must be approved by the NSC.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-prohibiting-official-travel-fossil-fuel-conferences-internal-memo-shows

I wonder, does this mean that President Biden will have to ask the NSC’s permission before he travels to the Middle East again to beg OPEC nations to pump more oil because he’s killing our domestic fossil fuel industry and making gasoline and heating oil unaffordable? Or is that yet another regulation that he’s exempt from?


Trump trial starts today

Donald Trump’s civil trial for fraud for allegedly overvaluing his properties to lenders started today in New York. We'll have a recap tomorrow, but Fox News has a page that will be continually updated:

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/donald-trump-new-york-ag-letitia-james-civil-trial

Trump’s attorneys called the judge’s rulings so far “fundamentally flawed at every level,” so after he finishes finding Trump guilty and assessing ridiculous levels of punishment, perhaps we can move on to an appeals court where the judge isn’t so blinded by Trump Derangement Syndrome that he thinks Mar-A-Lago could be picked up for fire sale prices. Personally, I don't know how anyone can live in New York and give such low estimates of property prices.


Judge orders New York to pay the NRA’s legal fees

While New York is struggling financially due to taxpayers fleeing and illegal immigrants let in by Joe Biden bankrupting their social programs, they have a new bill to worry about, and this one’s gotta hurt: a New York judge ordered the state to pay $447,000 in legal fees to the National Rifle Association.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/judge-orders-new-york-dole-out-nearly-half-million-legal-fees-nra-supreme-court-victory

This came after the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional a New York law that required citizens to show “proper cause” for seeking a gun carry license, with the state deciding subjectively whether they’d shown a good enough reason to be allowed to exercise their Second Amendment rights. They should’ve realized that was unconstitutional before passing it, but it took the NRA challenging it to get it thrown out, and now the state gets to pay their legal bills.

According to the NRA, this is only about a third of what it cost to litigate this issue because “New York refuses to fully compensate.” But at least they can take solace in knowing that writing a $447,000 check to the NRA may be the most painful duty Gov. Hochul faces all week.

Related: Blue states just never learn that the Second Amendment actually means what it says.

https://www.westernjournal.com/federal-judge-sides-gun-advocates-halts-parts-marylands-strict-carry-ban-national-implications/


Why?

Why are Democrat women so hostile to girls’ rights? To deal with the invasion of girls’ private spaces by males claiming to “identify” as female, the Arizona Legislature passed a bill requiring schools to have a private bathroom available for students of either sex unwilling or unable to use a group bathroom. In opposing the bill, Democratic Sen. Christine Marsh declared that “we could have just passed a law that schools have to have shower curtains and it could’ve solved this whole thing.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/dem-senator-tells-schoolgirls-fearful-showering-boys-simply-use-shower-curtains/

The idea that girls who feel unsafe and violated at having naked males in their locker room showers should just hang up a shower curtain was described by critics as “sick and demeaning.” But it was all for naught anyway, since female Democrat “Governor” Katie Hobbs vetoed the bill. Bear in mind, it wasn't even a bill banning males from girls' bathrooms; it was just a bill giving anyone the option of using a private bathroom, and she VETOED it.

And yet, as 2024 approaches, we will hear a steady drumbeat from Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself), telling women that they must vote Democrat to “protect women’s rights.” That is apparently now defined solely as the right to kill your baby up to the ninth month of pregnancy. For every other right, they want women to shut up and get in line behind the trans people.


Another angle on the first Biden impeachment inquiry hearing

Scott Adams, best known as the (now-canceled) creator of the comic strip DILBERT and also a bestselling author, is also a trained hypnotist and an expert in persuasion.  Although the Democrats in Congress were lying their heads off during the first day of the impeachment inquiry --- and no doubt will continue to do so --- he warns that at least some of them were using some very effective persuasion techniques that, unfortunately, work like a charm on uninformed people.  That’s what we’re up against.  This is excerpted from his Friday podcast:

“Are you watching the impeachment inquiry?  [It’s] a little laboratory where you can learn about persuasion and what’s wrong with the government, and you can see every example of everything.  Now, AOC had her ‘moment’ where she argued passionately against the impeachment inquiry and the thought that Joe Biden had done anything wrong.  (under his breath: ‘Oh my God…’)  [Her performance] is a master class in persuasion.  So her persuasion game is super-strong…

“...First of all, the whole situation around the Bidens is too complicated for 95 percent of voters.  So [they’ll] never know what is actually happening.   So in that situation, who is the best persuader wins.  They can be completely divorced from reality; they just have to persuade.

“So given that the public has no idea what really happened with the Biden situation, she, first of all, acts very confident.  The confidence itself is part of the persuasion.  And I watched her ask a witness questions, and then act as though the answer to the question proved her point, when it didn’t even come close.  But because the people watching it can’t tell the difference, she made it look like they proved her point…

“...When you watch her asking questions, the assumption that you have is that those questions ever made sense, or that the answer is in the right context.  It was actually just complete blah-blah-blah that her mannerisms sold as proving her point.  It was kind of a genius move; it was really good.  There was no connection to facts or process.  She just got somebody to say ‘yes’ and ‘no,’ and then sold it to the public as though she had just won a case.  And none of it was even connected, like, to a case, just the most random bunch of (bleep).  It was brilliant, really brilliant.”

Have to say, this is probably the first time we’ve ever seen the words “genius” and “brilliant” applied to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  She obviously had the words in front of her at the table while saying this, and she’s been coached in the art of selling something that’s (bleep) but that she doesn’t even know is (bleep).  But, yes, what she did will play well with the uninformed and/or already brainwashed.

We’d also add that to better assess her natural skill at this, it helps to watch those Democrats who were trying the same technique but much less successfully.  New York Rep. Dan Goldman’s attempt to feign righteous indignation while trying to rough-up calm-and-cool legal professor Jonathan Turley landed like an anvil and only succeeded in making him look even more ridiculous than he already did.  Surely by now his party has trotted him out enough times to know that he NEVER makes his side look better.

Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi went the furthest of all, misstating and (surely) deliberately lying about Turley’s previous statements in other cases.  Trying to discredit one of the most even-handed legal analysts you’ll ever see, he waved around papers like Sen. Joe McCarthy in the 1950s, suggesting that Turley had defended polygamy and had defended Tom Green, a polygamist who was convicted of child rape.  (By the way, isn’t it interesting that the party that still talks about the blacklist of the 1950s is making blacklists of its own in the 2020s?  They say that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, but in this case, the Democrats are remembering the past and STILL repeating it.)

Anyway, when Turley tried to correct this smear and explain why it was untrue, the congressman wouldn’t let him speak.  Krishnamoorthi quickly left the floor once his time had ended, leaving Turley to continue as a witness.  It took 30 minutes for Turley to be given the chance to correct the record.  Later that day, Turley wrote a column about the toxic environment currently dominating our halls of power for the DAILY BEAST (where he most definitely was not preaching to the choir).  This was “one more sorry sordid moment in our politics of personal destruction,” he wrote.  It’s a definite must-read...

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/09/30/the-green-scare-and-the-new-mccarthyism-a-response-to-rep-raja-krishnamoorthi/#more-210165

So, AOC exhibits “genius” simply because she’s better at lying than the others because she senses or has been advised when she’s approaching a line she’s better off not crossing?  They’re ALL lying, and we all better wake up to the tactics, especially when they’re being used more skillfully.

Another tactic pointed out by Adams (also by us, last Friday) was the constant criticism of the hearing over not presenting “fact witnesses.”

“But did that matter?” Adams asked.  “No.  The right question was, ‘Does it matter…’  And the answer would’ve been, ‘No, not for the inquiry.  For the inquiry...we can show you the documents, and the documents serve as the evidence.  That’s why we’re here...None of it matters; it’s not relevant to the inquiry.’”  [Aside:  that’s what we’ve been saying nonstop, both before the hearing and after.]

“It’s just something that sounds good, if you didn’t know anything about how anything works.  But it sounded really good...really persuasive.”

And with that, Adams was done with the topic.  It would’ve been nice for him to go on to talk about how else Republicans can counter this constant gaslighting.  Are we going to let a partisan idiot like AOC (and the media) run over us when we have mounting evidence on our side?

Later in his podcast, Adams addressed the use by Democrats of the term “MAGA extremist.”  He thinks this was coined by someone who, if not a hypnotist, is particularly well-versed in persuasion skills.  He sees this as “weaponizing the government against ordinary voters.”  MAGA is simply make-America-great-again, ordinary conservative thinking, while extremist is...extremist.  They are two different things.  But by constantly putting them together, he makes them synonymous.

“What would be an appropriate thing that you could do with an extremist?” he asked, given that an extremist is “probably dangerous.”  So “the legal system has to deal with extremists.”  Now, they’ve found a way to “slime the word MAGA.”  Anyone who’s MAGA “is part of the extremist framing,” so that “pretty soon, MAGA and extremist will sound like the same thing.”

“That’s called...hypnosis.”  He thinks a professional came up with this, not just a politician.  “It’s too good,” he said.  He called this weaponized persuasion because “it can get somebody killed.”

“So, basically,” he said, “it’s giving permission for violence against, and legal action against, ordinary Republicans.”  Adams is not one to easily invoke Hitler’s name, but he likened this to what Hitler was doing with the Jews, “where you [gradually] move the country toward that hatred.”

He suggested the MAGA brand be changed to something specific such as “Anti-Corruption.”  The reason?  “They’re going against a man who’s corrupt.”

We thought of something a little catchier: “MAGA ‘Trumps’ Corruption.” It ties the familiar slogan, as well as Trump’s name, to fighting corruption.  And running the rats out of the government has got to be THE key issue in ‘24.

On Sunday, Adams did point out something Trump posted on Truth Social that he thought was really effective: “Crooked Joe Biden has three major problems, and all of them start with the letter ‘I’ ---  inflation, immigration and incompetence.”

“Oh, that’s...good,” he said with respect.  “Good stuff, persuasion-wise.”  It also happens to be true.

RELATED READING ON IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY:

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/29/scott-fitzgerald-impeachment-inquiry-joe-biden

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/bruce-dubinsky-newsmax-impeachment/2023/09/28


And today’s Award for Utter Shamelessness goes to…

https://www.foxnews.com/us/lawyer-looter-known-meatball-claims-criticism-live-streamer-racist


Crazy talk

“Hamilton” creator Lin Manuel-Miranda is leading a lobbying effort to convince Congress to give $2.5 billion in taxpayer money to bail out failing live theaters. Or they could knock off all the woke political propaganda and try producing shows people actually want to see. Nah, that’s crazy talk!

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/09/29/hamiltons-lin-manuel-miranda-wants-2-5-billion-taxpayer-bailout-for-failing-theaters/


Disney has learned nothing

Disney has apparently learned nothing from losing billions of dollars making woke movies that nobody wants to see, so here we go again. Word is that they’re planning a “live-action” remake of the classic cartoon “Bambi,” only with photorealistic CGI animals (a terrible idea on its surface; as with the CGI “Lion King” remake, audiences will be wondering why these animals are palling around with each other instead of eating each other.)

But that’s not the worst of it: it’s also reported that one of the most famous scenes in the original, where Bambi’s mother is killed by a hunter, will not be in the new one because it might “traumatize” today’s bubble-wrapped snowflake children.

https://www.westernjournal.com/disneys-upcoming-bambi-remake-will-bring-big-change-iconic-hunter-scene/

For generations of kids, that scene was their introduction to some sad facts of life, including death, grief, the food chain and other harsh realities of the natural world. For some reason, it’s okay to expose today’s children to graphic gay sex manuals, but they must be shielded from learning what death is and where the meat on their plate comes from.

If the Disney version of “Bambi” is too rough for today’s woke crowd, I can only imagine how traumatized (I’d say “triggered” but the word “trigger” might trigger them) they'd be by the original Austrian novel it was based on. Felix Saltin’s “Bambi, A Life in the Woods” is often seen as a parable about the treatment of Jews in Europe, but it also gave young readers a much more realistic lesson in what it’s like to be a deer.

In the book, Bambi himself is also shot (although he recovers), as is his friend who was raised by humans and mistakenly thinks they’re his friends so he approaches a hunter and is killed. Male deer shun their offspring, who don’t even know they are their fathers, and the stags stay aloof from their mates as well. One stag scolds Bambi for crying for his mother, which a grown-up Bambi later does to two other fawns. Boy, talk about toxic deer masculinity!

Yet somehow, this book was a bestseller translated into 30 languages. It was read by countless kids who were so traumatized by it, they grew up to win World War II and lead the greatest economic expansion in history.


Not working

You might have seen some of the many commercials recently pushing the latest COVID vaccines, but it appears they aren’t very effective. The commercials, I mean…

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/10/01/thanks-but-no-thanksnew-poll-shows-americans-not-interested-in-new-covid-vaccines-n2164559

A Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that only 23% of US adults say they’ll “definitely” get the new jab, with another 25% saying they’ll “probably” get it. 52% will probably or definitely NOT get it. The majority of those who want the jab are Democrats (70%), while only 23% of Republicans plan to get it.

The good news for President Biden is that his attempt to take credit for COVID vaccines developed under Trump has apparently succeeded beyond his wildest dreams.


Feel-Good Story of the Day:

Happy birthday to Roger Antonucci of Woodstock, Georgia, who recently celebrated his 102nd birthday. The retired tailor and widower (his wife died at 101 after 65 years of marriage) says he feels only “79 or 80.” He attributes his long life and good health to avoiding smoking, keeping weight off, eating healthy, regular exercise and maintaining a good sense of humor and laughing a lot. His daughter added that he “likes sports and women, probably not in that order.” And he’s not finished with life yet: he said, “I feel like I could go for another two, three more years.”

I hope it’s more than that. We need more people like Roger these days!

https://www.breitbart.com/local/2023/09/29/watch-you-make-us-smile-georgia-man-who-thrives-on-laughter-celebrates-102nd-birthday/


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He actually went to a section of the border that’s one of the worst for illegal crossings, and he livestreamed what he saw to give Americans a look at what Biden hath wrought.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/elon-musk-livestreams-border-give-people-firsthand-account-migrant-crisis

Musk said previously that the border needs to be secured and “we actually do need a wall and we need to require people to have some shred of evidence to claim asylum to enter, as everyone is doing that. It’s a hack that you can literally Google to know exactly what to say!” He also said that as an immigrant himself, he’s “extremely pro-immigrant” and wants expanded immigration for “hard-working and honest people,” but not those who are going to break the law.

https://www.westernjournal.com/musk-cant-take-anymore-declares-going-border-need-wall/

Meanwhile, someone other than Musk captured video of a border patrol agent cutting the razor wire barrier put up by Texas authorities so that more illegal entrants could come into the US. One even gave the agent a fist bump in thanks as they passed by.

https://www.westernjournal.com/illegal-alien-fist-bumps-border-patrol-agent-cuts-border-wire/

On the other hand, who are you gonna believe when it comes to the border: Your lying eyes or “Squad” member Ayanna Pressley? She assured CNN’s Jake Tapper, “No doubt about it, our border is secure!” That was so jaw-droppingly stupid that even Jake Tapper had a hard time swallowing it.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2023/09/28/squad-member-rep-pressley-no-doubt-about-it-our-border-is-secure-n1730690

Related: The same Democrat leaders of New York City who once self-righteously declared it a “sanctuary city” for “undocumented immigrants” (i.e., illegal aliens) are now passing out flyers to the hordes of illegal immigrants overrunning the city. The flyers tell them they’ve been misinformed and that New York City is not a good place for them to be. They are told that the city is unable to help them obtain work visas, shelter stay limits are being reduced from 60 to 30 days, social service resources have been exhausted, and New York is “one of the most expensive cities in the world; you are better off going to a more affordable city."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/better-off-going-to-a-more-affordable-city-new-york-city-to-hand-out-flyers-advising-migrants-to-seek-shelter-elsewhere

Nice of them to try to palm off their self-created problem on cities with less money. But at least the migrants can take solace in knowing that if they do get out of New York City for someplace more livable and affordable, they can consider themselves “Americans.”

 


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RIP Dianne Feinstein

It was announced this morning that longtime California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein died early this morning at 90. She was first elected to the Senate in 1992 and was the longest-serving female Senator in history. California Gov. Gavin Newsom will appoint an interim replacement.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-senator-dianne-feinstein-dead-90

No cause of death was given, but she’d suffered a number of health issues recently, her cognitive abilities were questioned, she’d missed votes and had been pressured to retire, which she refused to do.

I hope that remaining in the Senate literally until her dying day was her own choice, but I can’t help thinking of the famous observation that nobody ever said at the end of their life that they wished they’d spent more time at the office. I offer my sincere condolences and prayers for her family, and hope that other political figures of advanced ages who think the government can’t survive without them might realize there are better and more rewarding ways to spend your final days on Earth than dealing with politics.


“Delusional”

Nick Arama at Redstate.com has more comments from Florida real estate professionals who call the judge who found Trump guilty of wildly overvaluing his properties “delusional.” Trump valued his 20-acre Mar-A-Lago estate and golf course at $612 million. The Realtors noted that two plots of land near Mar-A-Lago that are about one-tenth the size but have nothing on them are on the market for $150 million and $200 million.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/27/real-estate-experts-raise-big-questions-about-judges-valuation-of-mar-a-lago-in-fraud-determination-n2164372


Latest example of naked partisanship

I’ve said before that when the left developed galloping Trump Derangement Syndrome, they became incapable of even pretending anymore that they weren’t acting out of naked partisanship. The latest example is the DC judge in Jack Smith’s prosecution of Donald Trump for allegedly attempting to overturn the 2020 election. She rejected his attorneys’ request that she recuse herself for her multiple biased statements during previous trials, such as suggesting that he should be in jail. She claims none of those statements suggest that she's prejudiced against him.

If you’d like to take the time to dig into the legal wrangling, here’s what she would have us believe were entirely unbiased comments, and an opinion on why that’s ludicrous…

https://twitchy.com/aaronwalker/2023/09/28/technofog-ruling-in-trumps-dc-case-defies-belief-n2387885

And to show I’m fair and balanced, CNN got a law professor to argue that her statements are “nothing close” to meeting the standard of “displaying antagonism” toward Trump.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/28/opinions/trump-indictment-tanya-chutkan-recusal-lubet/index.html

Personally, I think Sean Davis of The Federalist struck closest to the truth:

“She will never recuse. This trial is her retirement package. It is her future book proposal and million-dollar advance. She doesn’t care if SCOTUS nukes her case post-conviction. She is going to convict Trump to become a Democrat celebrity, and nothing is going to stop her.”


Bipartisan Agreement

Who says there’s no such thing anymore as bipartisan agreement? Tuesday, the House voted 424-1 for the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act, with over 200 Democrats joining Republicans to overturn the Biden Administration’s ban on funding for schools that offer hunting and archery programs. The ban was based on an idiotic reading of the 2022 Safer Communities Act, because archery, hunter education and wilderness safety programs involve weapons that are “technically dangerous.” I’d say they are far less dangerous than government power in the hands of this Administration.

https://www.westernjournal.com/200-dems-side-gop-bidens-crackdown-hunting-archery/

In case you’re wondering, the sole vote against came from El Paso, Texas, Democrat Rep. Veronica Escobar, a gun control advocate who most recently made news for calling her Republican colleagues who opposed the latest government funding bill “extremists.” I’m pretty sure you can’t get much more extreme than being outvoted 424-1.

But don’t get your hopes up that sanity is making a comeback in the House. This week, Rep. Chip Roy introduced a bill to stop the Pentagon from spending taxpayer money to host drag queen events on military bases. There are any number of reasons that should be stopped. But the bill failed when all 213 Democrats voted against it, and they were joined by 18 Republicans. In case you’re wondering, their names are in this story…

https://www.westernjournal.com/18-republicans-turncoat-kill-bill-banned-pentagons-drag-show-funding-names/


Equal Justice: Merrick Garland style

To nobody’s surprise, get ready for federal authorities to drop Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents that he had no business possessing by storing them in his unsecured garage, ruling it “more likely a mistake than a criminal act.” Meanwhile, they’re charging Trump with dozens of felonies for having his own Administration’s documents that he had the right to declassify stored in a locked room protected by both armed private security and Secret Service agents.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/09/27/joe-biden-is-about-to-be-let-off-the-hook-for-mishandling-classified-docs-n1730287

That’s “equal justice,” Merrick Garland style.


Our Shorts National Nightmare Is Over!

The backlash over Chuck Schumer relaxing the Senate dress code to let John Fetterman galumph around in hoodies and shorts has resulted in rare bipartisan passage of a resolution formalizing business attire as the official Senate dress code and forcing Fetterman to put on big boy pants.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stephen-kruiser/2023/09/27/senate-forces-fetterman-to-wear-big-boy-pants-passing-a-formal-dress-code-n1730465

Not since the days of Bill Clinton has the fact that a Democrat politician is actually wearing pants been such big news.


Consumer Alert!

Kia issued a recall and is warning owners of about 2 million vehicles to park them outside away from structures until a faulty brake hydraulic control unit can be replaced. It can short circuit and cause fires. This covers a number of models going all the way back to 2010. You can see the list here (my own writers drive one, so they considered this rather important to pass along.)

https://www.carcomplaints.com/news/2023/kia-brake-hydraulic-electronic-control-unit-recall.shtml


Warning:

If you have high blood pressure, you’d better take your medicine before reading this story about a 92-year-old Korean War veteran who was kicked out of his nursing home on Staten Island because it’s being converted into a facility to house some of Biden’s illegal immigrants (note that we don’t call them “migrants” because that implies that they intend to keep moving and not stay here forever.)

https://www.westernjournal.com/95-year-old-veteran-kicked-nursing-home-make-way-illegal-aliens-disgraceful/


Reality Bites:

The American Anthropological Association (AAA) and Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) have canceled a joint conference planned for November called "Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Why Biological Sex Remains a Necessary Analytic Category in Anthropology." The reason: admitting that biological sex is a reality might “harm” the “safety and dignity” of “Trans and LGBTQI (members) of the anthropological community.”

https://redstate.com/alexparker/2023/09/28/anthropology-conference-cancels-panel-because-of-its-harmful-belief-in-biological-sex-n2164400

FYI: “Anthropology” is defined as “the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics.” Which words should we remove from that definition: “biology,” “scientific” or both?


Congratulations

Congratulations yet again to our writer Laura Ainsworth, who is also a fantastic retro jazz singer and recording artist and second-generation musician (her late dad Bill Ainsworth played sax and clarinet with Tommy Dorsey, Tex Beneke, Freddy Martin and other great big band leaders.) After winning several awards for her latest album of requested standards, “You Asked For It,” she’s just been named a double winner of the Fall, 2023, Clouzine International Music Awards for Best Jazz Album and Best Jazz Video (“Goldfinger.”)

See, great music is still being made today, even if it was originally written over half a century ago. To get Laura’s recordings and to see the “Goldfinger” video, click here:

http://www.lauraainsworth.com


Day One of Biden impeachment inquiry:  a massive pile of evidence

Before the first day of the Biden impeachment inquiry, it was billed by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee as a “primer,” with no direct witnesses (that day) but a lot of on-the-record material that would bring viewers up to speed on what we know to this point.  In addition, there would be financial and legal experts such as Jonathan Turley, not to serve as witnesses to what the Bidens did but to help clarify the law that would apply in the ongoing investigation and possible impeachment.  This was made clear going in.

Nevertheless, the main talking point the Democrats pushed in their analysis of Thursday’s hearing was that the Republicans “didn’t bring it” --- didn’t offer any fact witnesses to implicate President Biden.  Did they not understand what today’s hearing was going to be?  Of course they did --- they just hope YOU didn’t.

Rep. Jamie Raskin was, as usual, among the worst, saying in his closing statement, “If the Republicans had the smoking gun, or even a dripping water pistol, they would be presenting it today, but they’ve got nothing on Joe Biden.”  On the contrary, the smoke in that room was so thick, they might have needed to open some windows.  Here’s a side note about Raskin’s comments, showing that Raskin has a short memory regarding floor votes to open impeachment inquiries.

https://www.westernjournal.com/democrat-rep-jamie-raskins-words-come-back-haunt-biden-impeachment-inquiry/

If you have a strong stomach and want to see how deep in denial Democrats are concerning the evidence against Joe Biden, read about Ken Dilanian at MSNBC...

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/09/28/nbcs-dilanian-hunter-said-he-gave-half-his-salary-to-joe-and-no-one-can-explain-that-but-theres-no-hard-evidence/

South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace had no patience with this “no evidence” garbage.  She let them have it in a must-see video (slight language alert):

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/28/watch-nancy-mace-rips-democrats-claiming-no-evidence-exists-against-joe-biden-total-bllshit/

TOWNHALL has a strong opinion piece on the claims of “no evidence” as well.

https://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2023/09/29/no-evidence-of-joe-biden-being-involved-in-the-family-business-keeps-piling-up-n2629088

Yet FOX NEWS’ Neil Cavuto, in his analysis immediately following, was glued to Democrat talking points, as if Republicans were expected to impeach and convict President Biden on the first day of this inquiry.  He should know better.

But if you read this newsletter, you did understand the purpose of this introductory hearing.  And before it began, REDSTATE posted a similar preview, titled “The Basis for an Impeachment Inquiry of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.”  To be clear:  not the basis for an impeachment, but for an impeachment INQUIRY.  Judge Jeanine Pirro went further on Thursday:  “You save your evidence for the trial.”

The REDSTATE article noted that FOX NEWS’ Chad Pergram had said the hearing “likely won’t go over anything new, but instead focus on what has already been made publicly available, using the evidence the House Oversight Committee has previously uncovered.  However, that will just be in order to lay the groundwork for what is to come.”  This hearing is being held to explain why further inquiry is necessary.

https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/09/28/watch-live-the-basis-for-an-impeachment-inquiry-of-president-joseph-r-biden-jr-n2164404

Exactly.  In other words, stay tuned.  As former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo said later in the day on FOX NEWS, the Democrats should be careful what they wish for if they’re calling for direct witnesses, because all that is coming.  In fact, Comer has just subpoenaed both Hunter and James Biden, seeking to compel all their personal and business bank records and those of their affiliated companies.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/28/james-comer-subpoenas-hunter-james-biden-315-days-launching-probe-family/

We’re even wondering if the email and text records of Hunter, his business associates, family members and White House contacts might have even more evidentiary value than their testimony would have, as it reflects a contemporaneous account of what was going on.  It’s not subject to failing memory or deliberate lying or shading of the truth in service to a desired narrative.  It’s WHAT WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENING AT THAT TIME.  House committees have gathered lots of it.

One member of Congress who didn’t get this --- is she being willfully obtuse or is she really that dumb? --- is Rep. Jasmine Crockett of Texas.  When her time came to speak, she fiercely said this: “But I can tell you what the President has been guilty of!  He has unfortunately been guilty of loving his child unconditionally, and that is the only evidence that they have brought forward!  Honestly, I hope and pray that my parents love me half as much as he loves his child!  Until they find some evidence, we need to get back to the people’s work, which means keeping this government open so that people don’t go hungry in the streets of the United States.  I will yield.”  An Academy-Award-worthy performance.

Presumably, she thought this display was going to be persuasive, but it simply looked as though she had lost her mind.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/09/28/screaming-democratic-rep-gives-unhinged-defense-of-joe-biden-during-impeachment-inquiry-n2164440

But, predictably, the Democrat House member who gave the most cringeworthy, embarrassing performance of all was New York Rep. Daniel Goldman.  Let’s go to the videotape…

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/09/28/rep-daniel-goldman-tries-to-shake-up-jonathan-turley-fails-n2387902

It was great to hear that law professor Jonathan Turley would be on the witness panel Thursday.  But since the hearing, Democrats have been sharing a misleadingly edited video of what he said.  (Turley is one of these rare analysts who really are even-handed and weigh both sides, and this makes it relatively easy to cherry-pick his comments to suit one side or the other.)

Turley at one point said, “I do not believe that the current evidence would support articles of impeachment.”  Democrats tweeted this sentence widely.  The DAILY BEAST quoted it, no doubt popping the champagne corks as they did so.  But they chose not to quote him in full:

“I want to emphasize what it is that we’re here today for.  This is a question of an impeachment inquiry.  It is not a vote on articles of impeachment.  In fact, I do not believe that the current evidence would support articles of impeachment.  That is something that an inquiry has to establish.  But I also do believe that the House has passed the threshold for an impeachment inquiry into the conduct of President Biden.”

This is deliberate deception on the part of the Democrats.  Why should anyone expect anything different?

As Jeff Charles of REDSTATE says, and we have been saying for weeks, this is an impeachment INQUIRY.  The Democrats are counting on people not knowing the difference.  They hope you’re stupid enough to buy what they’re selling.

Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, who used to work in banking and knows the ins and outs of shell companies, blew up Democrats’ claim of “no evidence.”  He announced, “To my colleagues on the other side --- we are going to start talking about evidence now.”  Then he began asking one of the expert witnesses, forensic accountant Bruce Dubinsky, if certain things would have caused him concern.  Yes, Dubinsky had to admit that red flags would be raised.

He asked former Assistant Attorney General Eileen O’Connor what she thought of a WhatsApp message between Hunter and his Uncle Jim, saying that Jim had been brought in “purely for the purpose of protecting Dad.”  She said that, yes, it would lead the Committee to get further information about the business and how this pertained to “protecting Dad.”

Donalds also asked Dubinsky about that message from Hunter to his daughter in which he complains about having to pay everything for the family for “30 years” and says, “Unlike pop, I wouldn’t make you give me half your salary.”  Donalds asked Dubinsky if in such a scenario, he would be looking for money going from son to father.  “Absolutely, without a doubt,” Dubinsky said.

And there was this stunner:  A message from Jim BIDEN to Hunter when Hunter was apparently drugged out, saying that instead of working through Hunter, “I can work with your father alone!!!!  We as usual just need several months of his help for this to work.”  “AS USUAL”??  O’Connor had to say, this was worth investigating.

McDonald’s presentation and questions are magnificent, a must-see.  Video is here...

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/28/byron-donalds-torches-dems-no-evidence-line-with-receipts-during-impeachment-inquiry-n2164416

Finally, text messages show that Joe Biden requested a meeting with a Chinese oil executive who had paid Hunter millions of dollars in consulting fees just a few weeks before.   

On August 27, 2017, in a WhatsApp message to CEFC director Gongwen Dong, Hunter said his
“uncle’s BROTHER” (emphasis his) would be in New York City and wanted to meet with CEFC Chairman Ye Jianming.  (CEFC is the Chinese energy conglomerate with ties to the CCP.)  

Show of hands --- how many of you have ever referred to your father as your uncle’s brother?  I’ll be a monkey’s uncle if any of you have. Why would anyone use that tortured verbiage if not to avoid leaving any clear written evidence that implicated dear old dad?

Anyway, this message is consistent with other messages on Hunter’s laptop.  And earlier that month, CEFC had fired off more than $5 million to Hunter Biden’s company, Hudson West III.

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/joe-biden-personally-requested-meeting-with-hunters-chinese-business-partner-text-messages-suggest/

As Bonchie at REDSTATE points out, this makes no sense.  If Biden was so disconnected from his son’s business dealings, and he didn’t even know this man, why would he meet with him?  This had to be what the Chinese were paying for with their millions, because there really was nothing else.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/28/new-whatsapp-messages-reveal-joe-biden-met-with-a-chinese-business-after-millions-in-payments-n2164432

That’s the question the Democrats will never answer: If these governments and shady businesses weren’t buying influence from Hunter Biden, what in the world were they paying him millions for? Did they hope that with his legendary artistic skills, he might doodle them a corporate logo or new national flag?

RELATED READING:

As you read in the newsletter yesterday, references to Joe Biden (“Political figure 1”) in a search warrant were ordered removed by Delaware Assistant Attorney General Lesley Wolf.  In case you didn’t see that...

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/28/docs-doj-investigators-ordered-to-remove-any-reference-to-joe-biden-in-fara-warrant/

Yesterday, we reported that there was evidence of a CNN producer having an email in which Hunter says he expects his legal problems to “go away” once his father is President.  To date, this has still not been made public.  So, where did it go?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/irs-agent-said-cnn-has-hunter-biden-email-where-hunter-claimed-legal-stuff-would-go-away-under-biden-admin


Elon Musk did what our own “border czar” Kamala Harris has never done:

He actually went to a section of the border that’s one of the worst for illegal crossings, and he livestreamed what he saw to give Americans a look at what Biden hath wrought.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/elon-musk-livestreams-border-give-people-firsthand-account-migrant-crisis

Musk said previously that the border needs to be secured and “we actually do need a wall and we need to require people to have some shred of evidence to claim asylum to enter, as everyone is doing that. It’s a hack that you can literally Google to know exactly what to say!” He also said that as an immigrant himself, he’s “extremely pro-immigrant” and wants expanded immigration for “hard-working and honest people,” but not those who are going to break the law.

https://www.westernjournal.com/musk-cant-take-anymore-declares-going-border-need-wall/

Meanwhile, someone other than Musk captured video of a border patrol agent cutting the razor wire barrier put up by Texas authorities so that more illegal entrants could come into the US. One even gave the agent a fist bump in thanks as they passed by.

https://www.westernjournal.com/illegal-alien-fist-bumps-border-patrol-agent-cuts-border-wire/

On the other hand, who are you gonna believe when it comes to the border: Your lying eyes or “Squad” member Ayanna Pressley? She assured CNN’s Jake Tapper, “No doubt about it, our border is secure!” That was so jaw-droppingly stupid that even Jake Tapper had a hard time swallowing it.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2023/09/28/squad-member-rep-pressley-no-doubt-about-it-our-border-is-secure-n1730690

Related: The same Democrat leaders of New York City who once self-righteously declared it a “sanctuary city” for “undocumented immigrants” (i.e., illegal aliens) are now passing out flyers to the hordes of illegal immigrants overrunning the city. The flyers tell them they’ve been misinformed and that New York City is not a good place for them to be. They are told that the city is unable to help them obtain work visas, shelter stay limits are being reduced from 60 to 30 days, social service resources have been exhausted, and New York is “one of the most expensive cities in the world; you are better off going to a more affordable city."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/better-off-going-to-a-more-affordable-city-new-york-city-to-hand-out-flyers-advising-migrants-to-seek-shelter-elsewhere

Nice of them to try to palm off their self-created problem on cities with less money. But at least the migrants can take solace in knowing that if they do get out of New York City for someplace more livable and affordable, they can consider themselves “Americans.”


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In recent years, there has been an alarming trend of government and political activists trying to co-opt religion to push far-left political agendas that directly contradict Biblical teachings, and far too many churches have gone along with it. Here’s a good example of the kind of perverted blasphemy you end up with when pastors abandon the Bible and start preaching out of the New York Times editorial page:

https://www.lifenews.com/2023/09/26/every-pastor-in-america-should-condemn-these-billboards-saying-gods-plan-includes-abortion/

A truly sick pro-abortion group is putting billboards up along highways in red states reading, “God’s plan includes abortion.” No, it does not. First of all, I’m pretty sure that if God’s plan were for you not to have children, He wouldn’t give you a child and expect you to murder it. And since I suspect that nobody involved with this grotesque organization has ever even read the Bible, here are a few quotes that make it abundantly clear that God does not view a baby in the womb as a disposable lump of tissue:

Jeremiah 1:5 - “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Psalm 22:9-10 – “Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts. On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God.”

Isaiah 49:5 – “And now the Lord says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him— for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God has become my strength—"

Isaiah 49:1 – “Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.”

Isaiah 44:2 – “Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.”

Isaiah 44:24 – “Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: ‘I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself’”

Luke 1:44 – “For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.”

Galatians 1:15 – “But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,”

Job 31:15 – “Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?”

Psalm 139:13-16 - “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”

Finally, there’s this verse, which doesn’t directly refer to a child in the womb, but I would strongly suggest that the people putting up those blasphemous billboards think long and hard about it:

Psalm 1:6 – “For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.”

 


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The second GOP primary debate

Last night, Fox Business News aired the second GOP primary debate, featuring seven of the candidates, but not Donald Trump, who is leading in polls by over 40 points and continues to ignore the debates.

Given that fact, and how badly done that debate was, I’m not sure how much space my readers want me to spend on it. So I’ll just give you a few general impressions, report on the reactions, point you to more if you want it, and move on to other things.

First of all, I think the two biggest impressions left on most viewers were of candidates talking loudly and unintelligibly over each other and moderators asking the dumbest questions since “The Newlywed Game.” Nobody covered him/herself in glory, but worst of all was moderator Ilia Calderon of Univision, who seemed to be asking questions straight out of a DNC email. With all the horrendous disasters of the Biden Administration that should have been addressed, she kept asking questions like, how will you help the Dreamers, or how will you reduce “gun violence”?

The obvious answer to that should have been, “No gun ever committed violence. Violence is committed by criminals, sometimes using guns that are almost exclusively obtained illegally, which is why gun control laws mostly disarm law-abiding citizens. Since statistics show that what you call ‘gun violence’ occurs almost exclusively in Democrat-run cities where criminals are set free over and over to prey on innocent citizens, the most effective thing people can do to stop it is to vote Democrats out of office and let Republicans run places like Chicago, New York, Detroit, Baltimore and L.A. for a change. Next question.”

And while I love Dana Perino, one embarrassing question blew up in her face when she asked the candidates to say which of them should be “voted off the island” “Survivor”-style. They all refused to answer and Ron DeSantis rightly called the question “disrespectful.” I’ve said before that these are not debates, they’re a TV game show, and this was the most obvious example of it yet.

As to who did the best job, it’s hard to say. DeSantis seemed to be the most controlled adult in the room (that includes the moderators), and he did a good job of addressing the threat of China and correcting Calderon for repeating Kamala Harris’ lie about Florida’s black history curriculum. His performance was probably good enough to keep him hanging in as the solid second choice, but he didn’t have any standout moments that might cause his support to jump. Ramaswamy did a good job of staying positive and not attacking the others. And North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum barely got a word in but was good when he did. His own opinion of the debate was no higher than mine.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/28/doug-burgum-rips-fox-univision-debate-the-american-people-lost-tonight/

A couple of the candidates tried one-line zingers that fell flat (Tip: hire comedy writers who know your personality well enough to craft jokes that work coming out of your mouth and don't make the audience cringe.)

With possibly the most important election in American history looming, and a three-year Biden record of not just failure but willful destruction of the nation that should have been the main focus, we mostly got candidates fielding dumb questions straight off cue cards from “The View” and attacking one another at headache-inducing volume. The whole evening was perhaps best exemplified by the moment when Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy started yelling over each other about curtains. I kid you not.

https://www.westernjournal.com/gop-debate-contenders-insist-trump-shown-heated-exchange-curtains/

(One commentator mentioned that Haley’s best moment was telling Ramaswamy, "Every time I hear you, I feel a little bit dumber for what you say." But this was undercut when it was noted that his book carries a blurb praising his vision and intellect from…Nikki Haley.)

Some of the terms pundits used to describe the debate included “unwatchable,” “idiotic” and “hot mess.” Many said the winner was Donald Trump for not showing up, while the Babylon Bee declared that the winner was “the mute button.” A couple of live bloggers from PJ Media suggested for the next debate shock collars for the candidates when they talk over someone else whose turn it is, and stronger shock collars for the moderators when they repeat leftist talking points. If that sounds cruel, it’s nicer than Chris Queen’s suggestion of trap doors under the podiums. Another commentator had the line of the night when he tweeted when it was over that he couldn’t wait to go into the bathroom, light some candles, dim the lights and slip into a nice hot bath with his wife’s hair dryer.

Fox News has reactions from prominent conservatives…

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/conservatives-pundits-name-winners-losers-2nd-gop-debate

Redstate.com condensed the evening into seven particularly wild moments…

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/09/28/seven-cant-miss-moments-from-the-second-gop-debate-n2629055

Here’s what Fox Business News thinks were five “breakout moments” (I don’t think they mean breaking out in yelling; there were far more than five of those)…

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/republican-debate-highlights-5-key-moments-gop-brawl-california

Breitbart.com had an excellent live running commentary that summed it all up well in the moment...

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/27/gop-debate-livewire-trump-to-meet-striking-autoworkers-as-7-other-candidates-debate-in-california/

This is the Daily Caller’s take…

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/28/republican-primary-debate-recap-ramaswamy-desantis-haley-california/

And for true masochists, here’s the entire debate streaming online. You’ll need a cable TV subscription to sign in, but I’m sure it’s worth the money. Just remember to keep your finger on the mute button…

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6337443912112


Trump in Michigan

Former President Trump didn’t attend the GOP debate or even watch it. He was speaking to striking UAW auto workers in Michigan. Trump praised them as the people “who built this country” and who make it run. He said, “I put everything on the line to fight for you. I have risked it all to defend the working class from the corrupt political class that has spent decades sucking the life, wealth, and blood out of this country. That’s why I’m here tonight to lay out a vision for a revival of economic nationalism.”

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/09/27/trump-in-michigan-you-built-this-country/

His elitist critics will look at that, see the word “nationalism” and call him a fascist, while I suspect the working people in the crowd who’ve been hammered by Bidenflation and stagnant wage growth will get what he’s saying. This is why they ignore the partisan indictments. They've learned to have zero respect for the people behind them, and Trump is very clear in reminding them of why.

While Trump didn’t watch the debate, he did offer a reaction to Chris Christie calling him “Donald Duck” (“Duck,” get it? He “ducked” the debate!...Is this an audience or an oil painting?) Trump offered a deadly rejoinder based on one of his most notable skills:

“Anyone that would come up with that nickname shouldn’t be running for President.”

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-fires-back-gop-opponents-take-turns-bashing-him-republican-debate


Biden tried to steal Trump’s thunder, it didn’t work out too well

The day before Trump spoke to striking auto workers in Michigan, President Biden attempted to steal his thunder by showing up to walk the picket line with them. It was a move that I’d call highly inappropriate. It’s one thing to take sides in a major labor dispute when you’re a candidate, but when you’re the President and ostensibly in charge of the Labor Department, you should try at least to pretend to stay above taking sides. But then, Biden has never been shy about proclaiming that he’s owned 100% by labor unions.

Still, many of the workers who spoke to reporters weren’t impressed by Biden’s political theater. His visit was just a brief stopover on his way to a big bucks fundraiser, and they know his push for electric cars is killing their jobs just as his economy is killing their budgets. It was notable that during his visit, he failed even to mention his EV mandates. Also worth noting: all the CO2 spewed by Air Force One to take him on this trip to suck up to autoworkers who’ve been hurt by his campaign to force everyone else to cut their CO2 emissions.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/26/joe-biden-fails-to-mention-his-china-friendly-electric-vehicle-mandates-in-visit-with-striking-auto-workers/


Brooks Robinson RIP

Major League Baseball announced that Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson has died at 86.

https://www.mlb.com/orioles/news/brooks-robinson-dies-at-86

Robinson was born in Little Rock, but spent his entire 23-year career with Baltimore, earning him the nickname “Mr. Oriole.” He was also known as “The Human Vacuum Cleaner” for his defensive skills. During his legendary and lengthy career, he won 16 Gold Glove Awards, the most ever for a non-pitcher. He was an 18-time All-Star, the 1964 American League MVP Award winner, a two-time World Series champion (1966 and ’70), and MVP of the Fall Classic in 1970. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1983 as the first third baseman to be elected in his first year of eligibility. After he retired from the field, he continued working with the MLB Players Alumni Association.

MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement, "I will always remember Brooks as a true gentleman who represented our game extraordinarily well on and off the field all his life.”

His Dad, Brooks Sr., was a Captain in the Little Rock Fire Department and my firefighter Dad knew him.  When I was a 15-year-old sportscaster at KXAR Radio in Hope, AR, thanks to their friendship, I was granted an interview with Brooks Robinson.  I was a nobody kid working at a little radio station in Hope, AR, but Brooks Robinson treated me like I was Curt Gowdy.  What a class act!  He was a giant on and off the field.

Our condolences to his family, friends and many fans.


Philadelphians, you voted for this

Wednesday night, Philadelphia suffered its second night in a row of rampant lawlessness and looting. There were more than 50 arrests as social media-fueled mobs stripped stores bare and even stole an ATM. More than a dozen liquor stores were so thoroughly denuded of merchandise that the state announced it's closing its locations until further notice. There’s no point in reopening if everything is just going to get stolen again. And that’s the state: imagine being a private store owner without state resources.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/philadelphia-looting-break-ins-stolen-atm-crime-spree-continues-for-2nd-night-leaving-residents-desperate/ar-AA1hoyJk

I want to feel sympathy, and I do feel very sorry for the store owners and direct victims of crime. But let's face facts: Philadelphians, you voted for this. Time and again, you’ve elected and reelected incompetent, criminal-coddling Democrats who are destroying your city and turning it over to rule by criminal mobs. At some point, those of us standing by watching this chaos lose patience with your stubborn blindness to reality. It’s like being the relative of a heroin addict: at some point, you have to stop enabling them and show some tough love.

If you really want this to stop, you know how to save yourselves. It starts by admitting you have a problem and renouncing your addiction to voting Democrat.


Evidence released supporting whistleblower testimony in Hunter case

As Oversight Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky anticipated Tuesday, the committees in charge of the House impeachment inquiry of President Biden have released more information that supports allegations of special treatment for Hunter Biden.  As it contains personal tax information, it had to be voted out of committee by House Ways & Means (and yes, Hunter’s attorneys, they’re allowed to do that.) Here’s a link to everything that was released on Wednesday.

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/event/meeting-on-documents-protected-under-internal-revenue-code-section-6103-2/

I know, overwhelming.  They released 700 pages, the entire testimony of the IRS whistleblowers, after which a number of Democrats came to the mic to say there was still NO DIRECT EVIDENCE implicating President Biden in this.  I’m sure they had all read and analyzed every page, just like they read 2,000-page budget bills overnight.  When they still insist on repeating this talking point, it’s downright amusing.

In fact, Jessica Tarlov on Fox News’ THE FIVE became quite impassioned on Wednesday afternoon, trying to explain why a $260,000 payment from Chinese business associates showing up at then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s home is okay.  She said James Comer “is misrepresenting this case completely” over the issue of the address, as Comer had acknowledged Hunter used the Delaware home address “during this period.”  I like to cut Tarlov a little slack, because she always has her work cut out for her at a table full of non-leftists --- sitting next to Judge Jeanine Pirro, no less, who usually decimates any opponent --- but have to say that this time she got off too easy because of the time constraints of broadcasting.

Just two facts should cancel out her ravings about Republicans “embarrassing themselves”: (1.) Indications are that Hunter was NOT living at his father’s house but in California when the transfers arrived, so he would not have been the one to receive them, and, especially, (2.) the finances of Hunter and Joe Biden are known to have been co-mingled.  Their business and political lives were enmeshed --- to what extent?  That’s what investigators are trying to determine.  Of course, they have the email from Hunter complaining about having to give 50 percent of his earnings to his dad.  Meanwhile, the very real arrival of a huge Chinese payment to Hunter showing up at the doorstop of his presidential-candidate father, Hunter’s “asset,” just looks dirty, because it is.

Another thing that’s always good to say when leftists defend the indefensible about the Bidens:  I wonder what you would be saying about this right now, given the same scenario, if it involved Don Trump, Jr., and HIS father.  And then just walk away.  (I guarantee you, WE would not be defending it.  That seems to be one of the main differences between Republicans and Democrats.)

Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith spoke at a press conference on Wednesday, saying that if what is in these 700 pages is okay with you, “then we live on two different planets.”

One item Smith released was a text message from June 6, 2017, from Hunter that referred to his father as “my family’s only asset.”

Smith said, “These documents show a clearer connection between Joe Biden, his public office, and Hunter Biden’s global influence peddling scheme that resulted in over $20 million in payments to the Biden family...The evidence shows a pattern of Hunter Biden creating for-profit entities to shield out at least $20 million from foreign sources from taxes and hide the trail of payments that led to members of the Biden family.”

Something else that emerges from these pages, as reported in REDSTATE, is that James Biden, Joe Biden’s brother, tried to help Chinese energy company CEFC buy key U.S. energy assets while knowing the firm’s leader had direct ties to Chinese President Xi Jinping.  Specifically, they were trying to buy a liquid natural gas facility on Monkey Island off the coast of Louisiana.

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/09/27/released-interview-with-james-biden-reveals-attempts-to-arrange-sale-of-us-energy-assets-to-china

Here’s the entire interview the FBI had with James…

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-09/T19%20Exhibit%20401-Memo

According to FBI notes, “James B noted (Hunter) portrayed CEFC to him as Chairman Ye was a protege of President Xi.”

As Georgia Rep. Austin Scott said Wednesday, “It just means that it’s even worse than even I thought it was, that they would go that far.  If you look at some of those ports in Louisiana...like Port Fourchon, that area of Louisiana, just a tremendous portion of the energy that we use inside the United States comes through those hubs.  And the idea that you would help the Chinese acquire assets in that area to give, you know, an adversary the ability to control the energy supply inside the United States, I don’t understand how much more of a traitor you could be than to do such a thing.”

https://slaynews.com/news/joe-bidens-brother-james-admitted-to-fbi-the-biden-family-tried-to-help-chinese-firm-tied-to-xi-jinping-buy-key-us-energy-assets/

During Smith’s press conference, he showed a map with 23 countries that were allegedly involved in Hunter’s business enterprise.  (This in itself is not evidence, but it points to how wide the investigation needs to be.)  Also, to demonstrate how the IRS investigation had been interfered with, he displayed an email from Delaware Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf instructing the investigators to remove references to Joe Biden (“Political figure 1”) from a search warrant.  And there’s an investigators’ memo saying a CNN producer had received a memo from Hunter saying he expected that when his father became President, all this “stuff” (his tax investigation) would “go away.”  Good detail here; a must-read...

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/27/new-evidence-confirms-investigation-into-evidence-about-joe-biden-was-cut-off-in-hunter-probe-n2164384

Smith also showed a text Hunter allegedly sent a business associate describing the family “brand” as an asset.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/27/house-investigators-documents-supporting-irs-whistleblower-testimony/

Finally, Ways and Means also released a very interesting 2016 memo from the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma to Yuri Lutsenko, the new prosecutor who replaced Viktor Shokin after Joe Biden apparently got Shokin fired.  This was at the time Hunter was on Burisma’s board.

“As Members of the Board of Directors,” it says in part, “we respectfully request that allegations of criminal activity made by you and/or members of your office cease…”

It appears Burisma was getting its money’s worth in terms of influence.  Much more here…

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/09/27/bombshell-hunter-biden-signed-off-on-burisma-memo-to-ukrainian-prosecutor-warning-against-investigation-n2164389


A Secret Program

Axios reported that President Biden’s campaign team is focused on a secret program to get him reelected called “Don’t Let Him Trip.” They fear that his biggest obstacle to winning a second term is his inability not to fall over on his face in public.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-campaign-team-secret-mission-called-dont-let-trip/

Personally, I thought that the biggest obstacle to his reelection was him tripping over his own tongue. They should launch a secret program called “Don’t Let Him Talk.”


#11

It was reported that President Biden’s German Shepherd dog bit another Secret Service agent, bringing the total number of biting incidents to 11 in just two years.

https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-dog-attacks-secret-service-agent-yet-president-shows-utter-disregard-employees/

Does anyone else wonder if maybe it’s really Joe biting them, and they’re just blaming the dog? I’ll bet it wouldn’t be the first thing Joe did that he blamed on the dog.


Besieged by Pirates

Since San Francisco has regressed back to the days before there was civilized society, with gangs looting stores at will and homeless people shooting up, having sex and going to the bathroom on the sidewalks, it’s no surprise that boaters in San Francisco Bay are now being besieged by pirates. I’m not joking: actual, “shiver me timbers” pirates. What’s next, pillaging by Vikings? You can see why I call them “regressives” instead of "progressives."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/seabound-bandits-terrorize-san-francisco-bay-amid-surge-homeless-camps

But you can only go backwards for so long, even in San Francisco. The Democrat Mayor, London Breed, just shocked fellow liberals by announcing a new policy: if you want to receive homeless services, you have to submit to mandatory drug testing and treatment. In a statement, Breed said, "San Francisco is a city of compassion, but also a city that demands accountability."

Someone should tell that to the pirates.


Crazy, Rightwing Conspiracy Corner, Or “Why Nobody Trusts The Government Anymore”

1. The Congressional Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic reported that Dr. Anthony Fauci was sneaked into CIA headquarters to influence their findings on the origins of COVID-19, and no records of his entry or participation were kept.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/09/26/breaking-fauci-snuck-into-cia-hq-to-influence-covid-origin-report/

2. An investigation by Ken Silva of Headline USA looked at FBI infiltration of far-right and neo-Nazi groups, and whether it’s gone disturbingly beyond just keeping tabs on them.

https://headlineusa.com/homicidal-cville-driver-linked-fbi/


If you’re worried that our “woke” military might not be capable anymore of winning a war, this won’t help put you at ease:

West Point, which used to be our most elite military school, is now offering a minor in “Diversity and Inclusion.” That'll scare China.

https://revolver.news/2023/09/stick-a-fork-in-west-point-theyre-done-wait-until-you-see-the-new-degree-theyre-offering/


Latest “Sound of Freedom” attack is debunked as fake news

Ever since the movie “Sound of Freedom” came out, liberal media outlets have been trying to destroy it, with zero success. They’ve launched all kinds of ridiculous accusations, including that it’s based on QAnon conspiracy theories, when it was written before anyone even heard of QAnon.

One of the latest that many liberals smugly assumed was the kill shot was a report that a major funder of the movie was himself being charged with kidnapping children. Well, we have a rule around here that they didn’t follow: Be suspicious of any story that’s too “on the nose.” For instance, one that would perfectly match whatever someone’s political opponent wants you to think of them.

Well, that story has now been officially debunked as fake news. Brad Slager at Redstate.com has the details, but it should have been obvious just from the claim that this guy is a major funder of the movie. It was crowdfunded and he gave a whopping $500. But that’s just the beginning of what all the hysterical news reports got wrong.

https://redstate.com/bradslager/2023/09/26/that-sound-of-freedom-kidnapping-now-officially-disproven-leading-to-the-sound-of-silence-in-the-media-n2164317

This still leaves the question that’s been hanging in the ozone ever since the first of many media attacks: “Why is the mainstream media so upset that people are seeing a film that exposes and denounces the sexual exploitation of minors?”


Here’s a good example of the kind of perverted blasphemy you end up with when pastors abandon the Bible and start preaching out of the New York Times editorial page:

In recent years, there has been an alarming trend of government and political activists trying to co-opt religion to push far-left political agendas that directly contradict Biblical teachings, and far too many churches have gone along with it. Here’s a good example of the kind of perverted blasphemy you end up with when pastors abandon the Bible and start preaching out of the New York Times editorial page:

https://www.lifenews.com/2023/09/26/every-pastor-in-america-should-condemn-these-billboards-saying-gods-plan-includes-abortion/

A truly sick pro-abortion group is putting billboards up along highways in red states reading, “God’s plan includes abortion.” No, it does not. First of all, I’m pretty sure that if God’s plan were for you not to have children, He wouldn’t give you a child and expect you to murder it. And since I suspect that nobody involved with this grotesque organization has ever even read the Bible, here are a few quotes that make it abundantly clear that God does not view a baby in the womb as a disposable lump of tissue:

Jeremiah 1:5 - “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Psalm 22:9-10 – “Yet you are he who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother's breasts. On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother's womb you have been my God.”

Isaiah 49:5 – “And now the Lord says, he who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob back to him; and that Israel might be gathered to him— for I am honored in the eyes of the Lord, and my God has become my strength—"

Isaiah 49:1 – “Listen to me, O coastlands, and give attention, you peoples from afar. The Lord called me from the womb, from the body of my mother he named my name.”

Isaiah 44:2 – “Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.”

Isaiah 44:24 – “Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb: ‘I am the Lord, who made all things, who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself’”

Luke 1:44 – “For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.”

Galatians 1:15 – “But when he who had set me apart before I was born, and who called me by his grace,”

Job 31:15 – “Did not he who made me in the womb make him? And did not one fashion us in the womb?”

Psalm 139:13-16 - “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”

Finally, there’s this verse, which doesn’t directly refer to a child in the womb, but I would strongly suggest that the people putting up those blasphemous billboards think long and hard about it:

Psalm 1:6 – “For the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.”


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Tonight: A GOP Presidential Debate

The second Republican primary debate will be hosted tonight at 9 EST by Fox Business. It will feature all the same candidates as the first one, minus Asa Hutchinson, and like the first one, minus Donald Trump. A lot of pundits are telling us what each candidate must do to “break through” or all is lost, and I can assure you that none of them know what they’re talking about. Fox News has a continually updated page with info on the debate and its participants, as well as various fun facts. You can get up to speed before it starts by checking it out here:

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/gop-republican-presidential-debate


Here’s a use for AI technology that I didn’t see coming:

Someone used AI to analyze the Shroud of Turin and create a picture of the (alleged) face of Jesus.

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/turin-shroud-reimagined-ai-shows-30987007


Don’t worry, we are keeping UKRAINE afloat…

If you have a small business that’s been struggling to survive everything from the COVID lockdowns to supply chain shortages to high inflation, at least you can rest assured that all those taxes you still have to pay are going for a good cause: spending millions of dollars to keep small businesses afloat in Ukraine.

https://www.westernjournal.com/uncovered-american-tax-dollars-funding-way-just-weapons-ukraine/


New 2024 poll reveals the elephant in the room

I told you yesterday about a Washington Post/ABC News poll that was disastrous for President Biden. It showed overwhelming disapproval of how he’s doing his job, and he was 10 points behind Trump in a rematch. It was so bad for Biden that WaPo must feel it’s failed in its duty to lie for Democrats and is casting aspersions on its own poll. Talk about falling on your sword, which sounds more like something Joe Biden would do.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/24/washington-post-disavows-own-poll-showing-trump-up-biden/

But to mix a metaphor or two, there’s an elephant in the room and they can’t sweep it under the rug. Another new poll, this time from NBC (!), found that 74% of Americans have concerns that Biden doesn’t have the mental or physical health to serve another term (including 59% who have “major concerns” – these are the people who’ve been paying attention.) Sixty percent are concerned that he might have been aware of his son Hunter’s shady business deals. It also found that 56% disapprove of how he’s doing his job, a career high for him.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/3-out-of-4-voters-worried-about-bidens-mental-fitness/

Worst of all for the Democrats, Biden’s approval rating is under 50% among most reliably Democratic voting blocs. He’s at 46% among 18-34-year-olds, 46% among women, 43% among Latinos and 26% among those with high school educations or less (they’ve probably noticed all the illegal aliens taking their jobs or driving down their wages.)

He still has 63% approval among black voters, but that’s down by 17 points since 1980.

https://thepostmillennial.com/bidens-approval-rating-among-black-americans-down-17-points-nbc-poll

These numbers are catastrophic for Democrats because the way the party wins elections these days (aside from the ways we’re not supposed to discuss) is by turning identity groups against each other, and convincing them Republicans are racist, sexist, etc., so they’ll keep voting for Democrat policies that aren’t in their best interests and are destroying their jobs, wages, communities and their children’s futures. They put together enough of these groups, and it puts them over 50%. But they need them voting Democrat in monolithic numbers.

That’s worked for generations, but then, we’ve never before had an Administration that was so far-left and pressed the “progressive” pedal to the metal the way this one has, from the open border to the revolving door jails to the raging inflation. Maybe the catastrophic results, coming so soon after the peace, prosperity and rising wages of the Trump years, have finally made the toxicity of leftist policies so obvious that people are at last taking off the blinders and seeing the whole picture.


Unbelievable

It’s bad enough that the Department of Veterans Affairs under Biden is producing training videos on the taxpayer’s dime that promote abortion as “reproductive health care,” but that agency is now so “woke” that the videos refer to the mothers as “pregnancy capable persons.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/sick-leaked-veterans-affairs-training-video-shows-government-gone-full-woke/

Wait, are they calling women “pregnancy capable persons?” That implies that men are incapable of pregnancy! I’m offended! I’m outraged!! I will denounce them on Tik-Tok!!!

Related: Watch Sen. Tim Scott’s powerful new ad, taking on the leftist canard that being pro-life makes you an “extremist”:

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/09/26/sen-tim-scotts-latest-political-ad-draws-a-line-on-what-it-means-to-be-pro-life-n2164300


Seriously, Dude?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau blamed the standing ovation that he, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and the Canadian Parliament gave to a former Nazi soldier on “Russian disinformation.” Hey, if the Russians can force Hunter Biden to do all that stuff on his laptop, they can force Justin Trudeau to give a standing-O to a Nazi.


Google would censor this post if they could…

I wrote recently about young “detransitioners” who are now old enough to start suing the school and medical authorities who misled them into thinking they had to permanently disfigure their bodies with “gender affirming health care” (i.e., dangerous drugs and irreversible, unnecessary surgery.) I expressed the hope that the rise in lawsuits would put the fear of playing God into some of these greedy quacks and make them to look for some other scam to run.

Well, Matt Margolis at PJ Media reports that that might already be happening.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/09/25/were-winning-the-fight-against-child-mutilation-n1729723

We were told by the “trans” activists that America had to stop being so repressive and get with the European nations on this. Well, more and more European nations are recognizing that this was a terrible, destructive delusion and are banning alleged gender-altering procedures. In the US, 22 states now ban them, but as Margolis reports, even in those states that allow some procedures like hormone blockers to continue, clinics are voluntarily stopping it for fear of being sued for malpractice later – and they should be afraid of that. Because it’s coming, and I expect it may soon be a tidal wave of lawsuits.

He also notes that another facet of the “trans” movement just took a major hit: the claim that “transitioning” children helps them. He writes that a recent comprehensive study found no medical benefit for young people who receive so-called “gender-affirming care” (actually, gender denying), and that as many as 90% of kids with gender confusion who aren’t encouraged to socially or medically transition no longer identify as transgender when they’re adults.

http://www.sexologytoday.org/2016/01/do-trans-kids-stay-trans-when-they-grow_99.html

Why, it’s almost as if there’s some natural bodily process that everyone goes through that turns them into what they’re supposed to be as adults, unless some quack who thinks he knows better than God tries to stop it.


