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BY MIKE HUCKABEE

Blessings on you and your family from all the Huckabee team! Here are news stories from the past week, you won't want to miss.

Mike Huckabee

DAILY BIBLE VERSE

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Luke 6:31

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Did you know that Nancy Pelosi has a daughter who produced a documentary on January 6 while her mother’s “select” committee was presenting one carefully-edited side of that event?

And did you know that environmentalist jet-setter and major CO2-emitter John Kerry has a daughter who rivals him at presenting outrageously misleading statistics as an excuse to meddle in every aspect of life?

Before the release of Alexandra Pelosi’s documentary, THE INSURRECTIONIST NEXT DOOR, on HBO October 15, she appeared on (where else?) THE VIEW to promote it among her like-minded friends.  Here is that segment, though I warn the weak-of-stomach who choose to watch it that you might want to take something ahead of time to ward off nausea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln4wruy-6NE&t=313s

Pelosi II equates Trump supporters with religious cult members. Trump has the “cult of personality,” she says, and they have “this religious attachment --- that’s still not broken --- to HIM, personally.”  When Joy Behar asks her why it’s religious, Pelosi II refers to a crass remark Trump was recorded saying years ago and says, baffled, “But he’s still their savior, that’s what I mean!”  Their lack of repentance in court is, to her, evidence of this religious fervor.  (Never mind that they honestly don’t think they did wrong and have policy-related reasons to think he was a great President.)

Since Pelosi II brought it up, we have to ask if she’s ever wondered what it meant when Oprah and others of similar inclination called Barack Obama “The One” and “The Light Bringer.”  Sounds pretty worshipful.  And I’d hesitate to characterize the many Christian Trump-supporters as believing in Trump as Savior.  As I’ve explained repeatedly, I can support Trump on policy alone precisely because, unlike Democrats, I DON’T look to any politician to be my Savior. Moving on…

Pelosi II insists that a small core group was serious about getting the “normies” to “burn the city to ash today” because that was in a tweet.  (Never mind that crowds of leftists have for the past few years actually been burning cities, not just gotten excited and tweeted about it.)  The core Trumpies were getting them “all fired up,” she said.  (Never mind the allegations and emerging evidence that the FBI was playing a role as well in getting them fired up, not to mention the proof that Pelosi II’s own mom refused Trump’s offer of National Guard troops.)

“We need to agree to a set of FACTS,” she concluded, “and when Republicans say, ‘Oh, they were all just tourists,’ no.  This is one of the darkest days in American democracy.  They weren’t tourists, because I saw --- one of the people in my film --- people were accused of literally pooping in the United States Capitol.  Okay?  That actually happened; I saw it with my own two eyes.”     

Now, if we’re all going to agree on a set of facts, Pelosi II needs to speak more precisely.  Did she mean she saw a protester accuse someone else of defecating in the Capitol, or that she personally saw it happening?  If she saw it happening, would she be able to identify that person?   If someone did it, what does that have to do with the “tourists” who wanted to take selfies in the Capitol?  Was the person who allegedly did it an actual Trump supporter (as Pelosi II is assuming) or an Antifa plant?  Or perhaps it was some other plant?  How are we going to agree on the facts when they are this sketchy?

And by the way, is Pelosi II seriously going on record to say that public defecation is wrong, when her mom represents San Francisco?  (Somebody has to ask these things.)

Anyway, since we’re quite devoted to facts ourselves, we looked into the story about the, um, soiling of the Capitol building and traced the allegations to Chuck Schumer’s office.  A “Schumer insider” told it to the NEW YORK POST, who duly reported it on January 8, 2021.  They also said Hakeem Jeffries had asserted there was “urine...clear desecration.”  But consider the sources, known for distributing plenty of figurative poop themselves.

And ask: With all the security cameras inside the Capitol --- approximately 44,000 hours of video --- would there not have been be any video evidence?  Was anyone charged with such vile vandalism?  (If they did this, they certainly should have been!)  No one can prove it didn’t happen, as that is not possible, but why did this story essentially go away for years until Pelosi II brought it up again, unchallenged, last month on THE VIEW?

https://nypost.com/2021/01/08/rioters-left-feces-urine-in-hallways-and-offices-during-mobbing-of-us-capitol/

Speaking of facts, it’s the GOP-led committees that are trying to get all the facts, after Nancy Pelosi’s “select” committee selected the ones they wanted and sliced-and-diced them for public consumption.  It’s taken this long to get all the security camera video released.  How can we ever agree about what happened unless absolutely none of it is withheld?  Thanks, Republicans!

If Pelosi II truly thinks of January 6 as “one of the darkest days in American democracy,” as she said on THE VIEW, she certainly was being disingenuous with those to whom she spoke while courting them to get some good stuff for her movie.  In some surreptitiously-recorded video, she’s seen animatedly telling one January 6 defendant, “After the Democrats lose the House [in 2022], and then they get rid of the committee, people may lose interest.”

“The first trials are going to get a lot of attention”… “It’s like [an] anniversary, the first one is no big deal”… “No one’s gonna care after the Democrats are out of power… “And then take Biden out of office --- then who cares?”… “I know you’re not the bad guys…” “If it was an insurrection, you were supposed to have a plan…” “You’re going to be able to laugh about this one day.”

Yes, she actually said this to a January 6 defendant.

https://twitter.com/CarlosSimancas/status/1728395876777807993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctw

Sounds like she doesn’t really believe January 6 was “worse than Pearl Harbor and 9/11 put together,” or even that it was an actual insurrection. Like her mom (I suspect), she just plays someone who believes that on TV.

….

Now let’s talk about our other second-generation propagandist, John Kerry’s daughter Vanessa, or, as we’ll call her, Kerry II:

“We’ve learned, with great, great understanding in the most recent years, that the climate crisis is a health crisis,” says Kerry II.  “And already, we see 7 million a year dying from air pollution, for example.  That’s more than we saw in the entire COVID pandemic over three years, and that’s one person every five seconds, so that by the time I complete my next sentence, someone else will have died.  And we see this in every aspect of health, the way climate change is impacting our lived experience.  So there’s a very real opportunity for us to have a health-centered approach to climate change and to be able to ensure that we’re protecting how we live, how we breathe, how we walk, and what we can do in our lives…”

Yes, “climate” activists would like nothing more than to link climate change to a health emergency, because that would give them the ticket to CONTROL what we can do in our lives.  But let’s have a show of hands: does anyone see a problem with the statistics cited by Kerry II?

That’s right, class!  With all the variables involved, there is absolutely no way realistically to determine that 7 million people died from air pollution, let alone that their deaths had anything to do with “climate change.”  This is a spurious argument.  Kerry II makes vague reference to the number of deaths from COVID over three years, another statistic that’s impossible to state with accuracy but that is, according to her, apparently smaller than the number dying from air pollution.  But is lung damage from air pollution a risk factor for COVID?   If so, are people dying from air pollution or COVID?  A combination of both?  Would COVID have killed them anyway?  Or are increased deaths (if there are indeed increased deaths) caused by something else?  All we have are alleged correlations.

You see the problem.  Kerry II seems to know about as much about how “the science” works as her father does, which is to say not much.  But she sure knows how to make emotional appeals.  On the bright side, if she and dad can share private-jet rides to their various conferences, they’ll put out half as much air pollution as they would have otherwise.

https://rumble.com/v3y04le-climate-change-will-be-the-w.h.o.s-skeleton-key-for-total-control.html

A discussion of our third second-generation threat will have to wait for another time. That’s Alex Soros.

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BY MIKE HUCKABEE

Blessings on you and your family from all the Huckabee team! Here are news stories from the past week, you won't want to miss.

Mike Huckabee

DAILY BIBLE VERSE

Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

Numbers 25:12

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Happy Thanksgiving, America! This is a uniquely American holiday that dates back to the earliest American settlements. It was first declared by President George Washington in 1789, "as a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God." It was set on the last Thursday in November by Abraham Lincoln.