Stories like this do exist, the media just doesn’t cover them

Here’s one of those stories that we’re assured don’t exist because the media seldom cover them. It’s about a good guy with a personal firearm preventing a crime. In fact, these stories happen surprisingly often, and I will gladly report them.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/would-be-burglars-armed-billy-club-pick-wrong-farmer-rob-i-will-shoot


Green Fantasy News:

After making grandiose promises about using new technologies to create a sustainable, non-oil-based future and spending about $1.5 billion testing “hundreds and hundreds” of alternative materials, the Lego company admitted that you can’t make Legos out of anything but plastic.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/legos-attempt-to-ditch-oil-based-bricks-is-a-costly-failure

President Biden is joining a UAW picket line today to try to win back the support of auto workers furious at him for killing their jobs by trying to force everyone into electric cars. Meanwhile, Ford announced that it’s halting work on a planned $3.5 billion factory in Michigan that was to have made EV batteries. Ford already announced that its slowing EV production after its EV unit was projected to lose $4.5 billion this year (EVs are stacking up unsold at dealerships), or about 50% more than anticipated. Ford said they’ll hold off on constructing the battery factory “until we’re confident about our ability to competitively run the plant.” How about until they’re confident that anyone will buy an EV just because Joe Biden tells them to?

https://www.westernjournal.com/ford-abruptly-halts-construction-much-touted-3-5-billion-ev-battery-plant/

In a related story, Virginia’s Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin is fighting Democrats who have been blocking his attempts to overturn the “Clean Cars” law they passed when they held all the state’s power. It commits Virginia to abiding by California’s car laws, which include a mandate that by model year 2026, 35% of all new cars and trucks sold in Virginia must be EVs (Do you spot the logical flaw in that sentence? Hint: How do they determine which 35% of shoppers have to buy them?) Youngkin called it “ludicrous” and said it “defies common sense” that Democrats would outsource Virginia’s energy decisions to California. I’d say it defies common sense for anyone to do anything California does. 

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/24/youngkin-ev-mandate-virginia-california/

As our favorite YouTube mechanic Scotty Kilmer says, green cars are a myth. Electric cars are very limited, they have short ranges and long charge times, producing them pollutes more than producing an ICE car, and most of the electricity that charges them comes from fossil fuel-fired power plants. He notes that if you buy one now and someone invents a better battery that goes farther and charges faster without bursting into flames, your car will be worthless overnight. His advice: If you must buy an electric vehicle, hold off for a while, like maybe a decade or two.


RIP David McCallum

By “Huckabee” pop culture guru Pat Reeder (http://www.hollywoodhifi.com)

I’m sad to have to report that actor David McCallum has died at 90. His friends praised him as very kind, a Renaissance man of many talents who was interested in everything from science to music, and a great father who was married to his wife Katherine for 56 years.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/david-mccallum-dead-ncis-man-from-uncle-1235734772/

Modern TV viewers may know him for the role he played for 20 years, chief medical examiner Donald “Ducky” Mallard on “NCIS.” But what I know him for is the brief period in the 1960s when he was the subject of an almost Beatles-level of hysteria known as Illya-mania. His role as the enigmatic Russian secret agent Illya Kuryakin on “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” was supposed to be a minor role, but his chemistry with star Robert Vaughn and his sex appeal to teenyboppers rocketed him to co-star status and superstardom, with his face on everything from teen magazines to school lunch boxes to,of course, records, which is my field of expertise as the co-author of the book, “Hollywood Hi-Fi.” He only sang on a couple of singles, but he released four albums of orchestral pop song instrumentals that he conducted (his mom was a cellist, and his dad was first violinist for the London Philharmonic.)

I put together a post for our Hollywood Hi-Fi Facebook page that has multiple links to some of McCallum’s 1950s singles. If you'd like to take a nostalgic trip down memory lane in his memory – or just discover some fun (and in one case, kind of crazy) singles from the ‘60s, join us over there at this link, and give us a Follow if you enjoy it.

https://www.facebook.com/hollywoodhifibook/posts/pfbid0u5eiPfTVJQmADWqRdn8AsiXyoB3eBQfkNsx2hDbnfojHGmtnKd2ACSRfqXALmgzwl


Money wired from China to Hunter shows up at dad’s doorstep

We’ve joked that the Democrats wouldn’t admit there is evidence linking President Biden to his family’s foreign business until they saw security cam video of him in a parking garage being handed a suitcase with big flashing dollar signs on it.  (Maybe that’s next!  But even with that, they’d find some way to deny the truth.)  Yesterday, the breaking news was just about as obvious as that.

In July and August 2019, after former Vice President Biden had started his 2020 presidential campaign, Hunter Biden received two wire transfers from Chinese nationals in Beijing worth a total of $260,000, and the address of the beneficiary was the same as Joe Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware, home.

Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, who heads the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, came to his job with a background as a BANKER, so he knows how to conduct a financial investigation and the significance of such documents as Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).  This information on the wire transfers came in response to his congressional subpoena.  “Bank records don’t lie but President Biden does,” Comer said in a statement Tuesday.  “In 2020, Joe Biden told Americans that his family never received money from China.”  (Of course, he’s referring to the now-infamous exchange during a presidential debate in which he accused Trump of being the one to do that.)

Former deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, who now teaches law at U.C. Berkeley, appeared on FOX NEWS’ late-night show with Trace Gallagher to talk about this, saying the House committees are “building the case slowly, steadily, by getting financial information like this.”  The first question to ask, he said, is where is this money coming from?  “Beijing, Moscow, coming into Biden family accounts.”  Then, where did it go?  What did it pay for?  Cars?  Yes, we know some of it did.  Houses?  You have to find that out.

“Only after you get all that does it make sense to start bringing in the headline witnesses.”  You don’t want to bring in Hunter and/or other Bidens and put them under oath until you have everything you might want to ask them about.  If it seems as though this is taking forever, that’s why.

After Biden got divorced from first wife Kathleen Buhle in 2017, he stayed for a time at his father’s home; recall that he falsely claimed to be the homeowner on a rental application in California.  And Hunter listed his dad’s house as his own billing address twice, for a personal credit card in 2018 and an Apple account in 2019.

Interestingly, though, according to Hunter’s memoir BEAUTIFUL THINGS, he was living in California at the time these transfers would have been made.  Comer told Laura Ingraham Tuesday night that he’s “pretty certain” Hunter was not living at his father’s Delaware house when the transfers were made.

“If you go back even further than that,” Comer said, “This Jonathan Li [the CEO of Chinese equity firm BHR], who wired the $260,000 from China to Hunter Biden’s personal account, he is part of the Chinese Communist Party...a huge business person in China, with a Chinese-backed entity that funds investment to the United States.”  The one issue both Republicans and Democrats in Congress can agree on, he said, is that we don’t want China taking over industries important to our national security.  (Aside:  Actually, it wouldn’t be surprising if some Democrats in Congress were fine with that.)  “This is the guy that does that,” Comer explained.

Joe Biden personally spoke by phone with Jonathan Li, met him for coffee, and wrote a letter of recommendation to help Li’s son or daughter (reports vary) get into Brown University in the U.S. (I’m surprised he didn’t think Brown was a little TOO communist for his kid.) They had a relationship to that extent at least, Joe no doubt wanting to grease the wheels for his son’s business dealings by doing a favor for an acquaintance.

According to Comer, Hunter’s attorney said Hunter never got any money from Li.  And, of course, Joe Biden said he never got any from China at all.  Well, here it is.  And it came literally to Joe’s doorstep.

“One thing we all agree on,” Comer said in closing, “is China’s a threat to the United States.  And here we have more evidence of the Biden family receiving millions and millions of dollars from our adversarial country --- for who knows what?  The Bidens never have said what they did to receive the money.  What did Hunter Biden do to receive a quarter of a million dollars from a Chinese national affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?”

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6337890757112

And here’s Comer on FOX BUSINESS NEWS, with a preview of Wednesday and Friday.  There’s so much evidence, he says, “this is like tracking a bleeding bear through a snowstorm.”

https://thelibertydaily.com/there-certainly-has-been-cover-up-rep-james/

https://nypost.com/2023/09/26/hunter-biden-received-260k-from-beijing-during-dads-campaign-with-dad-joes-address-on-wire-comer/

As FOX NEWS Digital reported Tuesday, the wire transfers were linked to BHR Partners, a joint venture between Hunter’s company Rosemont Seneca and Chinese investment firm Bohai Capital.  BHR Partners is “a Beijing-backed private equity firm controlled by Bank of China Limited.  Hunter Biden reportedly sat on the board of BHR Partners.”  Hunter’s then-attorney said in 2019 that this “was an unpaid position.”  As we’ve reported, Bank of China is the fourth largest bank in the world, and controlled by the CCP.

The Oversight Committee has been compiling records of these international transfers and already can show that from 2014 to 2019, the Biden family and their associates received $24 million in foreign payments --- $15 million to the Bidens and $9 million for their business associates, $4 million more than previously known.

FOX NEWS Digital has more details on the two transfers and a good overview.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hunter-biden-received-250k-wire-from-beijing-with-beneficiary-address-listed-as-joe-biden-delaware-home

DAILY CALLER has a good summary, too, with details on Hunter’s and James’ business entities.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/26/hunter-biden-chinese-business-associates-joe-biden-address-payments-house-oversight

In an appearance on HANNITY Tuesday night, investigative reporter John Solomon said he thought he knew what new information was about to be released by the committees and that some of this, such as the FBI’s interview with James Biden, should be voted out on Wednesday and/or “in a couple weeks.”  There’s more coming, he said, on the October 2022 meeting during which IRS agent-turned-whistleblower Gary Shapley said “a red line was crossed” regarding not bringing charges that made him want to come forward.

Also, there are “other summaries of the case,” Solomon said, that make it clear they were planning to charge Hunter with failure to pay taxes on his Burisma income.  (Those are the charges that are now past the statute of limitations.)

There’s also evidence “that agents had developed a case that Joe Biden’s campaign had taken or benefited from illegal campaign contributions because somebody, a third party [Hunter’s “sugar brother” Kevin Morris] was paying his tax bill during the 2020 election and afterwards.”  As we’ve said, this was arguably to “clean it up” for his dad’s campaign.

RELATED:  Judicial Watch announced Tuesday that they’ve filed a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of ‘Justice’ for all records in the possession of FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten regarding a briefing that was given to the Senate on August 6, 2020.  Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley have long believed that this briefing was held --- and the subject matter subsequently leaked --- to undermine Congress’ investigation of Hunter Biden.

They’d filed a FOIA request over a year ago with no response; thus the lawsuit.  Key paragraph:

“First, it’s been alleged that the FBI developed information in 2020 about Hunter Biden’s criminal financial and related activity. It is further alleged that in August 2020, FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten opened an assessment which was used by an FBI Headquarters (‘FBI HQ’) team to improperly discredit negative Hunter Biden information as disinformation and caused investigative activity to cease. Based on allegations, verified and verifiable derogatory information on Hunter Biden was falsely labeled as disinformation.”

See the full press release here:

https://www.judicialwatch.org/hunter-biden-investigation

PROGRAMMING NOTE:  On Thursday morning, the first House impeachment inquiry hearing will begin, to be headed by the Oversight, Judiciary and Ways and Means Committees.  According to the NEW YORK POST, witnesses include forensic accounting expert Bruce Dubinsky, former ‘Justice’ Department official Eileen O’Connor, and one of our favorite legal experts, George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?530616-1/hearing-biden-impeachment-inquiry


Michelle Obama is paid $741,000 to give one-hour speech in Germany.

Michelle Obama flew to Germany and pocketed a cool $741,000 (700,000 euros) for giving a one-hour speech on diversity and inclusion.  Let’s hope her speechwriters were sufficiently “included” on some of that $$$$.

This was at an annual event called the “Bits and Pretzels” forum in Munich, described by the NEW YORK POST as “a start-up event held on the sidelines of the annual Oktoberfest beer festival, according to the event website.”  The webpage said she spoke before about 5,000 people on how to “push back self-doubt while discussing the importance of inclusivity and diversity.”

The U.K. DAILY MAIL described the event as “a three-day love-in for European entrepreneurs.”

Year after year, organizers said, she had topped the list of people from whom participants wanted to hear at their love-in.  This is apparently one of the highest speaking fees they have ever paid.  President Obama spoke there in 2019, presumably for his usual speaking fee of just $400,000 (it wasn’t disclosed).

Axios reported in 2017 that Michelle’s usual speaking fee was $200,000.  But it’s skyrocketed, “amid speculation that she could be named the Democratic nominee for President.”  We would add that if she’s planning to run, that might explain the rush to go ahead and collect these fabulous speaking fees while she can.

Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12559675/michelle-obama-pay-munich-conference-speech


Judge rules against President Trump

To absolutely nobody’s surprise, a New York judge ruled against Donald Trump in a civil lawsuit brought by rabidly partisan attorney general Letitia James, who ran for election on the promise to “get Trump.” The judge found Trump guilty of being Donald Trump – oh wait, that’s just the subtext. The judge issued summary judgement that Trump committed fraud for years by massively overvaluing his properties in securing loans.

https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-judge-rules-trump-claims-committed-fraud-years-building-real-estate-empire/

To reach this verdict, he had to overlook the following: it’s the duty of lenders to do due diligence and verify the value of collateral, all the contracts had disclaimers on them saying that, differing opinions on property valuations are common in business, some of the charges are beyond the statute of limitations, all of the loans were paid back with interest, and none of the lenders were defrauded out of a penny. Indeed, it was obvious how this case would go when the judge ruled in advance that there didn’t have to be any victims of fraud for him to find Trump guilty of fraud, and when he fined Trump’s attorneys for repeating the same arguments because they were their legal arguments.

This will now proceed to a non-jury trial and assessing punishment, with James pushing for $250 million in fines and banning Trump from running his own businesses in New York. Trump called it a “horrible, un-American decision,” and his attorneys announced plans to appeal, calling the ruling “completely disconnected from the facts and governing law.”

https://www.breitbart.com/news/judge-rules-donald-trump-defrauded-banks-insurers-as-he-built-real-estate-empire

I hope that voters in New York are pleased with the deranged Democrats they’ve put in charge of their state. In this case, their chief prosecutor is presiding over a historic crime wave that’s made New York City a battle zone as real violent criminals run wild, yet has devoted her full attention to prosecuting a political opponent for taking out loans and paying them back with interest. She also now seeks to drive his multi-billion-dollar businesses out of the state. If so, he’ll be joining lots of other business people who are already leaving New York without being prosecuted into leaving. And like them, he’ll take millions of dollars in future tax revenues with him.

Think about that, New Yorkers, as you struggle to pay the crippling costs of all those illegal immigrants the other person you voted for let in. Biden’s immigration policy is bankrupting you, while James' political vendetta is causing you to be robbed blind while driving out one of your biggest taxpayers. Just try to calculate how much voting for Democrats has cost you, and weep.


Menendez update

Two dozen Democratic Senators are calling on Sen. Bob Menendez to resign. It might not be so much that they are morally outraged by his alleged naked corruption as that his radioactivity may harm them politically, since his campaign and PAC gave nearly $230,000 to other Democrats’ campaigns. John Fetterman even returned his donation in an envelope stuffed with hundred dollar bills (is that how Fetterman received it?)  Chuck Schumer argued that he deserves due process and the presumption of innocence, but this case is so over-the-top, the alleged corruption is startling even by New Jersey Democrat standards.

Interestingly, he’s been indicted for corruption before, but he got a hung jury. That wasn’t enough to drive him out of the Senate or even keep him from being named chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. But that case didn’t come with such attention-grabbing evidence, and it wasn’t during a time when Democrats are desperately trying to paint their opponent as corrupt by indicting him for breathing, plus they have a razor-thin Senate majority to defend and a worse record than the New York Jets.

At least now, we know where top Democrats draw the line on ethics. It’s somewhere between having 20 shell corporations to hide millions of dollars given to your crackhead son by shady foreign actors and having your suit pockets bulging with cash and gold bars with incriminating fingerprints and DNA on them.

Related: Speaking of Democrats hurling rocks from inside glass Houses and Senates…

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/26/richard-blumenthal-wife-clarence-thomas-resign-stock-sales-august/


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Another nuisance lawsuit

As we were going to press, breaking news arrived that Hunter Biden’s lawyers are suing Rudy Giuliani and his businesses, alleging that they “hacked and manipulated” data left on his abandoned laptop before giving it to the New York Post. They’ve previously sued the computer repair shop owner where Hunter left the laptop in spite of the law forfeiting ownership after a certain period, and the IRS for “embarrassing” Hunter by releasing information revealed by whistleblowers, which was legally released by the House Committee they testified before.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/26/hunter-biden-rudy-giuliani-laptop

I’m sure we’ll have more on this soon, but it looks like another nuisance lawsuit designed to paint poor Hunter as a victim and distract from the jaw-dropping contents of the laptop, which have been verified by a number of news organizations, even the New York Times and the Washington Post, albeit at glacial speed in their cases.


Debate Info

The RNC announced the list of seven Republican candidates who qualified to appear in tomorrow’s second GOP primary debate. The only one who made the first debate but didn’t make the cut for the second is former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson. Former Arkansas Governors who run for President never get a break! Donald Trump will not be participating because…well, he’s Donald Trump. He’ll be speaking to striking UAW workers and drawing attention away from the debate, of course.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/candidates-stage-second-republican-presidential-nomination-debate


Don’t Mess With Texas:

If you think you’re going to invade America and just take over, you might want to wait until you’re in a blue state before actually planting your national flag on US soil. Blue state politicians will applaud your diversity and representation as you conquer their territory for the homeland, but that garbage doesn’t fly in Texas.

https://www.westernjournal.com/video-texas-troops-spring-action-illegal-immigrants-plant-foreign-flag-us-soil/


Exciting new fuel breakthrough

https://www.gocomics.com/fminus/2023/09/25


Lesson not learned

I was hoping that corporations had learned their lesson about diving into the culture wars, but it’s going to take more pain for some of them. For instance, Burger King, Hello Fresh and the online clothing site, Asos. All three pulled their advertising from Rumble because unlike other platforms, they refused to censor or demonetize Russell Brand.

The British comic-turned-anti-establishment podcaster was anonymously accused of sex crimes dating back 10 years or more in the British media, and was immediately dropped by his agent and publisher, his comedy special was removed from streaming, his comedy tour canceled, he was demonetized by YouTube, and a British government MP wrote to Rumble pressuring them to drop him. They refused because (A.) his videos have nothing to do with this subject, and (B.) he hasn’t even been charged with anything, much less convicted.

To be clear: the allegations are very disturbing, and if these women want to bring them into court, then they deserve support, and if convicted, Brand should pay a heavy price. But he strongly denies the allegations, and he’s entitled to the presumption of innocence without having his livelihood taken away based on anonymous allegations.

Unfortunately, the CEOs of these companies decided to take a stand on behalf of wokeness, censorship and trial-by-Internet, and I fear they may find that blade cuts both ways. There’s already a call among conservatives and libertarians to make Burger King the next Bud Light (again, to hammer this home for those slow on the uptake: not to defend rape, but to defend due process rights.)

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/09/24/burger-king-facing-boycotts-for-pulling-advertising-from-rumble-amid-russell-brand-controversy-n2164246

Meanwhile, suspicion is growing that this was a coordinated media hit on Brand motivated more by his criticism of government, Big Pharma and the Ukraine war than his sexual behavior. Defenders note that when Brand was using drugs and being hedonistic (and was a typical kneejerk liberal), the media ran stories about what a charming rogue he was. Now that he’s a sober family man who’s changed his political views, they’re dragging up old charges they ignored for a decade.

It's also hard to explain why the same celebrities who are condemning Brand before he’s even been charged worked for years with now-imprisoned rapist Harvey Weinstein, when they knew what he was all along but ignored it, and gave a standing ovation at the Oscars to Roman Polanski, who was charged with drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl, struck a plea deal, then fled the US to escape justice.

FYI: Paramount Plus pulled Brand’s comedy special, but is still airing movies Weinstein produced and Polanski directed.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/michaelcantrell/2023/09/22/oh-the-hypocrisy-paramount-yanks-russell-brand-comedy-special-look-whose-movies-are-still-streaming-n1729132


Celebrity Hypocrisy News Round-up

Example #1: A number of leftist celebrities, including Mark Ruffalo, Ariana Grande, LeVar Burton, Rob Reiner and more, are supporting a Soros-backed initiative called the “Banned Bookmobile” that falsely labels the effort to get sexually inappropriate books out of elementary schools as “book banning.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/09/21/hollywood-celebrities-ariana-grande-mark-ruffalo-billy-porter-support-soros-backed-initiative-spreading-book-bans-hoax/

Fact: None of these books are “banned.” They are still readily available to adult readers, and even to older students in many cases. Preventing young children from being exposed to them is not “banning” them. If so, then how can these people work in an industry with an MPAA rating code that labels some films as R or NC-17, meaning that they’re inappropriate for kids under 17? If they think that keeping adult books out of the hands of children is “book banning” and they oppose it, then why are they in favor of "banning movies?"

Example #2: A number of big-name musicians, including Billie Eilish, Sheryl Crow, Nile Rogers, Peter Gabriel and more, joined to release a video under the name “Artists for Action to Prevent Gun Violence,” urging their fans to demand stricter gun control laws. As the linked article points out, they don’t suggest any particular laws, and the most notorious mass shootings would not have been stopped by any of the laws usually pushed.

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/09/24/watch-famous-musicians-including-billy-eilish-sheryl-crow-peter-grabiel-push-gun-control-campaign/

My question would be, “If I give up my guns, will these celebrities pay to provide me and my family with the same armed security they enjoy?”


Best wishes

An investigator with the Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney’s office accidentally shot herself in the leg while using the bathroom in the same courthouse where Trump and his associates were arraigned. Being a nice person, I will send her best wishes to get well soon and let you make your own “shoot yourself in the foot” jokes.

https://thepostmillennial.com/fulton-county-da-investigator-accidentally-shoots-herself-in-courthouse-bathroom


Menendez update: 5 Key Points

For those just coming in late to the indictments of Sen. Bob Menendez and his wife, here are five key points that will raise your eyebrows to your hairline.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/5-explosive-revelations-dem-sen-bob-menendezs-bombshell-federal-indictment

I have to give this to today’s Democrats, from Hunter Biden to Bob Mendendez to Harvey Weinstein to Sam Bankman-Fried: when it comes to indictments, they don’t make you work hard to invent criminal charges out of nothing, the way they had to with Trump. They give you outrageous criminality on a silver platter that’s about as subtle as a Baz Luhrmann movie.


Fake News Alert:

No, Sen. Rand Paul didn’t come to work in his bathrobe. That was just a joke meme created with AI. But under the new John Fetterman Senate dress code, he could have.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/24/laugh-of-the-day-rand-paul-response-to-the-pic-of-him-being-in-bathrobe-on-senate-steps-over-dress-code-n2164245


James O’Keefe shows that the police state is here

If you have any doubt we currently live in a police state, this video James O’Keefe made of FBI agents raiding and searching his home will erase it.  Two members of his team, Eric Cochran and Spencer Meads, were also raided, and Eric got some video.  Recall that this intrusion was over the matter of the Ashley Biden diary, which O’Keefe never even chose to report on.

It was only later that they found out the FBI had secretly gained access to their emails and concealed that fact from the court hearing their case in the Southern District of New York.  Microsoft, Uber and Google, O’Keefe says, were approached by the FBI for information about them as journalists, “including emails between us and our attorneys.”

O’Keefe found out through a Microsoft whistleblower that the FBI had done their trick of going to different magistrate judges to get their warrants rubber-stamped.  (Microsoft and other entities had even been handed “secrecy agreements” prohibiting them from disclosing this surveillance to anyone, even after the raids.­)

These actions by the DOJ were so egregious that even the ACLU came out in support of O’Keefe’s media group.  (And that’s saying something!)  O’Keefe and his colleagues are asking for the affidavits to be unsealed so these journalists can see the probable cause for the surveillance and the raids, during which even their journalistic notes were seized, in violation of an apparently toothless order signed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in July 2021.

More here, plus video of the FBI raids…

https://rumble.com/v3jueek-after-project-veritas-leaves-fbi-raided-journalists-hanging-james-okeefe-la.html


The Hunter/Menendez connection; Gal Luft gives new evidence to impeachment inquiry

First a recap and update:  Yesterday, we included a story that suggested a tie between Hunter Biden and newly indicted Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, not really knowing what the significance might be.  The news also broke that Menendez had hired the same lawyer, Abbe Lowell of the Democrat powerhouse firm of Winston & Strawn LLP, who is Hunter’s lead defense attorney in the tax/finance case supposedly being investigated by Special Counsel David Weiss.  Lowell is the same attorney who got him off with a hung jury the last time he went to trial.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/25/bob-menendez-hires-hunter-bidens-lawyer-bribery-defense/

But today, it’s reported that a 2010 email from Hunter’s infamous laptop, uncovered by the non-profit investigative group Marco Polo, raises questions about the extent of Sen. Menendez’ connection to the Bidens.

In this email, Menendez’ chief of staff, Danny O’Brien taps Hunter Biden and his former business partner Eric Schwerin with a request for --- what else? --- access to the Big Guy, a.k.a. Vice President Biden.

The email apparently was written after Joe Biden’s office had already turned down a request to give the keynote speech for the “United States – Spain Council’s Annual Forum” in July 2010.  (And this was long before he started “putting a lid on the day” at 4PM or whenever.)  O’Brien asked Hunter and Schwerin to extend an invitation to VP Biden to please do this.

Details on this developing story are at the link.  As HeadlineUSA.com reports, “The contents of the email, dated April 7, 2019, reveal that Menendez had already established a backchannel through Hunter.  It is not immediately clear how or when Menendez’ office began communicating with Hunter’s associate.”

https://headlineusa.com/menendezs-backdoor-access-to-biden-uncovered-in-hunter-emails/

Now to the main story:  One of the more obscure names in the Biden corruption investigation is Gal Luft, the Israeli professor and former Israel Defense Forces officer who has been a fugitive for six months after skipping bail in Cyprus, where he’d been awaiting extradition on what he has said are bogus arms-dealing and foreign lobbying charges.  Luft has reached out to the House impeachment inquiry with new evidence.

In an open letter to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky, Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio, and Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith of Missouri, the three who are heading the impeachment inquiry, he told them that the very same day (July 30, 2017) Hunter gave an ultimatum to CEFC executive Raymond Zhao (recall the threatening message on WhatsApp, with Hunter saying his dad was sitting right there next to him), an FBI mole dubbed “One-Eye” --- you can’t make this stuff up --- tipped off Hunter and his Chinese partners that the partners had been named in four sealed indictments by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.

According to Luft, CEFC executive Patrick Ho, who was staying in a Manhattan hotel at the time, received an urgent phone call later that night from CEFC president Chan Chauto in Shanghai, telling him to leave the U.S. immediately.  Ho flew to Hong Kong the next day and remained there for four months.  On September 10, 2017, Hunter would sign an attorney engagement letter agreeing to represent Ho for a $1 million retainer.

Luft says that sometime in September, Hunter and his uncle Jim flew to Hong Kong to meet with Ho.  They asked him to buy two “burner” iPhones for them before telling him the coast was clear to fly back to New York.  But wherever they got that idea, they were wrong!  When Ho landed at JFK Airport in November, he was arrested on charges of bribery and money laundering.  The first call he made after his arrest was to Jim Biden, looking for Hunter.  Hunter asked another lawyer, Edward Kim, to do the legal work, possibly because Hunter was too busy smoking crack.  We made that last part up, but it might very well be true; who knows?

Later that day, Kim emailed Hunter asking him to “find the names of the FBI agents you spoke with, that would be helpful.”  Hunter replied, “Working on it.”  “The FBI agents”??

On the same day as Hunter’s “shakedown” WhatsApp message, Zhao told him in a follow-up message that “CEFC is willing to cooperate with the family.  [Aside:  note his choice of words, “the family.”]  He thinks now the priority is to solve the problem mentioned last night.”  Luft believes “the problem” refers to the indictments by the Southern District of New York.   As you know, within 9 days of this shakedown by Hunter, CEFC would wire $5.1 million to entities in the U.S. to transfer to Hunter.

In his letter to the committees, Luft wrote, “The existence of a potential mole within the FBI and/or Justice Department who conveyed to Chinese individuals information about sealed indictments has, apparently, to this day never been solved.  Perhaps Congress should investigate the issue as part of its impeachment inquiry.”  Perhaps indeed.

Comer said that Luft’s letter was “helpful,” and that he looked forward to investigating Luft’s allegations of an FBI mole.  His committee, he added, would like to interview Luft.

According to Miranda Devine, the timing of Luft’s emergence is fortuitous, because the impeachment inquiry that begins this Thursday will focus on the Bidens’ business relationships in China.  “Comer,” she says, “is set to reveal two new tranches of evidence this week, including a new Chinese wire to Biden family members and new documents provided by the IRS whistleblowers.

Democrats smeared Chairman Comer in June for wanting to interview Luft, saying Luft was “a Chinese spy” because of his association with CEFC.  (We would add that the Bidens also had an association with CEFC; what does that make THEM?)  Comer had this comeback: “All I know is that [Luft] was getting money from the same company the Bidens were getting money from...is the President’s son a Chinese spy?  They took money from the same company.”

To that, Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, who in his reflexive dishonesty is gaining a reputation as the perfect new spokesperson for the Democrat Party, actually said, “Who cares if they had money from the same company?”

Great report; recommended highly...

https://nypost.com/2023/09/25/offering-dirt-on-hunter-bidens-fbi-mole/

Miranda appeared on Monday’s HANNITY TV show, saying she sees this as “another piece of the jigsaw puzzle slotted into place.”

What we’ve just learned, she explained, is the timing of Hunter’s “shakedown” message to CEFC.  It was the same day that Chinese business partner Patrick Ho got tipped off to drop everything and get out of America immediately.  Too bad the whole Biden family didn’t do that; think what it would’ve saved the country from.

Hannity had another segment to discuss Sen. Menendez, now that he’s been charged with taking bribes for working on behalf of Egypt.  Guests Clay Travis and Gregg Jarrett talked about this, with Jarrett saying, “Even a top lawyer like Abbe Lowell will not be able to help Bob Menendez weasel out of this one.”

This is in large part because the fingerprints of his co-defendant are on the envelopes filled with cash that were found in his house.  Plus, the gold bars have serial numbers that are also linked to his co-defendant.  And there’s much more, not the least of which is that he’s not a Biden (never mind the similarities in the allegations).  Even Perry Mason couldn’t get this client off.

Note: Menendez claimed that the $480,000 in cash the FBI found in his house is his own savings, taken out of the bank over the years and stashed away for “emergencies” because “of the history of my family facing confiscation in Cuba.” I fear government confiscation of my money, too, because of Democrats like him, but that doesn’t hold water as an excuse. Aside from DNA and fingerprint evidence, and the unexplained gold bars, Menendez was born in New York five years before the communist revolution in Cuba.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/menendez-ripped-by-critics-after-shameless-defense-of-keeping-over-400k-in-cash-in-his-home-so-corrupt/ar-AA1hfdv1

His excuse is being met with widespread mockery, with some saying it’s ridiculous even by New Jersey political standards. But Menendez insists that he will be exonerated and remain Senator, adding, "The court of public opinion is no substitute for our revered justice system. We cannot set aside the presumption of innocence for political expediency when the harm is irrevocable."

I agree, and I will defend even his right to the presumption of innocence, but come on, you’ve gotta give me something work with!


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First a recap and update:  Yesterday, we included a story that suggested a tie between Hunter Biden and newly indicted Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, not really knowing what the significance might be.  The news also broke that Menendez had hired the same lawyer, Abbe Lowell of the Democrat powerhouse firm of Winston & Strawn LLP, who is Hunter’s lead defense attorney in the tax/finance case supposedly being investigated by Special Counsel David Weiss.  Lowell is the same attorney who got him off with a hung jury the last time he went to trial.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/25/bob-menendez-hires-hunter-bidens-lawyer-bribery-defense/

But today, it’s reported that a 2010 email from Hunter’s infamous laptop, uncovered by the non-profit investigative group Marco Polo, raises questions about the extent of Sen. Menendez’ connection to the Bidens.

In this email, Menendez’ chief of staff, Danny O’Brien taps Hunter Biden and his former business partner Eric Schwerin with a request for --- what else? --- access to the Big Guy, a.k.a. Vice President Biden.

The email apparently was written after Joe Biden’s office had already turned down a request to give the keynote speech for the “United States – Spain Council’s Annual Forum” in July 2010.  (And this was long before he started “putting a lid on the day” at 4PM or whenever.)  O’Brien asked Hunter and Schwerin to extend an invitation to VP Biden to please do this.

Details on this developing story are at the link.  As HeadlineUSA.com reports, “The contents of the email, dated April 7, 2019, reveal that Menendez had already established a backchannel through Hunter.  It is not immediately clear how or when Menendez’ office began communicating with Hunter’s associate.”

https://headlineusa.com/menendezs-backdoor-access-to-biden-uncovered-in-hunter-emails/

Now to the main story:  One of the more obscure names in the Biden corruption investigation is Gal Luft, the Israeli professor and former Israel Defense Forces officer who has been a fugitive for six months after skipping bail in Cyprus, where he’d been awaiting extradition on what he has said are bogus arms-dealing and foreign lobbying charges.  Luft has reached out to the House impeachment inquiry with new evidence.

In an open letter to House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky, Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio, and Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith of Missouri, the three who are heading the impeachment inquiry, he told them that the very same day (July 30, 2017) Hunter gave an ultimatum to CEFC executive Raymond Zhao (recall the threatening message on WhatsApp, with Hunter saying his dad was sitting right there next to him), an FBI mole dubbed “One-Eye” --- you can’t make this stuff up --- tipped off Hunter and his Chinese partners that the partners had been named in four sealed indictments by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York.

According to Luft, CEFC executive Patrick Ho, who was staying in a Manhattan hotel at the time, received an urgent phone call later that night from CEFC president Chan Chauto in Shanghai, telling him to leave the U.S. immediately.  Ho flew to Hong Kong the next day and remained there for four months.  On September 10, 2017, Hunter would sign an attorney engagement letter agreeing to represent Ho for a $1 million retainer.

Luft says that sometime in September, Hunter and his uncle Jim flew to Hong Kong to meet with Ho.  They asked him to buy two “burner” iPhones for them before telling him the coast was clear to fly back to New York.  But wherever they got that idea, they were wrong!  When Ho landed at JFK Airport in November, he was arrested on charges of bribery and money laundering.  The first call he made after his arrest was to Jim Biden, looking for Hunter.  Hunter asked another lawyer, Edward Kim, to do the legal work, possibly because Hunter was too busy smoking crack.  We made that last part up, but it might very well be true; who knows?

Later that day, Kim emailed Hunter asking him to “find the names of the FBI agents you spoke with, that would be helpful.”  Hunter replied, “Working on it.”  “The FBI agents”??

On the same day as Hunter’s “shakedown” WhatsApp message, Zhao told him in a follow-up message that “CEFC is willing to cooperate with the family.  [Aside:  note his choice of words, “the family.”]  He thinks now the priority is to solve the problem mentioned last night.”  Luft believes “the problem” refers to the indictments by the Southern District of New York.   As you know, within 9 days of this shakedown by Hunter, CEFC would wire $5.1 million to entities in the U.S. to transfer to Hunter.

In his letter to the committees, Luft wrote, “The existence of a potential mole within the FBI and/or Justice Department who conveyed to Chinese individuals information about sealed indictments has, apparently, to this day never been solved.  Perhaps Congress should investigate the issue as part of its impeachment inquiry.”  Perhaps indeed.

Comer said that Luft’s letter was “helpful,” and that he looked forward to investigating Luft’s allegations of an FBI mole.  His committee, he added, would like to interview Luft.

According to Miranda Devine, the timing of Luft’s emergence is fortuitous, because the impeachment inquiry that begins this Thursday will focus on the Bidens’ business relationships in China.  “Comer,” she says, “is set to reveal two new tranches of evidence this week, including a new Chinese wire to Biden family members and new documents provided by the IRS whistleblowers.

Democrats smeared Chairman Comer in June for wanting to interview Luft, saying Luft was “a Chinese spy” because of his association with CEFC.  (We would add that the Bidens also had an association with CEFC; what does that make THEM?)  Comer had this comeback: “All I know is that [Luft] was getting money from the same company the Bidens were getting money from...is the President’s son a Chinese spy?  They took money from the same company.”

To that, Rep. Dan Goldman of New York, who in his reflexive dishonesty is gaining a reputation as the perfect new spokesperson for the Democrat Party, actually said, “Who cares if they had money from the same company?”

Great report; recommended highly...

https://nypost.com/2023/09/25/offering-dirt-on-hunter-bidens-fbi-mole/

Miranda appeared on Monday’s HANNITY TV show, saying she sees this as “another piece of the jigsaw puzzle slotted into place.”

What we’ve just learned, she explained, is the timing of Hunter’s “shakedown” message to CEFC.  It was the same day that Chinese business partner Patrick Ho got tipped off to drop everything and get out of America immediately.  Too bad the whole Biden family didn’t do that; think what it would’ve saved the country from.

Hannity had another segment to discuss Sen. Menendez, now that he’s been charged with taking bribes for working on behalf of Egypt.  Guests Clay Travis and Gregg Jarrett talked about this, with Jarrett saying, “Even a top lawyer like Abbe Lowell will not be able to help Bob Menendez weasel out of this one.”

This is in large part because the fingerprints of his co-defendant are on the envelopes filled with cash that were found in his house.  Plus, the gold bars have serial numbers that are also linked to his co-defendant.  And there’s much more, not the least of which is that he’s not a Biden (never mind the similarities in the allegations).  Even Perry Mason couldn’t get this client off.

Note: Menendez claimed that the $480,000 in cash the FBI found in his house is his own savings, taken out of the bank over the years and stashed away for “emergencies” because “of the history of my family facing confiscation in Cuba.” I fear government confiscation of my money, too, because of Democrats like him, but that doesn’t hold water as an excuse. Aside from DNA and fingerprint evidence, and the unexplained gold bars, Menendez was born in New York five years before the communist revolution in Cuba.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/menendez-ripped-by-critics-after-shameless-defense-of-keeping-over-400k-in-cash-in-his-home-so-corrupt/ar-AA1hfdv1

His excuse is being met with widespread mockery, with some saying it’s ridiculous even by New Jersey political standards. But Menendez insists that he will be exonerated and remain Senator, adding, "The court of public opinion is no substitute for our revered justice system. We cannot set aside the presumption of innocence for political expediency when the harm is irrevocable."

I agree, and I will defend even his right to the presumption of innocence, but come on, you’ve gotta give me something work with!

If you have any doubt we currently live in a police state, this video James O’Keefe made of FBI agents raiding and searching his home will erase it.  Two members of his team, Eric Cochran and Spencer Meads, were also raided, and Eric got some video.  Recall that this intrusion was over the matter of the Ashley Biden diary, which O’Keefe never even chose to report on.

It was only later that they found out the FBI had secretly gained access to their emails and concealed that fact from the court hearing their case in the Southern District of New York.  Microsoft, Uber and Google, O’Keefe says, were approached by the FBI for information about them as journalists, “including emails between us and our attorneys.”

O’Keefe found out through a Microsoft whistleblower that the FBI had done their trick of going to different magistrate judges to get their warrants rubber-stamped.  (Microsoft and other entities had even been handed “secrecy agreements” prohibiting them from disclosing this surveillance to anyone, even after the raids.­)

These actions by the DOJ were so egregious that even the ACLU came out in support of O’Keefe’s media group.  (And that’s saying something!)  O’Keefe and his colleagues are asking for the affidavits to be unsealed so these journalists can see the probable cause for the surveillance and the raids, during which even their journalistic notes were seized, in violation of an apparently toothless order signed by Attorney General Merrick Garland in July 2021.

More here, plus video of the FBI raids…

https://rumble.com/v3jueek-after-project-veritas-leaves-fbi-raided-journalists-hanging-james-okeefe-la.html

 

First, there was Gary Shapley, the lead IRS investigator in the Hunter Biden tax/finance case, who testified in April before the House Ways and Means Committee about political interference in the Hunter Biden case.  He was followed by someone who at first chose to remain anonymous but was later identified as Joseph Ziegler, his top assistant (with absolutely no question about his non-partisanship).  Next, there was IRS Director of Field Operations Michael Batdorf, who told the House Ways and Means Committee this month that the DOJ’s Tax Division opposed charging Hunter Biden.  And now, Darrell Waldon, the former IRS agent in charge of the agency’s Washington Field Office (above Shapley in command), has gone before the committee in a closed-door interview to confirm that both the DC and Central California federal prosecutors blocked David Weiss from charging Hunter in their jurisdictions.  He was a more recent addition to the team, on it for two years.

How many agents have to blow the whistle on the handling of this case before the noise finally wakes some people up?  Maybe we’ll end up seeing the entire team of investigators who were removed from the case coming forward to confirm what we already should acknowledge: that our corrupt ‘Justice’ Department is hiding the financial misconduct of the corrupt Biden family.  Would that be enough?

(Aside: Someone blow some steam whistles in the direction of South Carolina Democrat Rep. James Clyburn, who claimed on “Meet the Press” Sunday that Republicans want to impeach Joe Biden for “being a father to his son.”)

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/09/24/clyburn-gop-wants-to-impeach-biden-for-being-a-father-to-his-son/

“Mr. Weiss went to the U.S. Attorney’s Office --- I can’t recall the dates --- and they did not agree to prosecute the case in DC,” Waldon told the committee.  “I’m aware that it was presented to the District of Columbia and, at some point, the Central District of California, I believe.”

So, instead of filing charges in DC or California, Weiss and Hunter’s defense team came to that “sweetheart” plea deal that, thanks to sharp-eyed Judge Maryellen Noreika, ended up being discarded, though Hunter’s attorneys ridiculously continue to claim it’s still in force.

Recall that in his testimony last Wednesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland played word games in speaking of this, saying that the district prosecutors couldn’t block Weiss from charging Hunter.  No, no, they weren’t “turning him down.”  Rather, they were “refusing to partner with him.”  Garland tried to insist that these were “not the same under a well-known Justice Department practice,” when the result, in actual practice, is EXACTLY the same.

And certainly, Shapley saw no such distinction.  In an email to Waldon, Shapley said, “Weiss stated he is not the deciding person of whether charges are filed.  I believe this is a huge problem --- inconsistent with DOJ public position and Merrick Garland testimony.”

Waldon attended that same October meeting in which Shapley said a “red line” was crossed, although his recollection was somewhat different.  He didn’t remember Weiss talking about requesting to be made special counsel.  Also, he didn’t agree that the meeting was “contentious,” as Shapley had said.  Waldon just saw it as the airing of differing points of view.

He testified that Shapley had come to him with his concerns --- steps in the investigation that the ‘Justice’ Department or certain prosecutors had prevented him from taking, such as asking witnesses about other members of the Biden family (there’s that cover-up) and executing at least one search warrant.

Shapley had wanted to blame these roadblocks on political bias.  Waldon had told him that allegation was “unsubstantiated.”  Considering he has since come forward, I wonder what he says about that now.

But Waldon did believe at that time in the strength of the case that would’ve gone to the Central District of California.  “Generally, speaking, if at that time, the case went [there], I would’ve agreed with it.”

These other U.S. attorneys putting up roadblocks, Michael Graves in DC and E. Martin Estrada in California, were both appointed by President Biden himself.

Ironically, Waldon was actually the one who suggested that Shapley be dropped from the investigative team.  Shapley and Weiss were at odds, and, Waldon testified, “the U.S. Attorney’s Office was no longer working or talking with Mr. Shapley.”  In the interest of the investigation, to keep it moving forward, he thought it best.  The third whistleblower, Batdorf, who was Waldon’s supervisor, agreed at the time.

Yet both Batdorf and Ziegler testified glowingly of Shapley, saying he was a “top-performing” investigator and a “fantastic agent.”

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/22/gary-shapley-irs-agent-whistleblower-performance

According to the WASHINGTON EXAMINER, “Both said Weiss’s tensions with Shapley reached a boiling point after [Weiss’s office] demanded all of the emails and records written by the IRS investigative team that could be relevant in court.”  As Shapley told Congress, he thought this was a fishing expedition to uncover complaints about the case that he had been documenting.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/fourth-irs-official-confirms-declined-hunter-biden-case

Last week, a reader asked about the tax implications for Hunter of “sugar brother”/friend Kevin Morris’s generosity in paying off his huge tax bill.  Wouldn’t Hunter owe taxes on the gift from this politically-connected lawyer?  Well, John Solomon reports that the IRS and FBI were looking into that very issue, not just about taxes on the gift but about possible “campaign finance criminal violations,” considering this clean-up was happening while Joe Biden was running for President.  Agents wanted to investigate this but were, they said, blocked by federal prosecutors from further action.

The evidence includes a memo written by Shapley about interference by Lesley Wolf, top prosecutor in David Weiss’s office.  This must have been one of the complaints Shapley was documenting, as reported in the EXAMINER article above.

“This investigation has been hampered and slowed by claims of potential election meddling,” Shapley wrote in the memo and read to the House Ways and Means Committee in his testimony.  “Through interviews and review of evidence obtained, it appears there may be campaign finance criminal violations.”  Whistleblower Ziegler testified a similar concern to the Ways and Means Committee, adding that anything related to the campaign was “off limits.”

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio told Solomon last week that the campaign finance inquiry is “a newer matter under investigation.”  So we’ll be hearing more about this.  “We’re just getting into this issue and the concerns,” he said.  “But it wouldn’t surprise me if they were told to stand down because, remember, this investigation over a five-year time frame was slow-walked.”

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/fbi-irs-probed-possible-criminal-violations-involving-joe-bidens

In an update, Solomon reported that Jason Smith of Missouri, who chairs House Ways and Means, plans to make public new testimony that corroborates the first two IRS whistleblowers’ testimony.  He presumably was referring to the testimony of Batdorf and Waldon.   

A committee panel has to vote on the release of these materials; that vote could come as early as Wednesday, which would allow the evidence to be made public before House Republicans hold their first hearing in the Biden impeachment inquiry.  Chairman Smith sees that first hearing primarily as a “primer” on what is now known of the Biden family’s foreign business dealings and the alleged cover-up.

“I don’t think any reasonable person, when they look at these facts, they don’t see that there’s a huge issue,” he said.  “...And just based on the testimony of Devon Archer, it shows that Joe Biden was the critical player, that critical person considered to be the brand.”

He also said he won’t let Hunter’s attorneys, who have sued the IRS for releasing his private records, intimidate the IRS whistleblowers, saying their evidence was made public by a vote of his committee, in compliance with the law.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/fri-key-house-republican-teases-document-release-back-irs

We wouldn’t want this additional reporting from John Solomon to get lost amidst all the rest.  Remember those 51 signatories of that bogus letter claiming Hunter’s laptop was “Russian disinformation”?  Solomon has found that some of them got “plum jobs” after doing that, including with the federal government.  (We reported on two of these last week:  John Brennan and James Clapper, who got appointed to that special new “Experts Board.”  A third who is also on the board is former CIA Operations Officer Paul Kolbe.)

More details here…

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/signers-hunter-biden-laptop-letter-land-plum-jobs

The DAILY CALLER has more on Michael Batdorf’s testimony before Ways and Means.  He told them that Hunter Biden’s defense team met with DOJ Tax Division attorneys an “unusually high” number of times.  Shapley and Ziegler have testified that they were kept out of those meetings.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/21/hunter-biden-legal-team-meetings-doj-attorneys-batdorf

Maria Bartiromo on SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES has an update on the case with investigators Miranda Devine and Peter Schweizer…

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6337328083112

 

RELATED READING:  Here’s a curious tie-in between Hunter’s firm and just-indicted Congressman Bob Menendez.  We’re not sure of the significance at this point, but it does make interesting reading, just to see the sort of “work” (?) Hunter did.  (It appears to be mostly Eric Schwerin who worked.)

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/22/hunter-biden-suggest-lobby-bob-menendez-emails-bribery

Also related: Some Republican lawmakers are predicting that the “Biden family business” might have taken in over $50 million, or $30 million more is show by bank records uncovered thus far.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/23/gop-predicts-biden-organized-crime-ring-received-50m-30m-more-than-shown/

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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Menendez press conference

Democratic New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez will hold his first press conference today after being charged Friday by the FBI with accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in the form of cash, gold bars, etc. He’s expected to announce that he’s running for reelection.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bob-menendez-announce-re-election-bid-new-jersey-1st-public-appearance-post-indictment-report

I have a suggested campaign slogan: “Menendez: The gold standard of Senators.”  

In other news, Menendez has hired Hunter Biden’s attorneys to represent him. That might be the most predictable news of the day.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/25/bob-menendez-hires-hunter-bidens-lawyer-bribery-defense/


Unprecedented move

In an unprecedented move for a sitting President, Joe Biden will go to Michigan Tuesday and walk in the picket line of striking UAW auto workers. If you’re looking for the union label, you’ll find it tattooed on Joe’s backside, and it reads, “Property of the UAW.”

https://nypost.com/2023/09/22/biden-to-join-the-picket-line-with-uaw-strikers/

For the record, I think the striking workers have legitimate beefs. I also think that the union bosses are making ridiculous demands, like a 40% raise and a 32-hour work week at a time when new cars already cost more than houses used to and most Americans can’t afford one. Both sides need to compromise, and it doesn't help to have the President of the United States taking sides in the name of political theater.

That linked story includes reaction from the Trump campaign, which claims Biden is only coming there because Trump plans to visit the striking workers on Wednesday, and Democrats are terrified that union workers will realize Biden’s push to force everyone into EVs is costing them jobs. Oh, I'd be surprised if they didn't know that already.


Trump poll gains, cause Biden White House to panic, Part II

I always urge people not to put stock in early polls, which can change on a dime. But this one might explain why Democrats are suddenly looking as panicky about Joe Biden being their 2024 presidential candidate as they would be about him being their Uber driver.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/24/wapo-abc-poll-trump-takes-commanding-10-point-lead-over-biden/

The Washington Post/ABC News poll (so not a rightwing outfit) shows that despite years of constant media attacks and all those unprecedented indictments, Donald Trump now has a 10-point lead over Biden. Trump leads 52-42%, and by 13 points among Independents. Other polls show the race much closer, so this is an outlier, but for a party that seems to care about nothing but retaining power (see John Fetterman), it must be setting off alarms at DNC headquarters.

Beyond the Trump lead, which some might be skeptical of, the poll also shows Biden’s approval/disapproval number at 37/56% and his ratings for handling the economy and immigration at all-time lows. Over 70% say the economy is poor or not-so-good, 87% say the same about gas and energy prices, and 91% say the same about food prices. Asked to assess how Trump did the job of President, 48% approved. That sounds low, but it’s 10 points higher than when he left office, and higher than at any point during his presidency, when the media relentlessly bashed everything he said and did while pushing fake anti-Trump news like Russian collusion.

It all goes to prove what I always say: Nothing makes Republicans look good like just a few years of Democrats being in charge.

But while Biden may be in the dog house, neither party is free of that wet dog smell as far as voters are concerned. Another new poll by the Pew Research Center found that Americans are fed up with both parties and like their government about as much as they’d like a sleazy used car salesman selling them a Yugo filled with cockroaches that are carrying COVID.

https://www.axios.com/2023/09/19/poll-us-political-system-crisis-trust-unfavorable-pew

Just 16% trust the government “at least most of the time,” which is near a 70-year low. The top two words they think of to describe politics are “divisive” and “corrupt.” Four times as many Americans have unfavorable views of both parties as in 2002, an all-time high, and that includes 37% of 18- to 29-year-olds. 87% of Republicans and 85% of Democrats believe both parties are more focused on fighting each other than on solving problems. 87% support term limits and 79% want age limits on politicians. And when asked to describe the biggest problem with politics, 37% said “politicians.” I’m surprised it was that low.

This may be the first poll where “Pew!” is both the name of the poll taker and the reaction of most of the respondents. 

As a further reminder not to take these polls too seriously, here’s a piece by Jon Gabriel of Richochet.com, reminding us that political conditions can change in a day, the race might not be between Trump and Biden at all, and the vast majority of Americans don’t even start thinking about politics until after Labor Day of the election year, if they can possibly help it.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2023/09/23/2024-election-lineup-trump-biden-not-set-voters/70920052007/


Backing away

It’s interesting to see how quickly Democrat politicians in New York City and State are backing away from being “sanctuaries” and passing “right to shelter” laws, once the illegal immigrants Biden is letting in by the millions actually started showing up and expecting shelter.

https://headlineusa.com/nyc-mayor-begins-kicking-illegals-out-after-short-lived-right-to-shelter/

Seems they forgot to explain this before, but the “right to shelter” is only a temporary right, good for 60 days at most. I thought rights were God-given, but apparently, with this right, the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.


Fact-Check Fails 

Memo to Ukrainian President Zelinskyy and Canada’s Parliament and Prime Minister: If you don’t want people thinking you’re anti-Semites, do a background check to make sure you’re not giving a standing ovation to a former Nazi soldier.

https://www.westernjournal.com/trudeau-zelenskyy-lead-parliament-standing-ovation-waffen-ss-soldier/

Also, memo to CNN: Before you accuse Rep. Matt Gaetz of twice voting against a defense appropriations bill during a live TV interview, you might want to check twice...or even once..to make sure that’s true. It isn’t.

https://www.westernjournal.com/matt-gaetz-humiliates-cnn-anchor-fact-checking-live-tv/


Joe Biden gaffe of the day (but the day is young yet)… 

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/09/25/joe-biden-cant-seem-to-stop-using-this-racist-word-n1729644


Nothing but the facts for Rev. Al

In calling for more gun bans, Al Sharpton declared on MSNBC that he’s shocked by people who won’t give up their AR-15 rifles, saying, “People cannot do mass killings unless they have mass instruments.”

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/09/24/fact-check-al-sharpton-says-no-mass-killings-without-mass-instruments/

Breitbart.com fact-checked that claim and ruled it false. In fact, mass killers are almost twice as likely to use handguns as long guns of any kind, a category that includes shotguns and all rifles. They also noted that mass killers don’t even require a gun of any kind, like Darryl Brooks Jr., who ran down multiple people and killed six with a car during a parade in Milwaukee; the terrorist in France who killed 86 people with a truck; and the September 11th terrorists, who killed nearly 3,000 people with airplanes.

To be fair, people who watch MSNBC might not be aware of those stories since they’ve been 24/7 anti-Trump news since 2015.


Life In A Blue City:

In Houston, Texas, prosecutors released a man accused of drugging, raping and impregnating a 16-year-old girl on $1 bail because they missed the deadline for indicting him by two days.

https://www.westernjournal.com/bail-set-1-man-accused-raping-impregnating-teen-enjoys-charitable-release-due-prosecution-flub/


A tentative deal is reached

After a 146-day strike, the longest since 1988, the Hollywood writers’ union WGA reached a tentative deal with producers for a three-year contract extension. The bad news: writers will soon be back to ruining entertainment with wokeism, leftist political pandering, anti-Americanism, and racial and LGBTQ+++ propaganda. The good news: The actors are still on strike, so at least nobody will be producing it for a while. Also, there are still plenty of great old TV shows and movies to stream from the era when Hollywood hired writers who knew how to write and actors who only played politicians when the script called for it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/09/25/wga-and-studios-reach-exceptional-tentative-deal-to-end-writers-strike/?sh=5a313ab01eb5


Inside the mind of AOC...scary place

Take a scary peek inside the mind of AOC, where Marco Rubio is responsible for all the illegal immigrants from Venezuela and COVID is the reason she’s still driving that Tesla she swore she’d get rid of when Elon Musk bought Twitter.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/24/aoc-amusing-answers-on-venezuela-and-her-tesla-show-just-how-clueless-she-is-n2164240


Idea

Wayne Allyn Root suggests a “giveaway” program that Trump could promise that would win the election for him and the GOP in a landslide. The best part is that it’s not really a giveaway program at all. It’s a reversal of an unconscionable policy that never should have been passed in the first place and that members of both parties should be opposing. It punishes some of the most vulnerable Americans by taxing away their money that’s already been taxed.

https://www.wnd.com/2023/09/trump-can-win-back-white-house-just-1-promise/


Fake News Alert:

No, Sen. Rand Paul didn’t come to work in his bathrobe. That was just a joke meme created with AI. But under the new John Fetterman Senate dress code, he could have. 

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/24/laugh-of-the-day-rand-paul-response-to-the-pic-of-him-being-in-bathrobe-on-senate-steps-over-dress-code-n2164245


One by one, Shapley’s team come forward to allege DOJ roadblocks

First, there was Gary Shapley, the lead IRS investigator in the Hunter Biden tax/finance case, who testified in April before the House Ways and Means Committee about political interference in the Hunter Biden case.  He was followed by someone who at first chose to remain anonymous but was later identified as Joseph Ziegler, his top assistant (with absolutely no question about his non-partisanship).  Next, there was IRS Director of Field Operations Michael Batdorf, who told the House Ways and Means Committee this month that the DOJ’s Tax Division opposed charging Hunter Biden.  And now, Darrell Waldon, the former IRS agent in charge of the agency’s Washington Field Office (above Shapley in command), has gone before the committee in a closed-door interview to confirm that both the DC and Central California federal prosecutors blocked David Weiss from charging Hunter in their jurisdictions.  He was a more recent addition to the team, on it for two years.

How many agents have to blow the whistle on the handling of this case before the noise finally wakes some people up?  Maybe we’ll end up seeing the entire team of investigators who were removed from the case coming forward to confirm what we already should acknowledge: that our corrupt ‘Justice’ Department is hiding the financial misconduct of the corrupt Biden family.  Would that be enough?

(Aside: Someone blow some steam whistles in the direction of South Carolina Democrat Rep. James Clyburn, who claimed on “Meet the Press” Sunday that Republicans want to impeach Joe Biden for “being a father to his son.”)

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/09/24/clyburn-gop-wants-to-impeach-biden-for-being-a-father-to-his-son/

“Mr. Weiss went to the U.S. Attorney’s Office --- I can’t recall the dates --- and they did not agree to prosecute the case in DC,” Waldon told the committee.  “I’m aware that it was presented to the District of Columbia and, at some point, the Central District of California, I believe.”

So, instead of filing charges in DC or California, Weiss and Hunter’s defense team came to that “sweetheart” plea deal that, thanks to sharp-eyed Judge Maryellen Noreika, ended up being discarded, though Hunter’s attorneys ridiculously continue to claim it’s still in force.

Recall that in his testimony last Wednesday, Attorney General Merrick Garland played word games in speaking of this, saying that the district prosecutors couldn’t block Weiss from charging Hunter.  No, no, they weren’t “turning him down.”  Rather, they were “refusing to partner with him.”  Garland tried to insist that these were “not the same under a well-known Justice Department practice,” when the result, in actual practice, is EXACTLY the same.

And certainly, Shapley saw no such distinction.  In an email to Waldon, Shapley said, “Weiss stated he is not the deciding person of whether charges are filed.  I believe this is a huge problem --- inconsistent with DOJ public position and Merrick Garland testimony.”

Waldon attended that same October meeting in which Shapley said a “red line” was crossed, although his recollection was somewhat different.  He didn’t remember Weiss talking about requesting to be made special counsel.  Also, he didn’t agree that the meeting was “contentious,” as Shapley had said.  Waldon just saw it as the airing of differing points of view.

He testified that Shapley had come to him with his concerns --- steps in the investigation that the ‘Justice’ Department or certain prosecutors had prevented him from taking, such as asking witnesses about other members of the Biden family (there’s that cover-up) and executing at least one search warrant.

Shapley had wanted to blame these roadblocks on political bias.  Waldon had told him that allegation was “unsubstantiated.”  Considering he has since come forward, I wonder what he says about that now.

But Waldon did believe at that time in the strength of the case that would’ve gone to the Central District of California.  “Generally, speaking, if at that time, the case went [there], I would’ve agreed with it.”

These other U.S. attorneys putting up roadblocks, Michael Graves in DC and E. Martin Estrada in California, were both appointed by President Biden himself.

Ironically, Waldon was actually the one who suggested that Shapley be dropped from the investigative team.  Shapley and Weiss were at odds, and, Waldon testified, “the U.S. Attorney’s Office was no longer working or talking with Mr. Shapley.”  In the interest of the investigation, to keep it moving forward, he thought it best.  The third whistleblower, Batdorf, who was Waldon’s supervisor, agreed at the time.

Yet both Batdorf and Ziegler testified glowingly of Shapley, saying he was a “top-performing” investigator and a “fantastic agent.”

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/22/gary-shapley-irs-agent-whistleblower-performance

According to the WASHINGTON EXAMINER, “Both said Weiss’s tensions with Shapley reached a boiling point after [Weiss’s office] demanded all of the emails and records written by the IRS investigative team that could be relevant in court.”  As Shapley told Congress, he thought this was a fishing expedition to uncover complaints about the case that he had been documenting.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/fourth-irs-official-confirms-declined-hunter-biden-case

Last week, a reader asked about the tax implications for Hunter of “sugar brother”/friend Kevin Morris’s generosity in paying off his huge tax bill.  Wouldn’t Hunter owe taxes on the gift from this politically-connected lawyer?  Well, John Solomon reports that the IRS and FBI were looking into that very issue, not just about taxes on the gift but about possible “campaign finance criminal violations,” considering this clean-up was happening while Joe Biden was running for President.  Agents wanted to investigate this but were, they said, blocked by federal prosecutors from further action.