I hope you’re enjoying this Thanksgiving as best you can. Thanks to inflation (and not the Macy's parade balloon kind), it’s the second-most expensive Thanksgiving dinner on record, down by about $3 from last year, but still 25% higher than in 2019. And thanks to the Biden Administration’s war on gas appliances and reliable energy, I hope you’re able to heat your oven – and your house. But we still have much to be thankful for, like that we no longer have Dr. Fauci hectoring us not to spend Thanksgiving with our families or to try to eat stuffing through a facemask. Remember how the COVID-19 virus was a registered Democrat, so it would spread at traditional family Thanksgiving dinners, but not at BLM protests, Obama’s birthday soirees or fancy French restaurants frequented by liberal politicians?  

Lately, Thanksgiving has been under assault on numerous fronts. As if high prices and shortages weren’t hitting us hard enough, we were told to cancel Thanksgiving due to the coronavirus, then lectured by wokescolds that the Pilgrims were genocidal racists (these tunnel-visioned nags make me very thankful for the “Off” button on my TV remote.) Last year, we had the Washington Post nagging us about how much each dish in the traditional meal allegedly contributes to “climate change.” These people are more efficient than a Dyson vacuum at sucking the joy out of every aspect of life.

But all these things are, in the long view of history, passing annoyances. The greatest danger to Thanksgiving is the government’s constant push to take away the God-given rights we give thanks for, especially our First Amendment rights to assemble, speak freely and express our religious faith, which are the foundation of Thanksgiving. Our Pilgrim ancestors took a dangerous ocean journey to an unknown and unsettled land seeking those very freedoms and were willing to risk their lives to attain them. So this is a great time to reflect on those days and take inspiration from them that things really can get better, if we all get together and do something about it, even if it means taking some risks. And I assure you the Pilgrims faced much worse risks than being badmouthed on Twitter.

This is also the time to reflect on the deeper meaning of Thanksgiving. It’s not just about turkey and stuffing, football on TV and early Christmas shopping. It even means more than a big family get-together, although that’s a very important part of it that we’re especially grateful for after all the lockdowns and quarantines.

Thanksgiving is about giving thanks to God for our blessings, many of which we only enjoy because we are fortunate enough to be Americans - a fact lost on many of today’s young Americans, who slander America using the very rights they wouldn’t have if they weren’t Americans.  We inherited hard-won rights and liberties that were revolutionary in the early days of this nation. Many of them had their genesis in the arrival of the Pilgrims.  

Four-centuries-and-three-years ago, the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. They had set out on a dangerous journey across the Atlantic in a small ship, the Mayflower, to a hostile wilderness where survival was far from certain. Indeed, half the settlers died during that first harsh winter. If not for the help of the indigenous people who joined them at the first Thanksgiving, they all might have died. But they were willing to risk everything for the right to be free to worship God in their own way, without the government telling them what they were and weren’t allowed to say, do or believe (is this starting to sound surprisingly relevant to today?)

Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton wrote an excellent rebuttal to the negative revisionist historians on the 400 ^th  anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival, and I think it should be read every year by every American as a new Thanksgiving tradition:

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/thanksgiving-pilgrims-tom-cotton

Sen. Cotton talks about not just the history and importance of the Pilgrims’ arrival and the first Thanksgiving, but an even more important legacy they bequeathed to us. It was the way they organized their settlement, codified in the Mayflower Compact, the first example of the principle of “government by the consent of the governed.” Its ideas would still reverberate more than a century-and-a-half later when it became a huge influence on the writing of the US Constitution (although today’s leaders definitely need a sharp reminder that they are in power only thanks to the “consent of the governed.” Let’s pray the 2024 elections provide it.)

Sen. Cotton writes, “In this covenant, the ship’s passengers agreed to form a ‘civil body politic’ of ‘just and equal laws’ based on the consent of the governed and dedicated to the ‘Glory of God’ and the ‘general good of the colony.’ Immediately after signing the compact, the signatories conducted a democratic election to choose their first governor.”

As he notes, it’s no wonder John Adams called the Pilgrims’ arrival “the birth-day of your nation.” These are the principles America was founded upon, and they arrived 403 years ago, in 1620. America was not founded upon slavery, which supposedly arrived in 1619 (even though some Native American tribes had long practiced forms of it, a fact I doubt is taught in current “history” classes), and which Christian abolitionists, Republicans and many of the Founders strongly opposed and we fought a bloody Civil War to end. (Another shocker for today’s “history” students: The Republican Party was specifically founded to end slavery, and it was the Democrats who fought to preserve it.)

To counter the left’s assault on America and its history, The Federalist launched “The 1620 Project.” At this link is an excerpt about the Pilgrims’ and the Puritans’ experiences and what they contributed that helped make America such an exceptional nation and a “shining city on the hill.” It’s another piece that should become a Thanksgiving tradition.  

https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/25/how-the-pilgrims-planted-the-seeds-for-americas-constitutional-rights-and-liberties/

This year, while we’re thanking God for all our blessings, let’s ignore the America-hating historical revisionists and give even bigger thanks than usual for the brave men and women who ventured to the New World, seeking religious freedom. Let’s also give thanks for the blessings of liberty and self-government that they secured for themselves and their posterity (that’s us.) Let’s honor their legacy by making sure that we protect and defend those rights and liberties for all so that we can hand them down intact to future generations. 

And let us also get to work right now on cleaning out the infection from our “education” system to ensure that our schools and universities teach real history and civics and stop brainwashing future generations into hating their own nation, admiring monsters like Hamas and Bin Laden, demonizing those who sacrificed so much to give them the rights and freedoms they take for granted, and giving away those rights for a mess of pottage (no, that's not a Thanksgiving dinner side dish) or a phony promise of absolution for the alleged sins of their great-great-great-great-grandparents.

Mike Huckabee

Thanksgiving is not only a time when we give thanks for our many blessings as Americans, it’s also a time when we gather together as families and get reacquainted with relatives we don’t see any other time of year. One of the things I’m most thankful for is that once again, Americans’ older relatives will be welcomed into their families’ homes and not seen only on Zoom. 

Every Thanksgiving, I find myself thinking back on beloved family members who are no longer with us. There’s one who meant so much to me that sharing my memories of him has become a holiday tradition here. So I hope you’ll indulge me as I again share the story of a very special relative from my childhood. I usually saw him only once a year, but he taught me a lesson that helped make me what I am today and for which I still give thanks. 

When I was a boy in Hope, Arkansas, one thing about the holidays I most looked forward to was the annual visit from my Uncle Garvin. Garvin Elder was my mother’s half-brother from her dad’s first marriage, and so much older than her, he was like a grandpa to my sister and me. He was an accountant and a lifelong bachelor from Houston, and he cut quite an impressive figure whenever he arrived by bus in Hope. 

He owned stocks (I could hardly imagine such a thing!) and carried a real leather suitcase with travel tags, not like the cardboard suitcase we owned but never used.  And he wore a suit, tie and starched white shirt -- every day! In our town, if you saw a man in a suit, it could mean only one of two things: either it was Sunday, or he was going to or coming from a funeral.

Over the holidays, while my parents were at work, Uncle Garvin was the only adult in the house.  So when he wasn’t taking his daily unbreakable appointment with the “Perry Mason” rerun, I would constantly pester him to play checkers with me.  Now you must understand, this was in the days before self-esteem classes and helicopter parents.  Uncle Garvin didn’t realize how impolite, damaging, even psychologically traumatic and triggering it was to beat the daylights out of a sensitive young boy at checkers.  No, he played to win.  And he relished beating me…which he did, over and over and over. 

Of course, I hated losing to him.  But that just made me want to challenge him again.  Over time, I gradually got better until I actually beat him occasionally.

Looking back now, I realize what a huge favor Uncle Garvin did for me by developing my competitive spirit.  These days, we’ve built a society of hand-wringers so afraid of hurting a child’s self-esteem that everyone gets a trophy just for showing up, no matter how poorly they perform.  We’ve taken away their incentive to work hard and get better. 

This is the same mindset that’s given us incompetent CEOs who crash companies, then run to the government for a bailout because they’re “too big to fail.”  And idiots in government who bail them out with money they confiscate from hardworking taxpayers, because it’s “not fair” that some succeed when others don’t.  And who also think that "fairness" means taking money away from people who earn it and giving it to people who don't work but do vote. 

Call me crazy, but I believe there’s something to be said for competition and for rewarding hard work, talent and intelligence. And there’s a lot to be said for the lessons learned and the character built through trying your best, failing and trying again.

So every Thanksgiving, when I’m giving thanks to God for my countless blessings, I include a little prayer of thanks for my Uncle Garvin…and for all those long-ago checker games that were so painful to lose at the time.

And of course, I’m thankful for all the folks who help me create my newsletters and website and my show on TBN, and all of you who read and watch.  I hope to be giving thanks for that for many Thanksgivings to come!

Mike Huckabee

BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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

Mike Huckabee

DAILY BIBLE VERSE

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Matthew 28:19

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To put the icing on Biden’s petrified birthday cake, that very same day brought this news:

Trump released a letter from his doctor reporting that his latest physical found that Trump has lost weight, is in “excellent overall health,” and “his cognitive exams were exceptional.” Although to be fair, Biden’s cognitive exams might look okay, too, if he’d ever take any.

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-releases-letter-doctor-detailing-physical-mental-health/

However, it might be tough to convince young voters that Biden’s mind is sharp after he made a baffling joke at the Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony in which he seemed to mix up Beyonce, Taylor Swift and Britney Spears. Well, at least he didn’t drop Judy Garland into the mix. And then accuse the turkey of being an insurrectionist.

https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-attempted-joke-thanksgiving-turkey-pardon-real-head-scratcher/

Bad Birthday Optics for Biden:

If President Biden’s handlers didn’t want people to think about how old he is, they probably shouldn’t have released a photo of him with his birthday cake topped by 81 flaming candles. It lit up the Internet and inspired meme makers with its resemblance to the Chicago fire.

https://twitchy.com/laura-w/2023/11/21/biden-birthday-cake-photo-n2390024

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The CATO Institute released its annual Freedom Rankings of the 50 states. Based on how each state’s policies impact economic, social and personal freedom, New Hampshire came in #1 as the most free state, followed by Florida. At the opposite end, the good news for California is that it did not rank as the least free state. It was at #48, just ahead of Hawaii (#49) and the least free state in America, New York at #50.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/rotten-apple-new-york-dubbed-least-free-state-country-new-study

Obviously, this doesn’t mean you can't get free stuff in New York, because illegal immigrants are getting tons of it. It does mean that New Yorkers are burdened by high public debt, high state and local taxes, voracious government consumption of resources and oppressive land use and labor policies. Wealthy residents of New York City pay among the highest combined state and local taxes in the country, and I’ve long said that if they ever realize they can do the same job over the Internet from a beachfront mansion in safe, sunny, income tax-free Florida, New York City will be done for. I suspect that day is drawing very close.

Incidentally, I don’t think I have to point out the prevailing political views in the least free and most free states, and how those have created the current situation, with residents of the former fleeing to the latter in droves. But just to show you that Democrat policies can always make a bad situation terrible, the rampant crime in New York City created by woke DAs and defunded police is about to get even worse, thanks to the Biden open borders policy.

New York Mayor Eric Adams announced that because of the high cost of dealing with all the illegal immigrants, the already strained-to-the-limit budgets for police, sanitation and other public necessities will be cut by 5%. They’ll also be slashing the budgets for education and museums and cultural institutions, and freezing hiring in such departments as education, health, aging and parks.

https://nypost.com/2023/11/19/metro/cardi-b-slams-eric-adams-over-nyc-budget-cuts-crimes-are-gonna-go-through-the-roof/

It’s gotten so bad that even rapper Cardi B went on a foul-mouthed social media tirade, complaining that the dirty city is going to get even dirtier, “crimes are gonna go through the roof” and “we’re gonna be drowning in rats!”

Yep. And just remember: you voted for it. And if I were a betting man, I’d bet the farm that next November, a lot of New Yorkers who are complaining about the crime, illegal immigration, budget cuts and more will vote for more of it. That includes some who aren’t even dead yet.

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I’d like to extend our deepest sympathies and prayers today to former President Jimmy Carter and his family, on the news that his wife of 77 years, Rosalynn Carter, died Sunday at 96. She passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by family, after a battle with dementia and months of declining health. She is now the second longest-lived First Lady, behind only Bess Truman, who died at 97.

https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-rosalynn-carter-outspoken-former-first-lady-dead-96/

Former President Carter issued a moving statement reading, “Rosalynn was my equal partner in everything I ever accomplished. She gave me wise guidance and encouragement when I needed it. As long as Rosalynn was in the world, I always knew somebody loved and supported me.”

Click the link to learn more about her extraordinary life as a devoted wife, mother, Christian and servant to others, from growing up poor in Plains, Georgia, working after school in a beauty parlor, to being First Lady and so active in her husband’s Administration that she was sometimes called the “co-President” 20 years before Hillary Clinton arrived; and on through decades of working with her husband for charities like Habitat for Humanity.

I’d also like to take a moment to join other conservative defenders of the First Amendment in observing the passing of Chester Darling. You might not know his name, but he played a major role in protecting freedom of religion. He was a liberal Boston civil rights attorney, but he had a fierce devotion to protecting First Amendment rights.

He won the 1995 landmark case, "Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston," in which the SCOTUS ruled unanimously that demonstrations organizers don’t have to accept every group that wants to join, especially those that don’t represent their values (in this case, the Catholic organizers of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade didn’t have to allow an LGBT organization to participate.) That case has been cited many times in protecting Americans of faith from being forced to participate in events that violate their beliefs, like providing services to same-sex weddings.

https://redstate.com/mccabe/2023/11/19/lawyer-in-st-patricks-day-parade-scotus-ruling-chester-darling-passes-94-n2166541

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“The new video that’s being released is as misleading as all the other video released,” said bestselling author and persuasion expert Scott Adams on his podcast Sunday, speaking of the video just released by House Speaker Mike Johnson.  “The initial video from the January 6 committee focused on all the violent stuff that was happening, mostly outside the doorways --- and they were truly violent, and we should know about that.  The new video being released shows the opposite narrative...people being let in by the security guards; there’s fist-bumps...[we hear] people saying they’re undercover agents.  Like, basically 100 percent supporting the Republican version of events.”

“But just assume those are out of context,” he said, “just like the other side’s is out of context.”

He wasn’t through:  “However, just their very existence is making people think that they were lied to about January 6.  Which, of course, they were...It was obvious there were intelligence people, FBI.  It’s very obvious that everything from the courts to the Democrats to the news, it was just an op.  None of that was legitimate.  So now that’s obvious, but of course it’s only obvious to the right.  Will the left come to understand that January 6 was always an op?  I doubt it.”

Adams believes the Democrats’ J6 narrative is falling apart, along with the other narratives that form what he calls the “architecture” of the Democrats’ anti-conservative message.  Whether or not the facts surrounding J6 have changed, he says, our interpretation of them is changing.

“I would watch Bill Maher to see if he changes,” Adams said, “’cause he’s sort of the canary in the coal mine.”  Adams doubts Maher can change his mind, because’s he’s in a “full-on TDS sort of situation,” and unless he does, he says, the left won’t move.  “But still,” he said, “you can see the architecture of that story has changed immensely since Day 1.”

In the beginning, Adams said, it looked as though Trump had “done some bad stuff,” but “the longer you go, the more it looks like that was just bull-(bleep).  So, time is helping Trump there.”