The evidence includes a memo written by Shapley about interference by Lesley Wolf, top prosecutor in David Weiss’s office.  This must have been one of the complaints Shapley was documenting, as reported in the EXAMINER article above.

“This investigation has been hampered and slowed by claims of potential election meddling,” Shapley wrote in the memo and read to the House Ways and Means Committee in his testimony.  “Through interviews and review of evidence obtained, it appears there may be campaign finance criminal violations.”  Whistleblower Ziegler testified a similar concern to the Ways and Means Committee, adding that anything related to the campaign was “off limits.”

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio told Solomon last week that the campaign finance inquiry is “a newer matter under investigation.”  So we’ll be hearing more about this.  “We’re just getting into this issue and the concerns,” he said.  “But it wouldn’t surprise me if they were told to stand down because, remember, this investigation over a five-year time frame was slow-walked.”

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/fbi-irs-probed-possible-criminal-violations-involving-joe-bidens

In an update, Solomon reported that Jason Smith of Missouri, who chairs House Ways and Means, plans to make public new testimony that corroborates the first two IRS whistleblowers’ testimony.  He presumably was referring to the testimony of Batdorf and Waldon.   

A committee panel has to vote on the release of these materials; that vote could come as early as Wednesday, which would allow the evidence to be made public before House Republicans hold their first hearing in the Biden impeachment inquiry.  Chairman Smith sees that first hearing primarily as a “primer” on what is now known of the Biden family’s foreign business dealings and the alleged cover-up.

“I don’t think any reasonable person, when they look at these facts, they don’t see that there’s a huge issue,” he said.  “...And just based on the testimony of Devon Archer, it shows that Joe Biden was the critical player, that critical person considered to be the brand.”

He also said he won’t let Hunter’s attorneys, who have sued the IRS for releasing his private records, intimidate the IRS whistleblowers, saying their evidence was made public by a vote of his committee, in compliance with the law.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/fri-key-house-republican-teases-document-release-back-irs

We wouldn’t want this additional reporting from John Solomon to get lost amidst all the rest.  Remember those 51 signatories of that bogus letter claiming Hunter’s laptop was “Russian disinformation”?  Solomon has found that some of them got “plum jobs” after doing that, including with the federal government.  (We reported on two of these last week:  John Brennan and James Clapper, who got appointed to that special new “Experts Board.”  A third who is also on the board is former CIA Operations Officer Paul Kolbe.)

More details here…

https://justthenews.com/accountability/russia-and-ukraine-scandals/signers-hunter-biden-laptop-letter-land-plum-jobs

The DAILY CALLER has more on Michael Batdorf’s testimony before Ways and Means.  He told them that Hunter Biden’s defense team met with DOJ Tax Division attorneys an “unusually high” number of times.  Shapley and Ziegler have testified that they were kept out of those meetings.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/21/hunter-biden-legal-team-meetings-doj-attorneys-batdorf

Maria Bartiromo on SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES has an update on the case with investigators Miranda Devine and Peter Schweizer…

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6337328083112

 

RELATED READING:  Here’s a curious tie-in between Hunter’s firm and just-indicted Congressman Bob Menendez.  We’re not sure of the significance at this point, but it does make interesting reading, just to see the sort of “work” (?) Hunter did.  (It appears to be mostly Eric Schwerin who worked.)

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/22/hunter-biden-suggest-lobby-bob-menendez-emails-bribery

Also related: Some Republican lawmakers are predicting that the “Biden family business” might have taken in over $50 million, or $30 million more is show by bank records uncovered thus far.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/23/gop-predicts-biden-organized-crime-ring-received-50m-30m-more-than-shown/


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I speak of Elvis Chan, the FBI agent who was scheduled to speak before the House Judiciary Committee on September 15.  Actually, we don’t know if he even got to the building.  That interview reportedly “fell through.”

(NOTE:  News writers tend to use vague expressions such as “fell through” when they can’t or don’t want to give the pertinent details.  Phrases like this are easy for other news outlets to pick up and run with.  Another example:  Hunter Biden’s “sweetheart” plea deal “fell apart.”  That deal didn’t just “fall apart” on its own.  The same goes for Elvis Chan’s interview “falling through.”  We’ll get to the details of what happened.)

You might remember Chan from the “Twitter Files” stories as the assistant special agent in charge at the San Francisco field office who was particularly involved in social media censorship ahead of the 2020 election.  The Judiciary Committee wanted to depose him about his role on the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), which pressured social media companies to censor online speech.  Even without his testimony, though, we can still understand a lot about the role he played from his emails and texts.

The September 15 interview was derailed because of a dispute between Judiciary Committee investigators and the DOJ.  So here’s the quick explanation of why the interview “fell apart,” according to the DAILY CALLER:  The DOJ had informed Chan that he had the option of being represented by either his personal counsel or an attorney for the DOJ.  But the DOJ brought a staff attorney for him, and that’s when the interview “fell apart.”

The DOJ, it may be presumed, did NOT want Chan testifying before the committee, because that’s the way they’ve behaved in stonewalling the committee’s requests.  The committee says now, on X, that “No amount of lies and excuses will stop the Committee from deposing FBI Agent Elvis Chan.  The American people deserve to know the full truth about the Biden censorship regime.  And they will.”

Chan has testified before, in November 2022 in the censorship lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, Missouri v. Biden.  That important lawsuit has been equal to the “Twitter Files” in unearthing deep state misconduct regarding the censorship of private companies.  We’ve learned that the FBI had weekly meetings with social media companies, demanded takedowns of specific accounts, and facilitated the suppression of stories they wanted out of the public conversation.

As described in AMERICAN GREATNESS, “Chan testified that the platforms became far more aggressive in removing alleged ‘misinformation’ during the 2020 election cycle than in previous election cycles, and they have remained so.”  With an election coming up in next year, the need to free-up the flow of information is urgent and under massive threat.

But Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio said that Chan appeared to have lied, as internal Facebook documents show that he’d had more meetings with Facebook than he’d let on.  Jordan had the Facebook messages to prove that.  And apparently, when he was asked whether or not the Hunter Biden laptop was real, he told them “No comment,” when the FBI has known good and well that the laptop is real since at least early 2020, probably late 2019.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/21/jim-jordan-second-subpoena-elvis-chan-fbi 

When Chan failed to appear for his scheduled hearing on September 15, the House Judiciary Committee immediately fired off a subpoena compelling him to testify before the committee next month.  Jordan went public with some of what the committee already knew, such as the fact that Chan and Laura Dehmlow, section chief of the Foreign Influence Task Force, met with Facebook reps on October 14, 2020, which happened to be the SAME DAY Miranda Devine’s Hunter Biden laptop story appeared in the NEW YORK POST.  (What are the odds?)  Dehmlow and other FBI agents also spoke with Twitter executives by phone.

Dehmlow has been deposed, and she testified that when someone at Twitter asked if the laptop was authentic, one of the FBI agents on the call confirmed that it was, but another agent jumped in to cut him off and say, “no further comment.”  And from then on, the FBI’s standard answer was “no comment,” even though they’d known for about a year that it was real.

In his Missouri v. Biden testimony, Chan answered “no” when asked if he knew about any other communications between Facebook and the FBI regarding the laptop story.  But this contradicts an internal Facebook document that shows Chan took part in a follow-up phone call the very next day.  “COMPLETELY FALSE,” Jordan wrote on Twitter of his testimony.

The Judiciary Committee has been trying to interview Chan and other agents since this Congress convened in January 2021, when they sent a letter to the FBI instructing them to make these individuals available for interviews.  They got no response.  They wrote another letter in November 2022 and got no response, and another in January 2023 and got no response.  The FBI claims they didn’t know about their request until March of 2023.  In case there’s anyone left who still believes anything the FBI says, the committee has copies of the letters they sent.

https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/21/house-judiciary-committee-subpoenas-fbi-agent-elvis-chan-to-appear-for-deposition-after-months-of-fbi-stonewalling

The AMERICAN GREATNESS story explains in more detail how the meeting with Chan “fell apart.”  Witnesses who don’t already have personal counsel are allowed to appear before the Judiciary Committee with agency counsel to avoid the financial burden of hiring a lawyer.  But according to agency protocol, the witness may appear with either personal counsel OR agency counsel --- not both.

Chan had his own personal counsel to be inside the hearing room with him.  The FBI knew about the protocol for two weeks before Chan’s hearing but said nothing.  Then, “65 hours before the scheduled deposition,” the FBI demanded that an exception be made so Chan could appear with both personal and agency attorneys in the room.  (Obviously, they wanted their own attorneys in the room and Chan wasn’t going to give up his.)  They were back and forth on this for two days, and less than 90 minutes before the deposition was to begin, the FBI and DOJ tried to force the Committee’s hand and enter the hearing room with their own attorneys but the Committee would not allow it.  As for Chan, he did not show up.

So, with his deposition coming up next month, where is Elvis Chan now?

“Elvis...has...left the country!”

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/21/jim-jordan-second-subpoena-elvis-chan-fbi/

 

 

RELATED READING:  And now, a third IRS official says the ‘Justice’ Department blocked U.S. Attorney David Weiss’s authority to charge Hunter Biden in his tax/finance case.  This new whistleblower has come forward by name:  IRS Director of Field Operations Michael Batdorf.  He went to the House Ways and Means Committee on September 12.

Details and a link to the transcript of his interview are here…

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/irs-official-doj-hunter-biden/2023/09/21/id/1135432

When Borders Fall

September 22, 2023

Comrades, you have asked me to tell you how America lost control of its own borders, ushering in possibilities only dreamt of by previous generations of revolutionaries. In his masterwork Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky and his leading disciples – Cesar Chavez, Tom Hayden and Barack Obama – demonstrated that community organization could transform cultural Marxism from airy-fairy theory into hard-edged reality. Of course, none of that would have been possible without the willing cooperation of the American media and their academic accomplices – fed, fattened and nurtured by tenure and elite privilege! How wonderfully ironic that these national megaphones grew louder and ever more powerful once freed from traditional opiates like “spiritual values” or “academic objectivity.” Neither parents nor state legislatures complained about increased tuition as newly hired legions of academic administrators created campus reserves of political correctness.

Career advancement in either profession simply became a matter of racial or ethnic credentialing - combined of course with the aggressive use of opportunities. For example, when poor George Floyd met his untimely end, radicals from coast to coast instantly seized upon the priceless openings gifted them by a corrupt and racist system. So great was popular outrage that target lists exceeded even the wildest expectations. It was easy enough to persuade former Southern capitals to remove statues of Confederate generals that had long fueled resentment: But American youth had been taught such paltry amounts of actual history that their outrage came to include Union heroes like General Ulysses Grant! It was thus a small step to conclude that the real underlying culprit was American history itself: So why not include the Founding Fathers and even racist explorers/exploiters like Christopher Coumbus? On July 4th 2020, hard by Baltimore’s Little Italy, a revered statue of the Great Navigator was reduced to fragments, which were promptly thrown into the filthy waters of the Inner Harbor! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Christopher_Columbus)

So what, you might ask? How could a little overdue civic redecoration possibly affect the larger revolutionary agenda?  Forgive my bluntness, comrades, if I suggest that maybe you aren’t up-to-date in your readings of Saul Alinsky! Or possibly you have never even realized that cultural Marxism is still Marxism! Haven’t you noticed that a country which turns against its own history and destroys once-cherished statues will also ignore its own borders? While occasionally commemorating border-driven events like the 911 attacks, these sentimental outcroppings were far less significant than the studied indifference with which most Americans typically regard their own security. As card-carrying historical illiterates, hardly anyone remembers that Rome fell primarily because young Romans were no longer dispatched to defend their borders against foreign incursion.

But so much the better for us because our disciples quickly seized opportunities that patient preparation has a way of providing. With Machiavellian smoothness, Barack Obama set up Joe Biden as his overt “successor” while he quietly continued to rule from the shadows. On his first day in office, President Biden suspended virtually all the border policies of the imperious Donald Trump – to nearly universal applause. The news media featured photographs of immigrants sporting signs pleading for Biden-Harris to let them enter the country. When they did, the Border Patrol and ICE were instantly transformed into travel agencies, a neon welcome sign the entire Third World understood.

This initial conditioning period lasted for the first two years of the alleged Biden administration while the new immigrants infiltrated virtually every American community with astoundingly small opposition. Who cared if Texans complained or made empty gestures instantly dismissed by the media elites as “political stunts?” Our side now knew everything: the borders were irretrievably open; and Americans had lost their will to fight. When we knew beyond any doubt that the few remaining thousands of American border agents were mere speed bumps compared to the millions we had ready and waiting, orders were quickly given. As the immigrant trains headed north, any conductors or Federales unwise enough to slow down were instantly dealt with.

We saw only the immigrant armies of the proletariat heading inevitably toward the new manifest destiny Marx, Alinsky and their latter-day apostles foresaw long ago. You see, gringo, that ancient history from the Old West to the Book of Joshua feels entirely different when someone else applies it to you. So why are you complaining: Don’t you like it when the little guy turns the tables and wins one for a change? Si, nosotros tambien! (Yeah, us too!)


Colonel (Ret.) Ken Allard is a former West Point professor, Dean of the National War College and NBC News on-air military analyst. He still treasures his Cold War roots.
 


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The Poverty Rate increases

It’s ironically appropriate that the Biden Administration’s plan to gaslight Americans into believing that Bidenomics is working is running out of gas. Along with all the other economic hardships that they’re trying to convince us we’re not really feeling comes this devastating new report from ABC News:

According to the SPM (Supplemental Poverty Measure), in 2022, the poverty rate in America was 12.4%, a leap of 4.6% from 2021. In that same period, the poverty rate among children more than doubled, from 5.2% to 12.4%. Those are not only huge increases, they’re the first increases in the poverty rate in the US in 13 years.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/09/20/huge-new-bidenomics-fail-threatens-joe-bidens-2024-campaign-n1728383

As Matt Margolis writes at PJ Media, this is because of several factors, including inflation, but especially because all the expensive government pandemic relief programs ran out. And while Biden will try to blame Republicans for not renewing them, Democrats controlled both Congress and the White House in 2021. In short, the only thing keeping Americans out of poverty was massive government handouts that have now ballooned the national debt to over $33 trillion.

Besides, if Bidenomics, which could most accurately be described as open borders, high taxes, massive regulations and insane levels of federal spending, actually created all those “good-paying jobs” that Biden claims it does, Americans wouldn’t need massive government handouts to stay above the poverty line.

Margolis sums it up perfectly when he writes, “Joe Biden appears determined to take credit for a good economy that doesn’t exist while blaming Republicans for the bad economy he created.”


Missing fighter is found

The Pentagon finally found that missing F-35 stealth jet. After the pilot ejected safely, it eventually crashed in rural Williamsburg County, South Carolina.

There are still many questions to be answered, but at least the taxpayers did get something for the $100 million that this embarrassing crash cost them. That’s the solid gold entertainment and endless meme material provided by 72-year-old Randolph White, who was shaving when the crash shook his house. He described it to the media in star-making fashion, complete with sound effects. If this man were Biden’s Press Secretary, White House press conferences might actually be worth watching.

https://www.westernjournal.com/man-heard-missing-f-35-crash-goes-viral-bizarre-interview-world/

Kurt Schlichter also weighed in on that missing stealth fighter, along with a lot of other things that have turned America into a laughing stock. Only Kurt could be this funny while describing a situation that he admits is absolutely not funny.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/09/21/america-is-becoming-a-joke-n2628665


Unprecedented Trump gains, cause Biden White House to panic

Some new polls show that Donald Trump is making unprecedented gains with minority voters, who might remember when he was President, and their wages were rising above inflation while the border was secure and millions of illegal immigrants weren’t pouring in to take their jobs. This reportedly has the Democrats in panic mode, so the Biden campaign, the DNC and various leftist PACs are pouring millions into advertising to try to convince Latino voters that Biden has made their lives better.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/biden-is-worried-about-latino-voters

Yes, if you’re a family-oriented Catholic (i.e., a “domestic terrorist”) who is pro-life (i.e., a “domestic terrorist”) and who is from a family that followed the rules to come to America legally (i.e., a “sucker”), I can’t imagine why you wouldn’t want to support Joe Biden’s reelection.


Fighting back

Over the past couple of years, there has been a once-unthinkable rise in acceptance of using our children as lab rats, pumping them full of dangerous hormones to stop their natural body processes and disfiguring them with unnecessary surgery, all under the misnomer of “gender affirming care.” The four legs of the platform that this quackery is built upon are radical “trans” activists; intimidated medical organizations; pandering leftist politicians, school officials and media figures; and greedy medical providers who smell a lifetime of lucrative follow-up care because the human body will forever keep trying to reject these unnatural alterations.

Well, there’s finally some good news: that fourth leg, the greedy medical providers, might be about to get kicked out from under the platform. Let's hope it makes the whole thing come a-tumbling down.

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/09/19/here-come-the-teen-transgender-lawsuits-n1727056

As Stephen Green of PJ Media writes, some of these children who were given drugs and surgery instead of the counseling they needed are getting old enough to file lawsuits against the adults who had a responsibility to protect them from their immature, uninformed decisions based on misleading propaganda. A young woman who was given a “gender-affirming” double mastectomy in 2018 and years of testosterone treatments that may have left her unable to have children is suing the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Nebraska Medicine, and three doctors for “negligence and lack of informed consent.”

She claims that due to her troubled background as a child of divorce, she suffered depression and anxiety disorder that left her vulnerable to grooming and being “swept up in a social contagion” of transgenderism. Her parents were given the usual banana oil about how this was an easy solution to her emotional problems and that she’d commit suicide if they didn’t let her be drugged and disfigured, while she wasn’t informed of the potential negative side effects.

She was only 15 and incapable of understanding the ramifications. As I like to remind people, even the blue state of New York bans tattoos for minors because they’re not capable of understanding the consequences of permanently altering their bodies, but somehow, it’s okay to castrate them and chop off their breasts. The doctors she’s suing failed in their primary duty to protect a child from her own poor decisions. Remember that archaic Hippocratic Oath stuff about “First, do no harm”? It’s literally the FIRST duty of doctors.

I wish her the best of luck with her lawsuit, and I hope she wins big and it’s followed by many more. It’s sad to think, but maybe taking the profit out of child abuse will be the one thing that will stop it.

Related: About those puberty-blockers that we’ve been told were life-savers that are completely safe and reversible with no negative side effects… That extremely influential claim was based on a 2011 UK study by the University College London Hospitals (UCLH) and the Tavistock Centre’s Gender Identity Development Service. However, a new analysis of that study found that in reality, only 29% of children saw improvements in mental health after being put on them. 36% saw no difference, while the mental health of 34% of recipients deteriorated. That’s the problem with this whole issue: reality keeps getting in the way.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/09/21/third-of-children-put-on-puberty-blockers-saw-mental-health-reliably-deteriorate-uk-researchers-find/


A Democrat DA sues a Democrat-led city government

I never thought I’d be rooting for lawsuits, but now, I’m cheering on two in one day. Maybe because the courts seem to be the only government spaces left where citizens can still get any protection of their rights (if they draw the right judges and courts, at least.)

In another case that I hope is the harbinger of a trend, Sacramento County District Attorney Thien Ho, who is a Democrat, is suing the Democrat-led city government for allowing, creating and enabling a homelessness public safety crisis that has created “Third World” conditions and put the community at a “breaking point.” Ho says that over the last seven years, the homeless population has increased by 250%, worse than in San Francisco, while the government has refused to enforce laws against unlawful camping, sidewalk obstruction and storage. Well, except at City Hall: they don’t allow camping there during the daytime. Ho said, “I ask the city to extend the same protection they give to themselves to the rest of us." Ha! Good luck with that!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sacramento-county-da-files-lawsuit-against-city-of-sacramento-alleging-inaction-on-homelessness/ar-AA1gXplO

Naturally, expecting Democrat city leaders to put up with the same horrors they force on the citizenry isn’t going over too keenly with them. They called Ho’s lawsuit “frivolous” and “a distraction,” and said he should be working with them (although, obviously, working with them hasn’t worked out too well.) And naturally, homeless advocates are accusing him of attacking the homeless for wanting the laws enforced.

Again, I wish him well with the lawsuit. I’d love to see a huge wave of lawsuits for dereliction of duty filed by citizens against blue city leaders across America who have turned our once-great cities into crime-ridden sewers. Although ideally, it would be cheaper, easier and more effective if they’d just stop reelecting them.


Roger Whittaker RIP

By “Huckabee” pop culture guru Pat Reeder (http://www.hollywoodhifi.com)

I’m sad to have to report that internationally-known folk singer Roger Whittaker has died at 81. A statement appeared on his website saying that on September 13th, “he left us in peace in the presence of his family.” They requested privacy while they grieve and wrote that “Roger was an iconic artist, a wonderful husband and father. He touched so many hearts with his music during his lifetime and will always live on in our memories.”

Whittaker’s deep, smooth croon, comparable to Don Williams or Jim Reeves, and (unusual for an artist past the pre-swing era) expert whistling ability led to a long, successful recording career and so many albums that he released 25 in German alone (when he first started, he couldn’t speak German and had to sing them phonetically.) He landed six albums on the Billboard US Top 200. His best-known singles included “Durham Town (The Leaving),” “New World in the Morning” and “I Don’t Believe in If Anymore.” His biggest hit, “The Last Farewell” topped the A/C charts, reached #19 on the Hot 100 and sold 11 million copies worldwide.

Many Americans first became aware of him when his music appeared on one of those compilation albums that was advertised constantly on late night TV, a sales tactic that also boosted the careers of such unlikely stars as Slim Whitman, whose singing voice sometimes sounded as if he were whistling. Whittaker’s music was successful all over the world (he even had a hit in Finland called “The Finnish Whistler”), but I assume most Americans must’ve thought he was British or Canadian. He was actually born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya. He retired to France with his wife in 2012. RIP.


Ophelia warning

As of this writing early on Friday morning, a tropical storm is about 300 miles off the coast of the Carolinas and could bring high winds, heavy rain and life-threatening storm surges to the East Coast. If you are in its path, please prepare, keep yourself and your animals safe, and watch the weather news closely.

https://www.westernjournal.com/potential-deadly-storm-ophelia-warning-expected-make-landfall-us-less-24-hours/


Senator Bob Menendez is indicted

New Jersey Democrat Senator and Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine were indicted Friday morning on federal bribery charges in the Southern District of New York. And unlike a lot of indictments against political figures we've heard lately, this one involves actual crimes.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/sen-bob-menendez-indicted-federal-charges-rcna111447

The indictment alleges that they took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for Menendez using his influence to enrich several New Jersey businessmen and help the Egyptian government. The bribes allegedly came in the form of cash, jewelry, pay for a no-show job, use of a luxury apartment and a Mercedes-Benz, and the part I bet you’ll find most intriguing, up to $400,000 worth of gold bars. I can’t think of a better illustration of a corrupt Senator than someone literally weighed down by having his pockets full of bars of gold.

Some commentators don’t know how seriously to take this. Menendez is famous for being able to wriggle out of scandals, and this is his second indictment since he took office in 2006. Some critics say it’s just AG Merrick Garland trying to reduce the heat over his agency’s partisan prosecutions by indicting a low-hanging-fruit Democrat. Then again, the grand jury has supposedly been investigating these allegations for over a year. I look forward to learning more when the details are released. I wonder if they have receipts that show he paid for lunch in the Senate cafeteria with gold bars?

Incidentally, for those who think the indictments against Trump mean he’ll be convicted and never be elected again, this write-up of the Menendez story from Breitbart.com ends with a recounting of 13 Senators who were indicted, many of whom got acquitted or had hung juries, or had their convictions overturned and ended up serving out their full terms and even getting reelected. Menendez is one of those.

https://www.breitbart.com/news/new-jersey-sen-menendez-and-his-wife-are-indicted-on-bribery-charges/


When Borders Fall

By Colonel Ken Allard

Comrades, you have asked me to tell you how America lost control of its own borders, ushering in possibilities only dreamed of by previous generations of revolutionaries. In his masterwork Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky and his leading disciples – Cesar Chavez, Tom Hayden and Barack Obama – demonstrated that community organization could transform cultural Marxism from airy-fairy theory into hard-edged reality. Of course, none of that would have been possible without the willing cooperation of the American media and their academic accomplices – fed, fattened and nurtured by tenure and non-white privilege! How wonderfully ironic that these national megaphones grew louder and ever more powerful once freed from traditional opiates like “spiritual values” or “academic objectivity.” Neither parents nor state legislatures complained about increased tuition as newly hired legions of academic administrators created campus reserves of political correctness.

Career advancement in either profession simply became a matter of racial or ethnic credentialing - combined of course with the aggressive use of opportunities. For example, when poor George Floyd met his untimely end, radicals from coast to coast instantly seized upon the priceless openings gifted them by a corrupt and racist system. So great was popular outrage that target lists exceeded even the wildest expectations. It was easy enough to persuade former Southern capitals to remove statues of Confederate generals that had long fueled resentment: But American youth had been taught such paltry amounts of actual history that their outrage came to include Union heroes like General Ulysses Grant! It was thus a small step to conclude that the real underlying culprit was American history itself: So why not include the Founding Fathers and even racist explorers/exploiters like Christopher Coumbus? On July 4th 2020, hard by Baltimore’s Little Italy, a revered statue of the Great Navigator was reduced to fragments, which were promptly thrown into the filthy waters of the Inner Harbor! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Christopher_Columbus)

So what, you might ask? How could a little overdue civic redecoration possibly affect the larger revolutionary agenda?  Forgive my bluntness, comrades, if I suggest that maybe you aren’t up-to-date in your readings of Saul Alinsky! Or possibly you have never even realized that cultural Marxism is still Marxism! Haven’t you noticed that a country which turns against its own history and destroys once-cherished statues will also ignore its own borders? While occasionally commemorating border-driven events like the 911 attacks, these sentimental outcroppings were far less significant than the studied indifference with which most Americans typically regard their own security. As card-carrying historical illiterates, hardly anyone remembers that Rome fell primarily because young Romans were no longer dispatched to defend their borders against foreign incursion.

But so much the better for us because our disciples quickly seized opportunities that patient preparation has a way of providing. The evidence: Barack Obama is finally receiving his long overdue recognition as “America’s Lenin,” setting up Joe Biden as his overt “successor” while he quietly continued to rule from the shadows. On his first day in office, Comrade Joe suspended virtually all the border policies of the imperious Donald Trump – to nearly universal applause. The news media featured photographs of immigrants sporting signs pleading for Biden-Harris to let them enter the country. When they did, the Border Patrol and ICE were instantly transformed into travel agencies, a neon welcome sign the entire Third World understood.

This initial conditioning period lasted for the first two years of the alleged Biden administration while the new immigrants infiltrated virtually every American community with astoundingly small opposition. Who cared if Texans complained or made empty gestures instantly dismissed by the media elites as “political stunts?” Our side now knew everything: the borders were irretrievably open; and Americans had lost their will to fight. When we knew beyond any doubt that the few remaining thousands of American border agents were mere speed bumps to the millions we had ready and waiting, orders were quickly given. As the immigrant trains headed north, any conductors or Federales unwise enough to slow down were instantly dealt with.

We saw only the immigrant armies of the proletariat heading inevitably toward the new manifest destiny Marx, Alinsky and their latter-day apostles foresaw long ago. You see, gringo, that ancient history from the Old West to the Book of Joshua feels entirely different when someone else applies it to you. So why are you complaining: Don’t you like it when the little guy turns the tables and wins one for a change? Si, nosotros tambien! (Yeah, us too!)

Colonel (Ret.) Ken Allard is a former West Point professor, Dean of the National War College and NBC News on-air military analyst. He still treasures his Cold War roots.


“Elvis...has...left the building!”

I speak of Elvis Chan, the FBI agent who was scheduled to speak before the House Judiciary Committee on September 15.  Actually, we don’t know if he even got to the building.  That interview reportedly “fell through.”

(NOTE:  News writers tend to use vague expressions such as “fell through” when they can’t or don’t want to give the pertinent details.  Phrases like this are easy for other news outlets to pick up and run with.  Another example:  Hunter Biden’s “sweetheart” plea deal “fell apart.”  That deal didn’t just “fall apart” on its own.  The same goes for Elvis Chan’s interview “falling through.”  We’ll get to the details of what happened.)

You might remember Chan from the “Twitter Files” stories as the assistant special agent in charge at the San Francisco field office who was particularly involved in social media censorship ahead of the 2020 election.  The Judiciary Committee wanted to depose him about his role on the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), which pressured social media companies to censor online speech.  Even without his testimony, though, we can still understand a lot about the role he played from his emails and texts.

The September 15 interview was derailed because of a dispute between Judiciary Committee investigators and the DOJ.  So here’s the quick explanation of why the interview “fell apart,” according to the DAILY CALLER:  The DOJ had informed Chan that he had the option of being represented by either his personal counsel or an attorney for the DOJ.  But the DOJ brought a staff attorney for him, and that’s when the interview “fell apart.”

The DOJ, it may be presumed, did NOT want Chan testifying before the committee, because that’s the way they’ve behaved in stonewalling the committee’s requests.  The committee says now, on X, that “No amount of lies and excuses will stop the Committee from deposing FBI Agent Elvis Chan.  The American people deserve to know the full truth about the Biden censorship regime.  And they will.”

Chan has testified before, in November 2022 in the censorship lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, Missouri v. Biden.  That important lawsuit has been equal to the “Twitter Files” in unearthing deep state misconduct regarding the censorship of private companies.  We’ve learned that the FBI had weekly meetings with social media companies, demanded takedowns of specific accounts, and facilitated the suppression of stories they wanted out of the public conversation.

As described in AMERICAN GREATNESS, “Chan testified that the platforms became far more aggressive in removing alleged ‘misinformation’ during the 2020 election cycle than in previous election cycles, and they have remained so.”  With an election coming up in next year, the need to free-up the flow of information is urgent and under massive threat.

But Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan of Ohio said that Chan appeared to have lied, as internal Facebook documents show that he’d had more meetings with Facebook than he’d let on.  Jordan had the Facebook messages to prove that.  And apparently, when he was asked whether or not the Hunter Biden laptop was real, he told them “No comment,” when the FBI has known good and well that the laptop is real since at least early 2020, probably late 2019.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/21/jim-jordan-second-subpoena-elvis-chan-fbi 

When Chan failed to appear for his scheduled hearing on September 15, the House Judiciary Committee immediately fired off a subpoena compelling him to testify before the committee next month.  Jordan went public with some of what the committee already knew, such as the fact that Chan and Laura Dehmlow, section chief of the Foreign Influence Task Force, met with Facebook reps on October 14, 2020, which happened to be the SAME DAY Miranda Devine’s Hunter Biden laptop story appeared in the NEW YORK POST.  (What are the odds?)  Dehmlow and other FBI agents also spoke with Twitter executives by phone.

Dehmlow has been deposed, and she testified that when someone at Twitter asked if the laptop was authentic, one of the FBI agents on the call confirmed that it was, but another agent jumped in to cut him off and say, “no further comment.”  And from then on, the FBI’s standard answer was “no comment,” even though they’d known for about a year that it was real.

In his Missouri v. Biden testimony, Chan answered “no” when asked if he knew about any other communications between Facebook and the FBI regarding the laptop story.  But this contradicts an internal Facebook document that shows Chan took part in a follow-up phone call the very next day.  “COMPLETELY FALSE,” Jordan wrote on Twitter of his testimony.

The Judiciary Committee has been trying to interview Chan and other agents since this Congress convened in January 2021, when they sent a letter to the FBI instructing them to make these individuals available for interviews.  They got no response.  They wrote another letter in November 2022 and got no response, and another in January 2023 and got no response.  The FBI claims they didn’t know about their request until March of 2023.  In case there’s anyone left who still believes anything the FBI says, the committee has copies of the letters they sent.

https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/21/house-judiciary-committee-subpoenas-fbi-agent-elvis-chan-to-appear-for-deposition-after-months-of-fbi-stonewalling

The AMERICAN GREATNESS story explains in more detail how the meeting with Chan “fell apart.”  Witnesses who don’t already have personal counsel are allowed to appear before the Judiciary Committee with agency counsel to avoid the financial burden of hiring a lawyer.  But according to agency protocol, the witness may appear with either personal counsel OR agency counsel --- not both.

Chan had his own personal counsel to be inside the hearing room with him.  The FBI knew about the protocol for two weeks before Chan’s hearing but said nothing.  Then, “65 hours before the scheduled deposition,” the FBI demanded that an exception be made so Chan could appear with both personal and agency attorneys in the room.  (Obviously, they wanted their own attorneys in the room and Chan wasn’t going to give up his.)  They were back and forth on this for two days, and less than 90 minutes before the deposition was to begin, the FBI and DOJ tried to force the Committee’s hand and enter the hearing room with their own attorneys but the Committee would not allow it.  As for Chan, he did not show up.

So, with his deposition coming up next month, where is Elvis Chan now?

“Elvis...has...left the country!”

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/21/jim-jordan-second-subpoena-elvis-chan-fbi/

RELATED READING:  And now, a third IRS official says the ‘Justice’ Department blocked U.S. Attorney David Weiss’s authority to charge Hunter Biden in his tax/finance case.  This new whistleblower has come forward by name:  IRS Director of Field Operations Michael Batdorf.  He went to the House Ways and Means Committee on September 12.

Details and a link to the transcript of his interview are here…

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/irs-official-doj-hunter-biden/2023/09/21/id/1135432


Insanity

I’m not even going to describe the latest gender insanity that the elite liberal arts college Colgate University is inflicting on students. I’d rather you go here and read it than that I have to recap it.

https://redstate.com/alexparker/2023/09/21/colgate-university-queering-menstruation-1500-gay-animals-n2164093

But I will add that tuition, room and board at that school runs about $84,000 per year. As a parent and grandparent, I can think of better uses for $84,000, like using it to light my barbecue grill.

 


The Russell Brand Story

British comedian-turned-anti-establishment podcaster Russell Brand has quickly become the center of a rising pushback against cancel culture. Brand was hit by disturbing allegations of sexual misconduct, including rape, from over a decade ago, when he’s admitted he was promiscuous and struggling with addiction. To be clear, the charges should be treated seriously, and if proven, should carry harsh consequences. But he adamantly denies that he ever did anything that wasn’t consensual. The allegations are mostly anonymous and were brought by a British TV show. Despite there so far being no charges filed, no evidence presented and no convictions, Brand was immediately dropped by his agent, demonetized by YouTube and had his publishing and comedy tour contracts canceled.

But there are welcome signs that people are finally starting to fight back against cancel culture, trial-by-Internet and guilty-until-proven-innocent. The TV show got over 130 complaint calls from viewers about the show’s unfairness. One former girlfriend of Brand’s claimed she was contacted but when she said only positive things about him, she was cut out of the show and told her story didn’t fit their narrative. Even MeToo founder Rose McGowen spoke out against the "concerted effort" to destroy Brand based on anonymous allegations and questioned whether justice for the victims was the true motive.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/09/20/rose_mcgowan_there_is_a_concerted_effort_to_take_down_russell_brand_what_is_the_true_narrative_theyre_pushing.html

A few of us, including Greg Gutfeld, are speaking up, not to defend Brand’s behavior because we don’t know if he’s guilty or not, but to defend his right to the presumption of innocence and not having his career destroyed by as-yet unproven allegations. 

But perhaps the biggest shot across the bow of the SS Cancel Culture was fired by the free speech video platform Rumble. They received a letter from British Parliament Member Dame Caroline Dinenage, reading, “We would be grateful if you could confirm whether Mr. Brand is able to monetize his content, including his videos relating to the serious accusations against him. If so, we would like to know whether Rumble intends to join YouTube in suspending Mr. Brand’s ability to earn money on the platform. We would also like to know what Rumble is doing to ensure that creators are not able to use the platform to undermine the welfare of victims of inappropriate and potentially illegal behaviour.” The “or else” was implied.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/09/21/uk-parliament-asks-rumble-to-demonetize-russell-brands-channel/

As to what business it is of a government official to ensure that someone is demonetized by a private video platform due to unproven allegations that have nothing to do with any of the content of his videos, I cannot say. But this inflamed suspicions that the sudden blasting of Brand over anonymous allegations from a decade ago might have more to do with his current status as a leading critic of the government and Big Pharma than his alleged sex crimes.

I won't quote the letter that Rumble sent back to her because I want you to go to that link above and read it in its entirety. It might be the best American response to a British tyrant since the Declaration of Independence.


A Joke

“Homeland Security” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that 472,000 Venezuelans who are in the US illegally will be granted temporary protected status and work authorization. This is in addition to 242,700 Venezuelans who are already benefiting from TPS. That makes a total of about three-quarters of a million illegal aliens from one country alone who are now immune from deportation and allowed to compete with Americans for jobs.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-administration-gives-protected-status-472000-illegal-immigrants/

In the worst impression of a tough immigration enforcer in history, Mayorkas added that it is “critical that Venezuelans understand that those who have arrived here after July 31, 2023, are not eligible for such protection, and instead will be removed when they are found to not have a legal basis to stay.”

Reminds me of the old joke about drawing a line in the sand, and warning that if anyone steps over it, you’ll draw another line. The Border Patrol doesn’t find it funny: they’re bracing for a fresh onslaught of illegal entrants from Venezuela, anticipating that if they get into the US, the rule will just be expanded next year to include them. It’s amazing how Venezuelan illegal immigrants understand this Administration so much better than the American media companies that cover it every day.

And if you think that story is bad, it’s just the tip of the iceberg…

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2023/09/21/report-joe-bidens-dhs-plans-photo-id-cards-for-illegal-aliens-freed-into-u-s/

Related: Brian Kilmeade of Fox News has a perfect description of Biden Press Secretary Katrine Jean-Pierre’s claims about Biden’s border security policies: “The most worthless series of sentences I could imagine.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/brian-kilmeade-calls-kjp-response-border-worthless-series-sentences-imagine/


Struck down

A federal court in Louisiana struck down the Biden Administration’s attempt to put last-minute restrictions on an offshore oil and gas lease.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-handed-major-legal-defeat-attempt-restrict-oil-gas-drilling-gulf-of-mexico

The judge found that not only would the restrictions cause substantial costs to the oil companies, but he slammed the Biden Administration for attempting to "provide scientific justification to a political reassessment of offshore drilling." He also ruled that the Administration's process looked "more like a weaponization of the Endangered Species Act than the collaborative, reasoned approach prescribed by the applicable laws and regulations."

The Biden Administration claimed it was following the law when it was really just playing politics? Why, it’s unprecedented!


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Supreme Court News

The Supreme Court will be hearing several major cases in its next term, and the Epoch Times has a good round-up of these cases and the ramifications of them.

https://lists.youmaker.com/links/EmFrwzUR7L/Jlid8tcrj/5qig4S4J3Yz/w43kOIPsvy

They include a gun rights case; a case challenging a Trump-era tax passed by the GOP Congress (see, I hit my own side when they deserve it) that taxes Americans on potential investment income they never even received; and the one I’ll be watching most closely, a challenge to the power of unelected regulators.

It’s an attempt to kill the Chevron Doctrine, a previous court ruling that judges should give deference to federal regulators’ interpretation of a law if Congress didn’t specifically say anything forbidding it. I think it’s asking far too much of Congress members to expect them to be psychic enough to think of all the creative ways that today’s unelected bureaucrats can invent to twist, pervert and exploit laws to increase their own power and trample on citizens' rights. As long as unelected bureaucrats are allowed to create regulations with the force of law and interpret and enforce them without the express consent of Congress, government of the people, by the people and for the people no longer exists.


More on Ray Epps

The mysterious story of Ray Epps took another baffling turn Tuesday when, more than two years after the January 6th Capitol riot, he was charged with a single misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct. This despite the feds throwing not just the book but the entire bookmobile at everyone else who even walked near the Capitol that day. For instance, a Proud Boys leader who wasn’t even in DC at the time got 22 years in federal prison, longer than the average murder sentence.

Yet Epps, who is on video seemingly inciting protesters to enter the Capitol has never been arrested up until this tiny tap on the wrist. He’s also adamantly denied being an undercover fed plant sent to provoke the riot. But if not, why did he get the kid glove treatment when everyone else got the boxing glove treatment? If the DOJ thinks this latest charge will make the suspicions go away, all it’s done is inflame them even more.

Victoria Taft at PJ Media has more on this story, along with a recap of the long, strange tale of Ray Epps.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/09/19/well-well-well-look-at-the-conspiracy-theory-the-j6-cat-finally-dragged-in-why-now-n1728211


Congressman, you might want to be more careful…

I’m going to resist the urge to do the obvious jokes about a leak being discovered on a baby-changing table, and just suggest that Rep. Matt Gaetz be more careful about where he leaves draft resolutions demanding the removal of Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker.

https://thelibertydaily.com/heck-leak-motion-vacate-found-baby-changing-station/


Interesting

As you know, I don’t put much stock in horse race polls taken long before the first actual votes are cast. But this latest GOP primary poll from Fox News is interesting, not so much for the candidate standings (those can change on a dime), but for its definition of and polling findings on the differences between so-called “populism” and so-called “conservativism” and the relative voter support for each.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-power-rankings-2024-gop-presidential-frontrunner-challengers-second-place-candidates

I don’t agree exactly with the definitions, and I think that too many people these days are using “populism” as a negative term to try to dismiss what I would call “the will of the people.” For instance, I don’t think there’s anything “traditionally conservative” about continuing to drain our own Treasury and military resources to support an endless war in Ukraine. Or thinking that we just need to tinker around the edges to reform thoroughly corrupted agencies like the FBI.

When you look at the levels of support for what this poll defines as “populism” vs. “conservatism,” it’s obvious which one is preferred by most people. I’ll bet if you asked the same questions of Independents and even Democrats, you might get pretty similar results. That’s why the political elites have to demonize the word “populism”: because they can’t admit that what they really want is to keep governing against the will of the people.


Finally…

Three years ago, in the wake of the George Floyd/BLM riots, Seattle allowed radical protesters to take over a portion of downtown and evict the police. After rampant lawlessness, several murders and a threat by President Trump to send in federal troops, they finally cleared that out, but the city council overrode a mayoral veto and slashed the police budget by 50%. That was followed by more rampant crime, violence, open drug dealing and fentanyl deaths. I know what you’re thinking: “Who could’ve predicted this?!”

Finally, voters elected a Republican city attorney. Now, in another sign of how massively “progressive” policies fail and how truly fed up citizens are with them, the Seattle city council just voted by a two-thirds majority to allow the city attorney to once again start prosecuting drug possession and dealing.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/20/seattle-to-prosecute-drug-possession-3-years-after-defund-the-police-and-chaz/

I guess I should congratulate Seattle for at least coming out of its insane embrace of leftism faster than other blue cities. I wonder how many more decades of Democrat rule will keep destroying cities like Chicago, New York and Baltimore before the citizens finally wise up and stop committing the voting equivalent of hitting themselves in the head with a hammer and wondering why their headache keeps getting worse?


Pushing the narrative

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is the latest Biden Administration official to push the new gaslighting narrative that the economy is doing great, but Americans are just too gloomy-minded to see it. It seems that you are suffering from a “disconnect with reality.” Yes, you…YOU…are the ones who are disconnected from reality. Not the people who want to reelect Joe Biden, whose brilliant leadership has made everything FANTASTIC!

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/09/20/yellen-peoples-view-of-economy-has-disconnect-with-how-economys-doing-people-positive-about-personal-finances/

Just FYI: Last Friday, the national debt rose above $33 trillion for the first time in history. It topped $32 trillion for the first time in June, meaning that under Biden, we’re now adding a trillion dollars in debt every three months. At a time when federal revenues are down, spending is out of control, with Biden and Congress spending over $527 billion in August alone.


A warning for Maine voters:

An organization with the innocuous-sounding name The National Trust for Local News has purchased about two dozen local newspapers in Maine prior to the upcoming elections. This article reveals how the funding behind that is connected to an organization owned by socialist billionaire George Soros.

https://www.westernjournal.com/george-soros-getting-claws-wrapped-around-local-media-swing-state/

It also has some chilling information about much money Soros has pumped into media organizations from NPR on down and into journalism schools to train a whole new generation of leftwing propagandists, and how many people they reach around the word who think they’re actually hearing news.


True crime stories…

The Washington Airport police confirmed that a search of “non-binary” former Biden Administration official Sam Brinton’s home turned up women’s clothing stolen from a Tanzanian designer whose bags disappeared from the airport. They’ve now been returned to her. The case is still under investigation. The story at the link lists the felony theft charges Brinton faced, only to have judges decide twice that “jail wasn’t necessary.” At least the designer has filed a civil suit against them, so let’s hope he’ll face some consequences. (WARNING!) This story includes photos of Sam Brinton in drag, so have your eye bleach handy.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/police-find-female-designers-stolen-clothes-ex-biden-official-sam-brintons-home

Also, a salute to the commenters on this story who pointed out that it’s impossible to be “non-binary,” not only because of basic biology, but when you declare yourself to be “non-binary,” you’re implying that everyone else who isn’t is binary, and now it’s a binary system again.

Related: It apparently was necessary to sentence former Indiana Republican Congress member Stephen Buyer to 22 months in prison for twice profiting through insider trading. The judge rejected a request by prosecutors to make him pay $1.4 million in legal fees due to the fact that his family has been wiped out financially by having to defend himself in court.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-lonng-serving-house-republican-sentenced-22-months-prison-insider-trading

The US Attorney who prosecuted Buyer said, “No insider trader is above the law, and we will continue to bring those who undermine the fairness and integrity of our markets to justice." To which I reply, “Good! Now do Nancy Pelosi.”


Sharing

It’s said that one picture is worth a thousand words. Since those words about New Jersey Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy’s anti-parent school sex ed mandates would be unprintable in this newsletter, I’ll just share an editorial cartoon that depicted it so well, it’s gone viral and is spreading as uncontrollably as a California wildfire.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cartoon-lampooning-phil-murphys-school-agenda-draws-ecstatic-response-republican-county-chair


Who is running the country?

If you really think Joe Biden is running his Administration and not his staff full of far-left activists, then just imagine an elderly man who can’t seem to stay awake past noon having the energy to, all within three days, create a national office of gun control…

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/09/19/joe-biden-to-announce-executive-level-gun-control-office/

…Circumvent Congress by creating a New Deal-style “American Climate Corps”…

https://www.breitbart.com/news/biden-is-using-executive-power-to-create-a-new-deal-style-american-climate-corps/

…And shut down all oil, gas and mining activity on thousands of acres of New Mexico land for the next 50 years...

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/19/biden-administration-oil-gas-mining-new-mexico-thousands-acres/

Do you really think all those were Joe’s doing? He can’t even work up the energy to face New York Mayor Eric Adams to discuss the illegal immigrant crisis that was created when he reversed all of Trump’s border security policies on Day One.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/eric-adams-slams-biden-not-meeting-ignoring-migrant-crisis-nyc-visit-everybody-knows-where-i-am

One question: He does know that “he” did that, right?


Wise move

A salute to the leaders of Brookhaven, New York, who say they will gladly take the monuments to Washington, Jefferson and Columbus that the woke leftists running New York City are removing. Showing a wisdom sadly lacking in the Big Rotten Apple’s leaders, Brookhaven’s town supervisor said, "We look at their accomplishments, what they did for their time and how they contributed to the long arc of history. And we would welcome having those statues."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/long-island-town-take-statues-washington-jefferson-columbus-rejected-woke-nyc-officials

Incidentally, do you recall how Donald Trump was tarred as a racist for saying he would not remove Confederate monuments because if you gave into that, the same radicals would next demand that we remove statues of Washington and Jefferson and other Founders for not living up to their contemporary woke standards? Maybe it’s time to build a monument to all the things that Trump turned out to be right about.

 


Hollywood

As the Hollywood writers and actors strike drags on, union leaders have invented a new tactic: they’re accusing the producers of preventing the writers from promoting diversity and inclusion. They claim the writers are just “bursting” with “worldview-changing stories” about LGBT characters and scenarios that they’re being prevented from inflicting on…sorry, sharing with the public.  

https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2023/09/20/sag-aftra-strike-stopping-artists-from-making-worldview-changing-lgbt-stories-complains-union-n2164044

Oh, no! You mean the strike is preventing them from annoying and boring us with more woke propaganda and identity politics in place of entertainment? That sounds like a good reason to pray the strike never ends. Also, if they’re “bursting with stories,” how come we’ve seen almost no movies or TV shows with original stories in about 10 years?


Poor Merrick Garland;  what else could it be but cognitive decline?

If you watched Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearings and the testimony of Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland, you must have realized with horror that President Biden is not the only one in a position of high leadership who is cognitively challenged.

Biden increasingly shows signs of dementia, as all can see, and then we have Sen. John Fetterman, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, due to the unfortunate ravages of age and health, but maybe there’s something in the water in DC, too, perhaps some brain-eating protozoa.  Garland is only 70 --- young in DC --- but his brain is apparently disappearing, too.  Why, he can’t seem to recall ANYTHING.

And he seems to be suffering from delusions.  He actually said under oath, “Our job is not to take orders from the President, from Congress, or from anyone else about who or what to criminally investigate.”  To say that truthfully, he must have forgotten that prosecutors from the Special Counsel’s Office visited the White House on a number of occasions, both before and after indicting President Trump.  (If we heard about this, he surely must have.)  As even THE NEW YORK TIMES reported, Biden made it clear he wanted Garland to act like a prosecutor and arrest Trump.

Another delusion was apparent when he said this:

"Our job is to uphold the rule of the law. That means we apply the same laws to everyone. There is not one set of laws for the powerful and another for the powerless, one for the rich and another for the poor, one for Democrats, and another for Republicans; or different rules depending upon one’s race, or ethnicity or religion."

Anyone whose brain is not impaired can see that this statement is completely absurd, wildly at odds with reality.  He denied any politicization of the DOJ at all, which anyone of normal cognitive function knows is impossible with Obama proxy Lisa Monaco serving as the AG’s top assistant.

Still, the memory loss was the most striking revelation.  When asked by Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson if he’d had contact with anyone at FBI headquarters about the Hunter Biden investigation, he stammered (after a long, uncomfortable pause), “I--I don’t recollect the answer to that question.”  And then, from the dim recesses of his brain, “But the FBI works for the Justice Department.”

When asked again, “You don’t recollect whether you talked to anybody at FBI headquarters about an investigation involving the President’s son,” Garland said, “I don’t believe that I did.”

Naturally, anyone with normal cognitive function would be able to remember clearly whether or not he’d had “contact” with his subordinates on a felony case involving the son of the President.  The fact that he couldn’t remember should be a red flag, suggesting that his loved ones should seek medical attention for him right away.  Perhaps there’s some cutting-edge drug that could help with blood flow to the brain.  (It doesn’t seem to be helping on Biden, but...)

There’s one other possible explanation:  Garland’s brain functions normally and he was lying his head off.  But surely it’s not that!  Why, our ‘Justice’ Department is the heart and soul of what America stands for.  The United States Attorney General couldn’t possibly be that dishonest.  No, it must be dementia.

Garland also inappropriately smiled and chuckled when confronted with serious accusations of inaction on the case.  I’m not a physician, but I’ve read that inappropriate displays of emotion can be a sign of dementia.

As Jesse Watters pointed out Wednesday evening, “The attorney general puts everybody under investigation, and then refuses to answer any questions because there’s an ongoing investigation.”  I would think that if the poor man could better organize his thoughts, he wouldn’t have mindlessly opened cases on everyone and could now speak more freely to the committee.  Surely that would’ve been his intention.

The investigation into Hunter’s taxes has been going on for five years.  The attorney general can’t seem to remember anything from this entire period.  So, both short-term and long-term memory appear to have been affected.  So sad.

The poor fellow couldn’t handle the most basic questions that someone in his position should know.  When asked how many FBI confidential informants entered the Capitol on January 6, he was unable to answer.  Sadly, he’s not the only official in DC whose brain perhaps has been affected by something in the water...

https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/fbi-lost-count-of-number-of-informants-at-capitol-on-jan-6-ex-official/

When confronted with that leaked memo from the Richmond, Virginia, field office about “radical traditionalist Catholics” and asked if he thought traditional Catholics were violent extremists, Garland couldn’t answer, expressing uncertainty about the meaning of the word “traditional.”

He suddenly became extremely indignant, changing the focus of the question with his strong emotional reaction.  “The idea that someone of my family background [Jewish] would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous, so absurd!”  He did go on to say that both he and FBI Director Wray were “appalled” by the memo.  But he did not reply to the question on whether or not they are extremists.  Of course, all the Democrats in Washington have forgotten what a real extremist is, thinking it’s everyone who wears a Trump hat and/or an American flag pin, further strengthening our “something in the water” theory.

Garland does have one clear memory, but it’s nonsensical.  He said under oath that he couldn’t talk about internal department deliberations “because I promised the Senate I wouldn’t.” 

As if all this weren’t enough, I’m reminded that Garland appointed David Weiss as special counsel when Weiss was already handling the case as U.S. attorney and supposedly had had free reign to conduct an independent investigation.  This duplication of effort is symptomatic of memory loss consistent with dementia and/or infection with brain-eating protozoa from drinking water from the Potomac River.

Hey, this would even explain why the statute of limitations for Hunter’s 2014-2015 tax returns was allowed to expire.  They just forgot!

Anyway, that would be my diagnosis because, gosh, what else could it be?

 

RECOMMENDED:

(Superb...)

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/09/20/how-garland-answered-and-didnt-answer-questions-on-hunter-biden-the-capitol-riot-targeting-catholics/

https://www.foxnews.com/media/social-media-skewers-ag-garland-says-doj-applies-same-laws-everyone-straight-up-liar

Rudy Giuliani told NEWSMAX that the attorney general has “dishonored” the DOJ and made some solid points about both him and Weiss…

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/rudy-giuliani-merrick-garland-david-weiss/2023/09/20

Also, don’t miss House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio, on HANNITY last night.  No cognitive impairment there!

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6337528157112

 

……….

 

RELATED:  Yesterday, we told you about Homeland Security’s new ‘working group’ to address threats both foreign and domestic (mostly domestic, as we all know), called the “Experts Group” and including former CIA Director John Brennan and former National Director of Intelligence James Clapper, two major perpetrators of the Russia Hoax who actively worked to frame Trump as a Russian asset.  They’re experts, all right, but not in the areas they should be.  Former senior adviser to the Senate Judiciary Committee Garrett Ventry and investigative reporter/author Lee Smith (one of our favorite sources) appeared with Jesse Watters last night to discuss it.

We’ve discussed most of this same information but if you missed the segment, you might want to see it when the full Jesse Watters show is posted.  An additional point made by Lee Smith is that “John Brennan was Barack Obama’s intelligence guy.”  This is from the beginning, from before Obama went to the White House.  Smith reads this as an endorsement and a signal to Washington elites from Barack Obama, as in, “Don’t worry, Joe, we’ve got your back.”  We see it as getting the chess pieces on the board for whoever turns out to be the candidate, and that person might be someone with VERY close ties to Obama.

Smith sees Biden as Obama’s “avatar.”  Of course, that works for another term only if Biden is electable.  With his mental decline and his poll numbers, Biden can’t be on the ticket unless his running mate is the one Obama’s really backing for next President.

The NEW YORK POST had a scathing editorial on this “Experts Group”…

https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/spies-who-lie-will-fit-in-great-with-team-bidens-dhss-serial-liars/


Rupert Murdoch to step down

Rupert Murdoch, 92, announced Thursday morning that he’s stepping down as Chair of Fox Corporation and Executive Chairman of News Corp in November, with his son Lachlan becoming chair of both companies. Most media outlets described this as “retirement,” but the senior Murdoch said he’s transitioning to Chairman Emeritus at Fox and News. He said, "For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rupert-murdoch-announces-transition-new-role-chairman-emeritus-fox-news-corp

Many conservatives are worried that with Lachlan taking over the CEO reins, Fox News will move more to the left. But Rupert Murdoch said the battle over freedom of speech and freedom of thought has never been more intense, and his family remains firmly committed to that cause. That linked story reports that he criticized both contemptuous elites and the media in "cahoots" with them for pushing narratives rather than seeking the truth and said, “In my new role, I can guarantee you that I will be involved every day in the contest of ideas." He added, “We have every reason to be optimistic about the coming years - I certainly am, and plan to be here to participate in them." 

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When AOC and other Democrats were booed and shouted down by fellow New Yorkers furious over their city being inundated with illegal aliens thanks to Biden’s open border, she dismissed that as just “conservatives” pretending to be angry New Yorkers. But when thousands of reality-denying protesters jammed New York streets with a “March to End Fossil Fuels” for “New York Climate Week,” well, those people we should take seriously.

https://www.westernjournal.com/radical-ignore-aoc-sends-aggressive-demand-biden-climate-march/

Warning that Biden is not acting fast enough to ban oil and gas, AOC urged the crowd to make their protests ““too big and too radical to ignore.” She shouted, “We need urgency on this issue right now, right now.  And the way we create urgency on the issue of climate is that we have people all across the world in the streets…demanding a cessation of what is killing us. We demand change! It will happen now!” She was accompanied by a number of leftist Hollywood celebrities, including Ethan Hawke, Edward Norton and Kevin Bacon.

Question: How did all those people get into New York City and home again? We know the celebrities came from Hollywood, and that’s an awfully long walk or bike ride. I don’t believe they drove all across the country in electric cars because that would be nuts. Even if they did, EVs don’t reduce pollution; they create even more environmental destruction in their production than regular cars, and charging them just outsources the burning of fossil fuels to power plants that are out of sight, so I guess they don’t count.

Unsurprisingly, the DC Communist Party (speaking of things that really have killed a lot of people) hailed the protest to end fossil fuels, boasting that the crowd was over 75,000 people. Unless all of them walked, biked or skated there and back, they can go pound sand.

Yesterday, we told you that yet another FBI informant with information about the Biden family business had been “shut down” by the FBI, in October 2020, just prior to the election.  “Follow-the-money” author Peter Schweizer had determined that this information came from retired FBI Special Agent Tim Thibault, in testimony before the House Oversight Committee last week.

(Just a thought:  Schweizer wrote the bestseller CLINTON CASH, and we wonder if he might want to call his next one BIDEN BUCKS.  You’re welcome!)

According to Schweizer, Thibault told the committee that his main contribution to the Hunter probe was “to shut down the use of a confidential source whom he discovered was actually a right-wing author whose information he feared would taint the legitimacy of the investigation.”

Recall that Thibault resigned from the FBI in the wake of allegations that he helped shield Hunter Biden from criminal investigations.  Here’s that story from July of last year.  Kind of fun to look back at it now, in light of what we’ve since learned.  Read the letter it includes from Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley to AG Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray.  In it, Grassley says Thibault “allegedly ordered the matter [the Hunter investigation] closed without providing a valid reason as required by FBI guidelines…it’s alleged that FBI officials, including ASAC Thibault, subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future.”

Somebody wanted it “disappeared.”

https://nypost.com/2022/07/26/fbi-doj-accused-of-downplaying-hunter-biden-dirt/

As it turns out, the FBI’s additional confidential human source, the one Thibault got “shut down,” apparently was...(drum roll)...Peter Schweizer (cymbal crash)!  He didn’t name Schweizer in last week’s testimony but did to THE NEW YORK TIMES back in May.

It all started when the the Public Corruption Unit of the FBI contacted Schweizer’s organization, a non-profit called the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) for information the GAI had gathered on Hunter Biden’s business dealings for Schweizer’s books SECRET EMPIRES and PROFILES IN CORRUPTION.  The GAI had pieced together the story of Hunter’s involvement in the Ukrainian energy company Burisma and the CCP-connected firm CEFC.  All the information they had was already in the public record, nothing from sketchy sources.

Schweizer isn’t buying that the reason Thibault shut him down as a source was because he was “concerned about the integrity” of the FBI investigation.  “Nobody has ever challenged any of the facts that we discovered and wrote about,” he said.

Schweizer is co-host of the podcast DRILL DOWN, and we’ve included a link to his latest episode, in which he discusses this, starting at about 10:45.  You’ll see that Thibault, in his fiery opening statement, testified that the allegations of political interference were “baseless,” but in the next breath told them his main job in the investigation was to shut down a confidential human source because the fact that he was a right-wing author might taint the investigation!  (The FBI has done enough to taint this investigation, all by themselves.)

Schweizer calls this Thibault’s “shoot the messenger” tactic, reminding us that Thibault is the FBI agent who originally interviewed former Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski in the fall of 2020, but DID NOT SHARE THAT INTERVIEW WITH ANYONE, such as the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware.  And Bobulinski was no “far-right” anything --- he was not a political figure at all.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/19/peter-schweizer-schools-ex-fbi-agent-who-shielded-bidens/

Also, there are more fishy numbers that tie Joe himself with the Biden businesses.  The U.K. DAILY MAIL reported last year that there was a discrepancy between income Joe Biden reported to the IRS in 2017 and 2018 and what he declared on the financial disclosure form he had to complete when he entered the 2020 presidential race.  Tax returns showed $12.6 million; the financial disclosure form showed $7.4 million.

How to explain this $5.2 million discrepancy?  (Coincidentally, $5 million is the amount of the bribe Burisma founder Mykolo Zlochevsky is said to have claimed to have paid to each of two Bidens.)  Schweizer theorizes that by 2019, Biden was getting a lot of scrutiny over Hunter’s foreign deals, “and he just wanted some of that money to disappear.”

Here’s a little trip down memory lane.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10728521/Financial-records-reveal-Joe-Biden-5-2million-unexplained-income.html

Isn’t it amazing how this news has been out there for a year, sometimes two or three years, and you and I know it but most of America still has no clue?  At least that’s finally starting to change.  Now that the mainstream media have dutifully played their assigned role in hiding it, they’re dutifully playing their assigned role in slowly letting it out.

In impeachment inquiry news --- and remember, it’s an impeachment INQUIRY into allegations of corruption by the President, not an actual impeachment --- the House will hold its first impeachment inquiry hearing next Thursday.  This is the evidence-gathering stage.  The House Oversight Committee, chaired by Kentucky Rep. James Comer, will likely subpoena bank records for Hunter and James Biden, the President’s brother, to continue in their quest to “follow the money.”  That’s what he told Sean Hannity last night.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6337457342112

Comer also will seek additional transcribed interviews with Hunter business partners, particularly Eric Schwerin and Rob Walker.  But this first day of hearings isn’t likely to tread new ground, according to sources for FOX NEWS.  It will review the existing evidence --- there’s a lot, and those who say differently are deliberately lying or in deep denial --- and “explain the status of the inquiry.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-hold-first-biden-impeachment-inquiry-hearing-thursday

 

RELATED:  Finally, here’s a story worthy of the BABYLON BEE.  Did you know Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has put together a team of experts, called the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group, to provide “unique perspectives on the federal government’s intelligence enterprise” to DHS’s [Intelligence and Analysis] and the Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator?  The group will meet periodically to analyze threats posed by both “foreign nation-state adversaries” and “domestic violent extremists.”  Like those violent, racist “MAGA Republicans” I’ve heard so much about?

This is so important to our national security that he’s put former CIA Director John Brennan and former National Director of Intelligence James Clapper on it.  Myorkas has succeeded in one thing:  insulting OUR intelligence.

So, aren’t you glad they’re on the job?  Although, as BREITBART reports, “It is unclear how Brennan will advise the Department of Homeland Security, given that President Trump revoked his security clearance in 2018, in reaction to Brennan’s increasingly unhinged political attacks on the President.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/19/mayorkas-names-russia-hoaxers-laptop-deniers-brennan-clapper-to-intelligence-experts-panel/

These are the same intelligence “experts” who falsely tried to discredit the NEW YORK POST’s Hunter Biden laptop story, so the POST has plenty to say about their appointment...

https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/mayorkas-taps-spies-who-lied-for-new-intelligence-experts-group/

 

FURTHER READING:  Tristan Leavitt, head of the Empower Whistleblower Center, has expressed fresh concerns that the Biden White House is applying pressure to the ‘Justice’ Department to prosecute IRS special-agents-turned-whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler.  As you know, the White House sent a memo to news media imploring them to attack efforts to investigate the Bidens.  But there’s much more; here’s John Solomon’s take...

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/tuewhite-house-actions-raise-alarm-about-possible-political

“This case seems to be almost like a tantrum that Abbe Lowell’s having...”

That’s the observation of former federal prosecutor Jonathan Fahey, in an interview Monday night with FOX NEWS’ Trace Gallagher, speaking of Hunter Biden’s lead attorney suing the IRS and the former agents who came forward with their concerns about his case. The whistleblowers “did everything under the law in revealing this information,” Fahey said. The suit, he said, is apparently not about their testimony but what they’ve said since going to the House Ways and Means Committee.

(As you know, they went to Ways and Means in the first place because they were dealing with someone’s personal tax records, and this committee, behind closed doors, was the only place they could legally divulge that. The committee then had the authority to allow a public hearing before the Oversight Committee.)

“...I don’t really see the merits of this lawsuit,” he said, “and I’m not really seeing the point of the lawsuit, either, as far as the big picture for his client, how it benefits him.”

In his original plea deal, which was scrapped --- no matter what Abbe Lowell says --- Hunter was originally charged with misdemeanors for crimes that normally would be considered felonies. According to Fahey, the judge in California could come back and charge him with felony tax offenses, if he is so inclined (I wouldn’t hold my breath), along with felony gun crimes. “So, really, things are going in a bad direction for Hunter…this current legal strategy doesn’t seem to be helping him that much, from what I’m seeing.”

That’s in line with a report from the WASHINGTON POST that David Weiss may soon file a new indictment against Hunter on tax charges in a California federal court. ABC NEWS got specific about this --- WAPO, ABC...see, the memo really has gone out! --- saying Hunter will likely face charges of failure to pay taxes after allegations made by IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler about money from Burisma channeled through a Chinese firm run by the Biden family business.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/18/report-david-weiss-may-soon-charge-hunter-biden-california-tax-crimes/

Fahey predicted Hunter won’t go to trial on the gun charges, and that his attorneys would try to work out a deal and “keep the option open” of appealing on a constitutional issue with those. He also predicted no jail time, surprise!

Mark Lytle, the attorney for former IRS lead investigator Gary Shapley, had weighed in earlier in the day, saying, “Congress wrote the law so that whistleblowers could come forward in a protected manner and shine the light on government misconduct. And that’s what happened here. And as a result, the ‘sweetheart’ plea deal was revealed...and the judge rejected it. And they’re mad about that, and they’re coming after the whistleblowers.”

Oh, they’re mad, of course, but going on the offensive in a blind fury is also their legal strategy. Very deliberate.

The lawsuit itself is extremely tenuous. It alleges that Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler sought to “publicly smear” Hunter Biden by releasing information about his taxes to congressional investigators. This, his attorneys say, adds up to a violation of his “privacy rights.”

(Aside: I thought that with the release of President Trump’s tax returns under the Biden administration, the idea of financial privacy was a thing of the past! Why, it must be back again.)

In suing the IRS, Hunter is, in effect, suing his father’s administration, claiming that IRS agents “targeted and sought to embarrass” him. His attorneys also allege that the whistleblowers released information that Congress had not yet released. That includes allegations of his failure to pay $2.2 million in taxes --- hey, we already knew about that; it’s the bill his “sugar brother” Kevin Morris paid --- and possible tax fraud over claiming expenses for prostitutes and sex clubs on his returns.

They told about the prostitutes and sex clubs?? Why, Hunter’s squeaky-clean reputation is RUINED!!

Attorney Lytle released a statement: “Neither IRS SSA Gary Shapley nor his attorneys have ever released any confidential tax information except through whistleblower disclosures authorized by statute. Once Congress released that testimony, like every American citizen, he has a right to discuss that information.” He called the lawsuit “just another frivolous smear by Biden family attorneys trying to turn people’s attention away from Hunter Biden’s own legal problems and intimidate any current and future whistleblowers.” I don’t think the IRS is losing any sleep over it.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/18/whistleblower-lawyer-slams-hunter-bidens-lawsuit-charging-invasion-of-privacy-n2163980

By the way, did you know that there was another FBI informant in the Biden case who was “shut down” before the 2020 election? Retired Special Agent Timothy Thibault, a 25-year employee who was second in command at the Washington field office, testified before the House Judiciary Committee last week, and said he’d been told by the lead agent in the Hunter tax case to shut down their confidential human source (CHS).

Thibault wasn’t identified in the transcript, but investigative reporter Peter Schweizer believes he has identified him based on previous comments he’s made and other clues. More on this will undoubtedly be coming out soon; in the meantime, here’s what we know…

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/09/18/another-fbi-informant-in-biden-case-was-shut-down-before-2020-election-n1727870

House Oversight Committee Chair Jim Jordan no doubt has many questions for Special Counsel David Weiss on his handling of the Hunter case, and Weiss is now scheduled to testify before the committee on October 11. Jordan is also calling for documents relating to whistleblowers Shapley and Ziegler. His full list of demands is here...

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2023/09/18/jim-jordan-continues-to-crack-down-on-investigation-into-hunter-biden-n2628600

Allen West has a great editorial on the “Hunter Biden Hustle,” going through the reasons why it’s just not gonna play with the American people and pointing out the ironies of “Mr. Gun Control” having a son who’s guilty of three felony gun charges. You’ll enjoy this… 

https://townhall.com/columnists/allenwest/2023/09/18/the-hypocrisy-of-the-hunter-biden-hustle-n2628558

Well, let’s move on to see how this scandal is currently affecting the Big Guy. The mainstream media are pretending he’s doing great --- that, cognitively, he’s superior to Trump (I am not kidding). “Which begs the question,” David Strom said, “if they [Democrats] know the MSM will lie on something so obvious, why do they believe these shills on anything else?”

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/09/18/ayfkm-joe-biden-much-more-coherent-than-trump-n578829

Poll-wise, Biden is cratering. According to a new survey from Harvard-CAPS-Harris, Biden is trailing Trump. But even worse, he’s also trailing Nikki Haley and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott. You might say he’s got three strikes against him.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/09/18/new-poll-reveals-devastating-news-for-president-biden-great-news-for-republican-candidates-n2163967

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has a theory for how the election is going to go, and we think he must have been reading the Huckabee newsletter. He predicts the Democrats will push Biden aside, and who else will parachute in at the last minute to “save” the party and take the nomination but...Michelle Obama. She’ll be portrayed as “the adult in the room.” (One of my writers has only been saying this for the past three years, only she used the term “healer.”) Cruz talks about the various scenarios that might replace Biden with Michelle --- as we did years ago --- in this podcast…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6wWH4vh24Q

Bonchie at REDSTATE doesn’t think it would be all that easy for the Democrats to accomplish this, though, because of other candidates, such as Kamala, who won’t cooperate and will cause a floor fight. Perhaps he’s underestimating the power of the Obamas. He’s always heard Michelle hated being in the White House. Perhaps he’s underestimating the amount of time she could spend “vacationing.” He thinks Biden will still be the candidate, that Democrats “will have to ride or die with Joe Biden.”

Perhaps he’s forgotten: They’re Democrats. They don’t intend to lose. But here’s what he says...

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/18/ted-cruz-has-a-very-interesting-theory-on-who-will-replace-joe-biden-in-2024-n2163966

Duke, also at REDSTATE, doesn’t see Biden getting to the finish line. He talks about Cruz’s prediction as well, and relates a story about Biden’s biographer Franklin Foer saying it “wouldn’t be a total shock” to him if Biden gave up running again, “much earlier than August of next year.”

https://redstate.com/tladuke/2023/09/18/someone-who-knows-biden-well-says-it-would-not-be-a-total-shock-if-he-dropped-out-of-2024-race-n2163981

 

 


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Protection please

Saturday in Los Angeles, a man carrying loaded pistols and ammunition and impersonating a US Marshal was arrested at a public event for Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/armed-man-impersonating-law-enforcment-arrested-rfk-jr-campaign-event-los-angeles

You’d think that would convince the Biden Administration to stop denying RFK Jr. Secret Service protection, considering that both his father and uncle were assassinated and now, they’ve arrested someone for trying to approach him with a loaded gun. Kennedy said he’s still “entertaining a hope” that he will be granted protection, after being the first Presidential candidate in history for whom the White House denied a request for protection. The White House's excuse was that protection is never provided until much later in the campaign year, but that’s not true: Obama got it much earlier.

On the other hand, considering that a new Rasmussen poll found that a third of voters would be open to supporting a third-party candidate in 2024 rather than reelect Biden, RFK Jr. should be grateful Biden hasn’t given him 24/7 armed security by indicting and jailing him. Yet.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/stunning-38-would-vote-third-party-in-trump-biden-election


Everything is peaches and cream…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom went on CNN Monday to test-drive the Democrats’ 2024 Biden reelection narrative: Joe’s actually doing a fantastic job, it’s just that Americans have been so “traumatized” over the past five or six years that we’re in Debby Downer mode and simply can’t see how peachy everything is.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/09/18/newsom-biden-is-doing-well-but-weve-been-polarized-and-traumatized-over-last-five-six-years/

I wonder how the Democrats’ anti-fossil fuel wing is going to react to them trying to gaslight half the country. I also wonder if they really think Americans are dumb enough to believe that just because they're working three jobs to pay for groceries, rent and gas, they should congratulate Joe Biden for creating full employment.


Reality

The big problem with all liberal plans is that sooner or later, they have to leave the fantasy worlds of the liberal media or the Ivy League faculty lounge and be tested in the harsh lab of reality, and that’s when they melt down like a cake left in the rain. For instance, we were all going to be driving electric cars – until enough people bought them and described their experiences, and now they’re gathering dust on car lots. Well, here are a couple more examples, courtesy of (naturally) California:

California legislators passed State Bill 2098, or the “Medical Misinformation Law,” that barred doctors from spreading “misinformation” or “disinformation” about COVID-19. What it did in reality was attempt to repeal both the First Amendment and the scientific method by punishing doctors for questioning official government narratives, as if having medical bureaucrats declare something true made it both objectively correct and legally unquestionable. It went into effect on January 1st, was blocked by a federal judge one month later in response to a lawsuit, and has just been quietly repealed by the Assembly before the Courts could toss it out as the unconstitutional garbage that it clearly is.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/california-repeals-medical-misinformation-law-punish-doctors/

Also last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law repealing the ban on state employees traveling to states that “discriminate” against the LGBTQ+ community. Since they passed it in 2017, they'd added more than half of US states to the list, as those evil, intolerant haters passed such unconscionable and un-California-like laws as banning men from going into women’s bathrooms. As you might imagine, this virtue-signaling became rather inconvenient, particularly with Newsom himself making so many politically-motivated visits to red states.

Newsom said he hopes the repeal "helps California’s message of acceptance, equality and hope reach the places where it is most needed."  Which begs the question, if LGBTQ people are treated so badly in red states and so well in California, why aren’t they all moving there? So few people are doing that these days that you’d think the rest of America had a travel ban on going to California.  

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-gov-gavin-newsom-signs-bill-ending-travel-ban-red-states

…And a new California gun control bill banning ads for firearms that “reasonably appear to be attractive to minors” was struck down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for being so broadly written that it infringes on both the First and Second Amendments. The court’s ruling is a must-read, particularly for reality-denying leftist legislators:

“California cannot straitjacket the First Amendment by, on the one hand, allowing minors to possess and use firearms and then, on the other hand, banning truthful advertisements about that lawful use of firearms. There is no evidence in the record that a minor in California has ever unlawfully bought a gun, let alone because of an ad. Nor has the state produced any evidence that truthful ads about lawful uses of guns—like an ad about hunting rifles in Junior Sports Magazines’ Junior Shooters—encourage illegal or violent gun use among minors. Simply put, California cannot lean on gossamers of speculation to weave an evidence-free narrative that its law curbing the First Amendment ‘significantly’ decreases unlawful gun use among minors. The First Amendment demands more than good intentions and wishful thinking to warrant the government’s muzzling of speech.”

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2023/09/13/ninth-circuit-grants-injunction-against-california-law-targeting-gun-marketing-n74805

But has California learned anything from having to backtrack from so many fuzzy-headed, unconstitutional laws passed to appease a small minority at the expense of the rights of the majority? I’ll let you read this and decide that…

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/09/10/californias-coming-inquisition-targeting-anti-trans-parents/

Related: San Francisco also banned travel to red states. But the city has become such a crime-ridden basket case under leftist rule that they’re now desperate to find people who are willing to join the city’s beleaguered police department. And guess where they’re looking for recruits: in Texas! Good luck with that!

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/09/18/the-bay-area-is-still-struggling-to-recover-from-defund-the-police-now-theyre-hoping-texas-can-help-n578984


Message to Illinois Democrats: Give yourselves a hand!

Illinois Democrats decided that it wasn’t fair that violent criminals were running amok in Chicago. So they just became the first state to do away with cash bail, so that violent criminals can now run amok statewide.

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/09/18/criminals-will-run-wild-illinois-becomes-first-state-to-abolish-cash-bail-as-fears-mount/


Accusations

I’ve noticed that suddenly, we’re hearing accusations of sexual misconduct against a number of prominent conservatives and even moderates who are known for standing up against the radical left. Some are attacks on personal behavior or alleged private conduct which would not only be ignored but defended and even celebrated if the target were on the left (if you don’t believe me, look at the full-throated defense of the Virginia Democratic Congressional candidate who sold porn videos of herself and her husband on the Internet.) And some stories, sadly, involve accusations of possibly criminal misconduct.

Comedian/podcaster Russell Brand was suddenly struck with multiple accusations of sexual assault, including rape, from a decade or so ago, which he denies. He admitted going through a period of addiction and promiscuity, but insists all his sexual conduct was consensual. Nevertheless, he was immediately dumped by his agent and publisher, his comedy tour was canceled and YouTube demonetized his popular channel. All this based on anonymous allegations with no charges even being filed (at least not yet), much less a conviction. Some of his fans believe this may be motivated by his recent prominence as a critic of government narratives on COVID and other hot button issues. Whether it is or not, there’s no question that it’s a prime example of our modern culture of “guilty until proven innocent.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/09/19/canceled-youtube-stops-russell-brand-from-monetizing-videos/

And speaking of oddly coincidental accusations, Tim Ballard, the inspiration for “Sound of Freedom,” the movie about fighting child sex trafficking that Hollywood and the media couldn’t kill, has suddenly been accused of sexual misconduct involving seven women. Ballard, who was considering a Senate run in Utah, said, “It’s not true, nothing you hear is true.” The report came from Vice, a leftwing site with a reputation for bad biased reporting, and cites “an anonymous letter” that repeats the allegations.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/09/18/sound-of-freedom-inspiration-tim-ballard-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-in-vice-news-report/

While I hope these accusations are all false, I don’t know, but I do find the sudden flurry of them and their anonymous origins to be awfully coincidental. I can’t make a defense of these accused people because I have no idea what really happened. But I will once again make the same lonely, unpopular stand that I made when both Brett Kavanaugh on the right and Andrew Cuomo on the left were accused of sexual misconduct. That is to defend their right to due process and to remind everyone that in America – in fact, anywhere where people believe in justice and fairness – everyone is entitled to the presumption of innocence until they are proven guilty, and not the other way around.

As for some of the other stories that don’t involve criminality but are just ugly whispering campaigns, I’d remind everyone that people who spread nasty gossip about others are really telling you more about themselves than about those they gossip about.

Related: Lauren Boebert’s estranged husband issued a statement strongly defending her and taking responsibility for the collapse of their marriage and for putting her under the tremendous strain of a devastating divorce.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/rep-lauren-boeberts-estranged-husband-blames-himself-for-divorce/


How can we take AOC and her friends seriously?!?

When AOC and other Democrats were booed and shouted down by fellow New Yorkers furious over their city being inundated with illegal aliens thanks to Biden’s open border, she dismissed that as just “conservatives” pretending to be angry New Yorkers. But when thousands of reality-denying protesters jammed New York streets with a “March to End Fossil Fuels” for “New York Climate Week,” well, those people we should take seriously.

https://www.westernjournal.com/radical-ignore-aoc-sends-aggressive-demand-biden-climate-march/

Warning that Biden is not acting fast enough to ban oil and gas, AOC urged the crowd to make their protests ““too big and too radical to ignore.” She shouted, “We need urgency on this issue right now, right now.  And the way we create urgency on the issue of climate is that we have people all across the world in the streets…demanding a cessation of what is killing us. We demand change! It will happen now!” She was accompanied by a number of leftist Hollywood celebrities, including Ethan Hawke, Edward Norton and Kevin Bacon.

Question: How did all those people get into New York City and home again? We know the celebrities came from Hollywood, and that’s an awfully long walk or bike ride. I don’t believe they drove all across the country in electric cars because that would be nuts. Even if they did, EVs don’t reduce pollution; they create even more environmental destruction in their production than regular cars, and charging them just outsources the burning of fossil fuels to power plants that are out of sight, so I guess they don’t count.

Unsurprisingly, the DC Communist Party (speaking of things that really have killed a lot of people) hailed the protest to end fossil fuels, boasting that the crowd was over 75,000 people. Unless all of them walked, biked or skated there and back, they can go pound sand.


Big Business

This story not only reports that Colombia’s leftist president plans to send another 1 million migrants to the US in 2024 from Colombia alone, but it also has a good description of how Joe Biden and his DHS head Alejandro Majorkas are facilitating the cartels’ incredibly lucrative new industry of smuggling migrants to the border so they can enter the US illegally.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2023/09/19/new-york-times-south-american-cartel-send-1-million-global-migrants-2024/

And how big a business has the transport of illegal entrants to the US become? The buses couldn’t hold enough of them, so now they’re coming by the trainload.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2023/05/06/150-migrants-found-on-one-texas-freight-train-near-border/


Senate update

Chuck Schumer’s decision not to enforce the unofficial Senate dress code (unspoken: most likely because John Fetterman refuses to dress like an adult and keeps showing up in hoodies and basketball shorts) is not going over well with colleagues. Maine Sen. Susan Collins slammed it, saying it “debases the institution,” and joked that she might come to work in a bikini. She quickly made it clear that she wouldn’t, but said that under the new rules, she could. Let’s pray this doesn’t spread to the House, at least while Nancy Pelosi is still in office.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/susan-collins-jokes-she-will-wear-a-bikini-to-the-senate-while-slamming-dress-code-changes/ar-AA1gUwRW

Meanwhile, Fetterman continues to prove that he is unfit for the Senate, both sartorially and cognitively.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/19/john-fetterman-accuses-greene-of-running-on-dingaling-in-embarrassing-msnbc-interview-n2163985

I don’t hold it against Fetterman that he isn’t showing the proper respect for the Senate, since I don’t know if he’s capable of that. I do hold it against Schumer for enabling it. And I hold it against the entire Democratic Party apparatus of Pennsylvania who didn’t care about Fetterman’s health or even his life after he suffered a debilitating stroke. They just kept pushing him because nothing was more important than keeping that seat, even if the stress killed him, or best-case scenario that I can see, he was mentally unable to be a functioning representative for the people of Pennsylvania. All that mattered to them was keeping someone with a D by his name in a seat of power.

So if Fetterman is simply unable to show respect for the United States Senate, then he is at least representing the attitude of his Party perfectly.


Ominous Warning Sign:

In a special election for a state House seat in New Hampshire Tuesday, the Democrat won a landslide victory in a district that the Republican Governor won by 22 points. Bonchie at Redstate.com warns that the GOP needs to make changes and pick better candidates or it may be heading for another drubbing in 2024. See if you agree with his assessment, and if not, how would you explain this lopsided loss in a heavily-Republican district?

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/20/republicans-got-blasted-in-new-hampshires-special-election-because-zero-lesson-have-been-learned-n2164042


FBI shot down yet another informant who had too much on “Biden Bucks”

Yesterday, we told you that yet another FBI informant with information about the Biden family business had been “shut down” by the FBI, in October 2020, just prior to the election.  “Follow-the-money” author Peter Schweizer had determined that this information came from retired FBI Special Agent Tim Thibault, in testimony before the House Oversight Committee last week.

(Just a thought:  Schweizer wrote the bestseller CLINTON CASH, and we wonder if he might want to call his next one BIDEN BUCKS.  You’re welcome!)

According to Schweizer, Thibault told the committee that his main contribution to the Hunter probe was “to shut down the use of a confidential source whom he discovered was actually a right-wing author whose information he feared would taint the legitimacy of the investigation.”

Recall that Thibault resigned from the FBI in the wake of allegations that he helped shield Hunter Biden from criminal investigations.  Here’s that story from July of last year.  Kind of fun to look back at it now, in light of what we’ve since learned.  Read the letter it includes from Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley to AG Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray.  In it, Grassley says Thibault “allegedly ordered the matter [the Hunter investigation] closed without providing a valid reason as required by FBI guidelines…it’s alleged that FBI officials, including ASAC Thibault, subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future.”

Somebody wanted it “disappeared.”

https://nypost.com/2022/07/26/fbi-doj-accused-of-downplaying-hunter-biden-dirt/

As it turns out, the FBI’s additional confidential human source, the one Thibault got “shut down,” apparently was...(drum roll)...Peter Schweizer (cymbal crash)!  He didn’t name Schweizer in last week’s testimony but did to THE NEW YORK TIMES back in May.

It all started when the the Public Corruption Unit of the FBI contacted Schweizer’s organization, a non-profit called the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) for information the GAI had gathered on Hunter Biden’s business dealings for Schweizer’s books SECRET EMPIRES and PROFILES IN CORRUPTION.  The GAI had pieced together the story of Hunter’s involvement in the Ukrainian energy company Burisma and the CCP-connected firm CEFC.  All the information they had was already in the public record, nothing from sketchy sources.

Schweizer isn’t buying that the reason Thibault shut him down as a source was because he was “concerned about the integrity” of the FBI investigation.  “Nobody has ever challenged any of the facts that we discovered and wrote about,” he said.

Schweizer is co-host of the podcast DRILL DOWN, and we’ve included a link to his latest episode, in which he discusses this, starting at about 10:45.  You’ll see that Thibault, in his fiery opening statement, testified that the allegations of political interference were “baseless,” but in the next breath told them his main job in the investigation was to shut down a confidential human source because the fact that he was a right-wing author might taint the investigation!  (The FBI has done enough to taint this investigation, all by themselves.)

Schweizer calls this Thibault’s “shoot the messenger” tactic, reminding us that Thibault is the FBI agent who originally interviewed former Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski in the fall of 2020, but DID NOT SHARE THAT INTERVIEW WITH ANYONE, such as the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware.  And Bobulinski was no “far-right” anything --- he was not a political figure at all.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/19/peter-schweizer-schools-ex-fbi-agent-who-shielded-bidens/

Also, there are more fishy numbers that tie Joe himself with the Biden businesses.  The U.K. DAILY MAIL reported last year that there was a discrepancy between income Joe Biden reported to the IRS in 2017 and 2018 and what he declared on the financial disclosure form he had to complete when he entered the 2020 presidential race.  Tax returns showed $12.6 million; the financial disclosure form showed $7.4 million.

How to explain this $5.2 million discrepancy?  (Coincidentally, $5 million is the amount of the bribe Burisma founder Mykolo Zlochevsky is said to have claimed to have paid to each of two Bidens.)  Schweizer theorizes that by 2019, Biden was getting a lot of scrutiny over Hunter’s foreign deals, “and he just wanted some of that money to disappear.”

Here’s a little trip down memory lane.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10728521/Financial-records-reveal-Joe-Biden-5-2million-unexplained-income.html

Isn’t it amazing how this news has been out there for a year, sometimes two or three years, and you and I know it but most of America still has no clue?  At least that’s finally starting to change.  Now that the mainstream media have dutifully played their assigned role in hiding it, they’re dutifully playing their assigned role in slowly letting it out.

In impeachment inquiry news --- and remember, it’s an impeachment INQUIRY into allegations of corruption by the President, not an actual impeachment --- the House will hold its first impeachment inquiry hearing next Thursday.  This is the evidence-gathering stage.  The House Oversight Committee, chaired by Kentucky Rep. James Comer, will likely subpoena bank records for Hunter and James Biden, the President’s brother, to continue in their quest to “follow the money.”  That’s what he told Sean Hannity last night.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6337457342112

Comer also will seek additional transcribed interviews with Hunter business partners, particularly Eric Schwerin and Rob Walker.  But this first day of hearings isn’t likely to tread new ground, according to sources for FOX NEWS.  It will review the existing evidence --- there’s a lot, and those who say differently are deliberately lying or in deep denial --- and “explain the status of the inquiry.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-hold-first-biden-impeachment-inquiry-hearing-thursday

 

RELATED:  Finally, here’s a story worthy of the BABYLON BEE.  Did you know Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has put together a team of experts, called the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group, to provide “unique perspectives on the federal government’s intelligence enterprise” to DHS’s [Intelligence and Analysis] and the Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator?  The group will meet periodically to analyze threats posed by both “foreign nation-state adversaries” and “domestic violent extremists.”  Like those violent, racist “MAGA Republicans” I’ve heard so much about?

This is so important to our national security that he’s put former CIA Director John Brennan and former National Director of Intelligence James Clapper on it.  Myorkas has succeeded in one thing:  insulting OUR intelligence.

So, aren’t you glad they’re on the job?  Although, as BREITBART reports, “It is unclear how Brennan will advise the Department of Homeland Security, given that President Trump revoked his security clearance in 2018, in reaction to Brennan’s increasingly unhinged political attacks on the President.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/19/mayorkas-names-russia-hoaxers-laptop-deniers-brennan-clapper-to-intelligence-experts-panel/

These are the same intelligence “experts” who falsely tried to discredit the NEW YORK POST’s Hunter Biden laptop story, so the POST has plenty to say about their appointment...

https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/mayorkas-taps-spies-who-lied-for-new-intelligence-experts-group/

 

FURTHER READING:  Tristan Leavitt, head of the Empower Whistleblower Center, has expressed fresh concerns that the Biden White House is applying pressure to the ‘Justice’ Department to prosecute IRS special-agents-turned-whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler.  As you know, the White House sent a memo to news media imploring them to attack efforts to investigate the Bidens.  But there’s much more; here’s John Solomon’s take...

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/tuewhite-house-actions-raise-alarm-about-possible-political


Pro tip

We’ll have more on this tomorrow, but as we were “going to press,” the House questioning of alleged Attorney General Merrick Garland was just starting. You can watch the video feed at the link, or wait until tomorrow and we’ll tell you what he said without you having to inflict his inevitable denials and evasions on yourself.

https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/09/20/watch-live-garland-testifies-at-house-judiciary-hearing-on-oversight-of-the-us-department-of-justice-n2164046

 

A disturbing video

Last weekend, a disturbing video hit the news, taken by two Las Vegas teenagers in a stolen Hyundai Elantra laughing as they deliberately struck and killed a bicyclist just for fun. The victim was 64-year-old retired police chief Andreas Probst. Police thought it was a hit-and-run accident until they saw the video, which was obtained by a high school resource officer.  Both teenagers have been arrested and will be charged with murder.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/second-las-vegas-juvenile-suspect-arrested-hit-run-death-retired-police-chief-police

And as this article explains, in Nevada, any teenager charged with murder is automatically tried as an adult.

https://www.westernjournal.com/age-wont-save-teen-captured-driving-stolen-car-laughing-hit-cyclist/

The video was so horrifying that it sparked debate about the teenagers’ motivations and how they could have become so amoral and depraved as to think of running over a stranger with a car as a joke. Probst’s daughter said her father was robbed of his life by “two individuals who did not believe lives of others matter," and said she doesn’t believe racism or her father’s police background played a role. She attributed his killing to social media and "decayed family values," and urged people to “please do not politicize his death or use it for culture wars.” 

While I certainly respect her opinion and offer her my deepest condolences and prayers, I don’t see how it’s possible to separate this heinous act from the culture wars. It used to be so rare for someone to reach that age with zero respect for the the sanctity of human life that we had a clinical term for it: sociopath. While social media has definitely amplified the problem by allowing the worst impulses of human behavior to be reinforced by others and protected by distance and anonymity, there are many other negative factors at work as well, from movies and video games that depict gory violence as repercussion-free entertainment to banning God and Christian morality from schools to a political culture that regards killing children in the womb as the only “right” worth protecting.

When we see stories like this now, they’re still shocking but sadly, no longer surprising. If we were setting out to deliberately raise a generation of sociopaths, I don’t know what we’d be doing any differently.

 

 


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Reality hits California

September 20, 2023

The big problem with all liberal plans is that sooner or later, they have to leave the fantasy worlds of the liberal media or the Ivy League faculty lounge and be tested in the harsh lab of reality, and that’s when they melt down like a cake left in the rain. For instance, we were all going to be driving electric cars – until enough people bought them and described their experiences, and now they’re gathering dust on car lots. Well, here are a couple more examples, courtesy of (naturally) California:

California legislators passed State Bill 2098, or the “Medical Misinformation Law,” that barred doctors from spreading “misinformation” or “disinformation” about COVID-19. What it did in reality was attempt to repeal both the First Amendment and the scientific method by punishing doctors for questioning official government narratives, as if having medical bureaucrats declare something true made it both objectively correct and legally unquestionable. It went into effect on January 1st, was blocked by a federal judge one month later in response to a lawsuit, and has just been quietly repealed by the Assembly before the Courts could toss it out as the unconstitutional garbage that it clearly is.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/california-repeals-medical-misinformation-law-punish-doctors/

Also last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law repealing the ban on state employees traveling to states that “discriminate” against the LGBTQ+ community. Since they passed it in 2017, they'd added more than half of US states to the list, as those evil, intolerant haters passed such unconscionable and un-California-like laws as banning men from going into women’s bathrooms. As you might imagine, this virtue-signaling became rather inconvenient, particularly with Newsom himself making so many politically-motivated visits to red states.

Newsom said he hopes the repeal "helps California’s message of acceptance, equality and hope reach the places where it is most needed."  Which begs the question, if LGBTQ people are treated so badly in red states and so well in California, why aren’t they all moving there? So few people are doing that these days that you’d think the rest of America had a travel ban on going to California.  

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-gov-gavin-newsom-signs-bill-ending-travel-ban-red-states

…And a new California gun control bill banning ads for firearms that “reasonably appear to be attractive to minors” was struck down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for being so broadly written that it infringes on both the First and Second Amendments. The court’s ruling is a must-read, particularly for reality-denying leftist legislators:

“California cannot straitjacket the First Amendment by, on the one hand, allowing minors to possess and use firearms and then, on the other hand, banning truthful advertisements about that lawful use of firearms. There is no evidence in the record that a minor in California has ever unlawfully bought a gun, let alone because of an ad. Nor has the state produced any evidence that truthful ads about lawful uses of guns—like an ad about hunting rifles in Junior Sports Magazines’ Junior Shooters—encourage illegal or violent gun use among minors. Simply put, California cannot lean on gossamers of speculation to weave an evidence-free narrative that its law curbing the First Amendment ‘significantly’ decreases unlawful gun use among minors. The First Amendment demands more than good intentions and wishful thinking to warrant the government’s muzzling of speech.”

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2023/09/13/ninth-circuit-grants-injunction-against-california-law-targeting-gun-marketing-n74805

But has California learned anything from having to backtrack from so many fuzzy-headed, unconstitutional laws passed to appease a small minority at the expense of the rights of the majority? I’ll let you read this and decide that…

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/09/10/californias-coming-inquisition-targeting-anti-trans-parents/

Related: San Francisco also banned travel to red states. But the city has become such a crime-ridden basket case under leftist rule that they’re now desperate to find people who are willing to join the city’s beleaguered police department. And guess where they’re looking for recruits: in Texas! Good luck with that!

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/09/18/the-bay-area-is-still-struggling-to-recover-from-defund-the-police-now-theyre-hoping-texas-can-help-n578984

 


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A gag order on Donald Trump?!?

Special Counsel Jack Smith is trying to get the judge in his bogus election interference case to put a gag order on Donald Trump to keep him from talking about it. If you had any doubt that these charges are all about election interference, imagine lodging unprecedented indictments against your chief political opponent during an election season, then threatening to jail him if he defends himself.

Dick Morris believes this is all about the left’s desperate attempts to find a way to jail Trump. Law Professor Jonathan Turley goes into more legal detail, but also makes the great point that Smith’s insincere nine-word description of what he wants as “a narrowly tailored order that imposes modest, permissible restrictions” should be added to Ronald Reagan’s nine most terrifying words in the English language: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/09/17/gagging-donald-trump-why-smiths-narrowly-tailored-motion-is-a-neither-narrow-nor-wise/


Brutally hilarious

Here’s the article I’m sure many of you have been waiting for (and shame on you): Kurt Schlichter’s farewell tribute to retiring Senator Mitt Romney. Brutally hilarious.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/09/18/that-miserable-bag-of-goo-mitt-romney-slinks-away-humiliated-n2628520


No surprise

Watch VP Kamala Harris tell a university crowd that the government should enforce “equal outcomes,” not equal opportunity. Why am I not surprised that Kamala Harris doesn’t believe in advancement based on merit?

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/watch-kamala-harris-says-government-must-enforce-equal-outcomes/


Pray with me for Rep. Wexton and her family

Virginia Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton announced that she will not be running for reelection after being diagnosed with a rare and incurable neurological disease known as Progressive Supra-nuclear Palsy. She described it as being like “Parkinson’s on steroids.” Wexton said she’s always believed in honesty, so she has to concede that “there’s no getting better,” and “I’m going to die, which isn’t fair.” But after struggling for a long time, “I’ll be able to relax and enjoy the time I have left and the time I have left in Congress.” I hope you will join me in sending prayers and good wishes to her and her family.

https://www.westernjournal.com/going-die-dem-congresswoman-announces-retirement-diagnosed-rare-disorder/


Bye-bye Senate dress code

Chuck Schumer has decided to no longer enforce the Senate dress code. No reason was given for this, but everyone knows what it is: Sen. John Fetterman (D-Slobsylvania) seems incapable of dressing himself like a professional adult.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/09/18/why-the-senates-dress-code-rules-are-changing-n2628540

GOP strategist Andrew Clark put it well, tweeting, “I’m all for more casual dress codes in general but to not enforce **any dress code** on the floor of the **United States Senate** because one guy wants to hear a hoodie and basketball shorts is just crass.”


A thought I had…

I’m thinking of sending President Biden a T-shirt that reads, “I gave Iran $6 billion and all I got was a broken promise to spend it on humanitarian stuff and a refusal to let the UN inspect Iranian nuclear sites.” Or if that’s too long to fit, I’ll just send Jill Biden an “I’m with stupid” T-shirt.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/09/17/iran-thanks-us-for-6-billion-gift-by-blocking-un-inspectors-from-nuclear-sites-n2163936


A ridiculous nuisance lawsuit

Despite all the talk about electric cars, here’s the surest sign that oil companies still have plenty of money. California’s leftist politicians have launched a ridiculous nuisance lawsuit against them, blaming them for the “climate emergency” and demanding billions to fund their pet eco projects. It’s like an alcoholic suing a brewery for making him a drunk.

https://www.westernjournal.com/california-files-major-lawsuit-top-oil-companies/

Since all these alleged problems (including wildfires caused by decades of leftist government mismanagement of forests and waterways) are entirely the fault of oil companies for unconscionably selling gasoline to Californians, the solution is obvious: the oil companies should show repentance by immediately cutting off all sales of oil and gas inside California. Let the politicians explain to stranded Californians why this is really for their own good because they’re saving the planet.


Biden team moves to protect the incompetent

The Biden White House must be really afraid that Donald Trump will become President again because Biden is already moving to institute a new rule to make it harder to get rid of entrenched, incompetent and biased federal bureaucrats. He wants our border gates welded open and the drain on the swamp welded shut.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-hatches-plan-keep-swamp-place-thwart-potential-trump-re-election-purgebiden-hatches-plan-keep-swamp-place-thwart-potential-trump-re-election-purge/

I confess, I nearly spit my coffee on my keyboard laughing at the Biden official who claimed they have to defend this system of being unable to remove Deep State termites and incompetents because it’s a “system that has been in place for 140 years to ensure we have a dedicated nonpartisan civil service.”

And anyone who dares suggest that they might not be nonpartisan had better brace for being silenced on social media and having the FBI raid their homes at dawn.


“Grade-grubbing”

Here’s a new term to add to your vocabulary: “grade-grubbing.” Turns out it’s the shockingly common practice by today’s high school and college students of begging or threatening their instructors to give them higher grades than they earned.

https://redstate.com/alexparker/2023/09/18/participation-trophy-students-demand-good-grades-n2163938

Here’s the most frightening sentence in the story: “…In a study of undergraduate students preparing for careers in medicine, ‘over a quarter of the respondents self-reported engaging in grade-focused interactions.'" I don’t know about you, but I don’t want doctors who only passed biology by begging not to be flunked or by threatening to reveal that they slept with the professor.


Nothing To See Here!!

In Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the incumbent mayor eked out a narrow, come-from-behind victory of 251 votes over a Democratic primary challenger, surveillance video has surfaced of a local Democratic official and supporter of the mayor apparently stuffing stacks of absentee ballots into a drop box. If so, that's illegal: only the voter or an immediate relative of an absentee voter can cast those ballots, which usually means only one ballot. The challenger calls this an “undeniable act of voter suppression and a huge civil rights violation” and is demanding an investigation.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/connecticut-democrat-primary-election-scandal-police-launch-investigation/

Meanwhile, the Bridgeport police say they are investigating the actions in the video, but also investigating how the video was obtained and released to the public, and if there was a breach in the security video management system. Yes, that’s obviously the biggest concern here: the public wasn’t authorized to see the proof of election chicanery. Better track down the person who exposed it. There’s your real criminal!


Hunter’s attorneys suing the IRS: legal strategy or tantrum?

“This case seems to be almost like a tantrum that Abbe Lowell’s having...”

That’s the observation of former federal prosecutor Jonathan Fahey, in an interview Monday night with FOX NEWS’ Trace Gallagher, speaking of Hunter Biden’s lead attorney suing the IRS and the former agents who came forward with their concerns about his case. The whistleblowers “did everything under the law in revealing this information,” Fahey said. The suit, he said, is apparently not about their testimony but what they’ve said since going to the House Ways and Means Committee.

(As you know, they went to Ways and Means in the first place because they were dealing with someone’s personal tax records, and this committee, behind closed doors, was the only place they could legally divulge that. The committee then had the authority to allow a public hearing before the Oversight Committee.)

“...I don’t really see the merits of this lawsuit,” he said, “and I’m not really seeing the point of the lawsuit, either, as far as the big picture for his client, how it benefits him.”

In his original plea deal, which was scrapped --- no matter what Abbe Lowell says --- Hunter was originally charged with misdemeanors for crimes that normally would be considered felonies. According to Fahey, the judge in California could come back and charge him with felony tax offenses, if he is so inclined (I wouldn’t hold my breath), along with felony gun crimes. “So, really, things are going in a bad direction for Hunter…this current legal strategy doesn’t seem to be helping him that much, from what I’m seeing.”

That’s in line with a report from the WASHINGTON POST that David Weiss may soon file a new indictment against Hunter on tax charges in a California federal court. ABC NEWS got specific about this --- WAPO, ABC...see, the memo really has gone out! --- saying Hunter will likely face charges of failure to pay taxes after allegations made by IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler about money from Burisma channeled through a Chinese firm run by the Biden family business.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/18/report-david-weiss-may-soon-charge-hunter-biden-california-tax-crimes/

Fahey predicted Hunter won’t go to trial on the gun charges, and that his attorneys would try to work out a deal and “keep the option open” of appealing on a constitutional issue with those. He also predicted no jail time, surprise!

Mark Lytle, the attorney for former IRS lead investigator Gary Shapley, had weighed in earlier in the day, saying, “Congress wrote the law so that whistleblowers could come forward in a protected manner and shine the light on government misconduct. And that’s what happened here. And as a result, the ‘sweetheart’ plea deal was revealed...and the judge rejected it. And they’re mad about that, and they’re coming after the whistleblowers.”

Oh, they’re mad, of course, but going on the offensive in a blind fury is also their legal strategy. Very deliberate.

The lawsuit itself is extremely tenuous. It alleges that Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler sought to “publicly smear” Hunter Biden by releasing information about his taxes to congressional investigators. This, his attorneys say, adds up to a violation of his “privacy rights.”

(Aside: I thought that with the release of President Trump’s tax returns under the Biden administration, the idea of financial privacy was a thing of the past! Why, it must be back again.)

In suing the IRS, Hunter is, in effect, suing his father’s administration, claiming that IRS agents “targeted and sought to embarrass” him. His attorneys also allege that the whistleblowers released information that Congress had not yet released. That includes allegations of his failure to pay $2.2 million in taxes --- hey, we already knew about that; it’s the bill his “sugar brother” Kevin Morris paid --- and possible tax fraud over claiming expenses for prostitutes and sex clubs on his returns.

They told about the prostitutes and sex clubs?? Why, Hunter’s squeaky-clean reputation is RUINED!!

Attorney Lytle released a statement: “Neither IRS SSA Gary Shapley nor his attorneys have ever released any confidential tax information except through whistleblower disclosures authorized by statute. Once Congress released that testimony, like every American citizen, he has a right to discuss that information.” He called the lawsuit “just another frivolous smear by Biden family attorneys trying to turn people’s attention away from Hunter Biden’s own legal problems and intimidate any current and future whistleblowers.” I don’t think the IRS is losing any sleep over it.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/18/whistleblower-lawyer-slams-hunter-bidens-lawsuit-charging-invasion-of-privacy-n2163980

By the way, did you know that there was another FBI informant in the Biden case who was “shut down” before the 2020 election? Retired Special Agent Timothy Thibault, a 25-year employee who was second in command at the Washington field office, testified before the House Judiciary Committee last week, and said he’d been told by the lead agent in the Hunter tax case to shut down their confidential human source (CHS).

Thibault wasn’t identified in the transcript, but investigative reporter Peter Schweizer believes he has identified him based on previous comments he’s made and other clues. More on this will undoubtedly be coming out soon; in the meantime, here’s what we know…

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/09/18/another-fbi-informant-in-biden-case-was-shut-down-before-2020-election-n1727870

House Oversight Committee Chair Jim Jordan no doubt has many questions for Special Counsel David Weiss on his handling of the Hunter case, and Weiss is now scheduled to testify before the committee on October 11. Jordan is also calling for documents relating to whistleblowers Shapley and Ziegler. His full list of demands is here...

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2023/09/18/jim-jordan-continues-to-crack-down-on-investigation-into-hunter-biden-n2628600

Allen West has a great editorial on the “Hunter Biden Hustle,” going through the reasons why it’s just not gonna play with the American people and pointing out the ironies of “Mr. Gun Control” having a son who’s guilty of three felony gun charges. You’ll enjoy this… 

https://townhall.com/columnists/allenwest/2023/09/18/the-hypocrisy-of-the-hunter-biden-hustle-n2628558

Well, let’s move on to see how this scandal is currently affecting the Big Guy. The mainstream media are pretending he’s doing great --- that, cognitively, he’s superior to Trump (I am not kidding). “Which begs the question,” David Strom said, “if they [Democrats] know the MSM will lie on something so obvious, why do they believe these shills on anything else?”

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/09/18/ayfkm-joe-biden-much-more-coherent-than-trump-n578829

Poll-wise, Biden is cratering. According to a new survey from Harvard-CAPS-Harris, Biden is trailing Trump. But even worse, he’s also trailing Nikki Haley and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott. You might say he’s got three strikes against him.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/09/18/new-poll-reveals-devastating-news-for-president-biden-great-news-for-republican-candidates-n2163967

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has a theory for how the election is going to go, and we think he must have been reading the Huckabee newsletter. He predicts the Democrats will push Biden aside, and who else will parachute in at the last minute to “save” the party and take the nomination but...Michelle Obama. She’ll be portrayed as “the adult in the room.” (One of my writers has only been saying this for the past three years, only she used the term “healer.”) Cruz talks about the various scenarios that might replace Biden with Michelle --- as we did years ago --- in this podcast…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6wWH4vh24Q

Bonchie at REDSTATE doesn’t think it would be all that easy for the Democrats to accomplish this, though, because of other candidates, such as Kamala, who won’t cooperate and will cause a floor fight. Perhaps he’s underestimating the power of the Obamas. He’s always heard Michelle hated being in the White House. Perhaps he’s underestimating the amount of time she could spend “vacationing.” He thinks Biden will still be the candidate, that Democrats “will have to ride or die with Joe Biden.”

Perhaps he’s forgotten: They’re Democrats. They don’t intend to lose. But here’s what he says...

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/18/ted-cruz-has-a-very-interesting-theory-on-who-will-replace-joe-biden-in-2024-n2163966

Duke, also at REDSTATE, doesn’t see Biden getting to the finish line. He talks about Cruz’s prediction as well, and relates a story about Biden’s biographer Franklin Foer saying it “wouldn’t be a total shock” to him if Biden gave up running again, “much earlier than August of next year.”

https://redstate.com/tladuke/2023/09/18/someone-who-knows-biden-well-says-it-would-not-be-a-total-shock-if-he-dropped-out-of-2024-race-n2163981

 


AG Merrick Garland to appear before House Judiciary Committee Wednesday

Does anyone think Attorney General Merrick Garland will give straight answers when he testifies before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday? He’ll be there to answer questions about disputed aspects of the Hunter Biden investigation. James Lynch at the DAILY CALLER has even provided a helpful list of questions for him to dodge. As your grandma might have said, “Askin’ ain’t gettin’.”

Excellent questions, though! And he goes into detail about what they involve. When you have some time, check them out…

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/18/questions-congress-doj-merrick-garland-hunter-biden-case

 

Ken Paxton's impeachment

I held off commenting on the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton because he’s a friend and I didn’t want to be accused of personal bias. But now, I think it’s safe to say, without fear of contradiction, that this is the end of a long-running, politically-motivated smear job and an attempt to “attack our democracy” by having a handful of Senators overturn the will of over four million Texas voters.

For years, the liberal media in Texas have accused Ken Paxton of bribery, corruption and other abuses. He’s also been the target of federal SEC prosecutions that were thrown out of court. Unlike the case of Joe Biden, where powerful forces conspired to keep negative news hidden from voters, Texas voters in the last election heard endlessly about these claims and rejected them. He beat George P. Bush in the GOP primary by 2-1 and won the general election with over 53% of the vote.

But that didn’t silence his political opponents, whom I suspect were more upset by Paxton’s vigorous defense of conservative values and willingness to challenge the feds in court than any alleged corruption. There’s also bad blood between him and the House Speaker because Paxton called for his resignation after allegations of him appearing on the dais apparently drunk.

The House passed 16 impeachment counts in a process that Paxton’s attorney claims is illegal because the managers failed to take witness testimony under oath (a mistake that would come back to bite them in his Senate trial) and they rushed through the vote without fully informing members of the case’s flaws or giving them time to question it (to quote Nancy Pelosi, they were pressured to pass it now and find out what was in it later.)

https://dallasexpress.com/state/was-paxton-impeachment-illegal/

It seemed Paxton couldn’t possibly survive, but then a funny thing happened: he finally got a chance to defend himself. His excellent attorneys made mincemeat of the charges, proving over and over that the so-called “witnesses” had no real evidence and hadn’t actually seen or heard anything incriminating first hand. When the final vote came, not only did none of the counts reach a two-thirds majority, they didn’t even reach a simple majority. He was overwhelmingly acquitted on all counts. It makes one ponder how the January 6th Kangaroo Kommittee might have gone had Republicans or Trump lawyers actually been allowed to cross-examine the “witnesses” or introduce their own witnesses and evidence.  

https://www.westernjournal.com/texas-ag-declares-war-impeachment-fails-buckle/

In a statement, Paxton said, “Today, the truth prevailed. The truth could not be buried by mudslinging politicians or their powerful benefactors… The weaponization of the impeachment process to settle political differences is not only wrong, it is immoral and corrupt… Now that this shameful process is over, my work to defend our constitutional rights will resume.” He was reinstated as Attorney General, and he warned that he will come after the Biden Administration for its many illegal and unconstitutional actions that are harming the state of Texas.

I know this is more of a state-level news item, but I wanted to cover it because it carries national implications, and not just because it sets up future legal battles against our open borders President. There’s a larger lesson that can be taken from it. I see polls showing that many Americans believe Donald Trump must’ve committed some crimes because he’s facing so many indictments. Well, as they say, you can indict a ham sandwich. It’s easy when you have a partisan DA with no professional ethics and a grand jury that isn’t allowed to hear the target’s defense, question the witnesses or see any exculpatory evidence.

But when the trial starts, it’s a different matter. That’s when the accusers actually have to prove their claims, and if they’ve got nothin’, it soon becomes pretty obvious. Many Texans were convinced Paxton must be guilty and couldn’t possibly survive: after all, he was facing SIXTEEN counts of impeachment!  But what happens if every last one of them is bogus? Well, now we know: he’s Attorney General again.

 Possibly Related: Could somebody at ABC News be reading the writing on the wall about Georgia DA Fani Willis’ nutso RICO case against Trump and his associates? They seem to be trying to prepare their regular viewers so they won’t be too shocked when it implodes by actually admitting that it’s a bad case and she’s just “throwing things against the wall.”

https://revolver.news/2023/09/somethings-happening-abc-news-just-flattened-fani-willis-and-her-desperatetrump-vendetta/

 


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As we descend into today’s “Biden Inc.” update, it’s necessary to ask again, “What is up with FOX NEWS host Arthel Neville?”  Not meaning to pick on her, but on FOX NEWS LIVE this weekend, during an interview with South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman, a member of both the House Financial Services and House Budget Committees, she interrupted him, right out of the gate, when he said one of the “facts” the public deserves to know is that “20 million went to somebody in the Biden family, according to a 2020 witness from the FBI.  Now, we don’t know whether---”

Instead of letting him complete his sentence, which did sound like it was going to be some sort of qualification, Arthel began repeatedly interrupting him and finally stopped him from proceeding so she could ‘correct’ him.  “I’m gonna interject with you,” she said, “hang on one second, Congressman, forgive me, I have to interject, because that number’s now a third less of that, which is 7 million, and there’s no proof that any of that money went to the---Mr. Biden himself, the elder.  It went to OTHER members of the Biden family.  [Big smile.]  Continue, sir?”

“Okay,” he responded, “let’s say 7, $7 million,” setting the amount aside to make his larger point.  “Does the public deserve to know exactly who it went to?  The facts will determine that.  The 20 LLCs that were set up --- the public deserves to know where---why those were set up.  That just didn’t appear out of air.  Look at the---”

“Absolutely,” she interrupted again, “and you can note to that the other counterpoint to that, sir, is that when President Trump was President, his daughter received multiple patents from China.  So, just pointing out...[making the “balance” sign with her hands]...both ways.  But continue, sir, thank you.”

“I agree it goes both ways, Arthel,” the congressman said, “but all this is doing is uncovering all of the facts.  All an impeachment inquiry does is let the committees have subpoena power.  And let’s gain the evidence.  And you know who the jury is?  It’s the American people…”

They went on to look at a FOX NEWS poll suggesting the country was evenly split on whether the impeachment of Biden was “legitimate” (47 percent) or “bogus” (48 percent).  The idea, of course, was to use this poll to suggest to Rep. Norman that the Republicans weren’t making the case to the American public.  But he said he thought they were.  “And I think as it goes on,” he continued, “depending on what’s uncovered, Arthel, this is just a fact-finding mission.  Now, if people don’t want the facts to come out, they sure wanted it to come out on President Trump…”

Arthel interrupted him again, showing an apparent lack of understanding of what an impeachment INQUIRY is.  “I just have a question --- do you conduct impeachment on question or actually proof?” she asked, adding that proof hasn’t been shown.

“Let’s see where it goes from here on,” Rep. Norman said.  “If it’s worthy of going over to the Senate, they will decide that.  But why are they more scared of having more facts out there?  This President promised to be the most honest President, and transparent President, in history.  And why doesn’t he want to clear his name?”

She moved on to a related issue.  “Former President Trump said that had they not done it to him, perhaps you wouldn’t have it being done to them.  Do you disagree with Mr. Trump?...The former President is implying revenge.”

Ah, the R-word, another talking point.  And this is one of those “when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife” questions.  Whichever way he answers it, it’s designed to make Trump look bad. 

“I think [Trump] is upset,” replied Rep. Norman, “over a January 6 hearing that Nancy Pelosi would not be called or would not be subpoenaed to appear...they were after President Trump.  He was upset about THAT.  I guess if he wants revenge for THAT, he’s justified.  But as far as President Biden goes, there’s enough smoke there to see where the fire is.  And what’s wrong?  This ought to be done regardless of who is in office, Democrat or Republican...”

They went on to another topic.

So, let’s go back and look at Arthel’s initial quibble, that the over-$20 million is ‘only’ $7 million --- as if $7 million wouldn’t be such a bad thing.  She’s chosen to use the figure not from the Oversight Committee but, as far as we can tell, from a WASHINGTON POST analysis.  In fact, the Oversight Committee has said that the $20 million is likely much higher, over $30 million.  They’re awaiting subpoenaed bank records, so everyone needs to understand that all these numbers are preliminary.  We’re in an impeachment INQUIRY, not an impeachment.

The statement that there is no evidence Joe Biden received money is another talking point, as it suits the Democrats’ narrative but depends on what you decide to call “evidence.”  There’s definitely a growing pile of circumstantial evidence.  So for Arthel to gratuitously toss in such a remark is not the best look.  Again, she’s disregarding what an impeachment inquiry is, as opposed to an impeachment.

If she’s saying we don’t have incontrovertible evidence of powerful foreign interests personally handing Joe Biden a big suitcase with flashing dollar signs on it, no, we don’t have that.  But to anyone who knows how this sort of thing works, what we have now suggests highly suspicious activity.

We looked at a few so-called “fact check” sites, such as factcheck.org, in preparation for this commentary, but they struck us as working way too hard as advocates for President Biden to be taken seriously.  If we’d linked to them, we would’ve had to add another layer of fact-checking (especially on the firing of Viktor Shokin, good heavens).  As much satisfaction as we sometimes get fact-checking the fact checkers, there are only so many hours in the day.

And regarding the comparison of Ivanka Trump’s patent applications granted in China to the Bidens’ foreign deals, that’s not apples to oranges; that’s grapes to watermelons.  Both Trump and Ivanka applied for numerous patents in China in 2016, but, as FOX BUSINESS NEWS reported in November 2018, Ivanka’s approvals came three months after she announced she was dissolving her namesake brand to focus on government work.  A spokesperson for Ivanka said the trademarks she applied for in 2017 were “filed defensively to prevent counterfeiters or squatters from using her name.”

This issue might be something to look into, but it’s very different from the Biden family being paid millions of dollars for essentially nothing except access to the Vice President.  So why would this, of all things, be brought up in an interview about the Bidens, except just to muddy the water?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/china-grants-18-trademarks-in-2-months-to-trump-daughter

(Incidentally, one of my writers says she has a dress she bought in New York in 2016, with an “Ivanka Trump” label that also says “Made In China.”  This writer no longer buys clothing made in China, and Ivanka no longer makes clothing in China.  Or anywhere else.  That dress is a collector’s item!)

Anyway, the $20 million figure cited by Rep. Norman did come from a 2020 FBI witness, just as he said.  He was on the show only to stress the importance of an impeachment inquiry, and he didn’t need to be interrupted and “corrected,” however pleasantly, when everything he said was measured and truthful.  If he wants to do that, he can always go on MSNBC.

Arthel, you’re from the South, so you know what we mean when we say...bless your heart.  Perhaps everyone at FOX NEWS should bone up on the indicators of Joe Biden’s likely involvement in his family corruption and the need for inquiry.  Those who read this newsletter regularly already know it...

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/17/evidence-joe-biden-hunter-business-dealings

Neville has used this technique before, and we weren’t the only ones to notice it.

 

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/06/05/fox-news-anchor-accuses-congressman-of-squirming-around-questions-on-fbi-probes-in-testy-exchange-1365240/

This also wasn’t the first time Neville has compared the Bidens’ “business” in China with Ivanka’s legitimate business selling actual products.  Again, her business was worthy of examination (and as far as we know, she was transparent), but not comparable to influence peddling and money laundering.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-host-presses-republican-on-ivanka-trumps-profits-vs-hunter-bidens/ar-AA1bbpmA

 

RELATED:  Alan Dershowitz says Hunter won’t stand trial on the gun charges.  He also says David Weiss shouldn’t have been appointed special counsel.  “He’s a Delaware guy,” Dershowitz said.  “People say he was appointed by Donald Trump.  [Aside:  fact checkers point that out a lot.]  It’s nonsense.  He was appointed essentially by the two Democratic senators in Delaware.”

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alan-dershowitz-hunter-biden-gun-trial/2023/09/15

Recall that IRS lead investigator Gary Shapley and his entire team were removed from the Hunter Biden tax/finance case before he went public with his allegations.  Testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee now tells us why.

Apparently, Shapley was removed after a recommendation from Darrell Waldon, the IRS special agent in charge of the criminal inquiry at that time.  Waldon, according to his own testimony, suggested that he be removed “primarily due to what I perceived to be unsubstantiated allegations about motive, bias, intent.”

He said he was trying to “protect” the investigation.  From what --- unsubstantiated allegations???  And these were from whom???   Sounds like the DOJ.  Must-read details here…

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/14/new-reason-why-whistleblower-gary-shapley-was-booted-from-hunter-biden-investigation-revealed

 

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FBI embarrassments

In yet another black eye for the FBI, a jury in Michigan Friday acquitted three men accused in a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. This came after nine men were convicted (two of them frightened into taking a plea deal) and three who were acquitted were retried and convicted. But in the process, it was revealed that the “kidnapping plot” was an entrapment scheme in which undercover FBI agents played all the key roles, duping their marks into going along with a kidnapping plot they never would have conceived on their own, and hiding exculpatory evidence.

Victoria Taft at PJ Media has more on the latest trial and the whole sorry history of this most blatant example of what’s become an all-too-common story: the FBI prosecution of people whose “crimes” wouldn’t have existed if not for the FBI’s investigation.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/09/15/another-jury-acquits-dupes-in-the-fbi-created-whitmer-fednapping-plot-n1727429

I’m not certain whether the jury reached its verdict based purely on the evidence or if the FBI squandering the public’s trust played a role. Either way, it’s another blow to the credibility of this agency that was once respected by all Americans but is now so rotted that it needs to be stripped down to the ground and rebuilt from scratch.

And speaking of FBI embarrassments, disgraced agent turned (of course) MSNBC contributor Peter Strzok says the FBI needs to create a special unit to protect agents from the “threat” of Republicans who accuse the FBI and DOJ of conspiring to subvert justice by targeting Trump and other Republicans while letting Hunter Biden skate.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/15/what-peter-strzok-and-nicole-wallace-say-about-fbi-unit-to-protect-agents-from-americans-is-astonishing-n2163853

As noted by Nick Arama at Redstate.com, he’s saying taxpayers should fund a special unit to go after Americans who dare criticize them for subverting justice, and that apparently includes the Congressional Republicans whose duty it is to oversee their agencies. But then, I can understand why Peter Strzok would feel threatened by anyone looking into how he did his job.


Life In A Blue Mental Ward:

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has an innovative solution for providing groceries to residents after rampant crime and theft has driven all the grocery stores out of their neighborhoods. He wants to open government-run grocery stores (because this idea worked so well in the Soviet Union.) That way, thieves can steal directly from the taxpayers and eliminate the middleman. He said it would be comparable to the post office. So if you think supermarket lines are long NOW…

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/14/chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-wants-open-city-owned-grocery-stores/

Chicago restaurateur Sam Sanchez offered an alternative suggestion: Control crime and the businesses will come back. Nah, that’s just crazy talk!