Of course, we don’t (yet) know the full extent of the involvement of our own intelligence people, but there’s no question they were there, so the left should just stipulate that.  Now that we have the rest of the video, we’ll take it from here.

Kash Patel has said essentially the same thing in different words.  Thanks to the release of these videos, he said, “the January 6 truth finally has entered the American bloodstream.”

He also noted that in the trial of President Trump on J6-related charges, “selective inclusion of evidence is unconstitutional,” accusing DC District Judge Tanya Chutkan of “setting up a disinformation campaign on the narrative that Donald Trump committed an ‘insurrection,’ even though Special Counsel Jack Smith has refused to charge Donald Trump with the crime of insurrection.”  In that, this blatantly anti-Trump judge has gone even further than Smith dared to go.  No wonder they’re trying to hurry the trial through; if they could’ve stalled the release of this J6 video until afterwards, they would have.

https://rumble.com/v3wpp0r-kash-patel-the-january-6th-truth-has-entered-the-american-bloodstream.html

It’s painstaking work to go through thousands of hours of security video, but interesting tidbits are dropping in the meantime.  For example, remember that for Nancy Pelosi’s J6 committee hearings, video “evidence” was creatively edited for emotional impact by an ABC network news producer?  Apparently, the Democrats took even more artistic license with their video for public consumption, because we can now hear the same audio clip being played behind TWO different visuals.  One --- the version that CNN showed on-air --- has Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley in it; the other does not.  We have no idea what the intention was in making Sen. Grassley a non-person (pardon the Orwell reference), but it does show that for whatever reason, they took some shall-we-say creative liberties.  What the hey?

https://rumble.com/v3wpbsx-why-did-pelosi-stage-two-video-shoots-with-the-same-audio-on-january-6.html

After Pelosi tried to deflect attention from the newly-released “peaceful” video with an edited montage of “violent” video, Nick Arama at REDSTATE commented that “no one is saying that there wasn’t violence.  What they are saying is that the whole picture was kept from people, and that the Committee didn’t release the video because it showed something other than the narrative they promoted to attack Republicans before the 2022 election.”  Their narrative, as you know, was that Republican Trump supporters --- all who dared question the election outcome --- were “violent insurrectionists.”

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/11/19/mike-lee-isnt-done-with-liz-cheney-yet-he-has-a-great-question-for-her-about-those-fbi-agents-and-j6-n2166539

Sen. Mike Lee accused the committee of hiding the more peaceful scenes to make sure all people saw was violence.  When Sen. Lee asked on “X” how many people involved on January 6 were “feds,” Liz Cheney responded by calling him a “nutball conspiracy theorist.”

Lee wrote back, linking to a story that the FBI had “lost count” of how many informants they had at the Capitol that day and would have to do an audit to figure that out.  “Shouldn’t the J6 committee have been demanding answers to this question?” he asked.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-houthi-rebels-hijacked-ship-red-sea-dc9b6448690bcf5c70a0baf7c7c34b09

Lee also commented on a fascinating video clip in which a “protester” is un-handcuffed in a side hallway and then fist-bumps security police, as an undercover agent might do.  Lee is no conspiracy theorist for bringing attention to this.  If there’s a reasonable explanation for such odd behavior, we want to know it.  If there isn’t, we want and deserve to know that, too.

J. D. Rucker at LIBERTY DAILY wrote about this bizarre image as well, after former J6 detainee (let’s just call him a political prisoner) Derrick Evans posted a still frame, saying, “This was sent to me.  Is this person flashing a badge?  If so, this would prove there were undercover agents disguised as MAGA.  I was thrown in solitary for peacefully protesting.  I just want the truth to be known.  Please [re-tweet] so we can get the truth either way.”

Sen. Lee responded that he would ask FBI Director Chris Wray but expected his answer to be “97% information-free.”

NBC NEWS posted a response to add “context”:  “The person in the photo is Kevin Lyons.  He has been sentenced to 51 months in prison for his illegal activities inside the Capitol on J6.  He is not a police officer and is not holding a badge.  He is carrying a vape and a photograph and wallet stolen from Pelosi’s office.”

Even with “context,” we still have questions, because under the circumstances it’s hard to imagine handcuffs being removed, let alone fist-bumping.  But here’s the story from July of this year about Lyons’ sentencing.  Lyons did lift a photo and wallet from Pelosi’s office, was interviewed by the FBI five days later and arrested two days after that.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4098328-jan-6-rioter-accused-of-stealing-from-pelosis-office-sentenced-to-more-than-4-years-in-prison/

To those who criticize Sen. Lee and all who raise questions now:  this is exactly what NEEDS to happen.  You kept the full picture of the protest from us in an attempt to paint everyone at that rally --- indeed, everyone who supported Trump and dared to question the election in any way --- as an “insurrectionist.”  That’s a lie, and your lie is crumbling.

Jeff Charles at REDSTATE elaborated in a VIP column; we’ll include the link in case you’re signed up and summarize in case you aren’t.  “Now that the rest of the J6 footage is being released,” he wrote, “the American people can see what we already knew:  The so-called ‘insurrection’ was anything but.”

We don’t want to gloss over the violence and have never excused it, but many who were there that day still face charges and convictions, some for just sauntering peacefully around the building as Capitol Police stood by quietly or even encouraged them.

The Democrats showed only images of violence, trying their best to tie Trump and his supporters to what was mislabeled an insurrection.  So Charles suggests a turn-about.  “If anything,” he wrote, “a Republican select committee could break the Democrats’ J6 narrative by focusing on the footage the Democrats left out during their political circus.”

“The fact that there are currently people in cages for walking through a building is an egregious display of tyranny that should be exposed,” Charles wrote.  “If another select committee is the way to bring this to light, then so be it.”  Then maybe the voters will actually do something about that abuse of power.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/11/19/sure-lets-have-a-new-republican-j6-select-committee-n2166564

RELATED READING:  Jonathan Turley has an excellent update on the lawfare against Trump, noting that “none of these cases are truly slam dunks.”

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/11/19/it-aint-over-till-its-over-christies-prediction-of-a-trump-conviction-by-spring-may-have-just-hit-a-snag/#more-212001

Mike Huckabee

We will be celebrating Thanksgiving this coming week, and even with Joe Biden in the White House wandering around like last year’s turkey and Kamala Harris cackling like this year’s turkey, there’s a lot to be thankful for, even though almost none of it originates in Washington, DC!

I’m grateful it’s already deer season in Arkansas and many parts of the country, and before it’s over, I hope to fill my freezer again this year with delicious, healthy, lean, and organic venison.  I have friends and even a few grafted-in family members who aren’t all that pumped about eating Bambi’s Daddy, but I just sing the lyrics to “Circle of Life” and remind them that if they really are into healthy protein that is as organic as the acorns off the oak trees, then venison is the meat of choice.  I use it in my world famous deer meat chili for example.  World famous, you ask?  Well, they probably don’t know about it in Beijing, Teheran, or North Korea, but why would I share my chili recipe with the Communist Chinese who have done little to share with us other than the Wuhan Virus?  And I sure wouldn’t give it to the Ayatollah in Iran.  Heck, Joe’s giving them billions already and they are turning around and making Christmas rockets for Hamas and Hezbollah.  And sadly, folks in North Korea are reduced to eating grass clippings and tree bark and wouldn’t know a good bowl of deer chili from a bowl of cow droppings.  So maybe my deer meat chili isn’t famous everywhere, but in MY world, it’s famous, and that makes it “world famous chili.”  And good venison can make wonderful tacos, spaghetti, meat loaf, summer sausage, and of course chicken-fried deer steak which cooked in my big black-iron skillet will make you jump up and break-dance on the kitchen table. 

And I’m grateful that duck season will start this weekend in Arkansas.  Did I mention that Arkansas is the duck hunting capital of the world.  And yes, I actually do mean the entire world as people fly from as far away as Europe to experience the sacred sight of thousands of mallards coming in for a landing across the Arkansas prairie and throughout the Delta in an area that is comprised of the White, Arkansas and Mississippi rivers along the food source of the most productive rice fields in the United States located in east Arkansas.  I often say that the first day in heaven will be a flooded timber duck hunt.  Not sure what we do after that, but God wants us to get off to a great start and it’s obvious we’ll kick things off with our heavenly versions of a 12-gauge Benelli semi-automatic shotgun and busting ducks for the first night’s dinner in glory!

Of course there are other things to be thankful for.  Like “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness,” although if we don’t do better in the coming elections, we might not have any of those things left.  And then we’ll be hunting just to feed the family and not just to supplement our groceries and to just enjoy the outdoors. 

I’m obviously thankful for my family—a wife of almost 50 years, 3 grown children who all turned out pretty good, and 7 absolutely adorable grandchildren.  I’m thankful for good health, except for the aches and pains that my doctor dismisses as an issue of “age.”  And I’m thankful for a wonderful church family where I hear strong Biblical messages, enjoy edifying relationships with fellow pilgrims in the process of life, and who fellowship with those who genuinely bear one another’s burdens.

So as we prepare for Thanksgiving, and I start preparing not one but two turkeys for the masses who will descend on my house Thanksgiving Day, I will not be focusing on the odorous politics of Washington, but the magnificent aroma of both smoked and fried turkey, cornbread dressing, pecan pie, and gallons of iced tea.  And I’m still glad to be an American!

Mike Huckabee

Remember how Trump ran for office on a platform of negotiating better deals with other nations? He argued that for years, officials in Washington agreed to deals that were far more advantageous to other nations than to America. He vowed to reverse that, and he did. He put Americans' interests first, while leftists twisted “America first” into a pejorative that in their minds meant something evil, jingoistic, fascist, imperialist, xenophobic, and probably racist and transphobic, too. All it really meant was that we stopped giving away the farm to other nations and made sure American businesses and workers got some profits and jobs and that we didn’t sell out America’s security.

Tragically, Trump was replaced with Biden, whose idea of a great international deal was giving our enemies anything they wanted in exchange for empty promises they had no intention of keeping. For instance, giving billions to Iran and allowing them to build nuclear reactors in exchange for pinky-swear promises that they wouldn’t use the money to fund terrorism or enrich uranium to build nuclear bombs. We know how well the first promise worked out, and here’s how we’re doing on the second: Reuters reports that Iran already has enough enriched uranium to build three nuclear bombs.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-nuclear-enrichment-advances-it-stonewalls-un-iaea-reports-show-2023-11-15/

Flush with his success at selling out to Iran, Biden has now agreed with China to shut down America’s fossil fuel industry. In pursuit of his “climate change” agenda, the State Department announced that it has struck a deal with Chila to "accelerate the substitution for coal, oil and gas generation" with green energy sources like wind and solar power.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/experts-raise-alarm-biden-strikes-agreement-china-shut-down-fossil-fuels

Here are just a few of the drawbacks to that deal that the media don’t want to discuss:

1. If you think China has any intention whatsoever of abiding by it themselves, you are as crazy as a TikTokker fangirling on Osama Bin Laden. I’ve seen this movie before, and I know how it ends. In 2021, Xi Jinping pledged to “strictly control coal-fired power generation plants” in China. In the two years prior, Beijing had approved building 127 such plants. In the two years since pledging to limit them, they’ve approved 182.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/17/peak-cognitive-dissonance-for-the-climate-scare/

2. This deal will destroy American jobs; empower and enrich oil producers like OPEC, Russia and Iran; and make energy costs for working Americans skyrocket while resulting in widespread power outages, made worse by Biden’s insane insistence on forcing everyone to drive unreliable, unwanted electric cars that will put a massive drain on the power grid.

3. Wind and solar are completely inadequate to provide reliable power for a 21st century advanced nation. They also are NOT “green,” as they create vast amounts of pollution to build the towers, turbines and solar panels; they blight the landscape; they don’t last nearly as long or produce nearly as much power as advertised; they are decimating bird populations and are likely responsible for killing whales.

Like the frantic pullback from EVs by automakers who are losing billions, we’re already seeing these “green energy” companies begging to get out of contracts to build off-shore wind farms (a crazy idea when you consider the effects of salt water on metal) or else begging for even more government subsidies. We would have been better off generating power from steam engines heated by burning taxpayer money.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/wind-companies-losing-billions-experts-say-federal-bailout-could-be-coming

There is a reliable source of adequate power with zero emissions, one that some European nations like France are already exploiting. But we can’t use nuclear power because a lot of liberals are terrified of it due to Chernobyl and Fukushima – incidents that could be avoided by not building nuclear power plants in an earthquake zone using Soviet technology from 1986. So instead, we’ll shut down our oil and gas resources and hope the wind blows today while China keeps right on building coal-fired power plants.

Trump wrote “The Art of the Deal.” Biden should write a book called “The Art of the Abject Surrender.”

Mike Huckabee

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Isaiah 41:10 NIV

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“There Once Was A Moron Named Anne…”

Anne Boyer, the New York Times Magazine’s poetry editor, dramatically resigned Thursday in protest of what she calls Israel's "US-backed war against the people of Gaza." Heavens, I don’t know how I’m going to survive without the New York Times poetry section! She added, "If this resignation leaves a hole in the news the size of poetry, then that is the true shape of the present." Never mind, if that’s her idea of poetic expression, I think I’ll survive just fine without her.

A Court Win

President Trump scored a court win yesterday when a New York Appeals Court issued a stay, suspending the gag order placed on him in his real estate fraud trial. The ruling also applies to Trump’s lawyers and others involved in the case.

https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-new-york-judge-lifts-gag-order-barred-donald-trump-maligning-court-staff-fraud-trial/

Between all the gag orders and special counsel Jack Smith desperately trying to keep cameras out of the courtroom in DC, you’d think that the prosecutors were either using unprecedented partisan lawfare to silence Biden’s political opponent during a presidential election or trying to prevent the public from finding out just how flimsy and one-sided their prosecutions are. But being an inclusive kind of guy, I don’t see why we can’t believe that it’s both.

Horrifying trend

The most disturbing story of the day is that young TikTok influencers are spreading Osama Bin Laden’s “Letter to America” and praising it.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/11/16/young-americans-go-viral-on-chinas-tiktok-spreading-ideas-of-osama-bin-laden/

No wonder: They’re too young to remember 9/11, the media have worked hard to bury those images because they might be “too upsetting,” and in its repulsive justification of the murder of innocents in retaliation for the alleged sins of America and Israel, Osama’s screed is virtually indistinguishable from the hatred of America and Israel that’s been spoon-fed into their empty noggins by their leftist teachers. One young woman who shared it declared, “We’ve been lied to our entire lives.” She’s right, she’s just gravely mistaken as to who's been lying and what she was lied to about.

Try this quote from one of these ignoramuses, which is so stupid on so many levels, it might give you a migraine: “Put yourself in their shoes, 3,000 people died on 9/11, compared to the millions that Americans have killed in Palestine.” What?!

Ed Driscoll at Instapundit has a good round-up of comments on this horrifying trend.

https://instapundit.com/617420/

Follow the links and you’ll find some of the best responses. Robert O’Neill, the Navy SEAL who killed Bin Laden, tweeted, “Deceit is a mask the Devil puts over the eyes of useful idiots.”

Journalist Megan Kelly wrote, “To the parents of all of these losers suddenly persuaded by the deranged musings of the man who murdered 3k American innocents: you failed. You were likely boozing, marching for some L-wing cause and/or simply ignoring your kids. You failed to teach wrong from right, a proper moral code, a love of country and perspective on America’s role in the world. [Because] you failed, my kids and others are going to have to grow up battling these a**holes for the future of the United States. I have every confidence they can do it, but I resent and judge you for making it necessary…”

And satirist Iowahawk (David Birge) put it succinctly: “If you kids think Bin Laden made some good points, wait’ll I tell you about a vegetarian former art student with an ironic mustache whose impassioned manifesto about the Zionist oppression of his people sparked a worldwide movement.”