Kim Davis and the Supreme Court

I’m old enough to remember when gay activists pushing for same-sex marriage argued that there was no reason for Christians to oppose it because they would never have to participate in one. It wasn’t long after the Supreme Court pulled a right to same sex marriage out of the air that they were filing endless harassment lawsuits seeking to drive Christian business owners into bankruptcy for declining to participate in same-sex weddings.

There was also the case of Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses. She was and still is tarred as a homophobic bigot and was even jailed for contempt of court. All the news stories about her claimed she refused based on her Biblical belief that marriage is between a man and a woman. They seldom reported her argument that the state legislature was the only body with the power to change the language on marriage license applications, and if she or her clerks did it, they would be liable for lawsuits by the license recipients if the legislature changed them in ways contrary to what the clerks had written.

But logic has nothing to do with this issue, so Davis has still been the target of lawsuits for refusing to violate the law. This week, a jury ordered her to pay an outrageous penalty of $50,000 each to two men who sued her for not giving them a marriage license. Another gay couple who also sued were awarded no damages. The judge declared that Davis “cannot use her own constitutional rights as a shield to violate the constitutional rights of others while performing her duties as an elected official.” This was the very same judge who previously sentenced her to jail, so no bias there.  Her lawyers intend to appeal, but the SCOTUS has already turned her down once before.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/kentucky-clerk-kim-davis-must-pay-100k-to-gay-couple-whose-marriage-license-she-denied-jury/ar-AA1gK5Pp

Considering this entire wave of nuisance lawsuits exists only because the SCOTUS invented a constitutional right and failed to make clear that it does not trump First Amendment rights, it seems that the least they could do is take her appeal and clean up their mess before it ruins any more lives. Or else the Justices who voted to create this right could pay her $100,000 judgement out of their own pockets.


Headlines

Washington Post Headline: Ron DeSantis took at least six trips on private jets and accepted food and lodging that he didn’t disclose!

Inconvenient Footnote: He wasn’t Governor at the time and didn’t have to disclose them.

https://instapundit.com/605970/


Further proof that California Gov. Gavin Newsom is angling to move into the presidential race if Biden is eased out:

He got legislators to agree to call for a constitutional convention to pass a 28th Amendment that would be a laundry list of Democrat gun control laws. Most of them are already in effect in California, where they’re doing no good whatsoever at lowering crime.

https://www.westernjournal.com/gov-gavin-newsom-officially-calls-convention-change-us-constitution/

You can’t have an amendment that conflicts with the Bill of Rights, and two-thirds of states would have to ratify it, which would never happen. But he’s getting people to talk about his championing of gun control laws, which is a big issue for deluded Democrat voters who may soon be looking for another disastrous candidate to back if Biden drops out, so score one for Newsom.

First, President Biden told us he grew up attending black churches, then that he was raised in the Puerto Rican community, despite there being few Puerto Ricans in Delaware at the time. Now, he’s told a conference call of rabbis that he was raised in synagogues. I suspect he was actually raised by demagogues.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/15/biden-tells-rabbis-on-high-holy-days-call-that-he-was-raised-in-synagogues-n2163845


An “evidence-free impeachment proceeding”

Adam Schiff claims that the House inquiry into President Biden is an “evidence-free impeachment proceeding.” Well, if anyone should know one of those…

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/09/15/schiff-biden-inquiry-is-an-evidence-free-impeachment-proceeding/

To be fair, Adam Schiff would never call for an impeachment with no evidence. If need be, he’ll manufacture the evidence himself.


A Favor For A Friend…

By “Huckabee” pop culture Pat Reeder (http://www.hollywoodhifi.com)

Many of you know my wife and co-writer Laura Ainsworth, who is also an award-winning retro jazz vocalist. All her music can be found here: https://lauraainsworth.bandcamp.com/album/you-asked-for-it And here: https://shop.bandwear.com/collections/laura-ainsworth-shop

We’ve never been big fans of social media, but her PR person tells us we need to raise her profile there. So if you like what she does, we’d greatly appreciate it if you could follow/like/subscribe and add her to your Spotify playlists. Here are all the links. You might get a kick out of some of her posts about our adventures or family photos of her dad from his big band days with icons like Tommy Dorsey and Freddy Martin. And I guarantee you’ll love the music. Thanks from us both!

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The following piece is from a friend of mine who saw things in Vietnam that look eerily like things we are seeing in America right now.  I urge you to read it in its entirety!

Lessons from a Vietnam Veteran on How an Enemy Attacks

By Mike Grayson

In recent years, we’ve seen a strategy shift among those who hate America.

Open the borders, legalize low-level drugs, back off drug enforcement – and watch our cities fall into decay within one generation. I saw it happen on the battlefield in Vietnam.

An article on 9/11 written by Governor Mike Huckabee caused me to reflect on how the destruction we see in America today has an eerie similarity to what happened in Vietnam.

In the fall of 1970, our battalion had its first drug fatality from heroin overdose. Our battalion commander took it hard and was ready to assign whatever resources were necessary to engage and destroy the problem.

A few days later, I had the opportunity to serve in a special operation involving ARVN Special Forces, also known as "Luc Luong Dac Biet," and the South Vietnamese National Police known as the “Canh Sat Quoc Gia” (CSQG). Both played a crucial role in attempting to curb the flow of drugs during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s amidst the chaos of the Vietnam War, and both were known for their specialized training in counterinsurgency and unconventional warfare. They had been fighting drug trafficking since the late ‘60s.

In 1970, the government of South Vietnam, working with the CIA, enlisted the aid of Sir Robert Thompson to develop a counterinsurgency program. Sir Robert had been knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his work in Southeast Asia during and after WWII. He developed a strategy[1] for a joint operation, declassified by the CIA on 12/28/2007. An intelligence network of men and women living in local villages reported enemy activity through the CSQG. Our team of two Americans, two senior ARVN Special Forces operators recruited by CSQG, and a squad of seasoned ARVN soldiers were responsible for responding to the reports.

The problem wasn’t isolated to American soldiers; drugs were also a problem for the South Vietnamese Army.

After TET of 1968, many Viet Cong who lived in the villages of South Vietnam were either captured or killed, which dealt a significant blow to the communists. Shortly thereafter, North Vietnam changed its strategy and began running hard drugs into the South. The idea was part of a deliberate strategy to weaken the morale and combat effectiveness of American and South Vietnamese forces.

And it worked. Why shoot a soldier when you can disable him with addiction?

The addiction level among U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, according to a 1971 New York Times report, was as much as 25%. Many were draftees who didn’t want to be there. They were scared and turned to heroin as a form of escape.

The North made it cheap and readily available. A report in the Special Action Office Monograph, US Gov Print Office 1974 claimed that “approximately 42% of U.S. military personnel in Vietnam in 1971 had used opioids at least once, and half of these individuals were reported to be physically dependent at some time.” [2]

The problem was exacerbated by U.S. soldiers re-entering the civilian world. Drug usage by military personnel had a significant impact on our society and was portrayed in movies like The Deer HunterApocalypse Now and Platoon. It was the enemy hiding in plain sight.

The anti-American strategies I witnessed on the battlefield fifty-three years ago have morphed into what I am seeing in our society today. Instead of crumbling Twin Towers, we are seeing the crumbling of human beings. Today, men and women are under stress and fear due to debt, pandemic fears, and the never-ending woke assault. This makes them vulnerable to experimentation with drugs.

In 1970, the impact drug use had on military operations was obvious. But many commanders didn’t know how to deal with addicted soldiers within their ranks. The New York Times reported that as many as 37,000 who had served in Vietnam had experimented with drugs. A later DoD report said the problem was even worse than the NYT had reported.

I saw, firsthand, the impact of soldiers risking their lives and freedom just to get the next fix. It destroys a person mentally and physically. Look no further than the streets of Philadelphia, San Francisco and Austin to see the devastating effects. Addiction was, and is, a serious threat.

North Vietnam obtained drugs from the "Golden Triangle," a region encompassing parts of Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar, known for its opium production. The drugs were primarily packaged in small plastic containers of an ounce or less. I saw thousands of these containers when our team raided the various distribution centers scattered in the jungles and along rivers. They were hidden in small villages and strategically located from the Ho Chi Minh Trail by Cambodia to areas near large military populations.

The North Vietnamese communists found it easier to enlist their soldiers in the drug war because the recruits didn’t have to sacrifice themselves for a political dogma, and they were financially rewarded for selling drugs to unwitting American soldiers. They didn’t even have to carry weapons to defeat their enemies. Americans were willing to hand over their money and their lives for the next fix.

During the Vietnam War, North Vietnam was backed by the Soviet Union and China. Today, we see the same players involved in the drug epidemic sweeping America. An epidemic that has destroyed once-vibrant cities in less than a generation.

Communist China has been a major source of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances that have contributed to the opioid crisis in the United States. The drugs are shipped in small quantities, making them difficult to detect, not unlike what was done during the Vietnam War.

However, opioid addiction is not a widespread problem in China, despite China being a source of the drug epidemic in America. Why? Because the Chinese government is vigilant in their efforts to prevent opioid abuse in their own country. But they see opioid exportation as an opportunity to weaken their greatest opponent.

And it’s working.

The tragedy of 9/11 resulted in the deaths of 2,996 people; however, a quick walk through the homeless camps of Philadelphia, San Francisco and other cities will reveal another tragedy, perhaps one of much greater magnitude.

We are losing the war, and it’s time to wake up.

Mike Grayson is a Bronze Star combat veteran and tech entrepreneur with decades of experience in military and commercial technologies. His pioneering work in expert-based systems and data analytics has earned him national recognition by Networld Interop, Communications Week, and others. He has also provided trailblazing solutions in cybersecurity, financial, and education systems. After serving in the Vietnam War, he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal by the U.S. Army and the Civic Action Medal by the Republic of Vietnam for his contributions to counterinsurgency operations in 1970.  If you have any questions or would like to discuss the topics covered in this article further, feel free to reach out to Mike at [email protected]


[1] CIA. Report on the National Police Republic of Vietnam. March 1971. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80R01720R001300060003-5.pdf

[2] DoD. Drug Policy History. Military Drug Program Historical Timeline. https://prhome.defense.gov/Portals/52/Documents/RFM/Readiness/DDRP/docs/72208/DoD%20Drug%20Policy%20History.pdf



Arthel reporting on the Biden inquiry…“bless your heart” once again

As we descend into today’s “Biden Inc.” update, it’s necessary to ask again, “What is up with FOX NEWS host Arthel Neville?”  Not meaning to pick on her, but on FOX NEWS LIVE this weekend, during an interview with South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman, a member of both the House Financial Services and House Budget Committees, she interrupted him, right out of the gate, when he said one of the “facts” the public deserves to know is that “20 million went to somebody in the Biden family, according to a 2020 witness from the FBI.  Now, we don’t know whether---”

Instead of letting him complete his sentence, which did sound like it was going to be some sort of qualification, Arthel began repeatedly interrupting him and finally stopped him from proceeding so she could ‘correct’ him.  “I’m gonna interject with you,” she said, “hang on one second, Congressman, forgive me, I have to interject, because that number’s now a third less of that, which is 7 million, and there’s no proof that any of that money went to the---Mr. Biden himself, the elder.  It went to OTHER members of the Biden family.  [Big smile.]  Continue, sir?”

“Okay,” he responded, “let’s say 7, $7 million,” setting the amount aside to make his larger point.  “Does the public deserve to know exactly who it went to?  The facts will determine that.  The 20 LLCs that were set up --- the public deserves to know where---why those were set up.  That just didn’t appear out of air.  Look at the---”

“Absolutely,” she interrupted again, “and you can note to that the other counterpoint to that, sir, is that when President Trump was President, his daughter received multiple patents from China.  So, just pointing out...[making the “balance” sign with her hands]...both ways.  But continue, sir, thank you.”

“I agree it goes both ways, Arthel,” the congressman said, “but all this is doing is uncovering all of the facts.  All an impeachment inquiry does is let the committees have subpoena power.  And let’s gain the evidence.  And you know who the jury is?  It’s the American people…”

They went on to look at a FOX NEWS poll suggesting the country was evenly split on whether the impeachment of Biden was “legitimate” (47 percent) or “bogus” (48 percent).  The idea, of course, was to use this poll to suggest to Rep. Norman that the Republicans weren’t making the case to the American public.  But he said he thought they were.  “And I think as it goes on,” he continued, “depending on what’s uncovered, Arthel, this is just a fact-finding mission.  Now, if people don’t want the facts to come out, they sure wanted it to come out on President Trump…”

Arthel interrupted him again, showing an apparent lack of understanding of what an impeachment INQUIRY is.  “I just have a question --- do you conduct impeachment on question or actually proof?” she asked, adding that proof hasn’t been shown.

“Let’s see where it goes from here on,” Rep. Norman said.  “If it’s worthy of going over to the Senate, they will decide that.  But why are they more scared of having more facts out there?  This President promised to be the most honest President, and transparent President, in history.  And why doesn’t he want to clear his name?”

She moved on to a related issue.  “Former President Trump said that had they not done it to him, perhaps you wouldn’t have it being done to them.  Do you disagree with Mr. Trump?...The former President is implying revenge.”

Ah, the R-word, another talking point.  And this is one of those “when-did-you-stop-beating-your-wife” questions.  Whichever way he answers it, it’s designed to make Trump look bad. 

“I think [Trump] is upset,” replied Rep. Norman, “over a January 6 hearing that Nancy Pelosi would not be called or would not be subpoenaed to appear...they were after President Trump.  He was upset about THAT.  I guess if he wants revenge for THAT, he’s justified.  But as far as President Biden goes, there’s enough smoke there to see where the fire is.  And what’s wrong?  This ought to be done regardless of who is in office, Democrat or Republican...”

They went on to another topic.

So, let’s go back and look at Arthel’s initial quibble, that the over-$20 million is ‘only’ $7 million --- as if $7 million wouldn’t be such a bad thing.  She’s chosen to use the figure not from the Oversight Committee but, as far as we can tell, from a WASHINGTON POST analysis.  In fact, the Oversight Committee has said that the $20 million is likely much higher, over $30 million.  They’re awaiting subpoenaed bank records, so everyone needs to understand that all these numbers are preliminary.  We’re in an impeachment INQUIRY, not an impeachment.

The statement that there is no evidence Joe Biden received money is another talking point, as it suits the Democrats’ narrative but depends on what you decide to call “evidence.”  There’s definitely a growing pile of circumstantial evidence.  So for Arthel to gratuitously toss in such a remark is not the best look.  Again, she’s disregarding what an impeachment inquiry is, as opposed to an impeachment.

If she’s saying we don’t have incontrovertible evidence of powerful foreign interests personally handing Joe Biden a big suitcase with flashing dollar signs on it, no, we don’t have that.  But to anyone who knows how this sort of thing works, what we have now suggests highly suspicious activity.

We looked at a few so-called “fact check” sites, such as factcheck.org, in preparation for this commentary, but they struck us as working way too hard as advocates for President Biden to be taken seriously.  If we’d linked to them, we would’ve had to add another layer of fact-checking (especially on the firing of Viktor Shokin, good heavens).  As much satisfaction as we sometimes get fact-checking the fact checkers, there are only so many hours in the day.

And regarding the comparison of Ivanka Trump’s patent applications granted in China to the Bidens’ foreign deals, that’s not apples to oranges; that’s grapes to watermelons.  Both Trump and Ivanka applied for numerous patents in China in 2016, but, as FOX BUSINESS NEWS reported in November 2018, Ivanka’s approvals came three months after she announced she was dissolving her namesake brand to focus on government work.  A spokesperson for Ivanka said the trademarks she applied for in 2017 were “filed defensively to prevent counterfeiters or squatters from using her name.”

This issue might be something to look into, but it’s very different from the Biden family being paid millions of dollars for essentially nothing except access to the Vice President.  So why would this, of all things, be brought up in an interview about the Bidens, except just to muddy the water?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/china-grants-18-trademarks-in-2-months-to-trump-daughter

(Incidentally, one of my writers says she has a dress she bought in New York in 2016, with an “Ivanka Trump” label that also says “Made In China.”  This writer no longer buys clothing made in China, and Ivanka no longer makes clothing in China.  Or anywhere else.  That dress is a collector’s item!)

Anyway, the $20 million figure cited by Rep. Norman did come from a 2020 FBI witness, just as he said.  He was on the show only to stress the importance of an impeachment inquiry, and he didn’t need to be interrupted and “corrected,” however pleasantly, when everything he said was measured and truthful.  If he wants to do that, he can always go on MSNBC.

Arthel, you’re from the South, so you know what we mean when we say...bless your heart.  Perhaps everyone at FOX NEWS should bone up on the indicators of Joe Biden’s likely involvement in his family corruption and the need for inquiry.  Those who read this newsletter regularly already know it...

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/17/evidence-joe-biden-hunter-business-dealings

Neville has used this technique before, and we weren’t the only ones to notice it.

 

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/06/05/fox-news-anchor-accuses-congressman-of-squirming-around-questions-on-fbi-probes-in-testy-exchange-1365240/

This also wasn’t the first time Neville has compared the Bidens’ “business” in China with Ivanka’s legitimate business selling actual products.  Again, her business was worthy of examination (and as far as we know, she was transparent), but not comparable to influence peddling and money laundering.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fox-host-presses-republican-on-ivanka-trumps-profits-vs-hunter-bidens/ar-AA1bbpmA

 

RELATED:  Alan Dershowitz says Hunter won’t stand trial on the gun charges.  He also says David Weiss shouldn’t have been appointed special counsel.  “He’s a Delaware guy,” Dershowitz said.  “People say he was appointed by Donald Trump.  [Aside:  fact checkers point that out a lot.]  It’s nonsense.  He was appointed essentially by the two Democratic senators in Delaware.”

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/alan-dershowitz-hunter-biden-gun-trial/2023/09/15

Recall that IRS lead investigator Gary Shapley and his entire team were removed from the Hunter Biden tax/finance case before he went public with his allegations.  Testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee now tells us why.

Apparently, Shapley was removed after a recommendation from Darrell Waldon, the IRS special agent in charge of the criminal inquiry at that time.  Waldon, according to his own testimony, suggested that he be removed “primarily due to what I perceived to be unsubstantiated allegations about motive, bias, intent.”

He said he was trying to “protect” the investigation.  From what --- unsubstantiated allegations???  And these were from whom???   Sounds like the DOJ.  Must-read details here…

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/14/new-reason-why-whistleblower-gary-shapley-was-booted-from-hunter-biden-investigation-revealed


Hey Blue Cities! You voted for this!

Democrat-run cities are out of space for all the illegal aliens Biden has let in, so now they’re just releasing them into the streets. Video from San Diego shows a bus load of illegal entrants from China and Pakistan, and a Border Patrol officer telling one of them, “You’re free to go on and do wherever you want. You’re free." I wonder if it was taken on September 11th?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mass-migrant-releases-begin-san-diego-border-overwhelmed-youre-free

Even Democrat voters are out of patience with the flood of illegal immigration. When AOC and other Democrat politicians held a press conference on the issue outside the Roosevelt Hotel, they were shouted down and heckled by furious New Yorkers chanting, “Close the border” and “Send them back!”

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/09/15/this-week-listings-rep-hakeem-jeffries-rep-nancy-mace-cindy-mccain-and-gen-mark-milley-sunday-on-this-week-with-co-anchor-jonathan-karl-n2163862

You must click that link to read the fatuous drivel that Rep. Adriano Espaillat offered in response, and which writer Ward Clark accurately describes as horse manure.

But a friendly reminder to all the furious New Yorkers who are yelling at the Democrats responsible for making their city unlivable: you voted for them. New York was in the toilet before, and you saved it by finally electing a Republican mayor, Rudy Giuliani. Then you went right back to voting for decay again. If you wonder why so few of your fellow Americans are sympathetic to your plight, it’s because it’s hard to have a lot of patience with people who simply refuse to learn.

Meanwhile, Mayor Eric Adams blames all the illegal immigrants filling his streets on a “madman” down in Texas, referring to Gov. Greg Abbott, who has been busing a small fraction of the problem Biden inflicted on Texas to cities and states that actually voted to make him President. Adams and other blue state Democrats never imagined that the problems they wanted to inflict on red border states would affect them. By forcing Democrats to deal with the consequences of their policies and admit that all their sanctimonious “sanctuary city” virtue signaling was just a lot of balloon juice, this busing program became the most brilliant political move of the millennium thus far.

And, Eric, if you want to find the madman who’s to blame for all the illegal immigrants bankrupting your city, try 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in DC.


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In recent years, we’ve seen a strategy shift among those who hate America.

Open the borders, legalize low-level drugs, back off drug enforcement – and watch our cities fall into decay within one generation. I saw it happen on the battlefield in Vietnam.

An article on 9/11 written by Governor Mike Huckabee caused me to reflect on how the destruction we see in America today has an eerie similarity to what happened in Vietnam.

In the fall of 1970, our battalion had its first drug fatality from heroin overdose. Our battalion commander took it hard and was ready to assign whatever resources were necessary to engage and destroy the problem.

A few days later, I had the opportunity to serve in a special operation involving ARVN Special Forces, also known as "Luc Luong Dac Biet," and the South Vietnamese National Police known as the “Canh Sat Quoc Gia” (CSQG). Both played a crucial role in attempting to curb the flow of drugs during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s amidst the chaos of the Vietnam War, and both were known for their specialized training in counterinsurgency and unconventional warfare. They had been fighting drug trafficking since the late ‘60s.

In 1970, the government of South Vietnam, working with the CIA, enlisted the aid of Sir Robert Thompson to develop a counterinsurgency program. Sir Robert had been knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his work in Southeast Asia during and after WWII. He developed a strategy[1] for a joint operation, declassified by the CIA on 12/28/2007. An intelligence network of men and women living in local villages reported enemy activity through the CSQG. Our team of two Americans, two senior ARVN Special Forces operators recruited by CSQG, and a squad of seasoned ARVN soldiers were responsible for responding to the reports.

The problem wasn’t isolated to American soldiers; drugs were also a problem for the South Vietnamese Army.

After TET of 1968, many Viet Cong who lived in the villages of South Vietnam were either captured or killed, which dealt a significant blow to the communists. Shortly thereafter, North Vietnam changed its strategy and began running hard drugs into the South. The idea was part of a deliberate strategy to weaken the morale and combat effectiveness of American and South Vietnamese forces.

And it worked. Why shoot a soldier when you can disable him with addiction?

The addiction level among U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, according to a 1971 New York Times report, was as much as 25%. Many were draftees who didn’t want to be there. They were scared and turned to heroin as a form of escape.

The North made it cheap and readily available. A report in the Special Action Office Monograph, US Gov Print Office 1974 claimed that “approximately 42% of U.S. military personnel in Vietnam in 1971 had used opioids at least once, and half of these individuals were reported to be physically dependent at some time.” [2]

The problem was exacerbated by U.S. soldiers re-entering the civilian world. Drug usage by military personnel had a significant impact on our society and was portrayed in movies like The Deer HunterApocalypse Now and Platoon. It was the enemy hiding in plain sight.

The anti-American strategies I witnessed on the battlefield fifty-three years ago have morphed into what I am seeing in our society today. Instead of crumbling Twin Towers, we are seeing the crumbling of human beings. Today, men and women are under stress and fear due to debt, pandemic fears, and the never-ending woke assault. This makes them vulnerable to experimentation with drugs.

In 1970, the impact drug use had on military operations was obvious. But many commanders didn’t know how to deal with addicted soldiers within their ranks. The New York Times reported that as many as 37,000 who had served in Vietnam had experimented with drugs. A later DoD report said the problem was even worse than the NYT had reported.

I saw, firsthand, the impact of soldiers risking their lives and freedom just to get the next fix. It destroys a person mentally and physically. Look no further than the streets of Philadelphia, San Francisco and Austin to see the devastating effects. Addiction was, and is, a serious threat.

North Vietnam obtained drugs from the "Golden Triangle," a region encompassing parts of Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar, known for its opium production. The drugs were primarily packaged in small plastic containers of an ounce or less. I saw thousands of these containers when our team raided the various distribution centers scattered in the jungles and along rivers. They were hidden in small villages and strategically located from the Ho Chi Minh Trail by Cambodia to areas near large military populations.

The North Vietnamese communists found it easier to enlist their soldiers in the drug war because the recruits didn’t have to sacrifice themselves for a political dogma, and they were financially rewarded for selling drugs to unwitting American soldiers. They didn’t even have to carry weapons to defeat their enemies. Americans were willing to hand over their money and their lives for the next fix.

During the Vietnam War, North Vietnam was backed by the Soviet Union and China. Today, we see the same players involved in the drug epidemic sweeping America. An epidemic that has destroyed once-vibrant cities in less than a generation.

Communist China has been a major source of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances that have contributed to the opioid crisis in the United States. The drugs are shipped in small quantities, making them difficult to detect, not unlike what was done during the Vietnam War.

However, opioid addiction is not a widespread problem in China, despite China being a source of the drug epidemic in America. Why? Because the Chinese government is vigilant in their efforts to prevent opioid abuse in their own country. But they see opioid exportation as an opportunity to weaken their greatest opponent.

And it’s working.

The tragedy of 9/11 resulted in the deaths of 2,996 people; however, a quick walk through the homeless camps of Philadelphia, San Francisco and other cities will reveal another tragedy, perhaps one of much greater magnitude.

We are losing the war, and it’s time to wake up.

Mike Grayson is a Bronze Star combat veteran and tech entrepreneur with decades of experience in military and commercial technologies. His pioneering work in expert-based systems and data analytics has earned him national recognition by Networld Interop, Communications Week, and others. He has also provided trailblazing solutions in cybersecurity, financial, and education systems. After serving in the Vietnam War, he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal by the U.S. Army and the Civic Action Medal by the Republic of Vietnam for his contributions to counterinsurgency operations in 1970.  If you have any questions or would like to discuss the topics covered in this article further, feel free to reach out to Mike at [email protected]


[1] CIA. Report on the National Police Republic of Vietnam. March 1971. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80R01720R001300060003-5.pdf

[2] DoD. Drug Policy History. Military Drug Program Historical Timeline. https://prhome.defense.gov/Portals/52/Documents/RFM/Readiness/DDRP/docs/72208/DoD%20Drug%20Policy%20History.pdf

The Trump Interview

September 15, 2023

On Thursday, former President Trump sat down for a lengthy interview for Megyn Kelly’s podcast. You can see the entire interview here:

The subjects ranged from Trump’s famous response to a “nasty” question Kelly asked him during a 2016 debate to the classified documents case against him to his opinion of Biden’s mental capabilities (he wouldn’t say Biden is too old for the job because some people are very sharp in their 80s while some people lose acuity in their 40s, but he did say that Biden is incompetent. That seems like an uncontroversial choice of words.)

While Democrats are ripping Trump's answers, as expected, he’s also getting some criticism from the right for his response to Kelly’s questions about his handling of COVID and whether he regrets some of those decisions, like putting Dr. Fauci in charge and letting him have too much power. His denials suggested that he still doesn’t grasp the problem. It has some conservatives expressing concerns that he might make the same mistakes again if he gets back into office. Paula Bolyard at PJ Media sums up those concerns well.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2023/09/14/megyn-kelly-grills-trump-on-covid-response-his-answers-dont-exactly-inspire-confidence-n1727158

I’m not as inclined as some to blame Trump for the wrongheaded, heavy-handed and freedom-crushing power grabs that the pandemic inspired, or for overreacting to the threat and making bad decisions early on. From the start, I understood that this was a new, potentially deadly disease, we didn’t know much about it, and I’m sure most medical experts were acting in good faith and trying to protect the public with very limited knowledge (remember when we were told to disinfect our groceries? I miss disinfectant-flavored oatmeal.)

But it soon became apparent that much of what we were being told was nonsense (churches shut down while liquor stores stayed open, people arrested for walking alone on the beach without a face mask, the government pressuring social media to silence any doctors who questioned their extremely questionable dictates.) Once it became obvious that people were exploiting pandemic fear to increase government power, then common sense criticism was fair game (even though it got a lot of our newsletter articles banned by Internet gatekeepers – and I stand by all of them.)

In short, it’s not a sin to say you did your best, but you got some things wrong. Mistakes can be positive, if you learn from them. But first, you have to admit they were mistakes. I think admitting he got some things wrong then, knows better now and will never let it happen again would help Trump much more than denial and braggadocio. And I think we’d all like to hear him say he’s very sorry he never said, “You’re fired” to Dr. Fauci.

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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Psalms, 23:4

 


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Cases Severed

The judge in the Georgia RICO case against Donald Trump and everyone he's met in the past three years ruled against DA Fani Willis and severed the cases of Sidney Powell and Ken Chesebro from the other defendants'. 

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/14/judge-shoots-down-fani-willis-bid-october-trump-trial/

The two had requested a speedy trial, and the judge ruled there was no way to provide due process by making all 19 defendants go to trial together in October. The judge also said that “additional divisions” may be required. Five defendants have requested that their cases be moved to federal court, including Mark Meadows, whose rejected request is under appeal.

The judge also noted the logistical nightmare of trying 19 people at once, such as that the Fulton County Courthouse “simply contains no courtroom adequately large enough to hold all 19 defendants, their multiple attorneys and support staff, the sheriff’s deputies, court personnel, and the State’s prosecutorial team.”

This is what happens when TDS-afflicted Democrats collide with reality.

This all bodes badly for Willis, since only by baffling a jury with a giant ball of confusion can she convince anyone that this case is anything more than a tale told by an idiot, full of conspiratorial sounds and partisan fury, signifying nothing.


A UAW Strike

The United Auto Workers failed to reach a new contract agreement with GM, Ford and Stellantis (maker of 16 brands, including Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Peugeot and Fiat), so the union will go on strike against all three big US car makers for the first time in history.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/09/14/uaw-to-strike-all-big-three-automakers-at-the-same-time-for-first-time-in-history/

Ironically, when you consider the union bosses’ tied-at-the-hip relationship with the Democratic Party, most of the workers’ woes are due to Democrat policies. Here’s a good history lesson that explains it:

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/09/14/breitbart-business-digest-the-uaw-is-fighting-bidenomics-and-bidenflation/

Obama wanted credit for saving the auto industry from the Great Recession, so he pressured the union to accept a deal that didn’t adjust wages for inflation. Now, the workers are getting killed by Bidenflation and his mass immigration policies that depress American wages, making new cars unaffordable for many Americans. On top of that, Biden’s wrongheaded and bullheaded crusade to force everyone to buy not-ready-for-prime-time electric cars is enriching auto CEOs with huge government subsidies while costing auto workers their jobs (it takes fewer workers to build an EV.) The UAW accuses Biden of giving billion dollar loans for clean energy to auto makers “with no consideration for wages, working conditions, union rights or retirement security.”

It's a perfect storm of horrible Democrat policies by the very people the union bosses helped put in office. They’ll order their workers to go on strike and lose their paychecks entirely to protest the results, but will they consider changing their political affiliations? Fat chance!

The best hope for union workers is the rising public resistance to being forced into battery-powered cars, which are starting to gather dust on dealer lots. Most of the early tech adopters, trend chasers and green activists have bought them already, and car makers are pulling back on EV production to focus on hybrids. Word is finally getting around that EV’s are not better for the environment, cost more than we were led to believe, take forever to energize and poop out quickly, have all sorts of issues that make going a long distance an ordeal, and they have this little quirk of self-immolating while belching toxic gas. As I previously observed, they’re the Joe Biden of cars.

Political opposition to EV mandates is also rising, with the House passing the Preserving Choice in Vehicle Purchases Act by 222-190. It would block the EPA from allowing states like California to impose stricter emissions standards than the federal government to force residents to buy EVs. Eight Democrats joined 214 Republicans in voting that Americans should have the right to buy whatever vehicle they want. Eight Democrats doesn’t sound like much support, but it could be the first crack in the dam that's holding back the flood of reality.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-democrats-join-republicans-voting-strike-down-californias-electric-vehicle-mandate

Here's the latest of many Scotty Kilmer videos about the problems with EVs, this one focusing on battery fires (yes, EVs are less likely than other cars to catch on fire, but Heaven help you and the firefighters if they do – and what happens when we have to start disposing of all those old batteries?)

John Stossel has also debunked EV propaganda. In this video, a physicist sums it up well in a point I made recently about having politicians make tech decisions that they know nothing about:

“What we’ve done now is had our energy systems designed by bureaucrats instead of by engineers. And what we’re getting is worse energy, more expensive energy and higher environmental impacts.”

He’s right: we’re having the future of automotive technology dictated to us by a President who I’m sure was once amazed by the invention of the TV remote.

Ironically, the best news for EV owners who are being told the grid can’t handle their needs is that some states are finally recognizing reality and dropping unreliable wind turbines that might last 15 years at most for reliable nuclear power plants that can last over half a century. Georgia has launched America’s first new scratch-built nuclear power plant in decades (don’t be put off by the cost overruns; how much of that was due to having to fight green activists and their lawyers for years just to build it?)…

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/american-nuclear-reactor-built-scratch-decades-enters-commercial-101861665

…And Michigan is trying to reopen a nuke plant that was shut down.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/shuttered-nuclear-plant-michigan-gains-step-closer-to-reopening-following-new-purchase-agreement

Please don’t tell me you’re terrified of a nuclear meltdown if you’re willing to drive 70 mph while sitting on top of a thousand-pound lithium-ion battery.


Baffling assertions on the Left

Many leftist pundits claim President Biden should be reelected based on his amazing accomplishments. I admit, I’m baffled as to what those might be. But politicians often say, “Let’s look at the record,” so author Michael Snyder compiled a list of some of the many crazy things that have set records just this year. Unfortunately for the Democrats, from school shootings to public debt to credit card debt to interest payments to abortions to car insurance premium increases, they aren’t exactly things you want to see setting new records.

https://discernreport.com/the-u-s-is-setting-all-sorts-of-crazy-new-all-time-records-this-year/

In fairness, he did leave out all the astounding new records that are being set in women’s sports, possibly because they’re being set by men.

Related: Breitbart Business Digest also compiled a lot of grim numbers about the economic plight of working Americans from the Census Bureau and discovered that we haven’t seen this big a decline in real median household income since 2010. Coincidentally, do you remember who was in the White House in 2010? That would be Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/09/12/breitbart-business-digest-we-havent-had-a-year-this-bad-since-obama-was-president/


The opposite of the truth

The Democrats, with the help of their monolithic media, have been tragically successful in convincing single women that Democrats protect women’s rights while Republicans want to take them away. This is actually the opposite of the truth. Pro-life Republicans (I would include pro-life Democrats, but the Party has deliberately driven them all out) are motivated not by taking away women’s rights, but by protecting the life of the unborn child, which they believe to be a separate, innocent person from the mother, deserving of the “right to life” guaranteed to everyone in the Declaration of Independence. Democrats have managed to convince their female voters that caring about the lives of preborn children is an assault on the mother’s rights, and to redefine “women’s rights” solely as “the right to kill your own child at any stage of pregnancy.”

But when it comes to any other women’s rights, those are facing extinction under Democrat rule. Want the right to privacy in women’s lockers and bathrooms? Too bad. The same “exposing your male genitals” sex crime that got Harvey Weinstein jailed and Louis CK canceled is now a right, and women who dare complain about it are canceled. Want the right to earn trophies and scholarships and set records in women’s sports? Sorry, men who couldn’t cut it competing against other men now have the right to grow their hair out and take all that away from you. Want the right to be safe from predators in your own home, city or even women’s prison? Tough noogies: “progressive” DAs, politicians and “legal reformers” have ensured that no matter where you turn, you could come face to face with a violent criminal or sexual predator who should have been in prison, and not a women’s prison.

All of these things that are crushing women’s rights and making their lives riskier and scarier are brought to you by the Democratic Party, whose one and only concern regarding women’s rights is to preserve the right to kill babies up until the moment of birth.

Before you fall for this scam and vote for Democrats again, undermining your own rights and making your life more dangerous and difficult, ask yourself this: “Which should really be a bigger concern to me? The virtually nonexistent need to get a late-term abortion, or the freedom to step outside my house without being robbed, raped or killed?” If the latter is your answer, you’d better start voting Republican.

By the way, this is nothing new. Women can thank Republicans for having the right to vote. It was Republicans who championed the 19th Amendment, just as it was Republicans who forced Democrats to give up slavery. A Senate Republican introduced the 19th Amendment way back in 1878. It was voted down four times by Democrat Senates until Republicans finally won control of Congress in 1919 and passed it.

https://www.nfrw.org/women-suffrage


The modern Democratic Party’s attitude toward babies

In a subscriber-only article at Townhall.com, Sarah Arnold points out that former Biden press secretary-turned-MSNBC host (naturally) Jen Psaki revealed something genuinely disturbing about the modern Democratic Party’s attitude toward babies.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/09/13/psaki-compares-unborn-babies-to-lumps-of-coal-in-disturbing-rant-n2628376

Psaki was commenting on an NBC report that the Democrats and their media sock monkeys have poisoned the public’s perception of the term “pro-life” so much that it’s harming Republicans’ electoral chances (imagine being repelled by the idea of protecting babies’ lives.) Some political consultants want to start saying “pro-baby” instead. But top Democrats claim that won’t help because what’s hurting Republicans is moves to restrict abortion, which the Democrats have successfully misrepresented as an attack on women’s rights (including false claims that Republicans want to ban contraceptives) and not as a defense of innocent life in the womb.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/democrats-say-republican-effort-rebrand-life-wont-presuade-voters-rcna104132

Here’s Psaki’s shockingly cynical comment: “Pro-baby. I hate to break it to you, but if you call broccoli candy, it's still just broccoli. If you tie a really nice bow around a lump of coal, it is still coal under there…The branding isn't the problem here. The policy is the problem. It is hard to roll out an effective rebrand for a product that customers hate."

So Democrats now have so little regard for the lives of babies in the womb that they compare them to broccoli and lumps of coal and dismiss the opposition to murdering babies in the womb as something that Americans “hate.” For the record, polls still show that while there is widespread support for allowing early term abortion, the majority of Americans oppose the kind of unrestricted abortion that Democrats now champion.

I’ve asked this before, and, sadly, I have to keep asking it: How do these people look at themselves in the mirror without feeling disgusted and ashamed?


QUOTE OF THE DAY!

It’s long, but it deserves to be quoted in full. This is Greg Gutfeld on “The Five,” reacting to the news that murderous illegal alien and prison escapee Danelo Cavalcante had been captured:

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6337103849112

In case you can’t play that video, here’s a transcript:

“…I do not get the outcry over this at all. True, he’s illegal, but America is a melting pot, and that includes killers, right? It’s not like he voted for Trump…And I get it, he’s a violent reoffender. But since when in the last three years did that really matter? Every major city has released a slew of violent reoffenders who went on to beat, to rape and kill under the Trojan Horse of ‘prison and bail reform.’ We were promised that that would only affect non-violent offenders, and we were lied to. And I’m disgusted…DISGUSTED, Dana!...that they sent the evil police after this guy when, clearly, social workers could have handled this. And remember, according to The Squad, prison is cruel and inhumane punishment. So in a way, that escape was just an accelerated version of early release. He took the initiative and beat the Soros D.A.’s to the punch, and we’re punishing him?”

“So to summarize: he escaped, so what? He’s not the criminal. He’s not the oppressor. The prison is, the police is, society is. He was clearly oppressed by the system. I only hope, in the next few months, when he declares his new identity as a woman, they’d better put him in the prison of his chosen gender. And if the female inmates complain about the assaults and the rapes, they’re just being transphobic.”

If he ever gets tired of hosting a TV show, he could get a job as a Democratic speech writer.


Sydney Powell 2, Fani Willis 0

Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis had wanted to try all 19 co-defendants in her monster “RICO” election interference case in the same courtroom at the same time, starting on October 23 (yes, of THIS YEAR).  Sydney Powell and Ken Chesebro had asked the court to sever their cases from the larger group, and Judge Scott McAfee did that on Thursday, saying this was “a procedural and logistical inevitability.”

He said “additional divisions” may be required.  After all, how can 17 co-defendants, plus all their attorneys, the court officials, a jury and (for Trump) Secret Service even FIT in one courtroom?  Imagine how it would’ve been if she’d tried all 39 on her grand jury’s list.  They’d have to rent Mercedes-Benz Stadium!

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/14/judge-shoots-down-fani-willis-bid-october-trump-trial

And score another point for Sydney Powell, whose attorneys accused prosecutors Thursday of withholding exculpatory evidence in violation of law.

DA Willis accuses Powell of breaking the law by breaching voting machines used in Coffee County while seeking evidence that the machines had been manipulated.  But Coffee County officials had invited her to examine them, and her attorney was able to confirm there had been a letter of invitation for her, sent not to Powell but to another attorney.  He has reason to believe Willis’ office has this letter, which would exonerate Powell, and Willis has not turned it over.  (This is the second such accusation of illegally withholding exculpatory evidence so far.)  Not a good look for the DA.

https://www.westernjournal.com/fulton-county-da-accused-burying-evidence-derail-trump-rico-case/


Weiss gets around to indicting Hunter Biden, on gun charges ONLY

In the most predictable story of the day, Hunter Biden was finally indicted by U.S. Attorney/Special Counsel David Weiss, but only on gun charges, which should be called the “safe” charges because they have nothing to do with the financial case against Hunter that can be tied to the rest of his family, including dad.  This tactic is pretty easy to see through…

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/09/14/dana-loesch-explains-why-theyre-allowing-the-firearm-charge-against-hunter-biden

Of course, there has to be some sympathy for dad…

https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1702409460893774009?ref

Specifically, here are the charges:

There are three counts.  Counts I and II allege that Hunter knowingly made and certified a false statement when he indicated he was not an unlawful user of or addicted to any stimulant, narcotic drug, or controlled substance in the process of obtaining a gun.  Count III alleges that he knowingly possessed the gun (a Colt Cobra revolver), knowing he was an unlawful user or addicted to a stimulant, narcotic drug or controlled substance.  These actions date from October 2018.

REDSTATE released an overview of the case yesterday.  An update last night included the unsealed indictment from Delaware state court.

https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/09/14/breaking-hunter-biden-indicted-on-federal-firearms-charges-n2163821

The headline at AMERICAN GREATNESS reads, “Hunter Biden Indicted on Federal Gun Charges, Faces 25 Years in Prison.”  It really should read, “Hunter Biden Indicted on Federal Gun Charges, Technically Faces the Nonexistent Possibility of 25 Years In Prison.”  Hunter Biden, now 53, is not going to prison for 25 years.  He’s probably not going to prison for 25 minutes, at least not for this.

Though Hunter lied on Form 4473 to get the gun, he was much more forthcoming in his memoir, stating that he was “smoking crack every 15 minutes.”

Hunter’s attorneys are insisting that their “sweetheart” deal for Hunter, which not only kept him out of jail but also protected him from future charges stemming from more investigation of his past actions, is still in force.  As the NEW YORK POST reports, Cornell law professor Randy Zelin, who specializes in white-collar criminal defense, said he expects them to file a “Santebello motion,” arguing this.

One really has to wonder, with all the Democrats’ talk of “privilege,” especially “white privilege,” how they can stomach this.  The NY POST quotes an attorney for rapper Kodak Black, who was sentenced in 2019 to 46 months in prison after pleading guilty for giving a false Social Security number on a federal gun purchase form in order to buy three guns from a Miami-area shop.  “2 tiers of justice:’ the attorney wrote.  “Kodak was charged for the same crime.  Got over 3 years.  Mr. Biden will not serve a day.  Feels right?”

Kodak is just fortunate that he wasn’t wearing a MAGA hat when he was buying those guns.  He might  have gotten 20 years for domestic terrorism.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/14/hunter-biden-hit-with-new-indictment-on-federal-gun-charges/

Kentucky Rep. James Comer, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, told reporters outside the Capitol, “That’s one of about a dozen crimes that Hunter Biden’s committed, and ironically that’s the one crime that he committed that you cannot tie Joe Biden into.”

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz said that “getting Hunter on the gun charge is like getting Jeffrey Dahmer on littering.”  (Okay, slight exaggeration, but one does have to wonder what any member of the First Family, with a supportive-enough media and ‘justice’ system, might be able to get away with.)

For those Democrats who keep repeating the mantra “there’s no evidence there’s no evidence,” here’s a compilation of the evidence.  You might want to save this for when you have time, as it’s long.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/14/disinformation-white-house-democrats-media-claims-no-evidence-support-biden-impeachment-inquiry-contradicted-mountains-evidence/

The charges against Hunter come one month after Attorney General Merrick Garland “promoted” Weiss to special counsel and gave him full authority --- which he may or may not have already had, depending on whom you talk to --- to charge Hunter.  You’ve no doubt heard the argument that since Weiss was a Trump appointee, Republicans shouldn’t complain about his possible bias.  As far as we know, Trump didn’t know him from Adam, and he was recommended for the job of U.S. attorney by Delaware’s two Democrat senators, both of them close Biden allies, and previously was acting U.S. attorney under President Obama.

Marjorie Taylor-Greene tweeted (X’d?), “BREAKING:  Hunter Biden has been indicted for three counts of federal gun charges.  But where are the indictments for tax fraud, FARA abuse, money laundering, and sex trafficking???”

Of course, absent incontrovertible, “without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt” proof --- and likely even then --- those charges are not going to come from the DOJ, because they can’t take the chance that any of them involving money will end up being tied to the enrichment of his family, including his dad.  Even so, Rep. Comer happened to answer her question yesterday, saying these charges would “absolutely not” cause House Republicans to change course on their impeachment inquiry.  He did urge Weiss to bring indictments for “money laundering, violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act [FARA], tax evasion, the list goes on and on.”

In case you think Republicans in Congress are slacking off, the Judiciary Committee has been holding behind-closed-doors hearings, and on Monday, a second FBI official from the Baltimore field office testified that Weiss’ authority to charge Hunter was indeed blocked, by U.S. attorneys in California and DC who refused to let him bring charges against Hunter in their districts last year.

She told the committee that Weiss had to pursue other Department of Justice “processes” after those offices refused to “partner” with his investigation.  Her testimony was in line with that of Thomas Sobocinski last week.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio wrote on Thursday, “It’s obvious DOJ hasn’t been square with us.”

https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/14/second-fbi-agent-tells-judiciary-committee-that-david-weisss-authority-to-investigate-hunter-biden-was-limited

Hunter’s highly aggressive DC attorneys are still on the offensive, not just trying to force that outrageous “sweetheart” deal but also suing Garrett Zieglar, a former assistant to Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro, alleging that Zieglar violated laws against fraud and hacking with the material on the laptop and that his team “manipulated and altered some of the data,” as BUSINESS INSIDER reports.  (Translation:  they pixilated some of the images in which Hunter appears nude. Did he really want those unpixilated? I sure don’t!)

The suit seeks relief for alleged violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the California Data Access and Fraud Act, and demands a jury trial.

And, of course, it labels him a right-wing “extremist” (which seems to be the only real crime these days): “While Defendant Zieglar is entitled to his extremist and counterfactual opinions, he has no right to engage in illegal activities to advance his right-wing agenda...”

Note that Hunter, with essentially unlimited funds provided by friends, can use the system to bankrupt various “little people” caught up in this story.  His team has already sued John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of the computer shop where Hunter abandoned his laptop.  Never mind that for a long time, Hunter would not even claim the laptop or the material on it as his.  So now it belongs to him after all?  Well, legally, it doesn’t.

Zieglar said no hacking had occurred and also denied manipulating the images except for modifying their explicitness.  He told BUSINESS INSIDER that the lawsuit is “not worth the paper it’s printed on.”

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/13/hunter-biden-trump-aide-laptop-lawsuit

RELATED COMMENTARY from Huckabee staff writer/researcher Laura Ainsworth:

Longtime readers of this newsletter will remember that over two years ago, I predicted that Biden and Harris would both be edged aside by the DNC --- that they definitely would not be the candidates in ‘24.  My prediction then was that Michelle Obama would be the late-in-the-game nominee, to continue the Obama Machine (which never really went away), and I still believe that’s what is being orchestrated now.  (Hope I’m wrong.)

Joe’s rapid decline, both in approval ratings and cognitive ability, now makes it a virtual certainty he won’t run again, whether he knows it or not.  This is why we’re suddenly seeing, in mainstream media, discussions of Biden’s age and even (within careful bounds) the Biden family business.  CNN even points out things Biden says that aren’t true.  Certain media influencers got the memo, it seems.  Nothing is accidental; it’s all deliberate.

In a way, everyone who circulates these newly unflattering stories about President Biden that we’re suddenly seeing is playing along with their master plan.  Not that we wouldn’t report them, of course, but keep this context in mind.  And to the Trump campaign:  you’d better be ready to run against a candidate who ISN’T Joe Biden and who will be immediately coronated by the media.


The Trump Interview

On Thursday, former President Trump sat down for a lengthy interview for Megyn Kelly’s podcast. You can see the entire interview here:

The subjects ranged from Trump’s famous response to a “nasty” question Kelly asked him during a 2016 debate to the classified documents case against him to his opinion of Biden’s mental capabilities (he wouldn’t say Biden is too old for the job because some people are very sharp in their 80s while some people lose acuity in their 40s, but he did say that Biden is incompetent. That seems like an uncontroversial choice of words.)

While Democrats are ripping Trump's answers, as expected, he’s also getting some criticism from the right for his response to Kelly’s questions about his handling of COVID and whether he regrets some of those decisions, like putting Dr. Fauci in charge and letting him have too much power. His denials suggested that he still doesn’t grasp the problem. It has some conservatives expressing concerns that he might make the same mistakes again if he gets back into office. Paula Bolyard at PJ Media sums up those concerns well.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/paula-bolyard/2023/09/14/megyn-kelly-grills-trump-on-covid-response-his-answers-dont-exactly-inspire-confidence-n1727158

I’m not as inclined as some to blame Trump for the wrongheaded, heavy-handed and freedom-crushing power grabs that the pandemic inspired, or for overreacting to the threat and making bad decisions early on. From the start, I understood that this was a new, potentially deadly disease, we didn’t know much about it, and I’m sure most medical experts were acting in good faith and trying to protect the public with very limited knowledge (remember when we were told to disinfect our groceries? I miss disinfectant-flavored oatmeal.)

But it soon became apparent that much of what we were being told was nonsense (churches shut down while liquor stores stayed open, people arrested for walking alone on the beach without a face mask, the government pressuring social media to silence any doctors who questioned their extremely questionable dictates.) Once it became obvious that people were exploiting pandemic fear to increase government power, then common sense criticism was fair game (even though it got a lot of our newsletter articles banned by Internet gatekeepers – and I stand by all of them.)

In short, it’s not a sin to say you did your best, but you got some things wrong. Mistakes can be positive, if you learn from them. But first, you have to admit they were mistakes. I think admitting he got some things wrong then, knows better now and will never let it happen again would help Trump much more than denial and braggadocio. And I think we’d all like to hear him say he’s very sorry he never said, “You’re fired” to Dr. Fauci.


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In the most predictable story of the day, Hunter Biden was finally indicted by U.S. Attorney/Special Counsel David Weiss, but only on gun charges, which should be called the “safe” charges because they have nothing to do with the financial case against Hunter that can be tied to the rest of his family, including dad.  This tactic is pretty easy to see through…

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/09/14/dana-loesch-explains-why-theyre-allowing-the-firearm-charge-against-hunter-biden

Of course, there has to be some sympathy for dad…

https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1702409460893774009?ref

Specifically, here are the charges:

There are three counts.  Counts I and II allege that Hunter knowingly made and certified a false statement when he indicated he was not an unlawful user of or addicted to any stimulant, narcotic drug, or controlled substance in the process of obtaining a gun.  Count III alleges that he knowingly possessed the gun (a Colt Cobra revolver), knowing he was an unlawful user or addicted to a stimulant, narcotic drug or controlled substance.  These actions date from October 2018.

REDSTATE released an overview of the case yesterday.  An update last night included the unsealed indictment from Delaware state court.

https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/09/14/breaking-hunter-biden-indicted-on-federal-firearms-charges-n2163821

The headline at AMERICAN GREATNESS reads, “Hunter Biden Indicted on Federal Gun Charges, Faces 25 Years in Prison.”  It really should read, “Hunter Biden Indicted on Federal Gun Charges, Technically Faces the Nonexistent Possibility of 25 Years In Prison.”  Hunter Biden, now 53, is not going to prison for 25 years.  He’s probably not going to prison for 25 minutes, at least not for this.

Though Hunter lied on Form 4473 to get the gun, he was much more forthcoming in his memoir, stating that he was “smoking crack every 15 minutes.”

Hunter’s attorneys are insisting that their “sweetheart” deal for Hunter, which not only kept him out of jail but also protected him from future charges stemming from more investigation of his past actions, is still in force.  As the NEW YORK POST reports, Cornell law professor Randy Zelin, who specializes in white-collar criminal defense, said he expects them to file a “Santebello motion,” arguing this.

One really has to wonder, with all the Democrats’ talk of “privilege,” especially “white privilege,” how they can stomach this.  The NY POST quotes an attorney for rapper Kodak Black, who was sentenced in 2019 to 46 months in prison after pleading guilty for giving a false Social Security number on a federal gun purchase form in order to buy three guns from a Miami-area shop.  “2 tiers of justice:’ the attorney wrote.  “Kodak was charged for the same crime.  Got over 3 years.  Mr. Biden will not serve a day.  Feels right?”

Kodak is just fortunate that he wasn’t wearing a MAGA hat when he was buying those guns.  He might  have gotten 20 years for domestic terrorism.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/14/hunter-biden-hit-with-new-indictment-on-federal-gun-charges/

Kentucky Rep. James Comer, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, told reporters outside the Capitol, “That’s one of about a dozen crimes that Hunter Biden’s committed, and ironically that’s the one crime that he committed that you cannot tie Joe Biden into.”

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz said that “getting Hunter on the gun charge is like getting Jeffrey Dahmer on littering.”  (Okay, slight exaggeration, but one does have to wonder what any member of the First Family, with a supportive-enough media and ‘justice’ system, might be able to get away with.)

For those Democrats who keep repeating the mantra “there’s no evidence there’s no evidence,” here’s a compilation of the evidence.  You might want to save this for when you have time, as it’s long.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/14/disinformation-white-house-democrats-media-claims-no-evidence-support-biden-impeachment-inquiry-contradicted-mountains-evidence/

The charges against Hunter come one month after Attorney General Merrick Garland “promoted” Weiss to special counsel and gave him full authority --- which he may or may not have already had, depending on whom you talk to --- to charge Hunter.  You’ve no doubt heard the argument that since Weiss was a Trump appointee, Republicans shouldn’t complain about his possible bias.  As far as we know, Trump didn’t know him from Adam, and he was recommended for the job of U.S. attorney by Delaware’s two Democrat senators, both of them close Biden allies, and previously was acting U.S. attorney under President Obama.

Marjorie Taylor-Greene tweeted (X’d?), “BREAKING:  Hunter Biden has been indicted for three counts of federal gun charges.  But where are the indictments for tax fraud, FARA abuse, money laundering, and sex trafficking???”

Of course, absent incontrovertible, “without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt” proof --- and likely even then --- those charges are not going to come from the DOJ, because they can’t take the chance that any of them involving money will end up being tied to the enrichment of his family, including his dad.  Even so, Rep. Comer happened to answer her question yesterday, saying these charges would “absolutely not” cause House Republicans to change course on their impeachment inquiry.  He did urge Weiss to bring indictments for “money laundering, violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act [FARA], tax evasion, the list goes on and on.”

In case you think Republicans in Congress are slacking off, the Judiciary Committee has been holding behind-closed-doors hearings, and on Monday, a second FBI official from the Baltimore field office testified that Weiss’ authority to charge Hunter was indeed blocked, by U.S. attorneys in California and DC who refused to let him bring charges against Hunter in their districts last year.

She told the committee that Weiss had to pursue other Department of Justice “processes” after those offices refused to “partner” with his investigation.  Her testimony was in line with that of Thomas Sobocinski last week.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio wrote on Thursday, “It’s obvious DOJ hasn’t been square with us.”

https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/14/second-fbi-agent-tells-judiciary-committee-that-david-weisss-authority-to-investigate-hunter-biden-was-limited

Hunter’s highly aggressive DC attorneys are still on the offensive, not just trying to force that outrageous “sweetheart” deal but also suing Garrett Zieglar, a former assistant to Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro, alleging that Zieglar violated laws against fraud and hacking with the material on the laptop and that his team “manipulated and altered some of the data,” as BUSINESS INSIDER reports.  (Translation:  they pixilated some of the images in which Hunter appears nude. Did he really want those unpixilated? I sure don’t!)

The suit seeks relief for alleged violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the California Data Access and Fraud Act, and demands a jury trial.

And, of course, it labels him a right-wing “extremist” (which seems to be the only real crime these days): “While Defendant Zieglar is entitled to his extremist and counterfactual opinions, he has no right to engage in illegal activities to advance his right-wing agenda...”

Note that Hunter, with essentially unlimited funds provided by friends, can use the system to bankrupt various “little people” caught up in this story.  His team has already sued John Paul Mac Isaac, the owner of the computer shop where Hunter abandoned his laptop.  Never mind that for a long time, Hunter would not even claim the laptop or the material on it as his.  So now it belongs to him after all?  Well, legally, it doesn’t.

Zieglar said no hacking had occurred and also denied manipulating the images except for modifying their explicitness.  He told BUSINESS INSIDER that the lawsuit is “not worth the paper it’s printed on.”

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/13/hunter-biden-trump-aide-laptop-lawsuit

RELATED COMMENTARY from Huckabee staff writer/researcher Laura Ainsworth:

Longtime readers of this newsletter will remember that over two years ago, I predicted that Biden and Harris would both be edged aside by the DNC --- that they definitely would not be the candidates in ‘24.  My prediction then was that Michelle Obama would be the late-in-the-game nominee, to continue the Obama Machine (which never really went away), and I still believe that’s what is being orchestrated now.  (Hope I’m wrong.)

Joe’s rapid decline, both in approval ratings and cognitive ability, now makes it a virtual certainty he won’t run again, whether he knows it or not.  This is why we’re suddenly seeing, in mainstream media, discussions of Biden’s age and even (within careful bounds) the Biden family business.  CNN even points out things Biden says that aren’t true.  Certain media influencers got the memo, it seems.  Nothing is accidental; it’s all deliberate.

In a way, everyone who circulates these newly unflattering stories about President Biden that we’re suddenly seeing is playing along with their master plan.  Not that we wouldn’t report them, of course, but keep this context in mind.  And to the Trump campaign:  you’d better be ready to run against a candidate who ISN’T Joe Biden and who will be immediately coronated by the media.

Sydney Powell 2, Fani Willis 0

September 15, 2023

Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis had wanted to try all 19 co-defendants in her monster “RICO” election interference case in the same courtroom at the same time, starting on October 23 (yes, of THIS YEAR).  Sydney Powell and Ken Chesebro had asked the court to sever their cases from the larger group, and Judge Scott McAfee did that on Thursday, saying this was “a procedural and logistical inevitability.”

He said “additional divisions” may be required.  After all, how can 17 co-defendants, plus all their attorneys, the court officials, a jury and (for Trump) Secret Service even FIT in one courtroom?  Imagine how it would’ve been if she’d tried all 39 on her grand jury’s list.  They’d have to rent Mercedes-Benz Stadium!

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/14/judge-shoots-down-fani-willis-bid-october-trump-trial

And score another point for Sydney Powell, whose attorneys accused prosecutors Thursday of withholding exculpatory evidence in violation of law.

DA Willis accuses Powell of breaking the law by breaching voting machines used in Coffee County while seeking evidence that the machines had been manipulated.  But Coffee County officials had invited her to examine them, and her attorney was able to confirm there had been a letter of invitation for her, sent not to Powell but to another attorney.  He has reason to believe Willis’ office has this letter, which would exonerate Powell, and Willis has not turned it over.  (This is the second such accusation of illegally withholding exculpatory evidence so far.)  Not a good look for the DA.

https://www.westernjournal.com/fulton-county-da-accused-burying-evidence-derail-trump-rico-case/

 


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AOC Ethics controversy

Here’s the latest ethical brouhaha that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is embroiled in. While her staff is trying to brush it off as a simple misunderstanding, you can rest assured that had anyone named Trump done the same thing, they’d be saying the potential $50,000 fine and five years in jail isn’t nearly enough.

https://www.westernjournal.com/aoc-embroiled-congressional-ethics-controversy-marital-status-5-year-prison-sentence-broached/


Must-Read:

Milt Harris at PJ Media on “The Bluster and Demise of Sanctuary Cities,” or what happens when empty virtue-signaling collides head-on with reality.

https://pjmedia.com/columns/miltharris/2023/09/12/the-bluster-and-demise-of-sanctuary-cities-n1726403


Brace yourself:

Warner Music has just signed an AI-generated pop singer who put out a video with a voice created by AI and images created by CGI.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/michaelcantrell/2023/09/13/and-so-it-begins-warner-music-just-signed-an-ai-generated-pop-star-to-a-record-deal-n1726795

The really scary part: I dare you to detect any difference between this recording and what’s been released by allegedly real pop stars over at least the past five years.


Republicans cleared of wrongdoing

Polls show that many Americans believe former President Trump must be guilty of some crimes. After all, there are so many indictments of him. Never mind that you can indict a ham sandwich, and the partisan indictments being thrown at him are so insubstantial that they’re more like vegan ham salad.

Well, as a reminder of the fact that partisan accusations don’t necessarily mean that someone actually did anything wrong, here are two news stories that hit on the same day:

After the DOJ finally dropped a groundless, three-year investigation of Rep. Matt Gaetz on alleged sex trafficking charges, the FEC has thrown out a complaint against him alleging campaign finance violations. It was filed by his Republican rival Cris Dosev. Gaetz said the claim was baseless, adding, "Cris Dosev has lost every FEC complaint he has filed as a gadfly — and every election he has run in as a candidate, including two to me. Here's hoping he finds less expensive, more productive hobbies for himself going forward."

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/fec-matt-gaetz-extortion/2023/09/13/id/1134387/

Also, it was revealed that in August, the FEC cleared Sen. Ted Cruz of an accusation by a leftwing activist group that he personally benefited from using campaign funds for Facebook ads promoting his book “One Vote Away.” Turns out all the proceeds from the book went to charity and Cruz didn’t benefit from it at all.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/13/fec-exonerate-ted-cruz-activists-accused-ethics-laws/

Now, let’s see how many media outlets that breathlessly covered the allegations against Gaetz and Cruz will give the same attention to the fact that they were both completely cleared.


Awful story

This story is so distasteful, I don’t want to spend too much time on it. But surely by now, you’ve heard of Susanna Gibson, a Democrat running for the Virginia legislature. It was revealed that she had a side business making sex videos with her husband and posting them on an X-rated website, where she solicited tips in exchange for various unmentionable acts (which, incidentally, violated the site’s terms of service.)

https://www.westernjournal.com/dem-family-values-candidate-mom-2-sex-online-tips-asked-5000-followers-money/

This sort of thing, if it had ever happened at all in the past, would’ve spelled the end of anyone’s political career. But we live in post-morality 2023, so Gibson immediately began posturing as an outraged victim and voice for women’s rights. She accused Republicans of “leaking” the tapes (there’s no evidence of that, and her opponent said he only heard of this when it hit the news), and claims now that her privacy was violated and she’s a victim of revenge porn and a sex crime, a claim that she’s using to fire up support and donations from easily-deluded Democrat voters. She even wants law enforcement to prosecute whoever “leaked” the videos.

Sorry, but "revenge porn" is when someone releases private images without the other person's permission. When you voluntarily produce sex videos and post them on an Internet porn site for money, I think you lose the moral high ground to claim your privacy was violated if anyone sees them. Knowing that a Congressional candidate is also a porn star seems to be the very definition of a topic that’s in the public interest. The fact that we’re even talking about this is incredible, and the fact that she’s making these ludicrous arguments and some people are actually taking them seriously and sending her money (I don’t even want to think about what they expect in return) shows we are “through the Looking Glass, people.”

FYI, if you really want to know the details of what the candidate was doing online, this article describes them without showing them. I’ll warn you, it’s not for the easily offended or the squeamish, and no, I will not recap it here.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/09/13/virginia-democrat-candidate-chaturbate-n2628298


Romney out

Mitt Romney announced that he will not run for a second Senate term, proving that he can read the writing on the wall all the way back in Utah. In his announcement, he bashed both Trump and Biden for various things, like not doing enough about the climate. But he will still be in office through January 2025.

The good news for Republicans: they have an excellent chance to pick up that seat in 2024!

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/romney-announces-he-wont-seek-re-election-in-2024-bashes-trump-and-biden


DACA is struck down by a federal judge again

For the second time, a federal judge has struck down President Obama’s DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program as unconstitutional. Biden had hoped to keep it alive by making it a “regulation” instead of an executive order, but the judge ruled that there was no difference between the two, and creating such a program was the job of the legislature.

https://www.westernjournal.com/obama-dreamers-program-declared-illegal-federal-judge/

This shouldn’t be a surprise since even Obama himself repeatedly told us he had no constitutional authority to rewrite US immigration law with an executive order. And then he went ahead and did it anyway. Now, it’s twice been ruled unconstitutional…and yet, it’s still here. In fact, this latest ruling specifically does not order the government to take any action such as deportation against DACA recipients. It leaves in place the current situation in which DACA remains in force, but it can’t accept any new recipients. It proves that Ronald Reagan was right: there's nothing more permanent than a temporary government program.

Personally, I’m not unsympathetic to the idea behind DACA. I’ve long thought that it was cruel and counterproductive to force young people who were brought to the US as small children and only know our language and culture to return to a country that’s totally alien to them, especially just as they’re starting to pay income taxes to repay all the public schooling we had to provide for them. I think there should be some accommodation for that small subset of illegal immigrants who had no say over their entry and grew up as Americans.

That said, any accommodation should be written and passed by Congress, not dictated by an illegal executive order. And I certainly condemn the judicial precedent of declaring a government program to be clearly unconstitutional and then letting it continue anyway. If that’s okay, then why do we even have federal courts? Just to host groundless Trump trials?

 


THIS…Is CNN:

I told you about the Biden White House sending a letter to its lapdog media outlets, instructing them to attack Republicans for launching an impeachment inquiry and to push the narrative that there’s no evidence Joe Biden did anything wrong. As Athena Thorne at PJ Media reports, CNN surprisingly committed an actual act of journalism by reporting on this outrageous attempt to coerce the media into promoting self-serving, partisan political propaganda.

Except being CNN, they could only manage to act like journalists for two paragraphs. By the third paragraph, they started repeating the exact same propaganda points that the White House told them to say.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/athena-thorne/2023/09/13/ayfkm-cnn-breaks-story-about-secret-white-house-media-directive-to-bash-impeachment-to-bash-impeachment-n1726657

Well, baby steps. Maybe by the time the impeachment inquiry ends, they’ll have worked up enough integrity to report on it. I wouldn’t bet the farm on that, though.


Here’s how you can tell the Democrat establishment is panicking at the idea of having to “Weekend At Bernie’s” Joe Biden through another presidential campaign and four more years in office:

Several liberal columnists at regime mouthpiece outlets are suddenly opining that he shouldn’t run again.

Even Washington Post writer David Ignatius, said to be Biden’s favorite columnist, wrote an op-ed urging him not to run and to replace Kamala Harris, whose approval ratings are an even worse dumpster fire than Biden’s.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-columnists-urge-biden-dump-harris-pick-new-2024-running-mate-better-options-available

And if there’s any question that this push is coming from the Deep State, which is terrified of Trump getting back into power and exposing and reversing their power grab, journalist Glenn Greenwald told Jesse Watters on Fox News, “There is no member of the media more loyal to the CIA and its narratives than he. Pretty much if David Ignatius' mouth is moving, it means the CIA is talking. That's been his entire career.” His conclusion: the CIA thinks Joe has outlived his usefulness and has to go before he takes the whole corrupt, power-mad enterprise down with him.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/09/13/greenwald_david_ignatius_is_very_loyal_to_the_cia_this_is_last_opportunity_for_them_to_get_rid_of_biden.html

For me, the most revealing part of Ignatius’ article was his admission that Biden risks "undoing his greatest achievement – which was stopping Trump." I would argue that it’s his only achievement, but it’s nice to finally see a leftist admitting that for all their high-flown applesauce about their great plans and visions, the only thing they really cared about was getting rid of Trump and putting themselves back in power.


Biden impeachment inquiry update

If anyone suggests to you that Republicans just want to impeach Biden to “get back” at Democrats for impeaching Trump, that person is demonstrating a deep ignorance of the legal process.

What Speaker McCarthy is talking about is an impeachment INQUIRY, which might or might not lead to an impeachment.  This, as Michael Goodwin at the NEW YORK POST explains, “is the only way the American public will ever get the full truth about the President’s role in his family’s corrupt schemes.”  Goodwin’s column is a great refresher on what we know and are looking for --- and a warning about how vicious the attacks from the Washington press corps will be as we fly over the target. 

https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/time-to-stop-joe-bidens-power-play-to-protect-himself-and-his-family/

Jonathan Tobin, senior contributor to THE FEDERALIST, has a good piece about the reasons for the inquiry, acknowledging that Republicans are very, very angry at Democrats for what they did to Trump, and that revenge is certainly a factor, but making the point that “without an inquiry, hearings, and then an impeachment debate and trial, there’s simply no way to break through the liberal corporate media’s refusal to substantially cover the issue of Biden family corruption.”  And since federal prosecutors seem “suspiciously incurious” about Joe Biden’s role, “House Republicans aren’t wrong to think that the only way we’ll get anywhere close to the bottom of this is by launching an impeachment inquiry.”

Tobin’s piece appeared in NEWSWEEK, of all places.

https://www.newsweek.com/dont-believe-dems-case-impeaching-biden-about-corruption-not-gop-revenge-opinion-1826543

Biden himself doesn’t seem to get it.  He said the Republicans want to impeach him “so they can shut down the government.”  Huh?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12516131/Biden-FINALLY-addresses-impeachment-republicans-shutdown-marjorie-taylor-greene.html

The latest example of Democrat spin is in response to a transcribed-and-leaked interview with FBI Agent Thomas Sobocinski, conducted behind closed doors by the House Judiciary Committee last week.  This agent strikes us as someone who wasn’t nearly as clued in on the investigation as the two IRS whistleblowers in the office (especially lead investigator Gary Shapley, who had documented the whole thing in notes).  When Sobocinski said it wasn’t his understanding that U.S. Attorney David Weiss lacked charging authority, the Dems (especially Rep. Jerry Nadler) played that up.  But when Sobocinski agreed with the whistleblowers that Weiss had dragged his feet in charging Hunter, they did not.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/13/dems-already-desperately-spinning-but-new-info-from-fbi-agent-adds-fuel-to-fire-hunter-probe-slow-walked-n2163755

Here’s the NEW YORK POST’s report on the Sobocinski interview, refreshingly spin-free...

https://nypost.com/2023/09/13/fbi-official-cant-recall-refuses-to-answer-questions-over-hunter-biden-whistleblower-cover-up-claims/

And here’s an analysis from THE BLAZE.  They point to something very interesting:  that Sobocinski was accompanied by lawyers from both the FBI and DOJ, and they were there to represent not him but the government.  It was reportedly after one of these lawyers spoke to him off the record that he started hedging on whether Weiss had full charging authority against Hunter.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/media-spin-thomas-sobocinski-testimony

The Heritage Foundation has looked at the DOJ’s investigation into Hunter’s ties with Patrick Ho and CEFC and released a detailed memo finding “significant irregularities,” including that “DOJ was aware of connections between the Biden family and CEFC at least as early as 2017 and that they acted to conceal this information (from) the public.”  The DOJ even redacted mentions of the Biden name in the evidence presented at Ho’s 2018 trial.

This memo even provides a handy list of questions for Congress to ask during the impeachment inquiry.  Mighty thoughtful.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/13/watchdog-memo-irregularities-in-doj-investigation-of-f-ing-spy-chief-china-biden-associate-patrick-ho/

Finally, here’s something fun from the laptop emails.  In 2010, Hunter Biden complained that Obama had plagiarized one of his father’s speeches.  We may never learn who his father plagiarized it from...

https://nypost.com/2023/09/13/fbi-official-cant-recall-refuses-to-answer-questions-over-hunter-biden-whistleblower-cover-up-claims/


New Georgia law might stop out-of-control prosecutor

A few days ago, we asked the musical question, “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Fani Willis?”

Willis is the Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney who, along with her “Trump” special grand jury, has gone completely out of control in citing and indicting Trump and his supporters.  Just one example:  an alternate slate of Georgia electors, the creation of which is absolutely constitutional and has legal precedent, now faces the possibility of decades in prison for simply doing their duty in case a razor-thin vote count were flipped.  The TDS-infected grand jury presented Willis with a list of 39 individuals whom they recommended for indictment, including South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham.  Willis at least knew well enough to pare that list down to half.

Here’s what Sen. Graham had to say about it on Tuesday’s HANNITY (after brief lead-in from Sean Hannity).  Very powerful.  The system is “truly off the rails,” he said, if officials aren’t even allowed to do their jobs without being dragged before a grand jury.  The left wants to use the law to intimidate anyone from asking questions.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6337051559112

This is an abuse of the legal system that, short of the treatment of January 6 political prisoners, is about the most serious we’ve ever seen.

So, what needs to happen now?  Author and persuasion expert Scott Adams wondered aloud if it’s time to arrest her.  Others say impeachment by the Georgia legislature is the way to go.  Still others are looking at new, existing state legislation, described by A. R. Hoffman in the NEW YORK SUN as “an avant garde law that grants power to remove prosecutors to lawmakers rather than to voters or governors.”

The NY SUN is subscription-only, but we’ll summarize the piece for you…

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has said he does not want an impeachment for Willis.  He made it clear at a press conference that he considered her impeachment to be “political theater that only inflames the emotions of the moment.”  To that we would say that if Gov.  Kemp doesn’t want to see emotions inflamed, he’d better do whatever is necessary to stop Willis’s own political theatre.  That’s already inflaming plenty of emotions.

Kemp added that having a special session for the purpose of removing Willis “would ignore existing Georgia law and directly interfere with the proceedings fo a separate but equal branch of government.”

He said the bottom line in his state is that, “as long as I’m governor, we’re going to follow the law and the Constitution, regardless of who it helps or harms politically.”  Never mind that impeachment is in the Constitution and that any prosecutor on the left or right who went this far off the rails should be subject to it.

But in May, at the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office, Gov. Kemp did sign into law S.B. 92, which creates an eight-member “Prosecuting Attorneys Oversight Commission” with the power to “discipline, remove, and cause involuntary retirement of appointed or elected district attorneys or solicitors-general.”  Grounds for removal include “willful misconduct in office” and “willful and persistent failure to carry out statutory duties.”

They also include “conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice which brings the office into disrepute.”  Ding-ding-ding!  That’s the one.

This is for egregious conduct.  Anyone disqualified under this law is forbidden from being appointed or elected to a similar office in Georgia for 10 years.

So, who gets to make this call?  The committee members are all appointed by the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, all of whom are currently Republicans.  But the three members they’ve appointed so far are all district attorneys, so they might be likely to side with the independence of another DA.

In fact, the district attorney of De Kalb County, Sherry Boston, took it as a slap in the face.  She called it “an assault on prosecutorial discretion and independence,” and a “direct attack on the nature of our democratic process.”  And four DAs have filed a lawsuit --- in Fulton County --- alleging that S. B. 92 is unconstitutional.  They say it violates the separation of powers and also the First Amendment, by “punishing prosecutors for articulating their prosecutorial philosophies.”  They also say it grants “vague and broad authority” to the commission.  Plus, it violates due process, they say, by “failing to give fair notice of conduct that is forbidden or required” before the state can deprive someone of elective office.

What constitute “fair notice”?  It would be nice to think any prosecutor would be able to recognize a blatant abuse of power on her part and not have to be given a tutorial on the definition of “crime,” but this one apparently needs to be told.  And the commission is only now being chosen.

According to the NY SUN, their case is being handled by Public Legal, a nonprofit whose legal director, Joshua Rosenthal, calls the law “an anti-democratic and unconstitutional intrusion into core powers of local prosecutors” that “must be halted.”  

So, to call the new law controversial would not be overstating it.  But Fani Willis is one particular local prosecutor who has clearly gone on a huge “core power” trip that really must be halted.  She’s charging a long list of people criminally with actions that are NOT CRIMES.  Ironically, it seems this law was passed not in response to an overzealous DA like Willis but to deal with just the opposite situation --- prosecutors failing to enforce laws.

RELATED:  In case you don’t quite get the level of Trump-hate that is powering prosecutions like Fani Willis’s in Georgia, check out Sirius XM radio host and MSNBC columnist Dean Obeidallah, who insisted on Friday that Trump “must die in prison” to set an example for the public and protect democracy.  Because Trump, as we all know courtesy of MSNBC, attempted a coup.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-2024-primary-prison/2023/09/11/id/1134066/?ns_mail_uid=f9499f75-6002-4e3d-a92a-60873ae4921d

Likewise, Julie Kelly’s new column deals with what she calls the “bloodlust of the left” as still more J6 arrests are made.  She focuses on “Jord” Meacham, the young man who recently killed himself, the fourth known suicide of a January 6 defendant.  He took his life just hours after his arraignment was scheduled.  Some on social media coldly mocked him; others blamed Trump for his death.

Now, this is going to make you mad, but it’s important to know the state of derangement with which we’re dealing.  As Kelly writes, “...the sad, alarming truth is that millions of our countrymen will shed no tears for Jord and his family.  They won’t consider the ramifications of branding Americans with whom they disagree politically as ‘terrorists.’  They don’t care that this soulless ruling class is rapidly tearing away the boundaries of the law, the Constitution, fairness and human decency.”

And our ‘Justice’ Department marches on --- “undeterred, unfinished, and unrepentant.”


https://www.declassified.live/p/bloodlust


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For the second time, a federal judge has struck down President Obama’s DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program as unconstitutional. Biden had hoped to keep it alive by making it a “regulation” instead of an executive order, but the judge ruled that there was no difference between the two, and creating such a program was the job of the legislature.

https://www.westernjournal.com/obama-dreamers-program-declared-illegal-federal-judge/

This shouldn’t be a surprise since even Obama himself repeatedly told us he had no constitutional authority to rewrite US immigration law with an executive order. And then he went ahead and did it anyway. Now, it’s twice been ruled unconstitutional…and yet, it’s still here. In fact, this latest ruling specifically does not order the government to take any action such as deportation against DACA recipients. It leaves in place the current situation in which DACA remains in force, but it can’t accept any new recipients. It proves that Ronald Reagan was right: there's nothing more permanent than a temporary government program.

Personally, I’m not unsympathetic to the idea behind DACA. I’ve long thought that it was cruel and counterproductive to force young people who were brought to the US as small children and only know our language and culture to return to a country that’s totally alien to them, especially just as they’re starting to pay income taxes to repay all the public schooling we had to provide for them. I think there should be some accommodation for that small subset of illegal immigrants who had no say over their entry and grew up as Americans.

That said, any accommodation should be written and passed by Congress, not dictated by an illegal executive order. And I certainly condemn the judicial precedent of declaring a government program to be clearly unconstitutional and then letting it continue anyway. If that’s okay, then why do we even have federal courts? Just to host groundless Trump trials?

A few days ago, we asked the musical question, “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Fani Willis?”

Willis is the Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney who, along with her “Trump” special grand jury, has gone completely out of control in citing and indicting Trump and his supporters.  Just one example:  an alternate slate of Georgia electors, the creation of which is absolutely constitutional and has legal precedent, now faces the possibility of decades in prison for simply doing their duty in case a razor-thin vote count were flipped.  The TDS-infected grand jury presented Willis with a list of 39 individuals whom they recommended for indictment, including South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham.  Willis at least knew well enough to pare that list down to half.

Here’s what Sen. Graham had to say about it on Tuesday’s HANNITY (after brief lead-in from Sean Hannity).  Very powerful.  The system is “truly off the rails,” he said, if officials aren’t even allowed to do their jobs without being dragged before a grand jury.  The left wants to use the law to intimidate anyone from asking questions.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6337051559112

This is an abuse of the legal system that, short of the treatment of January 6 political prisoners, is about the most serious we’ve ever seen.

So, what needs to happen now?  Author and persuasion expert Scott Adams wondered aloud if it’s time to arrest her.  Others say impeachment by the Georgia legislature is the way to go.  Still others are looking at new, existing state legislation, described by A. R. Hoffman in the NEW YORK SUN as “an avant garde law that grants power to remove prosecutors to lawmakers rather than to voters or governors.”

The NY SUN is subscription-only, but we’ll summarize the piece for you…

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has said he does not want an impeachment for Willis.  He made it clear at a press conference that he considered her impeachment to be “political theater that only inflames the emotions of the moment.”  To that we would say that if Gov.  Kemp doesn’t want to see emotions inflamed, he’d better do whatever is necessary to stop Willis’s own political theatre.  That’s already inflaming plenty of emotions.

Kemp added that having a special session for the purpose of removing Willis “would ignore existing Georgia law and directly interfere with the proceedings fo a separate but equal branch of government.”

He said the bottom line in his state is that, “as long as I’m governor, we’re going to follow the law and the Constitution, regardless of who it helps or harms politically.”  Never mind that impeachment is in the Constitution and that any prosecutor on the left or right who went this far off the rails should be subject to it.

But in May, at the Chatham County Sheriff’s Office, Gov. Kemp did sign into law S.B. 92, which creates an eight-member “Prosecuting Attorneys Oversight Commission” with the power to “discipline, remove, and cause involuntary retirement of appointed or elected district attorneys or solicitors-general.”  Grounds for removal include “willful misconduct in office” and “willful and persistent failure to carry out statutory duties.”

They also include “conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice which brings the office into disrepute.”  Ding-ding-ding!  That’s the one.

This is for egregious conduct.  Anyone disqualified under this law is forbidden from being appointed or elected to a similar office in Georgia for 10 years.

So, who gets to make this call?  The committee members are all appointed by the governor, the lieutenant governor, and the speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives, all of whom are currently Republicans.  But the three members they’ve appointed so far are all district attorneys, so they might be likely to side with the independence of another DA.

In fact, the district attorney of De Kalb County, Sherry Boston, took it as a slap in the face.  She called it “an assault on prosecutorial discretion and independence,” and a “direct attack on the nature of our democratic process.”  And four DAs have filed a lawsuit --- in Fulton County --- alleging that S. B. 92 is unconstitutional.  They say it violates the separation of powers and also the First Amendment, by “punishing prosecutors for articulating their prosecutorial philosophies.”  They also say it grants “vague and broad authority” to the commission.  Plus, it violates due process, they say, by “failing to give fair notice of conduct that is forbidden or required” before the state can deprive someone of elective office.

What constitute “fair notice”?  It would be nice to think any prosecutor would be able to recognize a blatant abuse of power on her part and not have to be given a tutorial on the definition of “crime,” but this one apparently needs to be told.  And the commission is only now being chosen.

According to the NY SUN, their case is being handled by Public Legal, a nonprofit whose legal director, Joshua Rosenthal, calls the law “an anti-democratic and unconstitutional intrusion into core powers of local prosecutors” that “must be halted.”  

So, to call the new law controversial would not be overstating it.  But Fani Willis is one particular local prosecutor who has clearly gone on a huge “core power” trip that really must be halted.  She’s charging a long list of people criminally with actions that are NOT CRIMES.  Ironically, it seems this law was passed not in response to an overzealous DA like Willis but to deal with just the opposite situation --- prosecutors failing to enforce laws.

 

RELATED:  In case you don’t quite get the level of Trump-hate that is powering prosecutions like Fani Willis’s in Georgia, check out Sirius XM radio host and MSNBC columnist Dean Obeidallah, who insisted on Friday that Trump “must die in prison” to set an example for the public and protect democracy.  Because Trump, as we all know courtesy of MSNBC, attempted a coup.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-2024-primary-prison/2023/09/11/id/1134066/?ns_mail_uid=f9499f75-6002-4e3d-a92a-60873ae4921d

Likewise, Julie Kelly’s new column deals with what she calls the “bloodlust of the left” as still more J6 arrests are made.  She focuses on “Jord” Meacham, the young man who recently killed himself, the fourth known suicide of a January 6 defendant.  He took his life just hours after his arraignment was scheduled.  Some on social media coldly mocked him; others blamed Trump for his death.

Now, this is going to make you mad, but it’s important to know the state of derangement with which we’re dealing.  As Kelly writes, “...the sad, alarming truth is that millions of our countrymen will shed no tears for Jord and his family.  They won’t consider the ramifications of branding Americans with whom they disagree politically as ‘terrorists.’  They don’t care that this soulless ruling class is rapidly tearing away the boundaries of the law, the Constitution, fairness and human decency.”

And our ‘Justice’ Department marches on --- “undeterred, unfinished, and unrepentant.”

https://www.declassified.live/p/bloodlust

 

If anyone suggests to you that Republicans just want to impeach Biden to “get back” at Democrats for impeaching Trump, that person is demonstrating a deep ignorance of the legal process.

What Speaker McCarthy is talking about is an impeachment INQUIRY, which might or might not lead to an impeachment.  This, as Michael Goodwin at the NEW YORK POST explains, “is the only way the American public will ever get the full truth about the President’s role in his family’s corrupt schemes.”  Goodwin’s column is a great refresher on what we know and are looking for --- and a warning about how vicious the attacks from the Washington press corps will be as we fly over the target. 

https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/time-to-stop-joe-bidens-power-play-to-protect-himself-and-his-family/

Jonathan Tobin, senior contributor to THE FEDERALIST, has a good piece about the reasons for the inquiry, acknowledging that Republicans are very, very angry at Democrats for what they did to Trump, and that revenge is certainly a factor, but making the point that “without an inquiry, hearings, and then an impeachment debate and trial, there’s simply no way to break through the liberal corporate media’s refusal to substantially cover the issue of Biden family corruption.”  And since federal prosecutors seem “suspiciously incurious” about Joe Biden’s role, “House Republicans aren’t wrong to think that the only way we’ll get anywhere close to the bottom of this is by launching an impeachment inquiry.”

Tobin’s piece appeared in NEWSWEEK, of all places.

https://www.newsweek.com/dont-believe-dems-case-impeaching-biden-about-corruption-not-gop-revenge-opinion-1826543

Biden himself doesn’t seem to get it.  He said the Republicans want to impeach him “so they can shut down the government.”  Huh?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12516131/Biden-FINALLY-addresses-impeachment-republicans-shutdown-marjorie-taylor-greene.html

The latest example of Democrat spin is in response to a transcribed-and-leaked interview with FBI Agent Thomas Sobocinski, conducted behind closed doors by the House Judiciary Committee last week.  This agent strikes us as someone who wasn’t nearly as clued in on the investigation as the two IRS whistleblowers in the office (especially lead investigator Gary Shapley, who had documented the whole thing in notes).  When Sobocinski said it wasn’t his understanding that U.S. Attorney David Weiss lacked charging authority, the Dems (especially Rep. Jerry Nadler) played that up.  But when Sobocinski agreed with the whistleblowers that Weiss had dragged his feet in charging Hunter, they did not.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/13/dems-already-desperately-spinning-but-new-info-from-fbi-agent-adds-fuel-to-fire-hunter-probe-slow-walked-n2163755

Here’s the NEW YORK POST’s report on the Sobocinski interview, refreshingly spin-free...

https://nypost.com/2023/09/13/fbi-official-cant-recall-refuses-to-answer-questions-over-hunter-biden-whistleblower-cover-up-claims/

And here’s an analysis from THE BLAZE.  They point to something very interesting:  that Sobocinski was accompanied by lawyers from both the FBI and DOJ, and they were there to represent not him but the government.  It was reportedly after one of these lawyers spoke to him off the record that he started hedging on whether Weiss had full charging authority against Hunter.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/media-spin-thomas-sobocinski-testimony

The Heritage Foundation has looked at the DOJ’s investigation into Hunter’s ties with Patrick Ho and CEFC and released a detailed memo finding “significant irregularities,” including that “DOJ was aware of connections between the Biden family and CEFC at least as early as 2017 and that they acted to conceal this information (from) the public.”  The DOJ even redacted mentions of the Biden name in the evidence presented at Ho’s 2018 trial.

This memo even provides a handy list of questions for Congress to ask during the impeachment inquiry.  Mighty thoughtful.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/13/watchdog-memo-irregularities-in-doj-investigation-of-f-ing-spy-chief-china-biden-associate-patrick-ho/

Finally, here’s something fun from the laptop emails.  In 2010, Hunter Biden complained that Obama had plagiarized one of his father’s speeches.  We may never learn who his father plagiarized it from...

https://nypost.com/2023/09/13/fbi-official-cant-recall-refuses-to-answer-questions-over-hunter-biden-whistleblower-cover-up-claims/

 


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A CIA Whistleblower

A senior-level CIA officer turned whistleblower told House investigators that during the pandemic, the CIA paid six analysts to change their conclusion that COVID-19 originated in a lab and say instead that it jumped from animals to humans.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/12/cia-tried-to-pay-off-analysts-to-bury-covid-lab-leak-findings-whistleblower/

According to the whistleblower, there was a seven-member team of “experienced officers with significant scientific expertise” who analyzed the origins of COVID. Only one believed it came from animals, while the other six wanted to issue a “low confidence” assessment that it was created in a lab. The CIA allegedly gave the other six “a significant monetary incentive to change their position.”

Two House Republican committee chairmen are requesting all documents, communications and pay info related to the CIA’s COVID Discovery Team by September 26. I’m especially interested in seeing those pay stubs. I’m curious to know the price for someone selling out their integrity to lie to Americans about a deadly virus in order to help the CIA discredit and silence doctors who were telling the public the truth.


This sounds familiar

Another Democrat has been mugged by reality and is starting to sound like a Trump Republican. Today’s example: New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who has now realized that open borders are a bad thing for a lot of reasons, one of them being that they let terrorists walk right in.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/09/12/adams-terrorists-see-migrant-issue-coming-through-our-border-as-chance-to-do-harm-policy-should-remember-9-11/


Racism talk

Over the past few years, the term “systemic racism” has become a leftist cliché, tossed out to prove racism where it can’t otherwise be found. If there’s no evidence someone was a victim of racism, then just claim the entire system is racist, and you can’t see the racism because it’s baked into the system. It’s very convenient for people who make big bucks teaching diversity seminars and other DEI scams because, as one fed-up former DEI consultant told Jesse Watters, the job isn’t to find and combat real racism, it’s to look at every situation and find some way to inject racism into it.

Please note this caveat: I’m not saying there’s no such thing as racism, or that there haven’t been systems that were racist. All those Democrat-created Jim Crow laws are a perfect example. But are all of America’s government/legal/employment/policing and other systems rigged to be racist, even those that are forbidden by law to discriminate? Who came up with this idea?

The answer to that question is that it came from Eric Stewart, criminology professor at the University of Florida at Tallahassee, whose studies “proved” that US law enforcement is systemically racist. His studies have been cited over 8,500 times by other researchers.

But as the Post Millennial reports, he’s now that school’s FORMER professor because he’s been fired for “extreme negligence and incompetence” in his research, which has “been shown to contain numerous erroneous and false narratives.” The school said that “the details of problematic data management, false results, and the numerous publication retractions have negatively affected the discipline on a national level.” Stewart’s research is so slipshod that it undermined recruitment, harmed their faculty’s chances of getting published in ethical journals, and caused damage to the reputation of the criminology department that might be “catastrophic” and “unalterable.”

https://thepostmillennial.com/renowned-criminology-professor-who-proved-systemic-racism-fired-for-faking-data-studies-retracted

Among his studies that had to be retracted were ones claiming that whites wanted longer sentences for blacks and Latinos, that white Americans perceive blacks and Latinos as “criminal threats,” and that whites want longer sentences for Latinos because they’re becoming more successful and their numbers are increasing. For divisive falsehoods such as these, Stewart has received over $3.5 million in grant money, including taxpayer money from government agencies such as the National Science Foundation.

Stewart’s response: he claims he’s the victim here and that the researcher who proved his studies were false “lynched me and my academic character.” I suspect this is why DEI proponents have declared logic and the scientific method to be “white supremacy.”


Good News Update:

A judge granted a temporary injunction blocking enforcement of Illinois’ new SB 1909 law that’s clearly an attempt to shut down pro-life pregnancy centers. The bill allows these centers to be sued for “deceptive acts or practices” for not providing information about how to get abortions. The judge called it “stupid and likely unconstitutional.”

But Attorney General Kwame Raoul said (forgive the baffling syntax), "This bill is intended to protect the individuals to access the full range of reproductive healthcare and make fully informed decisions including the right to use or refuse reproductive healthcare."

https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_ecd65b5c-4847-11ee-aff6-773ee2f17ece.html

Actually, what it’s meant to do is force pro-life activists to promote abortion, a clear violation of the First Amendment, and to bankrupt them with lawsuits for expressing their personal views on abortion. As Wirepoints founder Mark Glennon notes, the law restricts pro-life pregnancy centers from passing out literature while placing no liability on pro-abortion people doing the same thing, which is “viewpoint discrimination,” a “clear red line that legislators cannot pass, and that really irritated the court.” He believes no judge would back this law as written.

As that article notes, the Attorney General has yet to decide whether he will even appeal the injunction. He might be afraid of what the Appeals Court would say about it. If it’s any comfort, instead of thinking of the law as being killed before it was even born, he could just consider it “reproductive legal care.”


Memo to Anti-Trump Republicans who think the Democrats’ lawfare will stop once they destroy Trump, then we’ll go back to business-as-usual:

No, if they succeed in perverting the legal system to destroy Trump, anyone else who stands in their way will become a target. Want proof? Check out this case:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/11/d-c-attorney-general-launches-politically-driven-investigation-leonard-leo/

Washington, DC, attorney general Brian Schwalb has launched an investigation into Leonard Leo. Leo is the co-chairman of the Federalist Society, a leading figure in the movement for conservative originalist judges, and he helped with the nominations of Trump’s three Supreme Court nominees, so that’s why the left has hung a target on his back. 

Schwalb is a former Clinton DOJ attorney, legal director for the leftwing Alliance for Justice and a longtime critic of the conservative legal movement. Schwalb’s investigation of Leo is based on a complaint by the misleadingly-named leftwing activist group “The Center for Accountability,” funded by the shady dark money alliance Arabella Advisors.

The complaint against Leo is that he violated some laws in connection with a non-profit charity he oversees, but the complaint included no direct evidence of the charges. Still, it was enough of a pretext for Schwalb to launch an investigation, even though – brace yourself – neither Leo nor any of his organizations are based in DC.

Imagine having to deal with groundless, partisan investigations launched by vengeful local prosecutors from all over the country, in places where you don’t even live, just because they hate your politics and want to destroy you. Well, welcome to Trump’s world. The cases against him are just the nose of the camel prying open the tent flap. Republicans had better realize that if they don’t kick the camel out of the tent, hard and fast, it will take over the tent.

 

Jailed in Finland for holding traditional Christian beliefs

Anyone who thinks that the left will stop at jailing people for holding traditional Christian beliefs needs to take a look at Finland, where they’re already trying to do it.

https://www.faithwire.com/2023/09/12/like-medieval-times-finnish-politician-prosecuted-for-biblical-views-reacts-to-crazy-trial-issues-warning/

Former minister of the interior Dr. Päivi Räsänen is on trial for the SECOND time and could face up to two years in jail and a heavy fine for sharing Biblical teachings related to homosexuality. She was acquitted the first time, but the prosecutor appealed and made arguments in court that should send a chill up your spine. For instance:

Since many Protestant churches accept gay relationships and same-sex marriage, her own interpretation of what the Bible says is not legitimate…She was accused of “hate speech” and writing that some people are inferior to others, which she never wrote, but she said, “The prosecutor said that it is not important if it is true or not, but if the interpretation is insulting, then it is criminal” (that is, she could go to jail for what the state claims she said, even if she didn’t say any such thing)…The prosecutor also argued that she’s allowed to “believe in her mind whatever about the Bible, but it is illegal to express it outwardly.”

Räsänen called this “dangerous” and “like Medieval Times” and said if she’s convicted, “It would start the time of persecution of Christians in Finland” and have “ramifications to other European countries.” She urged fellow Christians to use the attack on her as inspiration, saying, “I pray that this would wake up Christians to be courageous, to be open about their faiths and worship. [I hope] it would also encourage people to read the Bible, and, so I, I pray for awakening of our society.”

And if you think that can’t happen here because we have the First Amendment, then try praying for her on the grounds of a public school.


Speaker McCarthy announces impeachment inquiry

Tuesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced that he was launching an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. He laid out who would be in charge and listed some of the evidence, from the phone calls with Hunter Biden’s shady foreign business contacts that Biden denied knowing about to the $20 million in suspicious payments shuffled around through multiple bank accounts of shell companies before being paid to Biden family members.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/12/mccarthy-explains-contours-biden-impeachment-inquiry-house-republicans/

It’s worth pointing out that this does not mean that Biden will be removed from office. It just gives the investigators more tools to demand evidence on which the Biden Administration is stonewalling them.  Even if the narrow GOP House majority votes to impeach him, the trial would happen in the Senate and require a two-thirds vote, and I doubt that any Democrat would vote for it. It’s astounding to me that Democrats claimed that Trump asking about the Bidens' Ukrainian corruption on a phone call was an impeachable offense, but the actual corruption isn’t. I also recall how horrified they were when Trump joked that "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters.” And their attitude toward Biden is different how?...

In fact, the most entertaining part of this story is watching Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) wail, spin and harumph about this impeachment being nothing but an attack on a political opponent and how outrageous and unprecedented that is (unless you count the two times they did it to Trump.) They’re also attacking McCarthy for not putting it to a vote, just like Nancy Pelosi didn’t put Trump’s first impeachment to a vote. Some are even accusing McCarthy of being a hypocrite because he criticized Pelosi for doing that.

Yes, he did, because he warned that it would set a terrible precedent. She did it anyway. And now, it’s no longer unprecedented. Funny how that works. I guess they’re counting on the media to rewrite history for them. Oh, and look: The New York Times obliged!

https://instapundit.com/605477/

The Times is also trying to push the narrative that poor old Joe was deceived into taking those phone calls because he’s just such a great dad who cares more about his son than his political fortunes. And they say the Times doesn’t have a funny pages section!

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2023/09/12/new-york-times-front-page-biden-puts-son-first-spite-political

Another Democrat/media talking point is that there’s “no evidence” of any wrongdoing by Biden. Rep. Scott Perry wasn’t in the mood to take that nonsense from a smug reporter, and he slam dunked her. When she replied that the American people don’t see any evidence, he shot back, “It’s because you don’t report on it.”

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/13/watch-gop-rep-scott-perry-lights-up-reporter-after-claims-americanscant-see-evidence-against-biden-n2163754

Katie Pavlich at Townhall.com traces how the Democrat narrative about this scandal has continually shifted since the early days of “Joe never even talked to Hunter about his business” to today (“There’s no actual video of a foreign oligarch handing Joe a big bag with a dollar sign on it!”)

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2023/09/12/have-you-noticed-the-latest-narrative-shift-on-joe-bidens-business-dealings-n2628314

The White House is relying on the media to cover for Biden and attack Republicans, and they’re not even trying to hide it anymore. They sent an open letter to media organizations, urging them to “ramp up their scrutiny” of House Republicans “for opening an impeachment inquiry based on lies.” They are right about that: it’s based on Joe’s lies about having nothing to do with Hunter’s shady foreign business deals.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/13/wh-in-full-on-desperation-mode-sends-out-letter-to-press-demanding-scrutiny-of-impeachment-inquiry-n2163756

I’ll leave you with this from Kurt Schlichter, from all the way back in Obama’s final year in office in 2015. He was warning the Democrats who were shattering norms and breaking all the rules and traditions to get what they wanted that they wouldn’t be in power forever, and they weren’t going to like living under the new rules they were creating. But they have to now. Apparently, pain is the only way they can learn.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2015/04/05/liberals-may-regret-their-new-rules-n1980933

 



Manhunt ends for Danelo Cavalcante after police capture

Police in Pennsylvania recaptured convicted murderer Danelo Cavalcante after a 14-day manhunt during which he stole a truck and a rifle. Cavalante escaped from prison one week after receiving a life sentence for stabbing his girlfriend to death. And despite virtual wall-to-wall coverage, see if you can figure out from this sentence what part of his background the major TV networks never mentioned (I’ll give you a hint):

“A former gang member wanted for murder in Brazil, Cavalcante was in the U.S. illegally when he brutally stabbed Brandao after she threatened to contact authorities when she learned about the Brazilian charges against him.”

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/13/manhunt-danelo-cavalcante-ends-captured-arrested-fugitive-convict/


The Miracle of Bidenomics 1:

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in August, inflation as measured by the consumer price index jumped to 3.7% from one year before, compared to 3.2% in July (for those who might be a little slow, like the President's economic advisors, that's the wrong direction.) The hike was fueled by higher gas prices, which Biden can’t artificially lower again by releasing more oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve because he already released so much that it’s at a 40-year low and with oil prices so high, he hasn’t been able to refill it.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/09/13/higher-gas-prices-reignite-bidenflation-worst-monthly-increase-since-june-2022/


The Miracle of Bidenomics 2:

The US Census Bureau reports that in 2022, median US household income fell by 2.3% (from $76,330 in 2021 to $74,580 in 2022), while inflation rose by 7.8% percent, the highest annual increase since 1981. It’s the third straight year in which incomes fell, and coincidentally, the third straight year of Biden’s presidency. Also in 2022, 65% of women were working full time, the highest percentage ever, which suggests that even women who want to stay home and raise their families are being forced into the workplace to make ends meet.

https://www.westernjournal.com/bidenomics-action-us-household-incomes-tumble-third-straight-year/

I’m sure the media headline will be “Biden policies bring more women into the workplace!”


A new attempt to ban Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot

First Colorado, now some Democrat activists in Minnesota have filed a lawsuit seeking to ban Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot on grounds that he’s ineligible due to the 14th Amendment ban on candidates who have committed insurrection against the US. FYI: That was passed during Reconstruction to ban Confederates who actually went to war against the United States.

https://www.westernjournal.com/lawsuit-kick-trump-off-2024-ballot-filed-minnesota/

This ploy is as desperate as it is stupid. Only in the fevered minds of TDS sufferers did Trump "commit insurrection.” He also didn’t call for it, he didn’t incite it, and even the people in the Capitol who actually did riot were not “insurrectionists.” If their intention was to overthrow and take over the US government, I assume they would have actually carried weapons. But it is a testament to just how afraid these people are of Trump being on the ballot (an odd reaction, since they claim he’s so unpopular and would be easy to beat.) It’s a funny way to protect “our democracy,” by trying to deny the people the right to vote for the candidate of their choice.

But I’m not a legal expert, so I don’t have the authority to tell you how groundless and stupid this tactic is. So I suggest you click the link to the story and let law professor Jonathan Turley and the Democrat Attorney General of Minnesota explain why it’s groundless and stupid. Turley also makes the great point that it sets a slippery slope precedent for purging from office every Democrat who ever protested an election. Ironically, that actually might help protect “our democracy.”


Too disturbing for adults, perfectly fine for children?!?

During a hearing in the Senate, Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy responded to Illinois passing a law against “banning books” in schools by reading into the record excerpts from “Gender Queer,” a sexually-explicit LGBTQ book that Democrats want to impose on elementary school children. There was the expected outrage from his Democrat colleagues, and the Illinois Secretary of State objected that “those words are disturbing.”

They always seem to object whenever anyone, whether in the Senate or at a school board meeting, exposes the gay pornography they want to put into schools. Odd how it’s too disturbing to publicly share with adults, but it’s perfectly fine to force it onto elementary school children in secret.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/12/watch-sen-kennedy-leaves-liberals-seething-after-he-reads-gender-queer-during-a-hearing-n2163722

Personally, I suspect they’re just upset because for the rest of their lives, when they read that book, they’re going to hear John Kennedy’s voice in their heads.


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Promise Kept

Virginia Gov. Glen Youngkin made good on the promise of protecting parents’ rights that got him elected by issuing an “absolute pardon” to Scott Smith. He’s the dad who came to a Loudon County School Board meeting to complain about his daughter being raped in the girls’ bathroom by a male in a dress who claimed to “identify” as transgender. School officials claimed to have no knowledge of this, but it turned out the “trans” student had been accused of a similar crime in another school months before and they’d hushed it up and transferred him to Smith’s daughter’s school to prey on a new victim.

When Smith understandably became enraged and started cursing after his complaint was dismissed and his business slandered, the cops tackled and handcuffed him. He was charged and convicted of disorderly conduct and the government’s new favorite way of jailing people it finds inconvenient, “obstruction of justice.” They should learn what “justice” means before they’re allowed to arrest people for obstructing it. He was also publicly and falsely accused of “hate crimes” and being a “domestic terrorist” (but then any parent who speaks up at school board meetings is one of those these days.)

After Youngkin was elected, an investigation was launched and the superintendent terminated. Youngkin called Smith’s treatment a “gross miscarriage of justice” and said he was just doing what any parent would do, standing up for his child. Some legal authorities criticized Youngkin, accusing him of acting as “judge and jury” (which is obviously the role of school boards.)

But Smith said, “I’m thankful that the Youngkin administration gave me an off-ramp to these charges that never should have happened. It’s kind of bittersweet, because I really looked forward to winning this in court. But unfortunately, our justice system is so screwed up right now that I didn’t feel that I could potentially get a fair shot in court.  That’s what should scare every American is that I had to take this, because I could not trust our justice system.”

This is why I’ve been warning for years that faith in the fairness and impartiality of our justice system was the glue that held our diverse society together, and allowing the system to be politicized would tear this nation apart. The left did it anyway, seeking short term political advantage, and that's destroyed trust in the system from the presidential race down to the school board level. 

Good job, guys. You couldn’t have done a better job of eroding the foundation of America if you’d been a swarm of termites.


In case you missed it…

On Friday, a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled that the Biden White House, federal health officials, and the FBI may have infringed on the First Amendment by pressuring social media platforms to suppress or remove content related to COVID-19 and the 2020 election by using “intimidating messages and threats of adverse consequences.” "MAY have?!" Read that sentence again. Sounds kinda fascist, doesn’t it?

https://www.westernjournal.com/appeals-court-affirms-biden-likely-violated-first-amendment-suppressing-information-social-media/

The court wrote, “The officials have engaged in a broad pressure campaign designed to coerce social-media companies into suppressing speakers, viewpoints, and content disfavored by the government. The harms that radiate from such conduct extend far beyond just the Plaintiffs; it impacts every social media user.”

Unfortunately, they also narrowed the lower court judge’s ban on government agencies contacting tech companies about removing speech. The panel kept the ban on the White House, Surgeon General, CDC and FBI, but lifted it on the State Department, HHS and DHS. I guess because those agencies would NEVER abuse their power to silence their critics.

The Administration has ten days to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court. I hope they’ll concede defeat and drop it, but I admit I would love to hear Justices Thomas and Alito grilling them as they try to make the case for government censorship of free speech.


Time to consider what can be done to stop corrupt Georgia DA

“Now, at what point do you have a prosecutor arrested?”

That was the question from bestselling author and DILBERT creator Scott Adams on Saturday after learning that Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis had ignored evidence that the alternate GOP slate of electors had not been trying to fraudulently replace the original slate.  As we reported last week, the minutes of the December 14, 2020, meeting of these alternates clearly proves that they weren’t out to commit election fraud, only to be ready with GOP electors in the event that a recount in Georgia turned the election to Trump.  Willis disregarded this clear exoneration and indicted these individuals, anyway.

In Willis’ indictments, not to mention the countless media reports about the case, the alternates have been falsely branded “fake electors.”  We’ve even seen this in conservative media.

“Now, if somebody was going to pretend they were the legitimate electors, that would look pretty bad,” Adams said on “Coffee With Scott Adams,” his daily podcast.  “Wouldn’t it?  Turns out, that’s not the case.”  As you know, Willis had in her possession the minutes from the official vote-counting meeting in which members went on the record clarifying, very directly, what they were and were not doing with this alternate slate of electors.  “Their intentions clearly stated that they were not going to be fake electors,” Adams said.  “They were gonna be sort of like back-up...placeholders in case needed.”

Exactly:  they were placeholders, not a replacement.  “A replacement would look like an insurrection,” Adams said, and indeed it would.  “Alternates, while you sort out what’s real, just looks like being prepared for all outcomes.”  And that was the idea.  As you know, there’s even legal precedent for having a slate of alternates, set by the state of Hawaii during the razor-thin Kennedy-Nixon count.

“So they’re being charged with the thing that the documents clearly showed they were not trying to do,” Adams said.  “They were trying to do something legal, and not that thing they’re being charged with.”

It’s “super, super obvious” they’re innocent, he said, yet Willis apparently suppressed the evidence that would prove it.

(FYI, there have been a number of liberal media “fact-checks” about how Georgia is totally different from Hawaii in 1960, but I suspect none of them knew there was exculpatory evidence being hidden that shows it was actually not different. Or if they did know, they didn’t care.)

One might think that, oh, maybe she and her team of assistants weren’t aware of that one particular document in the file of thousands and thousands of pages when she criminally indicted these people in a “fake electors” scheme.  Gosh, maybe it was just an oversight on her part, an honest mistake.  But if that were the case, Willis should already have dropped the charges and apologized profusely to these innocent people.

Since that hasn’t happened, we may safely conclude that “honest” has got nothin’ to do with it --- that Willis is deliberately trying to railroad some innocent people who were just trying to do their duty as specified in the Constitution.  She’ll hold onto that case like a dog with a bone, no matter how obvious it is that she’s abusing the system in a way that would make Stalin proud.

So, if she suppressed the evidence that exonerates them, shouldn’t she be in jail already?  YES.

Adams tried putting the “fog of war” standard on what we’re seeing, suggesting she might have had a legitimate reason for what she did.  We see a reason, all right, but it’s not legitimate.  And Adams gets a similar sense of what she did, saying that “based on what we’ve seen so far, it would look like she’s just a criminal.”

And that brings us full circle, to the original question; namely, at what point do you have a prosecutor arrested?  By coincidence, Sunday’s episode of LIFE, LIBERTY & LEVIN was dedicated to the question of whether this DA is accountable to anyone as she interferes with a federal election, charges federal officials and coordinates with DC.  First, here’s criminal defense attorney David Schoen…

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6336940773112

But Schoen doesn’t specify how to deal with a DA who is out of control.  We’re looking into that ourselves, but in the meantime, Levin also spoke with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio about the fact that without Congress, there would be no district attorney’s office, or special counsel, or DOJ.  (Reminds me of the old Bill Cosby line, “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.”)  We have to stick together as a party, he said, to stop them.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6336850537112

RELATED POINT:  Scott Adams spoke about his earlier tweeting (X-ing?) on Saturday that “when Republicans are wrong, that’s the whole story, but when Democrats are wrong, most of the time it’s because their own team ran a sophisticated op to brainwash them.”  He said, “I’ve never met a Democrat who’s aware of that.  Have you?”

What a fabulous observation: “I’ve never met a Democrat who was aware that their own team runs serial hoaxes on THEM.”

“They don’t work as well on Republicans because Republicans know what’s happening,” he said.

“But the Democrats seem to be completely unaware that their team is running ops on them.”  This seems to be happening on only one side, “and the reason would be that only one side controls enough of the media that you can come up with an op that the media will support.”

Adams observed that the Democrat Party is running ops on their supporters “all the time --- it’s nonstop.”  It’s constant brainwashing that they don’t know is happening at all.

“It’s impressive in its own way,” he said lightly before moving on to another subject.  It strikes us that a more appropriate word would be “OP-pressive,” as it’s the antithesis of a free country with an independent media.  But it certainly does explain a lot, such as every hoax that has been perpetrated against Trump (that’s a long list!) and now Fani Willis’ shocking abuse of power against him and his supporters.

This episode of “Coffee With Scott Adams” is particularly good.  The observations discussed above comes in at about the 20-minute point.  Afterwards, Adams talks about the “tells” people use when they’re experiencing cognitive dissonance and desperately need a comeback to protect themselves.  (Cognitive dissonance is when someone’s comfortable bubble gets poked by some truth.)  As you might have seen, people are amazingly skilled at deflection and straw man arguments.  Just mention something --- anything --- good about Trump, pop the popcorn and watch the fun begin.  Here’s the entire podcast…

https://www.youtube.com/live/X8UHK23bqNg?si=BukjWCuweVM5IAlh

Bill O’Reilly, in a great column this Sunday called “The Sting,” elaborated on this irrational hatred that’s been created towards Trump. First, he outlined Trump’s impressive resume for the first years of his presidency --- a strong economy, good border containment, no new wars, ISIS decimated, Xi and Putin relatively contained.

“But there is scant national reporting of it,” O’Reilly wrote. “Instead, salacious charges of corruption involving Russia dominated headlines for two years” before and during Trump’s term. The Russia Hoax. “A Special Counsel is appointed to investigate. His report says there is no corruption. The national media do not celebrate.”

Consequently, millions of people will disagree with O’Reilly’s positive analysis and continue to “hate” Trump. The only reason for this that O’Reilly would term as “valid” (and we would say its validity is debatable) is the “colossal Trump-driven fiasco after the 2020 election.” But as O’Reilly readily acknowledged, the “get-Trump” movement started long before that; in fact, it started at the very beginning of his first run for President, with the liberal media marching in lock-step to protect Hillary.

O’Reilly was conveying in different words what Scott Adams said about the psy-ops being run by Democrats on Democrats: that the “news agencies are openly currently supporting President Biden by hiding his deficiencies and alleged corruption. The leftist media is also cheerleading the legal cases against Trump without a shred of balance or skepticism.”

“Honest, balanced reporting and news analysis are on the endangered species list,” O’Reilly wrote. “The scorpions who control most media companies are more driven than ever to impose progressive policies and get pliable people like Biden and Kamala elected.”

The result: in O’Reilly’s words, “a lot of power and money is being used to prop up incompetence and corruption.” We see it now all around us, every day. Can the media really dress up this pig enough to sell it once again? It’s hard to imagine they can after witnessing Biden’s horrifying, near-incoherent struggle on his Vietnam trip…

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/10/biden-goes-over-the-edge-in-vietnam-with-softballs-confusion-and-dog-faced-pony-soldiers-n2163634

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/10/even-the-liberal-press-noticed-how-insane-bidens-vietnam-presser-was-and-democrats-are-stuck-n2163649

...and growing evidence of his financial corruption and dishonesty, but we shall see.

https://www.billoreilly.com/b/The-Sting/-286406884029567455.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=staff_column


UPDATE:

I told you over the weekend about New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham doing a test-run of the liberal idea of branding shootings as a “health emergency” to suspend the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. In this case, she responded to a rise in violence in Albuquerque with a 30-day order suspending the rights of people with concealed carry permits. I predicted that she would face legal challenges.

Well, it didn’t take long, and “legal challenges” was an understatement! It’s only Monday, and already, the Albuquerque DA is refusing to enforce the order…

https://www.westernjournal.com/albuquerque-da-refusing-enforce-governors-suspension-2nd-amendment-rights-clearly-unconstitutional/

…The legislature is threatening to impeach Grisham, while she’s digging in her heels and refusing to back down…

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/09/09/new-mexico-lawmakers-call-for-impeaching-gov-lujan-grisham-over-emergency-order-suspending-gun-rights-n2163621

…And four lawsuits have already been filed seeking immediate injunctive relief to block the order. Astoundingly, even famous gun grabbers Ted Lieu and David Hogg tweeted that while they support gun safety, there’s no such thing as a public health emergency exception to the US Constitution. I wonder if they’re trying to kill off defenders of Second Amendment rights by making us all die of shock.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/09/four-lawsuits-filed-challenging-new-mexico-2a-emergency-order/


Protests in DC

Monday, seven protesters occupied Speaker McCarthy’s office in the Capitol and refused to leave until their demands were met. Capitol Police arrested them and charged them with unlawful entry. So I guess they’ll also be upcharged with terrorism, insurrection and obstruction of an official proceeding and thrown into jail for months, awaiting sentencing to 20 years in prison, along with anyone who might have encouraged them to do it or expressed any support for them…

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/09/11/insurrection-activists-occupy-speaker-mccarthys-office-n1726095

Oh, wait: they were leftwing protesters demanding AIDS funding? Well, never mind! Nothing to see here then…

 

Stop The Presses!

The Biden “Justice” Department actually dropped a case against someone who had a Kevin Bacon-level connection to Donald Trump!

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/11/justice-department-case-against-michael-flynns-former-business-partner/

Five years ago, they charged former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s former business partner, Bijan Rafiekian, with failing to register as a foreign agent for Turkey. Before everything done by anyone who's ever met Trump became a felony, that used to be handled with a warning phone call. They got a jury conviction in 2019, but the judge tossed it out for lack of evidence. Biden’s DOJ refused to accept their loss and kept appealing, wasting years of time and a ton of money for both the accused and the taxpayers.

Rafiekian’s attorney said he never should have been indicted and has “been the target of baseless federal prosecution for the past five years, only because he made the poor decision to be in business with Michael Flynn.” The Biden DOJ said, “After carefully considering the Fourth Circuit’s recent decision in this case and the principles of federal prosecution, the United States believes it is not in the public interest to pursue the case against defendant Bijan Rafiekian further.”

I'm pleasantly surprised to learn that federal prosecutions still have principles. But was it ever really in the public’s interest to pursue that case? Or did they finally just decide that five years of expensive legal persecution was enough process-as-punishment? On the bright side, maybe this means that after five years, they’ll finally decide it’s not in the public’s interest to keep trying to put Trump in prison for 700 years for possessing his own papers or making a phone call.


Just some questions

Why do we negotiate with Terrorists countries who threaten us daily and give them $6 billion to use to develop weapons that they will use against us?

Why do we give them the money before they give us what they are supposed to give us?

Are the protestors that barged in to McCarthy’s office and sat down screaming and yelling blocking the staffers from doing their jobs and were arrested going to be charged with sedition? What about other protestors that do this in the capitol going forward?

If not, what’s the difference between them and the Jan. 6th protestors who merely walked by the capitol or walked in but didn’t tear anything up or even yell and scream?

When Biden can’t remember where he is or rambles on incoherently or says he needs to go to bed, why aren’t people more concerned about who is in charge in this country?

 


September 11th Anniversary News Round-up

For those who might have missed it yesterday, here is the video of the full 9/11 Memorial ceremony in New York City…

https://www.youtube.com/live/tXmM0Ip-1Uc?si=kbbSK9IZ0lBFWcfW

And Breitbart News’ visual history of 9/11 images. Warning: some are very disturbing.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/11/9-11-a-visual-history/

President Biden took criticism for being the first sitting American President not to attend the New York 9/11 ceremony since 2002. The official White House excuse was that 22 years after Pearl Harbor, Presidents still weren’t attending that ceremony. Well, maybe they should have. It was also a lot more difficult to travel 4800 miles from DC to Hawaii in 1964 than to travel 200 miles from DC to NYC in 2023. Biden, meanwhile, was in Alaska (about 4300 miles from DC), one of the few places not dealing with the consequences of his open border and so less likely to be filled with hecklers than Manhattan. Even so, he was blasted for starting his 9/11 comments with a joke and for falsely claiming he’d been at Ground Zero the day after the attack – which, to be fair, he might actually believe.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/11/bidens-911-speech-in-alaska-was-a-national-embarrassment-n2163690

Speaking of jokes, Biden’s place in New York was taken by VP Kamala Harris, who, as always and under the most inappropriate circumstances, had a hard time not giggling.

https://www.westernjournal.com/kamala-harris-cant-keep-laughing-9-11-memorial/

On the anniversary of the date when 19 Islamic terrorists killed over 2700 people, it was reported that so far this year, 149 people who are on the Terrorist Watch List were intercepted trying to cross our southern or northern borders – 146 of them on the southern border.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/11/nearly-150-illegal-aliens-terrorist-watch-list-encountered-u-s-border-past-year/


Reader conducted Gmail test

From Substack reader Steve F:

I tested Pat Reeder's sentence fragment ("It was also reported that the same Georgia grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 other people...") in Proton Mail. There was no complaint at all (as I expected). The problem is almost certainly the GMail servers, not whatever browser you use to access GMail. This is sad but unsurprising -- and a good reason to get a Proton Mail account. :-)


White House agrees to Iran deal on September 11 Anniversary

In what many are calling an embarrassment and an insult to the memory of 9/11 victims, the White House announced on September 11th that they’d reached a deal to release $6 billion in frozen Iranian assets and to release five Iranians being held in the US in exchange for Iran releasing five Americans that they’ve been holding prisoner.

As noted at the link, the White House claims the $6 billion will be spent on “humanitarian purposes,” but nobody seriously believes that. And even if it were true, it would just free up $6 billion elsewhere in Iran’s budget to fund terrorism. The announcement set off a fierce debate over which was worse: the deal itself or the timing of its announcement?

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/09/11/biden-admin-commemorates-911-by-announcing-deal-to-pay-iran-6-billion-for-hostage-release-n2163695


Trump files motion for biased DC Judge Chutkan to recuse herself

On Monday, attorneys for President Trump did something they were absolutely bound to do: they filed a motion asking Judge Tanya Chutkan, the DC judge hearing his case about interference in the 2020 election, to recuse herself.

Judge Chutkan, an Obama appointee, is on record, from before being assigned Trump’s case, strongly implying that Trump needed to be behind bars.

Trump’s attorneys say this statement is “inherently disqualifying,” and they are right.  If she fails to disqualify herself over this and other statements she has made, and is allowed to continue presiding, we may assume that our legal system is down the toilet and we really are just “going through the motions of justice.”

Perhaps the worst problem with Trump Derangement Syndrome is that those infected by it do not realize this and still are convinced they’re objective.  As the motion states, “Although Judge Chutkin may genuinely intend to give President Trump a fair trial --- and may believe that she can do so --- her public statements unavoidably taint these proceedings, regardless of outcome.”

It was during the sentencing of January 6 defendant Christine Priola that she said the people at the Capitol that day were there out of “blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.”

Trump’s lawyers argued that the meaning of this is “inescapable --- President Trump is free, but should not be.”

It’s not just words but actions.  Chutkan has already done one thing that suggests she’s --- consciously or not --- trying to damage President Trump’s ability to run for the GOP nomination in ‘24.  She set the trial date in his case for March 4 of next year.  The Super Tuesday primaries are March 5.

It’s up to the judge to recuse herself, but if she doesn’t (and she probably won’t), we’d think that would enter into any appeal down the road, if it comes to that.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/11/trump-tanya-chutkan-recuse

Now, let’s go from DC to Fulton County, Georgia, and see how the deck has been stacked against President Trump there…

Attorney and election law expert Cleta Mitchell told legal analyst Margot Cleveland at THE FEDERALIST that being questioned for hours by the Fulton County grand jury was “a surreal experience.”  She said, “I knew coming out of there that the whole thing was a loose cannon...[that] they were going to recommend indicting basically all the Trump allies --- it was a completely political situation --- nothing to do with the law.  NOTHING.”

Mitchell was called to testify because she had represented Trump in his challenge to the 2020 election in Georgia.  (As you know, the concept of attorney-client privilege, at least for President Trump, has been tossed right out the window.  Executive privilege, too.)

Now that the grand jury report has been released, we know that “all the Trump allies” refers to 39 (!) people that they wanted to charge, not just the 19 who actually were indicted.  Some of those on the list but whom DA Fani Willis apparently knew better than to indict were South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, and former GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, both of Georgia.  Mitchell herself was on the list but also not indicted.