Congratulations are in order

For all the young, miseducated boneheads who keep railing about “colonization” and demanding that Jews leave Israel and Americans give America back to the Native Americans, I have a question: Where are all these people going to go? I assume you think Africa is the cradle of civilization. Name me any African nation that will accept a few million nose-ringed, entitled, spoiled rotten white radicals with gender studies degrees.

I realize you have zero knowledge of actual American history, but let me inform you that once upon a time, when someone declared that some ethnic group “should be sent back where they came from,” liberals assumed they were dealing with a bigoted, reactionary redneck. Congratulations: that’s you, now.

Welcome to LA

Welcome to late-stage Los Angeles, where criminals are repeatedly released to prey on the public, but where a law-abiding citizen has his concealed carry permit revoked because he used his firearm to defend his home and family from would-be robbers. I guess liberals really do believe the Second Amendment only exists to protect duck hunting.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/armed-homeowner-who-defended-family-in-driveway-shoot-out-says-hes-been-stripped-of-gun-permit

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Here's today’s link to Fox News’ feed of the latest news on the war in Israel…

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/november-18-israel-hamas-war

The IDF announced that humanitarian pauses in fighting against Hamas would continue today to allow more evacuations of civilians. They are also continuing fuel deliveries, and limited phone and Internet service was restored on Friday. It appears that if Israel really wanted to commit genocide, they’re going about it all wrong.

The McAllen, Texas, office of Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz was vandalized with anti-Israel graffiti. That’s not the only red state that isn’t immune. Matthew Giffin, editor-in-chief of the Middle Tennessee State University student newspaper Sidelines resigned in protest after getting unprecedented blowback from students over an article he wrote about a Jewish student’s concerns for his friends in Tel Aviv on October 7th. The student asked that it be taken down due to fears for his safety. Then, Giffin said, “The editorial board, against my expressed wishes, published a statement: ‘In retrospect, Sidelines failed to report on the casualties the Palestinian people have suffered and focused only on damage done to the Israeli population.’"

Since the school newspaper doesn’t seem interested in printing the truth, I’ll repost what Giffin said, and hope he finds a good position at a more prominent news outlet, which can certainly use someone like him:

"I don’t think they are bad people or antisemitic — I do think antisemitism played a disproportionate role in how the events at the paper unfolded. I still plan to write and speak out about things that are important, whatever the consequences may be. Telling the truth is a lost practice, and I’d like to bring it back. Morality is important for the order and survival of our society. Our way of life will fail if we cave to the influence of those who stand behind terrorists like Hamas."

Excellent Video (although, WARNING, there are two F-bombs toward the end.) This is a response to all the young morons on TikTok claiming that they’re having an “existential crisis” after reading Osama Bin Laden’s “Letter to America” and realizing how he was right, America and Israel are evil, and we had 9/11 coming to us. This commenter read that dreck so you won’t have to and summarizes what Osama said that apparently impressed these braindead slackers so much. You won’t believe it.

https://twitter.com/askdani__real/status/1725185727451873719

At last!  All January 6 video to be released by new Speaker Johnson

New House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Friday that he would release all the January 6 video from U.S. Capitol Police security cameras that has previously been unavailable, as he said he would, and so he has posted it all here, with a link to the website for the Committee on House Administration’s Subcommittee on Oversight.  Additional video will continue to be uploaded as they review it and blur the faces of private citizens.  Public access will begin on November 20...

https://cha.house.gov/cha-subcommittee-reading-room-fe781e74-d577-4f64-93cc-fc3a8dd8df18

“To restore America’s trust and faith in their Government we must have transparency,” Johnson said on X.  “This is another step towards keeping the promises I made when I was elected to be your Speaker.”

Better settle in if you want to watch it all.  Video from that day from all the security cameras runs 44,000 hours.  I am not kidding.

Much of what you will see looks like this...

https://rumble.com/v3wdtqo-newly-release-j6-footage-shows-carnage-of-the-insurrection.html

Here we have Trump supporters quietly and repectfully walking down a corridor inside the Capitol building, with security guards calmly standing by as if it’s any other day.  Since the building is so massive, people walking through one area had no idea that violence had broken out somewhere else.  They just wanted to use their presence to make the statement that with big questions looming over the election, it was too soon to certify it.  They also wanted to experience the inside of the Capitol building and to take selfies.  Also, one assumes, they wanted to avoid hypothermia, as they’d been outdoors since early morning in Washington DC in January.

Of course, little did they know that just for stepping inside the building --- and sometimes not even for that --- many of them would be tagged as domestic terrorists and ruthlessly investigated.  They would be bankrupted by legal fees while facing outrageously biased judges (as Julie Kelly has documented).  Some would face “stacked” charges and lengthy detainment.  Some would experience home invasion at gunpoint.  One, a petite, unarmed woman, would be shot and killed that day in cold blood.

Of course, this video will include not just the peaceful walk-in but also what was captured of the riot.  Recall that former Speaker Kevin McCarthy had turned over some of the January 6 video to Tucker Carlson, who did one episode of his FOX NEWS show about what was on it before abruptly parting ways with the channel.

Johnson also posted this: “This decision will provide millions of Americans, criminal defendants, public interest organizations, and the media an ability to see for themselves what happened that day, rather than having to rely upon the interpretation of a small group of government officials.  Processing will involve blurring the faces of private citizens on the yet unreleased tapes to avoid any persons from being targeted for retaliation of any kind and segregating an estimated 5% of the videos that may involve sensitive security information related to the building architecture.”

Barry Loudermilk, who chairs this subcommittee, said, “The goal of our investigation has been to provide the American people with transparency on what happened at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and this includes all official video of that day.”  He said that Americans “deserve transparency, accountability and real answers supported by facts instead [of] a predetermined political narrative.”

Well, maybe after all this time, we’ll see some transparency and get some real answers.  Don’t know about accountability, though.  As the DAILY CALLER reports, the “Justice” Department has prosecuted more than 1,200 individuals from nearly all 50 states in connection with the J6 riot, as of November 6, 2023.  They’ve devoted countless man-hours to targeting so-called “MAGA extremist domestic terrorists,” most of whom truly believed they were exercising their constitutional rights and standing up for the democratic system.  We still have major unanswered questions:  about Nancy Pelosi’s grotesque Capitol Hill security failure, the identity and goal of the RNC/DNC pipe bomber, the role of FBI agents in the crowd that day and the day before, and more.  That’s some accountability we might never see.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/17/speaker-johnson-january-6th-tapes

After writing yesterday about Louisiana Rep. Clay Higgins’ questioning of FBI Director Chris Wray on the matter of “ghost buses,” we looked to see how the media were reporting that.  SALON called it “a wild rant.”  The HUFFINGTON POST called it a “new conspiracy theory.”  Higgins was predictably dismissed as a crackpot.

“The ghost buses are the latest distraction from and excuse for the attack on the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump,” HUFFPO wrote.  Actually, no, the presence of those buses is something that was noted with curiosity at the time of the event --- something that “just didn’t look right” --- and there has never been an explanation for what they were doing there.

HUFFPO said that “even among people steeped in conspiracy theories about January 6, the ghost buses are new.”  Well, the term “ghost buses” might be --- we’d never heard it until Rep. Higgins used it --- but the observation that white buses dropped some so-called “Trump supporters” near the Capitol before the main crowd arrived was made at the time.  But the publication quoted Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, who chaired Pelosi’s sham J6 Committee, as saying he’d never heard of any white buses, period, for what that’s worth.

HUFFPO described the notion that “FBI provocateurs tricked the legion of Trump supporters into ransacking the Capitol” as “an alternate reality.”  Actually, we’ve never claimed that Trump supporters were “tricked,” but the suspicion that some of them were whipped-up and encouraged to remove barriers and respond to aggressive crowd-control actions by Capitol Hill police has never been allayed.  (Let’s hope this newly-available video will give us a better picture.)  While strongly condemning the violence from the outset, we also suspected that the January 6 “Trump” riot fit the Democrats’ comprehensive political strategy SO WELL that if it hadn’t happened spontaneously, they would’ve had to “help” it along in one way or another.  Hindsight has only strengthened that suspicion.

Rep. Loudermilk offered some valued words of reflection: “If you seek to prove a theory true, you will, 100 percent of the time, because you will discredit any evidence contrary to your political theory.”  (Irony alert:  When HUFFPO included this quote, I wonder if they realized how well it applies to Pelosi’s J6 committee.)  Loudermilk is correct; the way to get to the truth is to TRY to disprove claims.  So let’s see if we can disprove the claim of these white buses.  Let’s NOT discredit them as “conspiracy theory” as the Democrats are doing.

We’ll never know exactly how the day would have gone if Pelosi had simply accepted Trump’s offer of thousands of National Guard troops, but it likely would have changed history --- and not to the Democrats’ liking, as they would’ve lost their pretext for targeting Trump and his supporters.

https://news.yahoo.com/clay-higgins-claims-ghost-buses-202706409.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

RELATED: Houuse Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has subpoenaed Bank of America for information related to its voluntary sharing of customer data with the FBI, to help them track down citizens who made credit or debit transactions in Washington, DC, are between January 5th and 7th, 2021. Sounds like a blatant violation of privacy without customer consent to help authorities secretly investigate American citizens without any allegations of misconduct. Remember the good old days, when you had to show a judge some sort of reason before getting a search warrant?

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/jim-jordan-subpoenas-bank-america-over-sharing-customer-data-fbi

And here’s another example of a guns-drawn FBI raid on a January 6^th suspect who had been cooperating, along with charges against him that seem to be contradicted by video of that day. Are you starting to get some suspicions about why Democrats are so hysterical about all that January 6th video being released to the public?

(18) Video Contradicts DOJ Allegations Against NJ Man Subjected to Armed FBI Raid, Manhunt (declassified.live)

Kenneth Allard

Although an evangelical Christian, my admiration for fellow believers remains under firm control - possibly because I was raised as a Preacher’s Kid or PK. Grow up inside the sausage factory, the saying goes, and you may have a lingering distaste for scrapple; but grow up a PK and you are almost certain to see Christians struggling to live up to their faith.

My skepticism was most recently fueled by “woke churches” on both sides of the pandemic, some supinely accepting governmental interference, others acting as if “go along to get along” had been added to the Apostle’s Creed. If some Christians were already hedging their bets, then the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas War on October 7th became a challenge to both faith and reason. Had the mythical “Push-Me-Pull-You” creature invented by Dr. Doolittle somehow found a place in the nation’s pulpits? Why else had the barbaric savagery of the Hamas attack inexplicably given way to bizarre assurances that Israel was equally at fault? By appearing to take both sides, was Barack Obama the latest convert to this new doctrine? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/04/us/politics/obama-israel-palestine.html

Eric Metaxas has famously warned that American religious liberties are in peril (Letter to the American Church, Washington: Salem, 2022). How appropriate that Albin Sadar, one of his proteges, fearlessly attacked the latest heresies. “The battle against evil is heating up…(Some) Christians seem to be hedging their bets, intent on not offending the wrong people…careful to remain lukewarm in their response to anything controversial.”

Working alongside Metaxas on his radio and television broadcasts was like fighting at the Alamo. “There were thousands of Santa Anna’s soldiers coming against fewer than 200 defenders of our old Spanish mission…(But) what made it worse was that it seemed as if half of the other fighters inside the Alamo were shooting at us—or they were chiding us for even fighting at all instead of being “good Christian men” who should show love to everybody. But who can dispute the fact that we are now being overrun by evil?” Mr. Sadar’s conclusion is equally chilling: “If the church doesn’t wake up and stop being woke, this nation—and by extension, the world—is a goner.” https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/hey_woke church_its_time_to_wake_up.html

Those startling thoughts could be usefully preached and debated this weekend across the nation’s churches. But thoughtful Americans may be influenced long-term by a remarkable speech given this week in Washington to the Federalist Society, a deeply conservative group of lawyers, movers and shakers. Their most unlikely orator: Bari Weiss, a gay Jewish woman, formerly of the New York Times but now the founder and editor of The Free Press. Since October 7th, Ms. Weiss has been celebrated for her clear writing and fearless, hard-hitting devotion to the facts, regardless of what delicate interests might be offended.

Her speech to the Federalists could hardly have been more momentous had it been accompanied by a divine hand writing ominous prophesies on the ballroom’s walls. Arguing that antisemitism is always a symptom, “It is never about Jews. It is about everyone else. It is about the surrounding society or the culture of the country. It is an early warning system—a sign that the society itself is breaking down.” This ideology of nihilism has now swallowed “All of the crucial sense-making institutions of American life…universities…cultural institutions…nearly every major corporation. It’s inside our high schools and elementary schools.”  So what is to be done?

“I am here because…in the fight for the West, I know who my allies are (and not who) one might imagine them to be. My allies are people who believe that America is good. That the West is good…America and our values are worth fighting for – and that is the priority of the day.” To a thunderous ovation, she concluded: “Our enemies’ failure is not assured and there is no cavalry coming. We are the cavalry. We are the last line of defense. Our civilization depends on us.” https://reason.com/volokh/2023/11/14/bari-weisss-olson-lecture-you-are-the-last-line-of-defense/

Both Judaism and Christianity presume an all-powerful, omniscient God who regularly delights in using unlikely messengers to get our attention. And unexpectedly blessing us with Allies we could never even imagine.

COL (Ret.) Ken Allard is a former West Point professor, Dean of the National War College and on-air military analyst for NBC News. 

Mike Huckabee

1) Deal reached

President Biden has reportedly reached an agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping for both sides to limit the development and use of Artificial Intelligence in nuclear weapons systems. While that might be a relief to people with “Terminator” nightmares, others are calling Biden’s deal an “incredibly poor decision,” because the US is currently ahead of China in developing AI, and there’s no reason to believe China will actually abide by the deal, so this will give them time to catch up and overtake us while we’re left holding a worthless piece of paper.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/11/15/joe-biden-to-sign-deal-with-china-that-locks-in-chinas-strategic-superiority-in-the-pacific-n2166376

I think that anyone who’s surprised that Joe Biden would make an incredibly poor decision, and trust one of our adversaries to abide by a nuclear deal they have no intention of complying with, could use an injection of artificial intelligence.

2) Michigan Democrat attempt to keep Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot is rejected

Tuesday, a Michigan judge rejected another attempt by Democrats (the defenders of “our democracy”) to keep Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot because he’s an “insurrectionist” (which he has never been charged with or convicted of.) The judge found that such a ruling would violate Congress’ powers. Unfortunately, like other judges in many important cases these days, he dodged the issue that’s sparking all these lawsuits and refused to rule on the question of eligibility under the 14^th Amendment.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-remain-michigan-ballot-judge-rejects-14th-amendment-challenge-eligibility

These nonsensical lawsuits have already been thrown out in Minnesota and New Hampshire, but a Colorado judge has thus far refused to budge, so it might yet take the SCOTUS rousing themselves to do their job and squash the idea that people can be barred from running for office due to crimes they didn’t commit.

3) A new SCOTUS “Code of Conduct”

Senate Democrats have been trying to use bogus ethics charges to drive conservatives off the Supreme Court so they can stack it with liberal activists. So far, it hasn’t worked. Their accusations against Clarence Thomas have proven to be hot garbage, and even the liberal Justices on the Court have made it clear that the Senate has no power to dictate standards to a separate but equal branch of government.