Remember Emily Kohrs, the scary jury foreperson who made the mistake of doing a few interviews while the grand jury was still hearing testimony?  Her overzealousness apparently was no act; Mitchell told Cleveland that some notes she herself had carried into the grand jury room had been taken by Kohrs and completely misread.  “You say here,” Kohrs told her, “...that you are asking the court to award the electors to Donald Trump.”

As the notes said no such thing, a puzzled Mitchell said, “Where do you read that?”  Kohrs handed it back.  To quote Mitchell:

“Nowhere in the memorandum of law does it say that the election should be awarded to Trump. We argued that there is precedent under Georgia law for the court to vacate the results and order a new election IF we were able to establish that the evidence proved there were more illegal votes, cast in violation of state law but counted and included in the certified total, than the margin of difference between the two candidates — the remedy is a new election. Alternatively, we argued that the state legislature has plenary power under the U.S. Constitution to meet and determine the electors — and I told her that.”

In other words, she was explaining this the way we explained the alternate slate of electors (who now face criminal charges):  that it was only IN CASE the evidence showed the need for it.  What Mitchell had described in writing was not illegal.  But Kohrs is such a zealot, she automatically jumped to the worst possible interpretation --- something that Mitchell hadn’t even said.

The grand jury recommended indicting Mitchell on a variety of charges relating to the phone call in which Trump allegedly told Secretary of State Raffensperger to “find” a specified number of votes.  They did this in spite of the fact that they never asked her even one question about the phone call.  What Fulton County prosecutors asked her about, she said, was what they saw as “deficiencies” in the election challenge filed by Trump.

After hearing Mitchell’s account, Cleveland concluded that the questions they had asked her “further cement the reality that what Democrats are trying to do is criminalize election challenges brought by Republicans.”  (Democrats, knock yourself out with all the election challenges you want!)  If this DA in Georgia can get away with it, it’s bound to start happening all over the country, with Democrat-controlled courts picking the winners.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/11/fulton-county-grand-jury-was-totally-unhinged-reveals-election-lawyer/

 

RELATED:  As long as we’re talking about contested elections, what on earth is going on with GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, in his remarks about the J6 case?  He currently sits on the House Judiciary Committee, but, good heavens, is he looking for a permanent gig on MSNBC?  Investigative reporter Julie Kelly has picked apart Buck’s response to a letter signed by more than 200 in the Colorado Republican Party demanding that elected officials in their state address the plight of the J6 defendants.

Buck made light of their plight.

Kelly, who knows as much and possibly more than anyone about the J6 defendants and the treatment they’ve received by the legal system, says Buck’s “Pollyanna-ish view of the DC legal and judicial system is animated by ignorance.”  Her masterful response to Rep. Buck is a must-read…

https://www.declassified.live/p/why-ken-buck-is-wrong-about-j6-defendants

And, yes, Buck actually did go on MSNBC to defend Joe Biden from claims he was involved in Hunter’s business.   As for talk of an impeachment inquiry, he says Speaker Kevin McCarthy is just using that as “a distraction.”

“The time for impeachment is the time when there’s evidence linking President Biden --- if there’s evidence linking President Biden to a high crime or misdemeanor.  That doesn’t exist now.”

What??

It’s true that an impeachment shouldn’t be rushed, but there’s more than enough evidence to warrant the inquiry, NOW.  It’s all up to Congress, because the ‘Justice’ Department sure isn’t going to do it. 

https://www.independentsentinel.com/rep-ken-buck-defends-joe-biden-again/


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On Monday, attorneys for President Trump did something they were absolutely bound to do: they filed a motion asking Judge Tanya Chutkan, the DC judge hearing his case about interference in the 2020 election, to recuse herself.

Judge Chutkan, an Obama appointee, is on record, from before being assigned Trump’s case, strongly implying that Trump needed to be behind bars.

Trump’s attorneys say this statement is “inherently disqualifying,” and they are right.  If she fails to disqualify herself over this and other statements she has made, and is allowed to continue presiding, we may assume that our legal system is down the toilet and we really are just “going through the motions of justice.”

Perhaps the worst problem with Trump Derangement Syndrome is that those infected by it do not realize this and still are convinced they’re objective.  As the motion states, “Although Judge Chutkin may genuinely intend to give President Trump a fair trial --- and may believe that she can do so --- her public statements unavoidably taint these proceedings, regardless of outcome.”

It was during the sentencing of January 6 defendant Christine Priola that she said the people at the Capitol that day were there out of “blind loyalty to one person who, by the way, remains free to this day.”

Trump’s lawyers argued that the meaning of this is “inescapable --- President Trump is free, but should not be.”

It’s not just words but actions.  Chutkan has already done one thing that suggests she’s --- consciously or not --- trying to damage President Trump’s ability to run for the GOP nomination in ‘24.  She set the trial date in his case for March 4 of next year.  The Super Tuesday primaries are March 5.

It’s up to the judge to recuse herself, but if she doesn’t (and she probably won’t), we’d think that would enter into any appeal down the road, if it comes to that.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/11/trump-tanya-chutkan-recuse

Now, let’s go from DC to Fulton County, Georgia, and see how the deck has been stacked against President Trump there…

Attorney and election law expert Cleta Mitchell told legal analyst Margot Cleveland at THE FEDERALIST that being questioned for hours by the Fulton County grand jury was “a surreal experience.”  She said, “I knew coming out of there that the whole thing was a loose cannon...[that] they were going to recommend indicting basically all the Trump allies --- it was a completely political situation --- nothing to do with the law.  NOTHING.”

Mitchell was called to testify because she had represented Trump in his challenge to the 2020 election in Georgia.  (As you know, the concept of attorney-client privilege, at least for President Trump, has been tossed right out the window.  Executive privilege, too.)

Now that the grand jury report has been released, we know that “all the Trump allies” refers to 39 (!) people that they wanted to charge, not just the 19 who actually were indicted.  Some of those on the list but whom DA Fani Willis apparently knew better than to indict were South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham, and former GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, both of Georgia.  Mitchell herself was on the list but also not indicted.

Remember Emily Kohrs, the scary jury foreperson who made the mistake of doing a few interviews while the grand jury was still hearing testimony?  Her overzealousness apparently was no act; Mitchell told Cleveland that some notes she herself had carried into the grand jury room had been taken by Kohrs and completely misread.  “You say here,” Kohrs told her, “...that you are asking the court to award the electors to Donald Trump.”

As the notes said no such thing, a puzzled Mitchell said, “Where do you read that?”  Kohrs handed it back.  To quote Mitchell:

“Nowhere in the memorandum of law does it say that the election should be awarded to Trump. We argued that there is precedent under Georgia law for the court to vacate the results and order a new election IF we were able to establish that the evidence proved there were more illegal votes, cast in violation of state law but counted and included in the certified total, than the margin of difference between the two candidates — the remedy is a new election. Alternatively, we argued that the state legislature has plenary power under the U.S. Constitution to meet and determine the electors — and I told her that.”

In other words, she was explaining this the way we explained the alternate slate of electors (who now face criminal charges):  that it was only IN CASE the evidence showed the need for it.  What Mitchell had described in writing was not illegal.  But Kohrs is such a zealot, she automatically jumped to the worst possible interpretation --- something that Mitchell hadn’t even said.

The grand jury recommended indicting Mitchell on a variety of charges relating to the phone call in which Trump allegedly told Secretary of State Raffensperger to “find” a specified number of votes.  They did this in spite of the fact that they never asked her even one question about the phone call.  What Fulton County prosecutors asked her about, she said, was what they saw as “deficiencies” in the election challenge filed by Trump.

After hearing Mitchell’s account, Cleveland concluded that the questions they had asked her “further cement the reality that what Democrats are trying to do is criminalize election challenges brought by Republicans.”  (Democrats, knock yourself out with all the election challenges you want!)  If this DA in Georgia can get away with it, it’s bound to start happening all over the country, with Democrat-controlled courts picking the winners.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/11/fulton-county-grand-jury-was-totally-unhinged-reveals-election-lawyer/

 

RELATED:  As long as we’re talking about contested elections, what on earth is going on with GOP Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado, in his remarks about the J6 case?  He currently sits on the House Judiciary Committee, but, good heavens, is he looking for a permanent gig on MSNBC?  Investigative reporter Julie Kelly has picked apart Buck’s response to a letter signed by more than 200 in the Colorado Republican Party demanding that elected officials in their state address the plight of the J6 defendants.

Buck made light of their plight.

Kelly, who knows as much and possibly more than anyone about the J6 defendants and the treatment they’ve received by the legal system, says Buck’s “Pollyanna-ish view of the DC legal and judicial system is animated by ignorance.”  Her masterful response to Rep. Buck is a must-read…

https://www.declassified.live/p/why-ken-buck-is-wrong-about-j6-defendants

And, yes, Buck actually did go on MSNBC to defend Joe Biden from claims he was involved in Hunter’s business.   As for talk of an impeachment inquiry, he says Speaker Kevin McCarthy is just using that as “a distraction.”

“The time for impeachment is the time when there’s evidence linking President Biden --- if there’s evidence linking President Biden to a high crime or misdemeanor.  That doesn’t exist now.”

What??

It’s true that an impeachment shouldn’t be rushed, but there’s more than enough evidence to warrant the inquiry, NOW.  It’s all up to Congress, because the ‘Justice’ Department sure isn’t going to do it. 

https://www.independentsentinel.com/rep-ken-buck-defends-joe-biden-again/

Huckabee Post: Remembering 911

September 11, 2023

 


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Remembering 911

Today is the 22nd anniversary of the September 11th, 2001, attacks, the deadliest attacks on America in history. Those of us who were alive then will never forget that morning, when we woke up and felt we must still be asleep and having a nightmare. 

First, a passenger jet slammed into the World Trade Center, and there was some thought it might be a horrific aviation disaster. But when it happened again, there was no denying that America was under attack, and in a way that we had never seen before: by an enemy so ruthless and fanatical that they would destroy a skyscraper filled with innocent people, using a plane filled with innocent people as a weapon, and who were such zealots that they would sacrifice their own lives just to kill as many people as possible.

Those of us who were there will never forget the grief, horror and confusion. For months afterward, we felt a tinge of alarm whenever a plane flew overhead at a low altitude.

America learned a very hard lesson that day about the hollowness of the comforting delusion that all cultures were basically like us and held the same peaceful, tolerant values. We also learned hard lessons from some of the wrongheaded reactions to the attack, like the willingness to trade our freedom for a (false) sense of security. To this day, airline travel is still an intrusive, time-wasting ordeal, and has all that TSA groping and probing and throwing away of our shampoo ever stopped a single attempted terrorist hijacking?

Yet we also seem to have forgotten most of the lessons we learned from 9/11 and its aftermath. When COVID struck, many people were more than willing to hand over even more of their Constitutionally-protected freedoms to the government in exchange for false promises of safety.

In the aftermath of 9/11, we put aside our differences and united around our common heritage, humanity and values as Americans. For instance, people in Texas stood in long lines to donate blood to help victims in New York City. There was none of today’s red/blue animosity and division, some of which is organic due to differing beliefs, but much of which is ginned up by politicians, activists and media figures whose own power increases when they can divide us and pit us against each other.  This is why Darryl Worley wrote a new version of his 9/11 anthem, “Have You Forgotten?” It’s called “Have We Forgotten?”

https://www.huckabee.tv/guests/darryl-worley

Another forgotten lesson: even though it took just 19 hijackers to carry out 9/11 and kill nearly 3,000 people, our President has thrown open our border, allowing millions of unvetted people to come streaming in from all over the world, including many whom we know are on terror watch lists. That same President recently handed Afghanistan back to the same terrorists who gave sanctuary to the plotters of 9/11, and left them a huge trove of our military equipment in the bargain. And word is that his Administration is cutting a deal with the 9/11 architects to save them from the death penalty.

As hard as it is for those of us who lived through 9/11 to fathom how any Americans could tolerate this, we must remember that 9/11 was 22 years ago. That means there’s now an entire generation of young adults who have no personal memories of 9/11. They grew up in a virtual police state that focuses more on infringing on the rights of citizens than fighting terrorists, with schools teaching that America is the source of all evil, and with social media telling them that treasured Western values like privacy rights, free speech and personal freedom are obsolete.

That’s why, as hard as it may be to relive that darkest day in US history, it’s important to teach your children what happened and why, because it will be up to them to make sure it never happens again, and those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I urge you, if your children are old enough to understand it without being traumatized, that you take them to a 9/11 commemoration or watch one on TV with them. Or visit the 9/11 Memorial in New York, or the new 9/11 Remembered Traveling Memorial. On this weekend’s “Huckabee,” I interviewed its founder, Erick Robertson. You can watch that here, and find a link to the traveling memorial site where you can invite it to visit your town.  

https://www.huckabee.tv/guests/erick-robertson

On this 9/11 anniversary, let’s remember that time when all Americans put aside our differences and came together to save America. Let’s mourn the dead, remember the heroes and reflect on what we all have in common and what makes America the greatest nation on Earth, the one that is still under relentless attack by the enemies of freedom but is strong, resolute and resilient enough to withstand any blow, come back and win.


9/11/2023

By Ken Allard

Because they recall a time of great national unity, Monday’s commemorations of the 911 attacks may seem remote even for Americans who vividly recall those horrific tableaus. The 20-somethings now assuming adult responsibilities were first insulated from those grim realities by youth, then further sequestered by an educational establishment that considers American militarism, materialism and white privilege the only true evils worth opposing.

As a retired Army officer with a highly improbable second career as an on-air military analyst with NBC News, I was directly involved in the immediate reporting and aftermath of 911. After I rushed headlong into our northwest Washington studios, bureau chief Tim Russert briefly sat me down to stress repeatedly that our reporting needed to be limited to hard facts, however grim they might be. “Colonel, most of our audience has never seen a war, much less one hitting their own neighborhoods. So let’s try to help them get through this.”

That was good advice but, in the days and weeks that followed, my most serious error came when I relied on my own experience instead of reporting Tim Russert’s cold, hard facts. Quickly glossing over the last half-century, I confidently assured the national audience that attacking our homeland and producing over three thousand deaths would surely result in our first formal declaration of war since Pearl Harbor. It didn’t happen of course, a point on which the extensive memoirs of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice conclusively agree.

In fact, the most remarkable thing about such a fundamental point of national strategy was that the high-level councils of Bush ’43 never seem to have considered how they might mobilize the American people for what quickly became the War on Terror. Instead, ordinary citizens were asked to pray for peace while being dispatched to the shopping malls, favored vacation hideaways, university paper mills and, most tellingly, the airports (where newly-recruited TSA agents harassed ever-growing lines of long-suffering passengers.)

But rather than sending our precious offspring into combat, the wars of 911 would be fought principally by Other People’s Kids, i.e., the volunteer Army and the Reserves. Sadly, the tyranny of the numbers often meant deploying our grunts to those hellholes on multiple combat tours. Perhaps overcome by his own eloquence while promising retaliation at Ground Zero, the younger President Bush seemed to ignore one of the principal lessons of Vietnam and most strategy primers: that you don’t send in the troops before the Nation is firmly committed to war. But two of his principal advisors, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, had helped to create the all-volunteer force back during the Ford administration. Surely our superbly trained and equipped professional military could now meet the challenges of 911? Even if those wars endured for over 20 years while the children of the elites stayed home?

However, it wasn’t supposed to be that way. I witnessed that now forgotten bit of history while working directly for the Army senior leadership as the Berlin Wall fell and we trussed up the resulting “peace dividend” like a Thanksgiving turkey. We had won the Cold War with a standing Army of just over 780,000 active-duty soldiers; it would now be reduced to under 500,000 while the Reserves stood by as a cadre force and hedge against future wars. But since history had stopped, only peace was expected. Pointedly ignored was an ancient Roman axiom, “Si vis pacem, para Bellum,” (“If you would have peace, then prepare for war.”)

What no one noticed back then was that the legislation which in 1972 created the All-Volunteer Force was effectively coupled in 1973 with the momentous change in national policy that became infamous as Roe versus Wade. In just over 12 months: military service had been downgraded from the long-standing obligation of citizenship to just another career choice. Similarly, the Holocaust of the Unborn guaranteed that our future manpower requirements would inevitably be dwarfed and overrun by our most likely adversaries.

No wonder that our all-volunteer force has fallen on hard times, due to the scarcity of qualified volunteers capable of meeting recruiting standards already in permanent and precipitous decline. Today, fewer than half of one percent of Americans ever deign to wear their country’s uniform and who can blame them? We have effectively created a sealed and segregated military establishment that marches to the dubious rhythms of political correctness and the uncertain trumpets that systematically trash our most sacred values.

Colonel (Ret.) Ken Allard is a former West Point professor, Dean of the National War College and NBC News on-air military analyst.


The “Freedom to Breathe” bill

Republican Sen. J.D. Vance proposed a bill banning the return of mask mandates. It’s called, appropriately enough, the “Freedom to Breathe” bill. But the Democrats blocked it, with uber-liberal Sen. Ed Markey hilariously arguing that it would infringe on the right of states and cities to decide what’s best for their local communities.

https://www.westernjournal.com/jd-vance-goads-dems-revealing-true-intentions-mask-mandates-senate-floor/

As that linked story reminds us, Markey introduced his own mask bill in 2020, except it would have forced a mask mandate on every American, regardless of what their local governments thought was best. It seems that respect for local governments can be switched on and office, depending on the issue.

Personally, I think the most telling thing about this story is that the Democrats actually blocked a bill that would protect our freedom to breathe. Why am I not surprised?


A “public health emergency” in New Mexico

We’ve been hearing for some time from Democrats about proclaiming shootings to be a “health emergency” as an excuse to suspend the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, when most shootings are actually the results of Democratic policies and are very seldom committed by legal, permitted gun owners. Well, now we have the first attempt at this novel work-around of the Constitution.

New Mexico’s Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared shootings in Albuquerque to be a “public health emergency” and suspended the open and permitted carrying of concealed firearms there for 30 days.

https://www.westernjournal.com/emergency-health-order-suspends-2nd-amendment-rights-citizens-effective-immediately/

Grisham said she expects there will be legal challenges, and I think that’s a no-brainer. The head of a state gun control group praised the order, saying, “If it saves one life, then it’s worth doing." And what if it costs lives by letting criminals know they’re the only ones who will be armed?

If you look at the shootings cited as justification, they include such incidents as four teenagers in two stolen cars who opened fire on a mobile home, and a 14-year-old boy who shot a 13-year-old girl with his father’s gun. How would those shootings have been prevented by taking away the right to self-defense from law-abiding, permitted, adult gun owners? If you think this is the solution to stopping shootings by young people who are being raised with no respect for the law or the sanctity of life, then I think you might have a mental health emergency.


Hurricane Lee

Another hurricane has formed in the Atlantic, and Hurricane Lee has intensified into a monster. It’s still hundreds of miles out at sea, and it’s impossible to predict yet where, when or if it will impact the US, but if you live on the east coast, keep a close watch on the weather news this week.

https://www.westernjournal.com/monster-cat-5-hurricane-lee-slam-right-us/


Not really news, but nice to read

This is being presented as news, but I’ve been hearing it for so long, it’s more like news only to people who get their news from “mainstream” news sources. But it’s nice to see it finally being confirmed out loud: a California scientist admitted that he left out the full truth from an article on climate change, blaming it primarily on human causes, because that was the only way to get published in a prestigious journal like Science or Nature.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/california-scientist-left-out-full-truth-climate-change-wildfire-study-published

He said he distorted the findings of his studies, focusing narrowly on the human influences on wildfires instead of other “obviously relevant factors” because “the editors of these journals have made it abundantly clear, both by what they publish and what they reject, that they want climate papers that support certain pre-approved narratives—even when those narratives come at the expense of broader knowledge for society."

I’ve long said that anyone who tells you “there’s now a consensus” or “the science is settled” is actually telling you, “I don’t know what science is.” The surest way to stop the growth of knowledge on any subject is to censor people who challenge the prevailing dogma or present different views and contrary evidence. That process of challenging and testing IS science. If you don’t allow it, then you shouldn’t call your publication “Science.”

As for the idea that if a majority of scientists agree on something, that means it’s correct and can’t be challenged, then I’d point out that at various times in history, the majority of scientists agreed on all sorts of ridiculous things, like the Sun revolving around the Earth or dark skin meaning you’re not fully human. It’s a good thing we didn’t declare that the “science is settled” then. But somehow, we now know precisely where to draw the line and say, “Okay, we know everything on this topic! No more conflicting evidence!”


A Taste of Texas’ plight

This week, parents, students and teachers in New York City schools got a taste of what their counterparts in states like Texas have to deal with after Biden opened up our border, and they’re calling it a “nightmare.”

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/09/09/nyc-schools-illegal-immigrants-n2628152

All I can say is, “Hey, you elected Joe ‘Open Borders’ Biden, and all those New York City liberals who declared the Big Apple a ‘sanctuary city.’” The painful results should be no more of a surprise than if you dropped an anvil on your foot. 

The Who even warned us about this in their rock opera “Tommy,” way back in 1969. The false prophet urged everyone in the world to “come into this house, be one of us.” So they did, until there were “more at the more, there’s more at the door, there’s more…” until they were overwhelmed. And it all ended with his furious followers overthrowing him as they sang a song called “We’re Not Gonna Take It.”

Let’s hope that happens to New York voters so they “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”

 


Least Surprising News Of The Day!

In a survey by the real estate site Home Bay, users ranked Washington, DC, as the least desirable place to live in America. Yet somehow, the people who live in it think they should be dictating the way you run your city.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/04/washington-d-c-ranked-least-desirable-place-live-survey/

New York City was ranked as the most overrated city, which I can see, certainly in recent years. But I have to question the wisdom of the respondents for ranking Seattle as both the most desirable and most underrated city. Do they just mean “compared to Portland?”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/seattle-on-track-to-break-homicide-record-amid-police-shortage-rising-crime-fears/ar-AA1gbN1x


Gmail Spellcheck Convicts Trump

By “Huckabee” pop culture guru Pat Reeder (http://www.hollywoodhifi.com)

While proofreading a story yesterday in Gmail, I made a startling discovery. The email program’s spellcheck underlined the word “indicted” in this sentence:

"It was also reported that the same Georgia grand jury that indicted Trump and 18 other people..." 

I knew the spelling was correct, so I clicked on “indicted” to see what alternative Gmail suggested. It suggested changing it to “convicted.”

Well, that’s an entirely different thing, and grand juries don’t convict people, so it made no sense. As an experiment, I deleted the name “Trump” and replaced it with my last name. What do you know? The spell check underline on “indicted” disappeared and no alternative was suggested!

I tried this on two computers and three browsers (Chrome, Opera and Firefox) and it worked on every one. Try it yourself and see if it works on yours. I'm curious to know.

I wonder if the Gmail algorithm has just been taught to assume that Trump is already convicted, or if the well-connected Silicon Valley Democrat donors behind Google know something about these trials that the rest of us don’t?


Last Week’s Monologue

My monologue on my TBN show “Huckabee” last week got a LOT of attention from the loony left who missed the obvious point of my message, which is not surprising.  For people who often have Ivy League degrees, they aren’t that smart, and they typically see things from their myopic lens of elitist snobbery.  In this case, they totally failed to comprehend that under the Biden regime, America is becoming a police state where the “powers” of “justice” are used to destroy dissent and to influence and possibly steal elections.

https://youtu.be/GiU09Mhqt1s?si=bTdMZn0xbwNXdA5O

Here is the monologue in full so you can hear it for yourself.  (Trigger warning!  Some from the left screamed that I was using “threatening language!”  I have to wonder if those saying such gibberish actually watched it or just took someone’s mischaracterization and served their whine without the cheese?

The obvious point is that if the current government continues to abuse power by arresting and criminalizing those who disagree or oppose the banana republic dictator-like tactics of Biden’s police state, that same government will only grow worse in its abuse of power until it won’t even pretend to have honest elections and will just perpetuate power at gunpoint.  It’s how dictatorships operate. 

If a sitting President can defeat or worse prevent his opponent from running by corrupt police powers, then those who refuse to bow their knee to the Baal of big government and tyranny will be disenfranchised from voting and told what to do from the barrel of a gun.  It’s already happening.  A pro-life Dad in Nashville taken at gunpoint and handcuffed in front of his children by gun-toting SWAT team because he protested at an abortion clinic.  A man in NW Arkansas was arrested at gunpoint at his home 2 ½ years AFTER he merely attended the January 6 Capitol protest and even had his personal Liberty safe opened by the FBI with cooperation with Liberty Safe company despite the fact that he did not break into any offices, assault anyone, or vandalize anything.  White House Economic Advisor Peter Navarro was arrested at gunpoint and put in handcuffs and leg shackles as he was boarding an airplane to travel to Nashville to be a guest on my TV show.  He just this week was “convicted” of “contempt of Congress” and threated with prison time.  (Remember when then Attorney General Eric “Wingman for Obama” Holder was charged with contempt of Congress?  NOTHING happened to him.  NOTHING.) 

Fortunately, not every journalist is brain-dead and saw my message accurately, like Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire:

https://www.mediamatters.org/michael-knowles/daily-wires-michael-knowles-warns-likelihood-civil-war-much-higher-if-trump-kept

Don’t be naïve.  Half of America is under assault for believing that we should have secure borders, safe cities and streets, protection of innocent human life, penalties for violent criminals, laws that treat Hunter and Hillary the same as any other criminals, and that we SHOULD put America first.  If you believe there are only 2 genders and that parents and not governments should have authority over your child, you are a threat to this regime.  If you believe we should worship the Creator instead of the Created by bowing to the “climate czars” like John Kerry and Al Gore, you have a target on your back. 

I stand by every word I said.  And I really do fear for the future of my beloved America.


9/11 Stories Worth Reading…

Here’s the video of this morning’s 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York City…

https://www.youtube.com/live/tXmM0Ip-1Uc?si=kbbSK9IZ0lBFWcfW

Breitbart News compiled a visual history of 9/11 images. Warning: these include disturbing photos and videos that will bring back very painful memories.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/11/9-11-a-visual-history/

 

Navy SEAL and best-selling author Jack Carr reflects on all the people who didn’t see 9/11 coming and who’ve spent the past 20 years “failing upward” into positions of power and influence where they also failed to plan for the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/jack-carrs-take-9-11-terror-attacks-hope-lessons-afghanistan

 


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“Now, at what point do you have a prosecutor arrested?”

That was the question from bestselling author and DILBERT creator Scott Adams on Saturday after learning that Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis had ignored evidence that the alternate GOP slate of electors had not been trying to fraudulently replace the original slate.  As we reported last week, the minutes of the December 14, 2020, meeting of these alternates clearly proves that they weren’t out to commit election fraud, only to be ready with GOP electors in the event that a recount in Georgia turned the election to Trump.  Willis disregarded this clear exoneration and indicted these individuals, anyway.

In Willis’ indictments, not to mention the countless media reports about the case, the alternates have been falsely branded “fake electors.”  We’ve even seen this in conservative media.

“Now, if somebody was going to pretend they were the legitimate electors, that would look pretty bad,” Adams said on “Coffee With Scott Adams,” his daily podcast.  “Wouldn’t it?  Turns out, that’s not the case.”  As you know, Willis had in her possession the minutes from the official vote-counting meeting in which members went on the record clarifying, very directly, what they were and were not doing with this alternate slate of electors.  “Their intentions clearly stated that they were not going to be fake electors,” Adams said.  “They were gonna be sort of like back-up...placeholders in case needed.”

Exactly:  they were placeholders, not a replacement.  “A replacement would look like an insurrection,” Adams said, and indeed it would.  “Alternates, while you sort out what’s real, just looks like being prepared for all outcomes.”  And that was the idea.  As you know, there’s even legal precedent for having a slate of alternates, set by the state of Hawaii during the razor-thin Kennedy-Nixon count.

“So they’re being charged with the thing that the documents clearly showed they were not trying to do,” Adams said.  “They were trying to do something legal, and not that thing they’re being charged with.”

It’s “super, super obvious” they’re innocent, he said, yet Willis apparently suppressed the evidence that would prove it.

(FYI, there have been a number of liberal media “fact-checks” about how Georgia is totally different from Hawaii in 1960, but I suspect none of them knew there was exculpatory evidence being hidden that shows it was actually not different. Or if they did know, they didn’t care.)

One might think that, oh, maybe she and her team of assistants weren’t aware of that one particular document in the file of thousands and thousands of pages when she criminally indicted these people in a “fake electors” scheme.  Gosh, maybe it was just an oversight on her part, an honest mistake.  But if that were the case, Willis should already have dropped the charges and apologized profusely to these innocent people.

Since that hasn’t happened, we may safely conclude that “honest” has got nothin’ to do with it --- that Willis is deliberately trying to railroad some innocent people who were just trying to do their duty as specified in the Constitution.  She’ll hold onto that case like a dog with a bone, no matter how obvious it is that she’s abusing the system in a way that would make Stalin proud.

So, if she suppressed the evidence that exonerates them, shouldn’t she be in jail already?  YES.

Adams tried putting the “fog of war” standard on what we’re seeing, suggesting she might have had a legitimate reason for what she did.  We see a reason, all right, but it’s not legitimate.  And Adams gets a similar sense of what she did, saying that “based on what we’ve seen so far, it would look like she’s just a criminal.”

And that brings us full circle, to the original question; namely, at what point do you have a prosecutor arrested?  By coincidence, Sunday’s episode of LIFE, LIBERTY & LEVIN was dedicated to the question of whether this DA is accountable to anyone as she interferes with a federal election, charges federal officials and coordinates with DC.  First, here’s criminal defense attorney David Schoen…

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6336940773112

But Schoen doesn’t specify how to deal with a DA who is out of control.  We’re looking into that ourselves, but in the meantime, Levin also spoke with House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio about the fact that without Congress, there would be no district attorney’s office, or special counsel, or DOJ.  (Reminds me of the old Bill Cosby line, “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out.”)  We have to stick together as a party, he said, to stop them.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6336850537112

 

 

RELATED POINT:  Scott Adams spoke about his earlier tweeting (X-ing?) on Saturday that “when Republicans are wrong, that’s the whole story, but when Democrats are wrong, most of the time it’s because their own team ran a sophisticated op to brainwash them.”  He said, “I’ve never met a Democrat who’s aware of that.  Have you?”

What a fabulous observation: “I’ve never met a Democrat who was aware that their own team runs serial hoaxes on THEM.”

“They don’t work as well on Republicans because Republicans know what’s happening,” he said.

“But the Democrats seem to be completely unaware that their team is running ops on them.”  This seems to be happening on only one side, “and the reason would be that only one side controls enough of the media that you can come up with an op that the media will support.”

Adams observed that the Democrat Party is running ops on their supporters “all the time --- it’s nonstop.”  It’s constant brainwashing that they don’t know is happening at all.

“It’s impressive in its own way,” he said lightly before moving on to another subject.  It strikes us that a more appropriate word would be “OP-pressive,” as it’s the antithesis of a free country with an independent media.  But it certainly does explain a lot, such as every hoax that has been perpetrated against Trump (that’s a long list!) and now Fani Willis’ shocking abuse of power against him and his supporters.

This episode of “Coffee With Scott Adams” is particularly good.  The observations discussed above comes in at about the 20-minute point.  Afterwards, Adams talks about the “tells” people use when they’re experiencing cognitive dissonance and desperately need a comeback to protect themselves.  (Cognitive dissonance is when someone’s comfortable bubble gets poked by some truth.)  As you might have seen, people are amazingly skilled at deflection and straw man arguments.  Just mention something --- anything --- good about Trump, pop the popcorn and watch the fun begin.  Here’s the entire podcast…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8UHK23bqNg

Bill O’Reilly, in a great column this Sunday called “The Sting,” elaborated on this irrational hatred that’s been created towards Trump.  First, he outlined Trump’s impressive resume for the first years of his presidency --- a strong economy, good border containment, no new wars, ISIS decimated, Xi and Putin relatively contained.

“But there is scant national reporting of it,” O’Reilly wrote.  “Instead, salacious charges of corruption involving Russia dominated headlines for two years” before and during Trump’s term.  The Russia Hoax.  “A Special Counsel is appointed to investigate.  His report says there is no corruption.  The national media do not celebrate.”

Consequently, millions of people will disagree with O’Reilly’s positive analysis and continue to “hate” Trump.  The only reason for this that O’Reilly would term as “valid” (and we would say its validity is debatable) is the “colossal Trump-driven fiasco after the 2020 election.”  But as O’Reilly readily acknowledged, the “get-Trump” movement started long before that; in fact, it started at the very beginning of his first run for President, with the liberal media marching in lock-step to protect Hillary.

O’Reilly was conveying in different words what Scott Adams said about the psy-ops being run by Democrats on Democrats:  that the “news agencies are openly currently supporting President Biden by hiding his deficiencies and alleged corruption.  The leftist media is also cheerleading the legal cases against Trump without a shred of balance or skepticism.”

“Honest, balanced reporting and news analysis are on the endangered species list,” O’Reilly wrote.  “The scorpions who control most media companies are more driven than ever to impose progressive policies and get pliable people like Biden and Kamala elected.”

The result:  in O’Reilly’s words, “a lot of power and money is being used to prop up incompetence and corruption.”  We see it now all around us, every day.  Can the media really dress up this pig enough to sell it once again?  It’s hard to imagine they can after witnessing Biden’s horrifying, near-incoherent struggle on his Vietnam trip…

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/09/10/biden-goes-over-the-edge-in-vietnam-with-softballs-confusion-and-dog-faced-pony-soldiers-n2163634

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/10/even-the-liberal-press-noticed-how-insane-bidens-vietnam-presser-was-and-democrats-are-stuck-n2163649

...and growing evidence of his financial corruption and dishonesty, but we shall see.

https://www.billoreilly.com/b/The-Sting/-286406884029567455.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=staff_column

Remembering 911

September 11, 2023

Today is the 22nd anniversary of the September 11th, 2001, attacks, the deadliest attacks on America in history. Those of us who were alive then will never forget that morning, when we woke up and felt we must still be asleep and having a nightmare. 

First, a passenger jet slammed into the World Trade Center, and there was some thought it might be a horrific aviation disaster. But when it happened again, there was no denying that America was under attack, and in a way that we had never seen before: by an enemy so ruthless and fanatical that they would destroy a skyscraper filled with innocent people, using a plane filled with innocent people as a weapon, and who were such zealots that they would sacrifice their own lives just to kill as many people as possible.

Those of us who were there will never forget the grief, horror and confusion. For months afterward, we felt a tinge of alarm whenever a plane flew overhead at a low altitude.

America learned a very hard lesson that day about the hollowness of the comforting delusion that all cultures were basically like us and held the same peaceful, tolerant values. We also learned hard lessons from some of the wrongheaded reactions to the attack, like the willingness to trade our freedom for a (false) sense of security. To this day, airline travel is still an intrusive, time-wasting ordeal, and has all that TSA groping and probing and throwing away of our shampoo ever stopped a single attempted terrorist hijacking?

Yet we also seem to have forgotten most of the lessons we learned from 9/11 and its aftermath. When COVID struck, many people were more than willing to hand over even more of their Constitutionally-protected freedoms to the government in exchange for false promises of safety.

In the aftermath of 9/11, we put aside our differences and united around our common heritage, humanity and values as Americans. For instance, people in Texas stood in long lines to donate blood to help victims in New York City. There was none of today’s red/blue animosity and division, some of which is organic due to differing beliefs, but much of which is ginned up by politicians, activists and media figures whose own power increases when they can divide us and pit us against each other.  This is why Darryl Worley wrote a new version of his 9/11 anthem, “Have You Forgotten?” It’s called “Have We Forgotten?”

https://www.huckabee.tv/guests/darryl-worley

Another forgotten lesson: even though it took just 19 hijackers to carry out 9/11 and kill nearly 3,000 people, our President has thrown open our border, allowing millions of unvetted people to come streaming in from all over the world, including many whom we know are on terror watch lists. That same President recently handed Afghanistan back to the same terrorists who gave sanctuary to the plotters of 9/11, and left them a huge trove of our military equipment in the bargain. And word is that his Administration is cutting a deal with the 9/11 architects to save them from the death penalty.

As hard as it is for those of us who lived through 9/11 to fathom how any Americans could tolerate this, we must remember that 9/11 was 22 years ago. That means there’s now an entire generation of young adults who have no personal memories of 9/11. They grew up in a virtual police state that focuses more on infringing on the rights of citizens than fighting terrorists, with schools teaching that America is the source of all evil, and with social media telling them that treasured Western values like privacy rights, free speech and personal freedom are obsolete.

That’s why, as hard as it may be to relive that darkest day in US history, it’s important to teach your children what happened and why, because it will be up to them to make sure it never happens again, and those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. I urge you, if your children are old enough to understand it without being traumatized, that you take them to a 9/11 commemoration or watch one on TV with them. Or visit the 9/11 Memorial in New York, or the new 9/11 Remembered Traveling Memorial. On this weekend’s “Huckabee,” I interviewed its founder, Erick Robertson. You can watch that here, and find a link to the traveling memorial site where you can invite it to visit your town.  

https://www.huckabee.tv/guests/erick-robertson

On this 9/11 anniversary, let’s remember that time when all Americans put aside our differences and came together to save America. Let’s mourn the dead, remember the heroes and reflect on what we all have in common and what makes America the greatest nation on Earth, the one that is still under relentless attack by the enemies of freedom but is strong, resolute and resilient enough to withstand any blow, come back and win.

My Last Show Monologue

September 10, 2023

My monologue on my TBN show “Huckabee” last week got a LOT of attention from the loony left who missed the obvious point of my message, which is not surprising.  For people who often have Ivy League degrees, they aren’t that smart, and they typically see things from their myopic lens of elitist snobbery.  In this case, they totally failed to comprehend that under the Biden regime, America is becoming a police state where the “powers” of “justice” are used to destroy dissent and to influence and possibly steal elections.

Here is the monologue in full so you can hear it for yourself.  (Trigger warning!  Some from the left screamed that I was using “threatening language!”  I have to wonder if those saying such gibberish actually watched it or just took someone’s mischaracterization and served their whine without the cheese?

The obvious point is that if the current government continues to abuse power by arresting and criminalizing those who disagree or oppose the banana republic dictator-like tactics of Biden’s police state, that same government will only grow worse in its abuse of power until it won’t even pretend to have honest elections and will just perpetuate power at gunpoint.  It’s how dictatorships operate. 

If a sitting President can defeat or worse prevent his opponent from running by corrupt police powers, then those who refuse to bow their knee to the Baal of big government and tyranny will be disenfranchised from voting and told what to do from the barrel of a gun.  It’s already happening.  A pro-life Dad in Nashville taken at gunpoint and handcuffed in front of his children by gun-toting SWAT team because he protested at an abortion clinic.  A man in NW Arkansas was arrested at gunpoint at his home 2 ½ years AFTER he merely attended the January 6 Capitol protest and even had his personal Liberty safe opened by the FBI with cooperation with Liberty Safe company despite the fact that he did not break into any offices, assault anyone, or vandalize anything.  White House Economic Advisor Peter Navarro was arrested at gunpoint and put in handcuffs and leg shackles as he was boarding an airplane to travel to Nashville to be a guest on my TV show.  He just this week was “convicted” of “contempt of Congress” and threated with prison time.  (Remember when then Attorney General Eric “Wingman for Obama” Holder was charged with contempt of Congress?  NOTHING happened to him.  NOTHING.) 

Watch my monologue: https://youtu.be/GiU09Mhqt1s

Fortunately, not every journalist is brain-dead and saw my message accurately, like Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire:

https://www.mediamatters.org/michael-knowles/daily-wires-michael-knowles-warns-likelihood-civil-war-much-higher-if-trump-kept

Don’t be naïve.  Half of America is under assault for believing that we should have secure borders, safe cities and streets, protection of innocent human life, penalties for violent criminals, laws that treat Hunter and Hillary the same as any other criminals, and that we SHOULD put America first.  If you believe there are only 2 genders and that parents and not governments should have authority over your child, you are a threat to this regime.  If you believe we should worship the Creator instead of the Created by bowing to the “climate czars” like John Kerry and Al Gore, you have a target on your back. 

I stand by every word I said.  And I really do fear for the future of my beloved America.

9/11/2023

September 10, 2023

Because they recall a time of great national unity, Monday’s commemorations of the 911 attacks may seem remote even for Americans who vividly recall those horrific tableaus. The 20-somethings now assuming adult responsibilities were first insulated from those grim realities by youth, then further sequestered by an educational establishment that considers American militarism, materialism and white privilege the only true evils worth opposing.

As a retired Army officer with a highly improbable second career as an on-air military analyst with NBC News, I was directly involved in the immediate reporting and aftermath of 911. After I rushed headlong into our northwest Washington studios, bureau chief Tim Russert briefly sat me down to stress repeatedly that our reporting needed to be limited to hard facts, however grim they might be. “Colonel, most of our audience has never seen a war, much less one hitting their own neighborhoods. So let’s try to help them get through this.”

That was good advice but, in the days and weeks that followed, my most serious error came when I relied on my own experience instead of reporting Tim Russert’s cold, hard facts. Quickly glossing over the last half-century, I confidently assured the national audience that attacking our homeland and producing over three thousand deaths would surely result in our first formal declaration of war since Pearl Harbor. It didn’t happen of course, a point on which the extensive memoirs of George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice conclusively agree.

In fact, the most remarkable thing about such a fundamental point of national strategy was that the high-level councils of Bush ’43 never seem to have considered how they might mobilize the American people for what quickly became the War on Terror. Instead, ordinary citizens were asked to pray for peace while being dispatched to the shopping malls, favored vacation hideaways, university paper mills and, most tellingly, the airports (where newly-recruited TSA agents harassed ever-growing lines of long-suffering passengers.)

But rather than sending our precious offspring into combat, the wars of 911 would be fought principally by Other People’s Kids, i.e., the volunteer Army and the Reserves. Sadly, the tyranny of the numbers often meant deploying our grunts to those hellholes on multiple combat tours. Perhaps overcome by his own eloquence while promising retaliation at Ground Zero, the younger President Bush seemed to ignore one of the principal lessons of Vietnam and most strategy primers: that you don’t send in the troops before the Nation is firmly committed to war. But two of his principal advisors, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, had helped to create the all-volunteer force back during the Ford administration. Surely our superbly trained and equipped professional military could now meet the challenges of 911? Even if those wars endured for over 20 years while the children of the elites stayed home?

However, it wasn’t supposed to be that way. I witnessed that now forgotten bit of history while working directly for the Army senior leadership as the Berlin Wall fell and we trussed up the resulting “peace dividend” like a Thanksgiving turkey. We had won the Cold War with a standing Army of just over 780,000 active-duty soldiers; it would now be reduced to under 500,000 while the Reserves stood by as a cadre force and hedge against future wars. But since history had stopped, only peace was expected. Pointedly ignored was an ancient Roman axiom, “Si vis pacem, para Bellum,” (“If you would have peace, then prepare for war.”)

What no one noticed back then was that the legislation which in 1972 created the All-Volunteer Force was effectively coupled in 1973 with the momentous change in national policy that became infamous as Roe versus Wade. In just over 12 months: military service had been downgraded from the long-standing obligation of citizenship to just another career choice. Similarly, the Holocaust of the Unborn guaranteed that our future manpower requirements would inevitably be dwarfed and overrun by our most likely adversaries.

No wonder that our all-volunteer force has fallen on hard times, due to the scarcity of qualified volunteers capable of meeting recruiting standards already in permanent and precipitous decline. Today, fewer than half of one percent of Americans ever deign to wear their country’s uniform and who can blame them? We have effectively created a sealed and segregated military establishment that marches to the dubious rhythms of political correctness and the uncertain trumpets that systematically trash our most sacred values.

Colonel (Ret.) Ken Allard is a former West Point professor, Dean of the National War College and NBC News on-air military analyst.

 

For the past few days, legal analyst Margot Cleveland has been focusing like a laser beam on breaking news in the Hunter Biden case and Biden family financial scandal.

On Tuesday, she had an exclusive story about emails showing the FBI leaked a fake story to THE NEW YORK TIMES, as one step in a plan to spoon-feed them to Delaware U.S. Attorney/Special Counsel David Weiss.  Gosh, it’s just like old times, when corrupt Crossfire Hurricane agents leaked stories to the media about Trump and Russia.  Recall how, in a strategy called “circular reporting,” those stories in the media were used by the FBI as confirmation of their suspicions.  Here it is again.

In December 2020, they leaked to the NYT that Rudy Giuliani was the source of claims of corruption against the Bidens (as if that alone were enough to discredit such evidence).  The NYT story portrayed then-U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania Scott Brady, whom then-Attorney General Bill Barr had tasked with screening all new material relating to Ukraine, as a partisan hack out to get the Bidens, and falsely said Brady had pushed the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office to investigate them based on material provided by Giulani.

But the FBI had to know Giuliani was not the source, because the bribery allegations had come from their own very credible “confidential human source” (CHS), whose allegations about Burisma Holdings founder Mykola Zlochevsky saying he’d paid $10 million to two Bidens were immortalized in a now-public “1023.”  The FBI had leaked the story that Giuliani was behind the bribery claim right after news broke that Hunter was being investigated by the IRS.

It took Sen. Chuck Grassley releasing the unredacted parts of that “1023” this year to confirm that the Biden bribery story had come from a credible FBI source --- NOT Rudy Giuliani.

Doesn’t the NY TIMES ever get tired of reporting lies and furthering the cause of liars?  They seem to take great pride in that work, having won awards for it.  The reporters who won a Pulitzer for their false  reporting on Trump/Russia “collusion” probably take turns polishing and displaying it.

It wasn’t until this year that we learned, through IRS whistleblower testimony and statements from former Attorney General Bill Barr, that Giuliani had NOT been the source.  And we know even more now through a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.  The never-before-seen emails this lawsuit turned up were shared exclusively with THE FEDERALIST.  And one particular email thread shows how the fake Giuliani story was passed to David Weiss.

An email dated December 11, 2020, and sent from the FBI Office of Public Affairs’ National Press Office to the FBI’s Baltimore Office forwarded the NYT article, which, as Cleveland reports, “spun evidence obtained by the Pittsburgh office as originating from Giuliani disinformation.”  The FBI in Baltimore were providing support to the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office investigating Hunter.  Sure enough, the email thread shows that within two hours, the link to the fake NYT story had been forwarded to a number of Baltimore agents, and from there to Weiss’ top agents, including Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf.  (Wolf has been implicated in what we have no problem calling obstruction in the Hunter case.)  The story was sent on to Weiss, and from Weiss to another member of the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office, name redacted.  Virtually everyone connected to the Hunter investigation ate up the fake Giuliani story with a spoon.

Cleveland suspects that some in the U.S. attorney’s office, such as Wolf, were well aware of the existence of the “1023” and the information in it but that the boss, Weiss, likely was in the dark.  Some in the Pennsylvania U.S. attorney’s office were apparently also kept ignorant of Hunter’s laptop by the Delaware office.

We don’t know whether Weiss knew these details or not, but the emails confirm he and other top officials were fed the fake NYT story about Giuliani being the source for the Hunter bribery allegations.  So, tracing it back, who at the FBI fed the fake story to willing scribes at the NYT?

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/05/exclusive-fbi-lies-about-highly-credible-source-claims-were-leaked-to-nyt-and-spoonfed-to-weiss/

Here’s another good write-up on her column…

https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/breaking-fbi-falsely-told-delaware-u-s-attorney-that-all-allegations-against-hunter-originated-from-rudy-giuliani-mstef/

In her piece the next day, Cleveland digs deeper, expanding on the idea that a few select DOJ and FBI agents buried the “1023” alleging Biden bribery.  When IRS lead investigator-turned-whistleblower Gary Shapley testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, he didn’t mention any “1023,” but in a later supplemental affidavit, he said that no one had provided it to him --- not the line IRS agents under his supervision, nor the FBI agents working with the IRS.  He also said that he and his team had requested that the team be included in the briefing (which would have included the “1023’) from the Pittsburgh office but were denied.  Weiss wasn’t present at that briefing, either.  Wolf apparently WAS there, and Cleveland strongly suggests she was trying to bury the Biden evidence.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/06/biden-bribery-breadcrumbs-leave-only-one-possible-conclusion-deep-state-partisans-buried-the-evidence/

In an update specifically on Hunter’s IRS case --- the gun and tax charges --- Cleveland suggests that Special Counsel Weiss is going to be just as soft on Hunter as U.S. Attorney Weiss was going to be.

Recall that Hunter’s hyper-aggressive legal team, led by Democrat powerhouse Abbe Lowell, was claiming the “sweetheart” deal (our word, not theirs) they’d tried to sneak past the judge in a pretrial diversion agreement had been agreed to and thus was in force, whether the judge liked it or not.  They continue to maintain this, in response to Judge Maryellen Norieka’s order last week for both parties to provide her with an update.

The government says the agreement was never executed.  (As Lucy of PEANUTS once said, “Peculiar thing about this signed document.  It was never notarized.”)  The defense says it was.  So the impasse remains; Cleveland has the details.

But I could save you some time and sum up this case as an inexcusable mess --- inexcusable because it’s taken five years to “investigate” and “prosecute (maybe)” Hunter on these few tax and gun charges (never mind bribery and money laundering), in what for you or me would be an open-and-shut case.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/07/while-weiss-pinky-swears-hell-indict-soon-hunter-biden-claims-cushy-gun-deal-still-grants-immunity/

As Cleveland explains, there’s no case law on this, “as the federal government has never entered into an agreement remotely resembling the deal offered to Hunter Biden.”  Judge Noreika will be deciding this case as “an issue of first impression.”  But the next step is for Special Counsel Weiss to obtain a grand jury indictment on the gun charge.  Weiss seems to be taking his sweet time, which suggests to Cleveland that Hunter is still getting the kid-glove treatment from him.

But whatever happens, or does not happen, to Hunter, we can agree that the most important part of this case is determining the involvement of then-Vice President Biden in his family’s financial exploits.  To that end, the House Oversight Committee posted evidence on Wednesday that in 2015, then-VP Biden worked with Hunter’s business partner Eric Schwerin on White House talking points related to the Burisma corruption scandal before personally signing off on them.  It looks as though Schwerin conveyed to the White House the exact quotes they wanted put into these.  Just a little service Burisma appears to have received for putting the Vice President’s son on its board.  Smart investment!

Chairman James Comer of Kentucky is “calling on the National Archives to provide complete and unredacted documents related to the Office of the Vice President colluding with the Biden family…”  REDSTATE has details on specifically what he’s asking for.

https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/09/06/breaking-then-vp-bidens-colluded-with-hunters-business-partner-signed-off-on-burisma-talking-points-n2163471

Finally, let’s contrast Margot Cleveland’s lawyerly approach to the Biden scandal with the more emotional take in Victor Davis Hanson’s new piece for TOWNHALL.  With a variety of alleged felonies ranging from bribery to tax evasion, the frustrated Hanson says, the fact that Hunter hasn’t yet been prosecuted for anything is “scandalous.”  And he thinks Hunter, after years of trying to win love and respect from his family, is continuing his reckless behavior to send them a message:  that he will not be their fall guy.

“Biden is an embittered, angry son,” Hanson observes.  “As the Biden bagman for foreign shakedown cash, he did the dirty work and most risked the legal exposure that made all the Bidens rich.”  Hanson does not believe Hunter intends to go to prison “while the other exempt Bidens continue to enjoy their ill-gotten riches due to Hunter’s imaginative cons.”  He suspects this is the real reason why they moved Hunter into the White House and continue to keep him close.

https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2023/09/08/column-n2628142

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

Blessings on you and your family from all the Huckabee team! 

With gratitude,

Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

Mark, 11:25

 


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Outrageous verdict

In one of the most outrageous verdicts yet related to January 6th (and that’s really saying something), former Trump advisor Dr. Peter Navarro was found guilty of two criminal counts for refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify in front of Nancy Pelosi’s January 6th Kangaroo Kommittee.  Navarro, who was arrested at the airport as he was about to fly to Nashville to be on my TV show, was put in leg irons to humiliate him in public, and thrown into jail. And now he’s facing potential heavy fines and 30 days to a year in jail on each charge.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/rcna103790

Navarro eventually did make it to my show and explained what this was all about. You can see that interview here:

https://youtu.be/oenZ6VBtmZ8?si=nnZYjNG_xzdKbKTM

Bear in mind that Navarro refused to testify because President Trump told him to cite executive privilege. Also remember that this was an illegitimate committee, formed in violation of the requirements of its creation. It blocked questioning of witnesses by Republicans, allowed the airing of false evidence, and destroyed many hours of closed-door testimony. If anyone should be facing jail for actions involving that Kommittee, it’s the members themselves.

Navarro called the verdict “nuts,” but said he knew what it would be going in, and that he was another victim of the “weaponized Biden Justice Department.” One of his attorneys said, “This case is not over by a long shot.” They immediately moved for a mistrial, and failing that, will appeal. I with them the very best of luck.

If you think I’m just being a partisan Republican in calling this selective prosecution, then congratulations on being too young to remember Barack Obama’s Attorney General and “wing man,” Eric Holder, who cited executive privilege in refusing to turn over subpoenaed documents in the “Fast & Furious scandal” to Congress. He was charged with contempt of Congress, too. And what happened to him? Obama’s DOJ dismissed the threat to jail Holder as a “stunt,” and Judge Amy Berman Jackson (who later presided over trials of Trump associates Paul Manafort and Roger Stone) ruled the contempt motion against Holder to be “entirely unnecessary.”

In short, Holder really did show complete contempt for Congressional subpoenas, and skated away, thumbing his nose at Congress. Still want to lecture me about equal justice under the law?


Illegal immigration problems

I’ve written before about how the busing of a relative handful of the massive illegal immigrant invasion from red border states to blue “sanctuary” cities was dismissed as a joke, then denounced as “inhumane,” before finally being acknowledged as the most effective thing anyone has done so far to force leftists to face the dire consequences of their idiotic policies. Their hippy-dippy posturing about welcoming all, and how there “are no illegal human beings,” melted like an ice cream cone in the Texas heat once all those buses full of people started arriving to take them up on their insincere invitation.

Now, even the leaders of blue states and cities are screaming for federal aid and demanding to know what Biden is doing to stop the border invasion he caused (hint: not a darned thing – No border IS his border policy.) New York City Mayor Eric Adams just made headlines by warning that the 10,000 “migrants” a month that are arriving are going to “destroy New York City.” I’m sure Texas is thinking, “Try dealing with 100,000 a month and then we’ll talk.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mayor-eric-adams-predicts-migrant-crisis-will-destroy-new-york-city/ar-AA1gn8v4

Adams also warned that with all these people arriving from all over the world, “the city we knew, we’re about to lose.” This inspired a MUST-READ Twitter thread by Breitbart News writer John Hayward that absolutely eviscerates the hollow virtue-signaling of Democrat politicians and points out how any Republican who said what Adams did would have been branded a racist and xenophobe by the Democrats.

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/09/07/john-hayward-has-a-great-thread-about-xenophobic-mayor-eric-adams-n2386961  

(Remember when they called Trump a xenophobe just for trying to keep terrorists from coming here from the Middle East or COVID carriers from coming in from China? Now, Biden wears a mask sporadically even as he allows everyone with who-knows-what diseases to come streaming across our border.)   

The Babylon Bee also has a perfect satirical commentary on Adams’ sudden awakening to reality:

https://babylonbee.com/news/eric-adams-calls-texas-to-ask-if-they-have-any-more-of-those-cowboys-with-the-whips

The Border Patrol also doesn't approve of how Biden is forcing them not to do their job.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/09/07/border-patrol-agents-furiously-attack-biden-for-opening-border-n2628123

With blue states finally starting to suffer some of the consequences of their open border policies that they thought would be inflicted solely only on those bumpkin border states, and finding that it’s not so much fun, what is Biden’s solution? Not to restore Trump-era border security, Heaven forbid! No, this White House is reportedly considering imposing a “Remain in Texas” policy. Not “Remain in Mexico” (horrors!), but letting all the illegal aliens into Texas, then banning them from leaving and inconveniencing any blue states.

As Dave Barry says, I am not making this up:

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/07/biden-pursues-vindicitive-remain-in-texas-immigration-policy-as-the-statue-of-liberty-weeps-n2163551

Nice try, but I don’t think Gov. Abbott or any other border state Governor will abide by that. Besides, once they’re here, according to Democrat dogma, we have to treat them as if they’re US citizens, and US citizens have a traditional right to travel unimpeded between the states. The Democrats wouldn’t want to do anything to imply that there’s a legal difference between being a US citizen and being an illegal alien, would they?...


Bill Richardson passes

I don’t want to let this week pass without making mention of the death of former UN Ambassador, Energy Secretary and Democratic New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. He passed away at home in Massachusetts in his sleep at 75.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-new-mexico-gov-bill-richardson-dead-75

After leaving government, he founded the Richardson Center for Global Engagement, which worked to free hostages and political prisoners from foreign nations and supported their families. That work earned him several Nobel Peace Prize nominations. We offer our sincere condolences and prayers for Barbara Richardson, his wife of over 50 years, and his family.


Stories worth reading

I haven’t covered many of the stories raising objections to the COVID vaccines because (A.) I’m not a doctor or medical researcher, and (B.) it’s kind of pointless because if I link to them, this newsletter gets blocked and demonetized by gatekeepers like Google, so nobody will even see it (another good reason to subscribe to our Substack version.)  

https://govmikehuckabee.substack.com/subscribe

But since this story involves a major celebrity, maybe it will make it past the self-appointed censors. To minimize risk, I won’t describe it, I’ll just link to it and suggest you read it yourself.

https://www.westernjournal.com/megyn-kelly-regrets-getting-covid-vaccine-discovering-medical-issue-physical/

I also hope we won’t get flagged for sharing this completely accurate hard news report that a New York State Supreme Court Justice ruled in favor of 10 employees fired by the New York City Department of Education for refusing to take the COVID 19 vaccine. 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nyc-teachers-win-jobs-back-backpay-refusing-covid-19-vaccine

He found that there was “no rational basis” for the department’s denial of their request for religious accommodation, which was “arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable,” and that “each classroom teacher amongst the Panel Petitioners is entitled to a religious exemption from the Vaccine Mandate."  He ordered them all reinstated to their jobs with back pay.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t help the thousands of other New York teachers and education workers who lost their jobs for refusing to comply with the vaccine mandate. But it does set a precedent for future legal action, which must really needle the vaccine zealots.


Old saying

We’ve all heard the old saying that a conservative is a liberal who got mugged. Well, in this story, that’s exactly what happened…literally.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/dem-party-chairwoman-once-called-defund-police-carjacked-assaulted-minneapolis

Far-left Minnesota Democratic Party vice chairwoman Shivanthi Sathanandan was a proponent of defunding the police. We all know how that’s worked out, but she discovered it the hard way when four armed young male carjackers viciously assaulted her in front of her home and her children in broad daylight.

It resulted in severe injuries and a complete attitude adjustment. She issued a statement thanking the Minneapolis Police for coming to her rescue and demanding that the city “catch these young people who are running wild creating chaos across our city and HOLD THEM IN CUSTODY AND PROSECUTE THEM. PERIOD." Along with a photo of her bloody face, she added, "Look at my face. REMEMBER ME when you are thinking about supporting letting juveniles and young people out of custody to roam our streets instead of HOLDING THEM ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS.” That's the sure sign of someone who's experienced the results of leftist policies: a furious social media post in ALL CAPS.

I am genuinely sorry that she had to suffer this and pray that her injuries heal fully and quickly. I also thank her for being so honest about her change of views, and I hope that it will inspire other people who have fallen for leftist delusions to see the light. And I hope other Democrats will just be mugged by reality without having to be mugged by thugs first.


UPDATE on the Georgia RICO case against Donald Trump:

He’s also now considering requesting a move to federal court, which would destroy DA Fani Willis’ dream of having a circus-like, four-month mass trial of 19 people on charges that are connected only in her fevered imagination.

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-attorney-puts-judge-notice-new-court-filing-considering-bold-move/


Kudos to Gov. DeSantis

Kudos to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for refusing to tolerate a heckler who tried to push the slanderous leftist lie that he or all Republicans somehow bear responsibility for one racist nutjob going on a shooting rampage against black people.

https://www.westernjournal.com/desantis-torches-left-wing-reporter-will-not-let-accuse-criminal-activity/

It’s been said that advertising is the art of disconnecting the brain long enough to sell people something. For Democrats, “politics” has become the art of disconnecting the brains of their voters long enough to sell them the lie that Republicans are racists so that they’ll keep voting for politicians who are ruining their lives. The sycophant media may echo this garbage without question, but there’s no reason why Republicans have to keep quiet and let it be repeated as if it had any legitimacy.  

Besides, if the Republican Governor is personally responsible for every murder of a black Florida resident, then let’s start filing mass murder charges against all the Democrat office holders in Illinois for the virtual genocide of black residents of Chicago.

 


Must-Read:

Byron York in the Washington Examiner contrasts the way the Biden “Justice” Department made excuses and begged for leniency for violent BLM and Antifa rioters, claiming that they were frustrated and “a riot is the language of the unheard”…and the way they treat January 6th rioters (as well as protesters and even bystanders who didn’t riot at all) by painting them as terrorists and demanding decades of jail time.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-riot-is-the-language-of-the-unheard

Does anyone even wonder anymore why polls show so many Americans see the DOJ and the FBI as “Biden’s personal Gestapo”?

 


A jarring poll to Democrats

I always urge people to put no stock in any polls taken a looooong time before an election. But this particular poll must be so jarring to the Democrats – especially since it comes from their “see no evil” cheerleaders at CNN – that it could have major repercussions now. The poll found President Biden losing to every major GOP challenger (including Trump by 47-46%), except Ron DeSantis (tied 47-47%) and Vivek Ramaswamy (Biden leads 46-45%, but that’s well within the 3.6-point margin of error.) Nikki Haley does best, beating Biden by 49-43%.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-suffers-brutal-double-digit-loss-republican-nominee-new-cnn-poll/

In addition, 58% of respondents have an unfavorable impression of Biden, only 45% think he cares about people like them, 33% describe him as someone they’re proud to have as President, 28% say he inspires confidence, and 26% think has the stamina and mental sharpness to serve effectively. 61% believe he did have some involvement in his son Hunter’s business dealings. Even among Democrats, two-thirds want a different candidate than Biden.

So while it is very early and polls are bound to change drastically, I'm wondering if this one might scare Democrats into changing the name of the Democrat candidate that will be appearing on future polls.


FBI fed David Weiss a fake Giuliani story they leaked to NY TIMES

For the past few days, legal analyst Margot Cleveland has been focusing like a laser beam on breaking news in the Hunter Biden case and Biden family financial scandal.

On Tuesday, she had an exclusive story about emails showing the FBI leaked a fake story to THE NEW YORK TIMES, as one step in a plan to spoon-feed them to Delaware U.S. Attorney/Special Counsel David Weiss.  Gosh, it’s just like old times, when corrupt Crossfire Hurricane agents leaked stories to the media about Trump and Russia.  Recall how, in a strategy called “circular reporting,” those stories in the media were used by the FBI as confirmation of their suspicions.  Here it is again.

In December 2020, they leaked to the NYT that Rudy Giuliani was the source of claims of corruption against the Bidens (as if that alone were enough to discredit such evidence).  The NYT story portrayed then-U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania Scott Brady, whom then-Attorney General Bill Barr had tasked with screening all new material relating to Ukraine, as a partisan hack out to get the Bidens, and falsely said Brady had pushed the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office to investigate them based on material provided by Giulani.

But the FBI had to know Giuliani was not the source, because the bribery allegations had come from their own very credible “confidential human source” (CHS), whose allegations about Burisma Holdings founder Mykola Zlochevsky saying he’d paid $10 million to two Bidens were immortalized in a now-public “1023.”  The FBI had leaked the story that Giuliani was behind the bribery claim right after news broke that Hunter was being investigated by the IRS.

It took Sen. Chuck Grassley releasing the unredacted parts of that “1023” this year to confirm that the Biden bribery story had come from a credible FBI source --- NOT Rudy Giuliani.

Doesn’t the NY TIMES ever get tired of reporting lies and furthering the cause of liars?  They seem to take great pride in that work, having won awards for it.  The reporters who won a Pulitzer for their false  reporting on Trump/Russia “collusion” probably take turns polishing and displaying it.

It wasn’t until this year that we learned, through IRS whistleblower testimony and statements from former Attorney General Bill Barr, that Giuliani had NOT been the source.  And we know even more now through a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project.  The never-before-seen emails this lawsuit turned up were shared exclusively with THE FEDERALIST.  And one particular email thread shows how the fake Giuliani story was passed to David Weiss.

An email dated December 11, 2020, and sent from the FBI Office of Public Affairs’ National Press Office to the FBI’s Baltimore Office forwarded the NYT article, which, as Cleveland reports, “spun evidence obtained by the Pittsburgh office as originating from Giuliani disinformation.”  The FBI in Baltimore were providing support to the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office investigating Hunter.  Sure enough, the email thread shows that within two hours, the link to the fake NYT story had been forwarded to a number of Baltimore agents, and from there to Weiss’ top agents, including Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf.  (Wolf has been implicated in what we have no problem calling obstruction in the Hunter case.)  The story was sent on to Weiss, and from Weiss to another member of the Delaware U.S. attorney’s office, name redacted.  Virtually everyone connected to the Hunter investigation ate up the fake Giuliani story with a spoon.

Cleveland suspects that some in the U.S. attorney’s office, such as Wolf, were well aware of the existence of the “1023” and the information in it but that the boss, Weiss, likely was in the dark.  Some in the Pennsylvania U.S. attorney’s office were apparently also kept ignorant of Hunter’s laptop by the Delaware office.

We don’t know whether Weiss knew these details or not, but the emails confirm he and other top officials were fed the fake NYT story about Giuliani being the source for the Hunter bribery allegations.  So, tracing it back, who at the FBI fed the fake story to willing scribes at the NYT?

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/05/exclusive-fbi-lies-about-highly-credible-source-claims-were-leaked-to-nyt-and-spoonfed-to-weiss/

Here’s another good write-up on her column…

https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/breaking-fbi-falsely-told-delaware-u-s-attorney-that-all-allegations-against-hunter-originated-from-rudy-giuliani-mstef/

In her piece the next day, Cleveland digs deeper, expanding on the idea that a few select DOJ and FBI agents buried the “1023” alleging Biden bribery.  When IRS lead investigator-turned-whistleblower Gary Shapley testified before the House Ways and Means Committee, he didn’t mention any “1023,” but in a later supplemental affidavit, he said that no one had provided it to him --- not the line IRS agents under his supervision, nor the FBI agents working with the IRS.  He also said that he and his team had requested that the team be included in the briefing (which would have included the “1023’) from the Pittsburgh office but were denied.  Weiss wasn’t present at that briefing, either.  Wolf apparently WAS there, and Cleveland strongly suggests she was trying to bury the Biden evidence.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/06/biden-bribery-breadcrumbs-leave-only-one-possible-conclusion-deep-state-partisans-buried-the-evidence/

In an update specifically on Hunter’s IRS case --- the gun and tax charges --- Cleveland suggests that Special Counsel Weiss is going to be just as soft on Hunter as U.S. Attorney Weiss was going to be.

Recall that Hunter’s hyper-aggressive legal team, led by Democrat powerhouse Abbe Lowell, was claiming the “sweetheart” deal (our word, not theirs) they’d tried to sneak past the judge in a pretrial diversion agreement had been agreed to and thus was in force, whether the judge liked it or not.  They continue to maintain this, in response to Judge Maryellen Norieka’s order last week for both parties to provide her with an update.

The government says the agreement was never executed.  (As Lucy of PEANUTS once said, “Peculiar thing about this signed document.  It was never notarized.”)  The defense says it was.  So the impasse remains; Cleveland has the details.

But I could save you some time and sum up this case as an inexcusable mess --- inexcusable because it’s taken five years to “investigate” and “prosecute (maybe)” Hunter on these few tax and gun charges (never mind bribery and money laundering), in what for you or me would be an open-and-shut case.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/07/while-weiss-pinky-swears-hell-indict-soon-hunter-biden-claims-cushy-gun-deal-still-grants-immunity/

As Cleveland explains, there’s no case law on this, “as the federal government has never entered into an agreement remotely resembling the deal offered to Hunter Biden.”  Judge Noreika will be deciding this case as “an issue of first impression.”  But the next step is for Special Counsel Weiss to obtain a grand jury indictment on the gun charge.  Weiss seems to be taking his sweet time, which suggests to Cleveland that Hunter is still getting the kid-glove treatment from him.

But whatever happens, or does not happen, to Hunter, we can agree that the most important part of this case is determining the involvement of then-Vice President Biden in his family’s financial exploits.  To that end, the House Oversight Committee posted evidence on Wednesday that in 2015, then-VP Biden worked with Hunter’s business partner Eric Schwerin on White House talking points related to the Burisma corruption scandal before personally signing off on them.  It looks as though Schwerin conveyed to the White House the exact quotes they wanted put into these.  Just a little service Burisma appears to have received for putting the Vice President’s son on its board.  Smart investment!

Chairman James Comer of Kentucky is “calling on the National Archives to provide complete and unredacted documents related to the Office of the Vice President colluding with the Biden family…”  REDSTATE has details on specifically what he’s asking for.

https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/09/06/breaking-then-vp-bidens-colluded-with-hunters-business-partner-signed-off-on-burisma-talking-points-n2163471

Finally, let’s contrast Margot Cleveland’s lawyerly approach to the Biden scandal with the more emotional take in Victor Davis Hanson’s new piece for TOWNHALL.  With a variety of alleged felonies ranging from bribery to tax evasion, the frustrated Hanson says, the fact that Hunter hasn’t yet been prosecuted for anything is “scandalous.”  And he thinks Hunter, after years of trying to win love and respect from his family, is continuing his reckless behavior to send them a message:  that he will not be their fall guy.

“Biden is an embittered, angry son,” Hanson observes.  “As the Biden bagman for foreign shakedown cash, he did the dirty work and most risked the legal exposure that made all the Bidens rich.”  Hanson does not believe Hunter intends to go to prison “while the other exempt Bidens continue to enjoy their ill-gotten riches due to Hunter’s imaginative cons.”  He suspects this is the real reason why they moved Hunter into the White House and continue to keep him close.

https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2023/09/08/column-n2628142


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DAILY BIBLE VERSE

Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

Numbers, 25:12

 


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Why 2024 Might be the LAST ELECTION Decided by BALLOTS

Do you know how political opponents to those in power are dealt with in 3rd World dictatorships, banana republics, and communist regimes?  Simple—the people in power use their police agencies to arrest their opponents for made up crimes in an attempt to discredit them, bankrupt them, imprison them or exile them, or all of the above.  And if you are paying attention, you may not realize that Joe Biden is usually exactly those tactics to make sure Donald Trump is not his opponent in 2024. 

This kind of thuggery at taxpayer expense is not supposed to happen in the United States.  We are supposed to be a nation of laws and not a nation of powerful people.  But the Biden administration is in full melt-down mode to hide the money-laundering, influence peddling, and outright bribery that Joe, his son Hunter, and their associates have been conducting for well over a decade that has enriched them to the tune of tens of millions of dollars. It has been exposed by numerous sources ranging from former business associates who knew first hand of the corruption as well as government whistleblowers who came forward after witnessing the so-called Justice Department, IRS, FBI, and the Attorney General himself all conspiring to hide the Biden family crimes while all the time being obsessed with charging Donald Trump with crimes that even liberal, Democrat, and Never Trumper constitutional scholars such as Alan Dershowitz and Jonathan Turley assert are not crimes at all.  In fact they and other objective legal scholars are appalled by the attempt to smear Trump at any cost while seeing members of the Biden team feverishly try to destroy Donald Trump in the courthouse rather than at the ballot box.

If these tactics end up working to keep Trump from winning or even running in 2024, it will be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets.  I know there are a dozen or so other Republican candidates wanting to be the GOP nominee next year, and most of them were on the stage last week to audition for the job, but if you watched what was more a game show than a substantive debate, you realized that none of them have the gravitas of Donald Trump and none could likely be as tough in staring down the enemy and moving this country forward with America First policies that will restore our energy independence, secure our borders, stop the runaway inflation that Joe Biden has inflicted upon us, and stand up forcefully and effectively to foreign enemies rather than making dirty money by taking their bribes and then not even paying taxes on it. 

YOU don’t get to make illegal money dealing with China, Russia and Ukraine and then hide that income from the government!  This is an administration that wants to hire 87,000 IRS agent to come after you, but ignore that the President and his crooked, drug addicted son are making millions off the worst and most dangerous countries on the planet and neither reporting it or paying their “fair share” of taxes on it. 

Here’s something that won’t surprise you—the media is in on it as well.  They are willing and complicit partners in crime by lying about Donald Trump and simultaneously hiding Joe Biden from any accountability for his using the office of Vice President as his personal business account and transportation company to jet him and his family members around the globe to collect checks from foreign government-tied businesses. 

We hope and pray that as the unmistakable facts continue to dribble out about the corruption, the equally corrupt media will finally grow a backbone and a brain, and that even some Democrat lawmakers will have all they can stomach of this disgusting abuse of power.

If these things didn’t affect you, maybe you could afford to keep quiet.  But it IS affecting you.  Due to the Bidenomics of high inflation and reduced wages, the average American is losing over $700 per month from what they had before Joe Biden entered the White House.  $700 a month in lost purchasing power!  That’s over $8400 per year that you’ve lost.  I’m pretty sure you could use $8400 this year that the government has taken from you in their incompetent mismanagement of the economy.  Next year, you can do something about it.  You can vote these people out and make noise about what they are doing to our country.  Or you can stay silent, sleep through it, and kiss your money and your country goodbye.  I prefer to stand up, speak up, and vote out every politician from either party who refuses to uphold the Constitution, serve the people fairly and evenly and who seek to profit from foreign dirty money!


The Miracle of Bidenomics 1!

One of the many things that President Biden inexplicably brags about is the notion that he personally reduced the deficit more than any President in history. That’s based on the fact that the deficit was jacked up to historically high levels during the pandemic to keep the economy afloat. It dropped from $2.8 trillion in 2021 to less than $1 trillion in 2022 because the pandemic relief spending ended, not because of anything Biden did. A more reasonable comparison would be to compare today’s deficits to those before the pandemic (Hint: a trillion-dollar deficit used to be considered heart-attack inducing, not a sign of fiscal restraint.)

But now, something strange is happening. Rick Moran of PJ Media reports (by way of the Washington Post, which is behind a paywall) that despite no more emergency spending, low unemployment and the economy growing, at least a little, the deficit is once again rising. It’s expected to double between 2022 and 2023.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2023/09/05/u-s-deficit-explodes-from-1-trillion-to-2-trillion-despite-economic-growth-n1724553

A Harvard economics professor says this situation is “truly stunning,” there’s “never been anything like it,” and he called it “weird” and “freakish.” So what could possibly be causing it?

If you guessed that the deficit is rising because the government is spending money at an even faster rate than it’s coming in (16% higher spending than last year with a 7% drop in revenue), congratulations! You’re smarter than a Harvard economics professor!


The Miracle of Bidenomics 2!

Defaults on car loans and credit card debt is now at a 10-year high. Expect President Biden to take credit for creating lots of jobs for repo men.

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/09/05/credit-card-and-car-loan-defaults-hit-10-year-high-as-bidenomics-continues-path-of-destruction-n2163446

That link also includes a list of five lies the Democrats are telling about the economy. One is about the deficit falling, as mentioned above. Another is the claim that under Biden, we’re on the path to record oil and gas production. No. But a new study by a University of Chicago economist found that if Biden had just left Trump’s energy policies in place, we’d be generating about 2 million more barrels of oil a day. As for the whopper about gas prices falling, well, they are down from the record highs of $5 a gallon, but as of today, Triple A reports that the average cost of a gallon of regular gas is $3.81. When Trump left office, it was $2.49.


Headline of the Day! From Redstate.com:

“Elon Musk Declares War on Anti-Defamation League; Announces Defamation Lawsuit.”

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/09/05/elon-musk-declares-war-on-anti-defamation-league-announces-defamation-lawsuit-n2163443

You might wonder why the Anti-Defamation League would be accused of defamation, so these articles should bring you up to speed. It’s no longer your parents’ ADL.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/09/i-was-speaking-out-against-adl-before-it-was-cool-to-speak-out-against-adl/

At that link, law professor William A. Jacobson, a longtime fighter against anti-Semitism and now opponent of the ADL, explains how the group “betrayed its mission” since being taken over by CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. As he describes it, the ADL is exploiting anti-Semitism the same way the SPLC exploits racism, using false accusations to promote leftist political agendas and bully people.

And this article explains why it is not anti-Semitic to sue the Anti-Defamation League for defamation...

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/09/no-elon-musk-isnt-anti-semitic-because-he-threatened-a-lawsuit-against-the-anti-defamation-league/


Fake News Round-up!

The leftist site The Daily Beast was forced to publish an embarrassing editor’s note after claiming that a Real America’s Voice interview with Donald Trump was actually with an AI impostor. Not only was it really Trump, but the Daily Beast admitted that quotes about the story attributed to the owner of Real America’s Voice were removed because the person they quoted was apparently an impostor.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-outlet-forced-publish-editors-note-being-duped-fake-trump-interview-story

Mike Rowe is warning fans that a TikTok account that claims to be his and has nearly 97,000 followers is fake. Worse, they’re altering real videos of his to include email addresses that can steal your private data or credit card info.

https://fb.watch/mU97Xh6SQm/

Finally, Rolling Stone had to issue a retraction for falsely claiming that a group of neo-Nazi protesters were Ron DeSatis supporters. Ironically, their leader is actually a Biden supporter.

https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2023/09/05/delicious-rolling-stone-had-to-issue-a-correction-for-reporting-neo-nazis-are-desantis-supporters-n575823

I now eagerly await the retraction of everything else Rolling Stone has “reported” since 1968.


RIP, GARY WRIGHT AND STEVE HARWELL

By “Huckabee” pop culture guru Pat Reeder (http://www.hollywoodhifi.com)

While we and our parrots were still mourning the death of Jimmy Buffett, news came of the loss of two other prominent musicians.

Former Smashmouth lead singer Steve Harwell died in Boise Monday at 56 of liver failure after years of struggling with alcohol abuse. He left the band in 2021, but his very recognizable voice helped turn songs like “All Star” and “Walkin’ On The Sun” into huge hits.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/steve-harwell-smash-mouth-singer-dead-56

Also, singer/songwriter/keyboardist Gary Wright died Monday at 80 after six years of fighting Parkinson’s Disease and Lewy body dementia.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/musician-gary-wright-dead-80-battling-parkinsons-lewy-body-dementia

Wright is best known for his pioneering synthesizer work on his ethereal ‘70s hits “Dream Weaver” and “Love Is Alive,” but his career spanned decades. He started as a child star and worked on Broadway in the musical “Fanny” with Florence Henderson. His music career stretched from his early rock group Spooky Tooth (my favorite album title: “You Broke My Heart, So I Busted Your Jaw”) to a series of New Age and World Music albums. He also played keyboards on classic recordings by countless artists from Harry Nilsson to B.B. King, including George Harrison’s landmark album “All Things Must Pass” and Ringo Starr’s hits “Back Off Boogaloo” and “It Don’t Come Easy.”

If you listened to music during the ‘70s, there was a good chance you heard Gary Wright and didn’t even know it. He is being remembered by fellow musicians as a consummate musician, a deeply spiritual man and one of the nicest people in the industry.

If you’d like to learn more, he wrote an interesting book called “Dream Weaver, a Memoir: Music, Meditation and My Friendship With George Harrison.”


ICYMI: Feel-Good Story of the Day:

On Friday, after seven years of fighting in court for the basic First Amendment right to pray to God and also keep his job, Washington high school football coach Joe Kennedy coached his first game since winning his Supreme Court victory for freedom of religion. And in keeping his pact with God, he ended the game the way he always did: by taking a knee on the 50-yard line for 10 seconds in a silent prayer of thanks. Only this time, the stadium wasn’t silent because fans on both sides were cheering.

https://newrightnetwork.com/2023/09/we-finished-the-race-coach-kennedy-says-after-taking-knee-in-prayer-on-field-following-supreme-court-victory.html


Report: Prosecutors intend to indict Hunter Biden

It was reported Wednesday that special counsel David Weiss plans to indict Hunter Biden by the end of this month. It’s not yet known what the charge will be, but considering all the serious potential charges that have been allowed to fall beyond the statute of limitations while Hunter has been endlessly “investigated,” speculation is that it will center on the gun he obtained by lying on a background check.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/06/court-filing-david-weiss-intends-indict-hunter-biden-before-end-month/

While the media will likely frame this as proof that we do have equal justice, there’s no politicization of the justice system, move along, nothing to see here, la-la-la…that’s not true at all. First of all, I suspect this will be the least possible charge they think they can get away with, just for show. I also believe it can more accurately be read as evidence of how worried the Democrats are about the public’s growing awareness of and anger over their subversion of the justice system.

As outrageous and unprecedented as it is to try to imprison a political opponent for 700 years for things that not only aren’t illegal but that your own side has done routinely, at the same time having Hunter (and Joe) Biden in the spotlight, displaying stunning corruption while facing zero consequences, is just too glaring a contrast.

I think the Dem party powers sensed that voters who care about fair treatment under the law were becoming enraged to action, so they had to do something drastic fast, like make a sacrifice to the political gods. Hunter is hardly a virgin, but he is the lowest-hanging fruit and the most obvious choice for a fall guy to protect the Big Guy. I don’t expect this indictment to amount to much (if they treated him like Trump, he’d be facing a millennium in prison), but I think they hope it will help ease the pressure.

It won’t:

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-gop-demand-records-from-hunter-biden-attorneys-related-to-collapsed-sweetheart-plea-deal

And we’ll have more on this very soon, I’m sure:

https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/09/06/breaking-then-vp-bidens-colluded-with-hunters-business-partner-signed-off-on-burisma-talking-points-n2163471

Related: Wednesday, the judge in the ridiculous Georgia RICO case against Donald Trump and everyone he ever shook hands with rejected requests by co-defendants Kenneth Chesebro and attorney Sydney Powell for separate trials. On the surface, this is a loss for the Trump side, but as this article explains, it’s actually not a good omen for DA Fani Willis’ Rube Goldberg-style legal case.

https://www.westernjournal.com/georgia-judges-ruling-2-defendants-will-make-rico-case-difficult-fulton-county/

Despite his ruling, the judge said he remains “very skeptical” that Willis’ plan to try all 19 defendants in one trial would work, with some requesting speedy trials and others not, and some petitioning to move their trials to federal court. Chesebro and Powell claimed their defenses would get lost in a four-month trial that included a lot of other testimony irrelevant to the particular nonsense they’re accused of.

In fact, the accusations against each of them are completely unrelated, which makes it hard to understand how they’re both part of the same alleged “criminal conspiracy.” But then, I'm not an attorney. I also don’t have a bedroom wall covered with post-it notes, newspaper clippings and colored strings, the way I assume Ms Willis does.

 


Related MUST-SEE:

Georgia RICO defendant Harrison Floyd – the black Marine veteran who was the only one denied bail or a public defender – gave an exclusive interview to Redstate.com. Sample quotes:

“What transpired in Georgia and what a lot of people are arguing about, they are chasing the wrong rabbit. When the truth comes out, things are going to be a lot more clear.  Things are going to make a lot more sense, and I think people will definitely be convinced by the truth.”

“I feel like God is using me as an instrument right now to bring about change in a place that doesn't want to change. Because of that, I wouldn't change anything that I did because God put me here for a reason…I know the truth. I know what's going to happen.” He added that he guarantees the DA is going to have a “very, very hard time” proving these charges.

https://redstate.com/mccabe/2023/09/06/exclusive-defiant-harrison-floyd-tells-redstate-people-chasing-the-wrong-rabbit-n2163490

 


I tried warning Democrats...

Well, I tried and tried to warn the Democrats away from smashing legal norms and historical precedents to “get Trump.” But it couldn’t penetrate their TDS-addled minds that the lawfare they unleashed against Trump would set a precedent that would boomerang back onto them, and they have done SO many more things actually worthy of indictments.

And so it begins: Georgia’s Republican Attorney General Chris Carr announced RICO charges against 61 leftist militants who were allegedly part of the violent riots and protests to obstruct the construction of an Atlanta police training center.  This is the same statute DA Fani Willis is using to try to imprison Trump and his associates for challenging the 2020 election, only in this case, it’s about actual crimes that really do fall under the RICO statute.  More than three dozen of the accused Antifa types have already been charged with domestic terrorism (actual terrorism, not shaking a fence), and three are accused of money laundering to fund their interstate network of radical violence.

https://www.westernjournal.com/republican-ag-announces-rico-charges-61-leftists-violent-insurrection/

Hilariously, a group supporting the rioters issued a statement accusing Carr of trying to advance his political fortunes by violating the defendants’ right to free speech, and declaring that this will not silence their commitment to standing up for what they believe. Funny, that would make a good opening statement for the Trump trial. Except, again, in his case, it would actually apply, since he and his followers were just challenging what they thought was a rigged election, not shooting cops, assaulting people and setting things on fire.  

Oh, and as long as Georgia is now launching multiple indictments against prominent politicians over any infraction, I have one for them…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dem-sen-raphael-warnock-faces-ethics-complaint-alleging-he-potentially-filed-false-financial-disclosure/ar-AA1ghETM

 


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Some will no doubt look at this story from THE GATEWAY PUNDIT and dismiss it as election conspiracy-theory nonsense, the kind of label that got Mike Lindell’s products (wrongly) pulled from the shelves at Bed, Bath & Beyond.  It’s certainly the kind of story that will get an advertiser-supported newsletter demonetized by Google, which is why we hope you sign up for the Substack edition if you haven’t already.

According to this story, data analysts who’ve been looking into the 2020 election “have concluded that there had to be a two-way connection between local electronics (electronic poll pads, tabulators, election management systems, voter databases, etc.) and a centralized data collection system responsible for monitoring and manipulating the election.”  They suspect that an “incestuous collaboration” (details in the GP report) “allowed for the real-time monitoring of all election data, and, more importantly, THE ABILITY TO CHANGE RESULTS.”  (Emphasis ours.)

They report that a year-long project led by election integrity investigator Sophie Anderson and communications engineer Dr. Charles Bernardin has “uncovered the mechanism that is being used to connect our election equipment at polling places throughout the nation.”  The government, they say, uses a private tool for this called FirstNet, originally sold as a tool to “promote public safety” by connecting police, fire and EMT services.  The scope was then expanded to include “critical infrastructure,” such as transportation, energy and water supplies.

We don’t have the expertise in data analytics it would take to verify the details in their report, but we would be remiss if we didn’t pass the story on to you, particularly after reading an archival story linked to within it.  This is about Barack Obama’s move, just days before he left office (but after Trump was elected), to have the Department of Homeland Security declare ELECTION SYSTEMS to be a part of America’s “critical infrastructure,” just like bridges, waterways and hydroelectric plants.  This was purportedly to maintain election integrity after the Russians had supposedly interfered with the 2016 election (the unspoken part: to help Trump win).  Mustn’t let THAT happen again!

Here’s that story, from January (6th, by coincidence) 2017.  Obama would be leaving the White House on the 20th.  The idea, as reported in THE HILL, was “to bring federal protections to voting systems.”  Many state and local officials, including then-Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, “expressed strong opposition” to this plan, calling it federal overreach, which it most certainly was.  But DHS Director Jeh Johnson did it anyway.  Homeland Security ranking member Bennie Thompson of Mississippi thought it was a great idea, which should be a big red flag right there.

It can be so fascinating to look back at some of these archival stories in light of what we know today.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/313132-dhs-designates-election-systems-as-critical-infrastructure/

Here’s the full, updated story from GATEWAY PUNDIT.  Lots of detail about the network here.  Again, we’re not data analysts or computer network specialists and so can’t assess their work, but just the possibility of something like this should make every county in every state go offline immediately, moving from high-tech “electronic voting systems” to no-tech, old-school paper ballots that can’t possibly be messed with electronically with the flip of a switch.

And whoever wants to suppress our viewpoint needs to know: we’re not trying to destroy faith in our elections.  That’s already out the window, thanks in large part, ironically, to their suppression of information.  On the contrary, we want to help restore that faith, and this appears to be the only way.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/report-nationwide-cellular-network-connects-election-equipment-gives/

 

 


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DAILY BIBLE VERSE

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Luke 6:31

 


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Federal judge strikes down Texas law

A federal judge struck down Texas’ new law banning minors from accessing adult websites like Pornhub. The legal ruling is at this link, with the judge finding that the law wasn’t narrowly tailored enough toward blocking minors and infringed on the sites’ free speech by forcing them to repeat government-approved language that kids wouldn’t understand.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2023/09/05/federal-judge-rules-against-texas-age-verification-law-for-porn-access-n1724668

Let’s hope Texas – and other states – give it another try and write another law more carefully. In the meantime, at least we know somebody on the Internet still has free speech. You just have to be pushing porn and not questioning the government.


Today’s Huckabee Video Links

This is my monologue from last weekend’s “Huckabee” on TBN, on why 2024 could be our last election decided by ballots and not bullets.

https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=4A92A414-E977-4D4F-8B3F-DE729F2FA751

And here is that full episode, featuring my guests, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Gen. Phillip Breedlove, Dr. Carol Swain, comedian Jeff Allen and singer/celebrity chef Rachel Hale.

https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=F44BDBA1-F783-4A12-9775-78C9C789C866


SCOTUS takes the case

The Supreme Court will take up one of the attempts to keep Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot by claiming he is disqualified for committing insurrection under the 14th Amendment.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/09/05/supreme-court-to-take-up-first-fourteenth-amendment-challenge-to-trumps-candidacy-n2163462

None of the people pushing this seem to be deterred by the petty details that Trump (A.) didn’t commit insurrection, (B.) was impeached over his actions on January 6th and acquitted, and (C.) has not only never been convicted of insurrection, he wasn’t even charged with insurrection by Jack Smith, who would charge Trump with murder for swatting a fly if he could get away with it.

Even if the Supreme Court swats this ridiculous case like a fly, don’t expect this gambit to go away. Trump’s enemies are so desperate to keep him off the ballot, they’ll find any excuse to do it, including, as this article notes, Democrat secretaries of state in blue states attempting it in hopes that they can stretch out the legal battle until just after the election.

I wonder why these people who claim to care so much about protecting “our democracy” are so frantic to prevent the American people from selecting their own President?


A new sentencing record

Yet another new sentencing record has been set for January 6th defendants, with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio being sentenced to 22 years in federal prison on seditious conspiracy and terrorism charges. Tarrio wasn’t even in DC that day (he’d been ordered out of town for allegedly defacing a BLM banner – also a federal offense, I assume) and was in a hotel in Baltimore. But prosecutors accused him of being the organizer of an assault on the Capitol to prevent Biden from being certified President. I guess they didn’t believe at the time that Biden was certifiable, which we all now know to be true.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/05/proud-boys-enrique-tarrio-receives-record-22-year-prison-sentence-for-capitol-riots/

Tarrio’s attorney said he is no terrorist but a “misguided patriot,” and that he comes from a place (Cuba) that has no rights and mistakenly thought he was protecting America. Before being sentenced, Tarrio said, “To the men and women of law enforcement who answered the call that day, I’m sorry. I have always tried to hold myself to a higher standard, and I failed. I failed miserably. I thought of myself morally above others, and this trial has humbled me. I am not a political zealot. When I get back home, I want nothing to do with politics, groups, activism or rallies.”

Not to defend what Tarrio did, but Tristin Justice at the Federalist reminds us of the many unquestionable domestic terrorists on the left who attacked police, burned government buildings and businesses and tried to kill people, showed no remorse whatsoever, and were released with minor consequences or no charges filed at all. And Democrats wonder why so many Americans believe all those indictments against Trump are nothing but politics.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/05/j6ers-get-domestic-terrorist-treatment-from-two-tiered-justice-system-after-summer-of-love-terrorists-get-slapped-on-the-wrist/


Congressional redistricting rulings will impact 2024 race for control of the House

In recent days, courts have ruled against Congressional district lines in both Florida and Alabama. These will have an impact on the 2024 elections and could help determine who controls the House. There will likely be appeals, so I won’t go into too much detail, but Jennifer Oliver O’Connell has a good explanation and analysis of it all at Redstate.com.

https://redstae.com/jenniferoo/2023/09/05/federal-court-strikes-down-alabamas-redistricting-maps-yet-again-whats-the-end-game-n2163455


Baffling behavior

President Biden left everyone baffled when he suddenly turned and walked out right in the middle of a Medal of Honor ceremony for a Vietnam War hero.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/05/watch-biden-leaves-everyone-confused-as-he-leaves-in-the-middle-of-a-medal-of-honor-ceremony-n2163454

To put the most positive spin on it, maybe he just heard an ice cream truck.


A leaked Kaiser Permanente DEI training video makes news

A “horrified” hospital employee at Kaiser Permanente leaked a DEI training video for medical employees that included children talking about how they knew they were transgender when they were three or four years old.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/horrified-hospital-employee-leaks-dei-training-promoting-3-year-olds-identifying-as-trans

It also includes a dad talking about how his very young son would write notes to Santa and the Easter Bunny, asking to be turned into a girl. And an adult trans male is shown saying, "When I was 3, I decided that I was going to be a father and marry Janet Jackson."

I think that last paragraph alone tells you just how firm a grasp on reality three-year-olds have. So why not let them make diagnostic decisions that will permanently alter their bodies?

Kaiser Permanente issued a statement saying that while the video does include this content, “the video does not speak to any adolescent transgender care or treatment plans. Kaiser Permanente does not provide hormone treatments or gender-affirming surgery to 3 and 4-year-olds."

Good. So why does the video include that content?


Progressives know best

To me, one of the most fascinating things about “progressives” like AOC or Bernie Sanders is their ironclad belief that, despite having zero experience at anything useful, they know how to do every job better than the people who actually do them. They can predict the weather better than meteorologists, write health policies better than doctors, run the energy industry better than oil companies, conduct every business better than the people who own them, and on and on. They think that guiding and predicting next-wave technology should be their job, not the job of actual experts in the field in a free market. And if you point out obvious ways in which their ignorance is showing, they try to silence you.

I suspect that Self-Esteem Class was the only class they actually made A’s in. For instance, their top climate science guru, Al Gore, made grades in college science classes that ranged from C+ down to F.

Here are a couple of fresh examples of leftists who should’ve let someone qualified do the thinking...

The Biden White House wants to spend more than $60 billion on its “Internet For All” program to bring high speed Internet to rural areas. I’ll let you argue whether that’s a legitimate function of government, but look at how they want to do it. They want to spend an average of $53,000 per household (more than some of the homes they’re servicing are worth) to install fiber optic Internet lines.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-admin-spending-53000-per-household-address-problem-elon-musk-already-solved/

FYI: Elon Musk – whom they constantly target for harassment for defending the First Amendment – has a company that can provide satellite Internet for a tiny fraction of that cost. But obviously, they know more about the tech business than Elon Musk.


Problems with EVs Part II

And I’ve been telling you for quite a while about all the problems with electric cars that make them expensive, unreliable and impractical for the vast majority of Americans, but the Biden White House wants to force us to buy them anyway, because they know better than automakers, or you, what kind of car you should drive. Now, what I’ve been warning about is starting to happen already.

In Salisbury, England, a Tesla EV whose gauges said its battery still had several miles left, suddenly died in the middle of a busy road. It couldn’t be pushed or towed because the handbrake automatically engaged and couldn’t be released because it’s powered by the battery. It sat there blocking traffic for nine hours until the police found a way to clear it off the highway.

https://ijr.com/electric-car-bricks-middle-busy-road-becomes-9-hour-headache/

Imagine a typical Los Angeles traffic jam with cars sitting idling already. Now, imagine if even half of those cars were EV’s like that one with their batteries rapidly draining. Those drivers would die of old age before they ever got home.

Also, the floods from Hurricane Idalia have receded in Florida, but the danger isn’t over, if you own an electric car, golf cart or scooter. Even if your EV still runs after being flooded, that doesn’t mean it isn’t irreparably damaged. Even weeks later, the salt water that got in the battery can dry up, leaving salt residue that creates a connection between cells and causes short circuits. Already, two Teslas have reportedly burst into flames. And lithium ion battery fires create toxic smoke and are nearly impossible to put out.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article278835624.html

In a famous political ad of the 1960s, Democrats mocked Richard Nixon by asking, “Would you buy a used car from this man?” Well, look at Joe Biden, who had 50 years of experience warming a chair in DC and no experience with auto engineering, and ask yourself, “Would you buy an electric car from this man?”


Yes, there’s an “election cybersecurity infrastructure” linking voting systems to the feds

Some will no doubt look at this story from THE GATEWAY PUNDIT and dismiss it as election conspiracy-theory nonsense, the kind of label that got Mike Lindell’s products (wrongly) pulled from the shelves at Bed, Bath & Beyond.  It’s certainly the kind of story that will get an advertiser-supported newsletter demonetized by Google, which is why we hope you sign up for the Substack edition if you haven’t already.

According to this story, data analysts who’ve been looking into the 2020 election “have concluded that there had to be a two-way connection between local electronics (electronic poll pads, tabulators, election management systems, voter databases, etc.) and a centralized data collection system responsible for monitoring and manipulating the election.”  They suspect that an “incestuous collaboration” (details in the GP report) “allowed for the real-time monitoring of all election data, and, more importantly, THE ABILITY TO CHANGE RESULTS.”  (Emphasis ours.)

They report that a year-long project led by election integrity investigator Sophie Anderson and communications engineer Dr. Charles Bernardin has “uncovered the mechanism that is being used to connect our election equipment at polling places throughout the nation.”  The government, they say, uses a private tool for this called FirstNet, originally sold as a tool to “promote public safety” by connecting police, fire and EMT services.  The scope was then expanded to include “critical infrastructure,” such as transportation, energy and water supplies.

We don’t have the expertise in data analytics it would take to verify the details in their report, but we would be remiss if we didn’t pass the story on to you, particularly after reading an archival story linked to within it.  This is about Barack Obama’s move, just days before he left office (but after Trump was elected), to have the Department of Homeland Security declare ELECTION SYSTEMS to be a part of America’s “critical infrastructure,” just like bridges, waterways and hydroelectric plants.  This was purportedly to maintain election integrity after the Russians had supposedly interfered with the 2016 election (the unspoken part: to help Trump win).  Mustn’t let THAT happen again!

Here’s that story, from January (6th, by coincidence) 2017.  Obama would be leaving the White House on the 20th.  The idea, as reported in THE HILL, was “to bring federal protections to voting systems.”  Many state and local officials, including then-Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, “expressed strong opposition” to this plan, calling it federal overreach, which it most certainly was.  But DHS Director Jeh Johnson did it anyway.  Homeland Security ranking member Bennie Thompson of Mississippi thought it was a great idea, which should be a big red flag right there.

It can be so fascinating to look back at some of these archival stories in light of what we know today.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/313132-dhs-designates-election-systems-as-critical-infrastructure/

Here’s the full, updated story from GATEWAY PUNDIT.  Lots of detail about the network here.  Again, we’re not data analysts or computer network specialists and so can’t assess their work, but just the possibility of something like this should make every county in every state go offline immediately, moving from high-tech “electronic voting systems” to no-tech, old-school paper ballots that can’t possibly be messed with electronically with the flip of a switch.

And whoever wants to suppress our viewpoint needs to know: we’re not trying to destroy faith in our elections.  That’s already out the window, thanks in large part, ironically, to their suppression of information.  On the contrary, we want to help restore that faith, and this appears to be the only way.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/report-nationwide-cellular-network-connects-election-equipment-gives/

 


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Before getting into the interview with WASHINGTON POST writer Philip Bump that shows us what’s wrong with journalism today, I’d like to show you the kind of story that would be lost on him, at least the part he’s in denial about; namely, Joe Biden’s involvement in the Biden family scandal.  His mind simply will not permit him to “Bump” up against the evidence for that.

Matt Vespa, on the other hand, shows how easy it is for evidence and common sense to take us there in a new opinion piece for TOWNHALL.  Yes, we did say what he calls his “tipsheet” expresses his personal opinion, but it’s opinion based on inescapable facts.  (At least they’re inescapable for people whose minds don’t work like the minds of Bump and other mainstream “journalists.”)  Our readers will be familiar with most of what he says here about the reluctance --- EXTREME reluctance --- of the DOJ/FBI to investigate Hunter and, by extension, the Biden family, but his report provides a good summary of what we know.  Also, here’s something about the timeline that the Huckabee researchers did not know.  From Vespa:

“The Secret Service warning spoiled plans to interview Hunter and other witnesses as part of a proposed “Day of Action” set for Dec. 8, 2020, days after the first son received Secret Service protection following Joe Biden’s election to the presidency.” 

In other words, even though the FBI had months and months --- years, really --- to talk to Hunter, the timing of their proposed interview just happened to fall right AFTER Hunter had received Secret Service protection.  Reading between the lines, it looks as though they waited until he had this wall of security around him, and then used it as an excuse to tip off Hunter’s team.  After all, they couldn’t very well just go up to Hunter’s door and knock without notifying the Secret Service first, could they?  (Actually, they could, but this is the excuse they’ve been using.)

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/09/03/ex-fbi-agent-reveals-why-the-irs-whistleblowers-has-such-difficulty-interviewing-hunter-biden-n2627913#google_vignette

Now that you’ve read a piece that dares to “go there” --- to the doorstep of the White House --- it’s time to see the interview with a WAPO so-called journalist who demonstrates that journalism, if not dead, is barely registering a pulse thanks to a few real investigators.  He’s not so much a reporter of facts as he is an advocate for the President.  In fact, if he were a defense attorney for Joe Biden, he’d probably be saying a lot of the same things, albeit in a calmer and more measured way instead of frantic and desperate.

You’ll notice --- and, if you’re like us, be amused by this --- that as the interview goes on, the pitch of his voice slides from tenor to soprano.

Make time for this interview if you can; it’s about an hour and ten minutes long.  The write-up by Ian Schwartz at REALCLEAR POLITICS has this but also includes an edit with the best part, which is when Bump is confronted with EVIDENCE of Joe Biden’s involvement, in the form of a text Hunter wrote to his daughter about having to give half his income to their father.  Bump puts up incredible resistance; at this point, if his voice got any higher, only dogs would be able to hear it.

The interview is with Noam Dworman, the owner of the Comedy Cellar in New York City, who also is a very impressive podcast host.  We gather from this one interview that he won’t take any nonsense from anyone, left or right.  He’s looking for direct answers and can see right through evasiveness and spin.  If only we had more critical thinkers like him in media.

Bump is billed as the smartest and most knowledgeable person about the Hunter Biden investigation who believes Joe Biden was not involved at all. (Apparently when Dworman was looking for that person to interview, Bump’s name came up over and over, so he invited him on.)  But when Dworman presents him with the text from Hunter about giving his father all that money, Bump freaks out.  That’s not hyperbole on our part, but really the most accurate way to describe his reaction. 

The wall goes up when Bump is confronted with this, and he says, “I have no idea what that means.  I don’t.  I have no idea what that means.”  He calls it “circumstantial evidence.”  When asked if anyone has asked Biden’s daughter about this, he professes not to know.  When asked if someone SHOUILD ask her about it, he says he doesn’t know and has nothing to say about it.  He finally throws up his hands and quickly says, “Okay, that’s evidence.”

But at that point, Bump, cornered, stammers that it feels as though Dworman wanted him to leave, though the host has given no indication of that.  On the contrary, what Dworman wanted was answers from Bump to his questions about this evidence.  Bump actually does get up and leave, rather than discuss this text.  Quite a scene.

Dworman asks rhetorically, “Is this the standard, really?  This is the way that the WASHINGTON POST handles people that disagree with them?”

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/09/02/washington_posts_philip_bump_stumped_by_hunter_biden_text_about_pop_getting_50_its_circumstantial.html#!

Bump later tweeted (X’d?): “He cobbles together an interview, ‘splicing in new arguments after the fact.’  It gets little traction.  And then suddenly ends up in the NEW YORK POST, wildly and dishonestly cherry-picked.”

Actually, we didn’t find it in the NY POST, but thanks to comments about it from Scott Adams on his daily podcast, “Coffee With Scott Adams.”  The first thing we did was watch the full interview, so as to avoid judging it based on “cherry-picked” bits and pieces.  Now, here’s the article in the POST, from Miranda Devine, who one might say knows a little bit about the Hunter Biden story.  She uses Bump as an example of the “gaslighting from complicit media.”  She points to his long history of being wrong.

https://nypost.com/2023/08/30/americans-are-getting-wise-to-joe-bidens-corruption-despite-his-media-gatekeepers/

Devine also mentions a column by law professor Jonathan Turley about Bump in which he lays out a list of Bump’s errors.  For his trouble, Turley received an email from someone at WAPO saying the newspaper “stands by Philip Bump’s reporting and your characterization of his articles as ‘false’ is incorrect.”  Turley, in response, said, “Dworman’s podcast interview stands as one of the most revealing and vivid examples of how the media has changed in the age of rage.”

Here’s Turley’s full column, a must-read…

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/09/01/you-dont-listen-to-the-press-im-telling-you-washington-post-columnist-philip-bump-strikes-out-at-those-who-question-prior-false-claims/#more-209251

You’ll see in reading Miranda’s piece that we weren’t the only ones to notice Dworman’s voice climbing into the soprano range.  I swear we thought of this independently.

Dworman, in his conclusion, captures the current state of the media perfectly: “What we’re seeing is akin to an ocean full of sharks who have simultaneously lost their ability to smell blood in the water.  [Our aside: unless it’s Trump blood.]  The press seems to have lost its ability to alert itself to obvious facts that they need to follow up on.”

He just as easily could have quoted the character of Henry Drummond in INHERIT THE WIND, interrogating Matthew Harrison Brady (someone else who refuses to look at the other side) on the witness stand: “It frightens me to think of the state of learning in the world if everyone had your driving curiosity.”

 

 


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An explanation for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s latest brief “freeze-up”

Capitol physician Dr. Brian P. Monahan provided an explanation for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s latest brief “freeze-up” in front of reporters, his second in a month. Monahan said occasional lightheadedness is not uncommon when recovering from a concussion as McConnell is, and can also be caused by dehydration. He cleared McConnell to return to his regular schedule.

Discuss.  You know you want to.

https://www.westernjournal.com/capitol-physician-issues-statement-evaluation-mcconnells-freezing-incident/


Fake News Alert!

The Daily Mail reported that a $50 million super PAC called “Ron to the Rescue” closed and switched to Trump because of DeSantis’ badly-run campaign. But the DeSantis campaign called it a “scam PAC” that had been using his name and likeness without permission.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12465943/Ron-DeSantis-50-million-super-PAC-CLOSES-donors-spooked-rookie-s-mistakes.html

Rob Pyers, Research Director for the non-partisan California Target Book, reported that the PAC has actually raised less than $300 and has no money on hand. Also, its creators have been accused of scams before, including a bogus facemask supply deal with California.

https://therightscoop.com/desantis-super-pac-that-supposedly-switched-to-trump-is-a-fake-pac-that-raised-less-than-300-this-year/


Jobs update

The Labor Department reported Friday morning that the economy added 187,000 jobs in August. That’s within the range predicted by economists, which was a pretty wide berth: between 40,000 and 190,000 (that should give you an idea of how unpredictable things are.)  The unemployment rate jumped from 3.5 to 3.8%.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/09/01/unemployment-jumps-to-3-8-in-august-187000-jobs-added/

But I don’t know why I even bother to report these numbers because they seem to keep collapsing after a month, like rotting Jack-o-lanterns. Every month seems to bring an optimistic number along with a downward revision of the previous month’s optimistic number. We were told last month that 187,000 jobs were created in July, but that was revised downward to 157,000. Last month, June’s number of 185,000 was revised downward to 105,000.

Is this sort of thing due to bad data, or a deliberate attempt to create a false rosy picture, then quietly restore reality when nobody’s paying attention? There’s more on that suspicion, and a number of other economic numbers that keep mysteriously shrinking after they’re reported, here:

https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/08/29/these-bls-downward-revisions-have-become-a-bad-habit-or-something-worse-n574511


“Here’s what you voted for!”

Someone in top Democrat circles must really want to grease the stairs under President Biden (a cruel metaphor, I know.) Data was leaked to the Washington Post showing that a record-breaking 300,000 migrants crossed the U.S. border in August. And not only did WaPo actually report that, but they also pointed out that it was the second consecutive month in which border apprehensions rose more than 30 percent.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/09/01/wash-post-biden-boosts-migrant-inflow-by-one-third-in-august/

In a related story, the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to order the city attorney to investigate Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to see if he’s violated any laws in sending some of the illegal immigrants Biden is letting stream into Texas on to blue cities like L.A. If so, they want to sue him and press criminal charges.

https://www.oann.com/newsroom/l-a-county-council-urges-lawsuit-against-texas-governor-over-migrant-buses/

Only Democrats could play so fast, loose and partisan with the law as to think that it’s perfectly legal to let unvetted foreign nationals pour into the US illegally, but it’s a felony to offer them a free bus ride to L.A. Incidentally, In 2020, Los Angeles County voted for Biden over Trump by 80-18%, so they don’t have any room to complain about the results of Biden reversing Trump’s border security measures.

Also related: Some people said Joe Biden couldn’t do it, but as Barack Obama once said, never underestimate Joe’s ability to (BLEEP) things up. He's actually managed to fill up New York City beyond capacity with illegal aliens.

That’s right, even the Big Apple itself is out of room for all the illegal immigrants Joe has let in, but don’t worry, he has a solution: he’s going to start shipping them to New Jersey!  Well, that oughta make ‘em stop coming here!

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2023/08/31/new-yorks-migrant-situation-is-so-out-of-control-biden-wants-to-send-people-to-new-jersey-n2627838

Sorry, New Jersey, no offense, but that joke was just too easy to resist. Biden’s solution to his deliberately-created problem is not to seal the border and start expelling illegal entrants but to put them shuttle them off to other New York communities, as well as places in New Jersey, like the Atlantic City International Airport. From now, when I say I “live at the airport,” I’ll have to explain that I don’t mean that literally, like some people.

I’m sure Texans would feel a lot sorrier for them if New York hadn’t voted for Biden over Trump in 2020 by 23 points, and New Jersey voted for Biden by 14 points. Texas should put banners on their incoming buses of illegal aliens reading, “Here’s what you voted for!”


New website launched

The Defense Department announced that it is launching a website, www.aaro.mil, as a “one stop shop” to find all declassified reports on UFOs, or the latest official name, UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.)

https://discernreport.com/ufo-disclosure-goes-digital-pentagon-launches-online-hub-for-declassified-reports/

Call me a skeptic, but I find the timing suspiciously convenient that just as we’re learning all these nefarious things the government has secretly been doing, suddenly they’re okay with a whistleblower publicly claiming there are all these secrets about space aliens for us to get worked up over, even though the whistleblower has never actually seen of them personally. Whistleblowers are meant to draw attention, but do you know what else they can do? Distract attention.


Good News For The Second Amendment

After nearly a decade in court, Washington, DC, has agreed to pay $5.1 million to settle a lawsuit over its arrests and jailings of legal gun owners for violating DC gun laws that were later struck down as blatantly unconstitutional.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2023/08/31/washington-dc-will-pay-51-million-for-violating-the-second-amendment/?sh=59cc81635d39


Today’s “Life In A Blue City,” Part 1

Maybe San Francisco’s politicians will finally do something about crime now that’s so bad, it’s forcing vegan restaurants to close.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/crime-forces-popular-san-francisco-restaurant-close-after-14-years-impossible-run-business


Today’s “Life In A Blue City,” Part 2

In the Oakland, California, suburb of Emoryville, Democratic city councilman Kalimah Priforce rode his bike to a local mall to talk to shop owners about the rampant theft plaguing the city. While he was talking about it, someone stole his wallet and keys from his bike bag.

https://www.westernjournal.com/wallet-keys-stolen-democratic-city-councilmember-talking-businesses-crime/

That’s actually not bad. In most blue cities, they would’ve stolen his bike and whatever it was chained to.


Priorities

The next election should hinge on priorities: which Party do the voters think has its priorities straight? For instance:

Republicans think we should put the needs of Americans first. President Biden wants to send $95 million to help Americans who were victims of the worst wildfire in a century in Maui. That’s one-tenth of one percent of what he’s given to Ukraine so far.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/31/biden-send-maui-less-one-tenth-one-percent-what-he-wants-send-ukraine/

While China is engaged in an unprecedented military build-up for the express purpose of defeating the US, our current woke Pentagon leaders are focusing on things like lowering standards, diversity, equity and promoting tolerance for drag queens and transgender soldiers. Stephen Green of PJ Media has some sobering thoughts about how that’s going to end, and it wasn’t what he originally set out to write, but the more he researched it, the more obvious – and frightening – it became.

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/08/31/yeah-were-going-to-lose-world-war-iii-to-china-n1723417

A Daily Wire investigation has uncovered emails showing that while the Biden Administration was tragically bungling the withdrawal from Afghanistan that cost the lives of 13 heroic Marines and who knows how many of our Afghan allies, top Pentagon officials were prioritizing getting the Secretary of Defense to sign a climate change initiative.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/pentagon-frantically-worked-to-finalize-climate-plan-during-botched-afghanistan-withdrawal-emails-show

Republicans are being warned that if they don’t abandon abortion as an issue, they will lose big because so many women will vote on that issue alone. Is it really impossible to make a convincing case that with all these disasters happening all around us…and with the open border, drug deaths, homelessness, inflation, interest rates, most Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck, and crime so out of control that people are afraid to leave their homes…that if you think the only issue that matters is protecting late term abortions, then maybe you should rethink your priorities?


Not Guilty

Former President Trump waived arraignment and filed a “not guilty” plea in the (Editor’s note: “ridiculous”) RICO charges against him in Georgia.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2023/08/31/donald-trump-files-not-guilty-plea-in-fulton-county-n1723483

Trump also released a new video, telling Americans who he thinks is behind all these indictments. This is not a video that will leave you asking, “I wonder what he really thinks of them?...”

https://redstate.com/beccalower/2023/08/31/trump-comes-out-swinging-against-biden-indictments-in-new-video-on-people-behind-them-n2163274

Finally, the judge in the Georgia trial ruled that it can be televised and live streamed. That would likely make it the only Trump trial that is televised, unless it’s moved to federal court. Well, you can’t have a show trial without a show, can you? This may be another one of those ill-advised liberal dreams like the Trump mugshot that leftists have dreamed about for years, only to have it blow up in their faces when Americans see what garbage this is. And did they forget, Trump is much better than his enemies on TV?

https://fox4kc.com/news/national/judge-says-trumps-georgia-trial-will-be-livestreamed-televised/


“Strike Force Five”

To raise money for their striking writers and staffs (and I suspect to remind Americans who no longer care that they still exist), five late night “comedy” show hosts are teaming up to do a low-rent podcast called “Strike Force Five.” I don’t advise you to watch the promo since it only demonstrates how desperately they need writers (not their regular writers, but good ones.) The “humor” involves Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon being cutesy with Stephen Colbert over which one he means when he says, “Jimmy,” and it ends with John Oliver calling fans the “F-word.” Seth Meyers is also present.

https://twitter.com/StrikeForceFive

You can tell how much viewers miss “entertainment” like this from the fact that despite having national publicity and all five hosts, at this writing, the podcast has less than 8100 followers on Twitter. Obviously, they need to tell a lot more Trump jokes.


More good news for fans to reality

I told you the good news that Americans are finally waking up and pushing back against the unrealistic crusade to force everyone to drive electric cars, and automakers like Ford are reading the tea leaves and transitioning to hybrids. Well, here’s more good news for fans of reality: before the entire surface of the Earth is covered with spinning wind turbines that kill every bird in the sky, people are starting to realize that that, too, is an unrealistic, unscientific pipe dream. Their generating power is way overestimated, as is the lifespan of the equipment, not to mention the many other problems they’re having, from rust to beached whales.

Consequently, wind power companies are seeing big drops in value, as nations like Denmark are finally starting to tune out the scowling children and get serious about building new nuclear plants that can provide sufficient, reliable energy, whether the wind is blowing or not.

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/08/31/speaking-of-hurricanes-theres-a-big-storm-in-the-wind-industry-right-now-too-n574991

Related: Our favorite YouTube auto mechanic Scotty Kilmer has previously railed about the stupidity of wind turbines, and he has a new video up I think you’ll get a kick out of. It opens with him gutting useless electric pickups and ends with a rant on the “stupid” green idea of making highways out of recycled plastic (they fall apart and leach plastic into the water supply.) In between, he answers some car repair questions, and I think you’ll get a laugh out of how he illustrates his reader’s “idiot” mechanic.

https://youtu.be/lOhxOd9gEEw?si=AvOl0QVsc3A-vISY


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DAILY BIBLE VERSE

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Romans, 12:18

 


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Motivated Republicans

Nancy Pelosi may have just motivated Republican voters even more with an arrogant, clueless "basket full of deplorables" moment of her own. Pelosi, who claims to be a devout Catholic yet backs the most radical forms of abortion, and who represents a district that tolerates and even encourages homelessness, drug addiction, unfettered crime and gross violations of basic public hygiene, accused Republicans of being morally inferior creatures who “do not respect the dignity and worth of every human being.”

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/09/02/pelosi_trump_attracts_a_certain_element_of_people_who_do_not_respect_the_dignity_and_worth_of_every_person.html

We’ll have more to say about this later, but it’s a holiday weekend and I don’t want to ruin it by thinking about Nancy Pelosi or what her district is like when I’m trying to eat my Labor Day barbecue.


Fake News About Fake News:

The leftist media outlet The Daily Beast insinuated that John Soloman’s JustTheNews.com was duped by an AI chatbot masquerading as President Trump in an interview. But it not only isn’t true, DB’s alleged source for the claim says the quoted texts that DB attributed to the owner of their media outlet are not real and that’s not his contact number. Amid threats of legal action, Solomon tweeted, “How long before (The Daily Beast) retracts this false and defamatory story concocted from the theater of the absurd?”

https://pjmedia.com/columns/paula-bolyard/2023/09/01/daily-beast-journalist-gets-punked-on-story-claiming-conservative-media-got-punked-by-fake-trump-n1723829

At least, I think it was John Solomon who tweeted that. It might have been an AI bot. Or Cher in disguise. Welcome to 21st century "journalism."


“Huckabee Preview”

I hope you have a safe and enjoyable Labor Day weekend! My staff and I will take a break from the news on Monday, but never fear: we’ve prepared some special Labor Day content for you, and we’ll be back hacking through the news with our truth machetes on Tuesday.

In the meantime, say goodbye to summer with a new episode of “Huckabee” tonight on TBN! I’ll talk about the precarious world and military situations with Gen. Philip Breedlove, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. I’ll also welcome back one of my favorite guests, author and political commentator Dr. Carol Swain. Hilarious stand-up comic Jeff Allen is back for another appearance. And rising country singer and “American Idol” finalist Rachel Hale will not only provide the music, she also has her own online cooking show called “Hale’s Kitchen,” so I will prevail upon her to try to teach me how to cook something tasty.

Catch it all tonight at 8 and 11 EST, 7 and 10 CST, and Sunday at 9 EST/8 CST on TBN. To find out how to watch TBN, from local cable and broadcast channels to streaming, visit https://www.huckabee.tv and click on “Channel Finder” on the top menu. You can stream previous episodes, highlights and online-only “Digital Exclusives,” including extended interviews, “In Case You Missed It” and “Facts of the Matter” segments, plus extra performances by our great musical and comedy guests and links to all their sites, at https://www.huckabee.tv. You can also find past shows, highlights and digital exclusives on YouTube and my Facebook page.


Feel-Good Story of the Day:

On Friday, after seven years of fighting in court for the basic First Amendment right to pray to God and also keep his job, Washington high school football coach Joe Kennedy coached his first game since winning his Supreme Court victory for freedom of religion. And in keeping his pact with God, he ended the game the way he always did: by taking a knee on the 50-yard line for 10 seconds in a silent prayer of thanks. Only this time, the stadium wasn’t silent because fans on both sides were cheering.

https://newrightnetwork.com/2023/09/we-finished-the-race-coach-kennedy-says-after-taking-knee-in-prayer-on-field-following-supreme-court-victory.html


Kemp rejects special session request

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp rejected a request for an emergency special session to impeach Fulton County DA Fani Willis for her election interference in filing politicized charges against Donald Trump and his associates in the middle of a presidential campaign.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/08/31/gov-brian-kemp-stands-fani-willis-dismisses-calls-impeach-fulton-county-da/

Kemp said his concerns with Willis’ actions are well-documented, but state law “clearly outlines the legal steps that can be taken if constituents believe their local prosecutors are violating their oath by engaging in unethical or illegal behavior. Up to this point, I have not seen any evidence that D.A. Willis’ actions or lack thereof, warrant action by the prosecuting attorney oversight commission.”

State Sen. Colton Moore, who launched the drive, replied that Kemp should “take a deep breath and read the Georgia Constitution,” which “outlines his clear power to call an emergency session.” But as a famous movie set in Georgia once taught us, “Askin’ ain’t gettin’,” and even if these garbage charges should never have been allowed into a courtroom, Gov. Kemp was likely never going to take any extraordinary measures to block them for Trump.


Here We Go Again:

The Biden ATF is trying to pull another Obama-style end-run around the Constitution with new regulations that infringe on the Second Amendment. Read this, and you’ll know what’s going on when you hear about the inevitable legal challenges to stop it.

https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-atf-creating-sneaky-backdoor-gun-owners-proposal-will-soon-finalized-enacted/


Fani Willis treachery update:  She ignored exculpatory evidence

Yesterday, we reported that Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney Fani Willis, who has indicted 19 people, including President Trump, on various charges related to conspiracy to falsely overturn the 2020 election, might very well be embroiled in her own election scandal.  This one involves laundered campaign contributions from who-knows-where via the Democrat organization ActBlue and unwitting “donors” from around the country whose identity was apparently stolen for purposes of transferring funds in the form of credit card charges.  How ironic that someone who stretched RICO law as far as it can go (and maybe farther) to enable her to charge Trump is very likely the beneficiary of actual federal RICO violations herself.

Today, it gets much worse for Fani.  According to a new report in THE FEDERALIST, Willis has had documents in her possession that exonerate several of the people she is putting on trial, and other Republicans as well, for their lawful contesting of the 2020 election in Georgia.  She allegedly withheld it.

Surely you noticed that most of the stories about this case have referred to “fake electors”?  There were no “fake electors”; that was a term made up for the case by Democrats and spread around by the media (like “assault weapon.”) The documents Willis withheld make it clear that the Republican electors, the alternates, were not trying to fool anyone into thinking they were the “duly elected” slate.

From the story: “Specifically, Willis claimed [elector David] Shafer and the other alternate electors ‘unlawfully falsely held themselves out’ as Georgia’s ‘duly elected and qualified’ presidential electors.  She further insisted these electors --- with [Trump attorney Ray] Smith’s assistance --- intentionally attempted to ‘mislead’ figures such as then-Vice President Mike Pence and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger ‘into believing that they actually were such officers.’”

But one of the documents Willis has obtained, a transcript of the December 14 meeting of the GOP alternate electors, refutes her allegations.  (December 14 is the day set by law for p