Still, in a misguided attempt to make the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) back off and go away, the SCOTUS unveiled a new “Code of Conduct” to clarify judicial ethics rules.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/11/13/supreme-court-adopts-ethics-code-under-scrutiny-from-democrats-n2631147

If you guessed that that would satisfy the Democrats and they'd stop whining and go back to trying to win power legitimately, then you don’t know them very well.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2023/11/15/supreme-court-ethics-still-not-enough-for-durbin-n2631163

Personally, I think the best test of whether someone has an unparalleled judicial temperament is if he manages not to explode at having his ethics questioned by a Senate Democrat.

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4 )“No guts” in Andover

City officials in Andover, Massachusetts, are facing furious blowback for allowing the Palestinian flag to be flown below the US flag on the city’s flagpole. They claim that due to Supreme Court rulings, they could be sued for refusing, and they previously allowed an Israeli flag to be flown there. But some residents accuse them of having “no guts” and say doing what’s right and refusing to fly that flag is more important than trying to dodge a potential lawsuit.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/massachusetts-town-approves-permit-fly-palestinian-flag-public-flagpole

There’s a lot more about this story at the link, along with the news that the flag “will remain in place until Dec. 7.” Personally, I seriously doubt that.

5) A wild week in Congress

I thought we were past the days when disagreements among Congress members were settled with dueling pistols or one member caning another, but it looks as if the good ol’ days may be making a comeback. Rather than go through all of this week’s wild and wooly Congressional throwdowns, I’ll let Stephen Kruiser at PJ Media recap them and just add a gentle admonition that people in important public positions should maybe display a little more decorum. And possibly switch to decaf.

https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2023/11/15/the-morning-briefing-republicans-had-a-goofy-feisty-day-on-capitol-hill-n4923904

6) Not making this up

Apparently, opening up the border to Mexican drug gangsters and terrorists wasn’t a big enough danger to rural communities, so the Biden Administration would like to release grizzly bears on them, too. No, I’m not making this up.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-plan-release-predator-near-rural-communities-faces-widespread-opposition

7) The Wall of Lies is starting to crack

From the moment Donald Trump announced he was running for President in 2016, the Democrats and their media poodles have worked overtime to distort everything he says and does, and to try to silence him and his supporters so that they never hear any contrary views. For years, he was a popular celebrity, sought after by all the talk shows and charity balls, and the biggest star on NBC.

But then suddenly, he was branded a Russian agent (he wasn’t); accused of only running to enrich himself (it cost him billions and he donated his entire salary back to the taxpayers); called a sexist and misogynist (he appointed more women to important positions than any previous President); and accused of calling Mexicans “rapists and murderers” (he was referring to MS-13 gang members, who brag about being rapists and murderers), saying there were “very fine people” among neo-Nazis (he didn’t; he said they should be “condemned totally”), and harming minorities (under his tenure, all demographics saw record low unemployment and real wage growth for the first time in decades.)

It's no wonder that since he left office, they’ve done everything possible to silence him, from banning him from social media outlets to trying to put gag orders on him, to keep their lies about him from being challenged. If the voters they count on to keep reflexively voting Democrat no matter how much it harms them ever heard the truth, they would be in BIG trouble.

I’m happy to report that it looks like they might be in BIG trouble. The wall of lies they’ve built around Trump is starting to crack as minority voters figure out that they have been bamboozled, and the Dems are panicking.

First, imagine the shrieking at DNC headquarters when they learned that Univision, the top-rated Spanish language TV network, has new owners with a more favorable view of Trump. With a New York Times poll showing him just 8 points behind Biden among Hispanics, who don’t really like illegal immigrants flouting the rules that they followed and taking their jobs, Univision ran a fair interview with Trump. They let him speak for himself, and refused to let the Democrats run ads during it attacking him.

https://www.westernjournal.com/democrats-reeling-spanish-language-news-leader-changes-tune-trump/

Univision says it would extend the same policy to the Democrats, but that’s not good enough. Nobody in the media is ever supposed to give Trump a fair hearing. He’s always supposed to be vilified and ostracized! Treating him fairly might “humanize” him (a tacit admission that they don’t even think he’s a human.) Even his wife Melania, as beautiful and fashionable as she is, never appeared on the cover of a single’s women’s magazine in four years. They’re terrified of people seeing and hearing Trump for himself and discovering that he’s not the raging monster they’ve created.

Now, as much as that Univision story must have terrified the Democrats, just think of the industrial-sized jug of Maalox they’ll be swigging from after reading these stories. The first one is about black voters being so fed up with the horrible effects of Biden’s policies that even if they don’t vote for Trump, they might not vote at all.

https://www.westernjournal.com/black-americans-turning-biden-2024-not-going-vote-period/

And this is really the Democrats’ worst nightmare…

https://pjmedia.com/miltharris/2023/11/08/blm-leader-stumps-for-trump-because-he-is-the-best-candidate-we-have-n4923752

It’s a must-read about the co-founder and former senior director of the Rhode Island chapter of Black Lives Matter campaigning for Trump. Mark Fisher slammed the Democrats for harming the black community with their anti-capitalist and pro-abortion policies. He said, “We’ve been used and abused for so long by that party. They don’t value our vote. Their policies are basically racist policies, and I believe it’s a racist party that strikes at the heart of the black family and the nuclear family in general.” 

He also calls Biden a “deep disappointment,” adding, “And I believe Donald Trump, he’s the opposite. He’s gonna tell you how it is. He’s gonna give it to you straight. He’s not gonna be a hypocrite and stab you in the back like the Democratic Party loves to do.”

Fisher has also said of the relentless DOJ pursuit of January 6^th protesters, “They’re lambs led to slaughter to be sacrificed as an example for all who might want to dissent in the future. This is what the government does to those who express independent thought and want to stand up for what they believe."

I pray that black voters will listen to him, and I also pray for him to be shielded from the wrath of the Democrats’ weaponized government and media. They’re dangerous when scared, and nothing scares them more than an outspoken black leader who refuses to toe their party line.

8) Now we know why

The former editor of the leftwing “news” site The Recount is facing a potential 10 years in prison after being charged with possessing and distributing child pornography. An Assistant District Attorney called it the “most egregious” case she’s ever come across. He had previously been celebrated for his work “discussing sexuality” with elementary school students.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/15/former-editor-of-left-wing-site-the-recount-arrested-for-child-pornography/

So if you’re confused about why leftist media outlets are so gung-ho about putting porn into elementary schools, wonder no more.

9) The Latest Example

I previously told you that the extremely irritating, foul-mouthed, in-your-face leftist feminist site Jezebel was being shut down due to financial losses and failure to find a buyer. Now, we know more about the reasons for its demise, and talk about poetic justice!

https://redstate.com/bradslager/2023/11/14/the-left-slays-its-own-feminist-website-jezebel-shut-down-due-to-leftist-anti-advertising-tactics-n2166341

Jezebel was killed because of the effectiveness of the tactic invented by the leftist cancel culture mob it supported. They constantly launched complaints against conservative sites, threatening advertisers and lobbying search engines to block and demonetize them. What that did, however, was train advertisers to avoid any sites that touch on any potentially controversial subject, and that was Jezebel’s business model. Leftists never imagine that the monsters they create to attack conservatives will turn and devour them, but they always do. Jezebel is the latest victim of the left’s own success at censoring and demonetizing “controversial” content.

Read the whole thing for more details and to enjoy maximum schadenfreude.

10) We can only hope…

Oh, look, another liberal celebrity is threatening to leave America if Trump becomes President again, even though, like all the other liberal celebrities who made the same threat in 2016, she somehow never moved away during the four years he was already President. How will we survive without her? That is, if she actually means it this time?

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/11/14/watch-barbra-streisand-says-she-cant-live-in-u-s-if-trump-becomes-president/

RELATED: Michael Cohen vowed to flee the country if Donald Trump becomes President again.

https://redstate.com/tladuke/2023/11/14/michael-cohen-promises-to-flee-the-country-if-donald-trump-wins-in-2024-n2166342

So, America will lose one dishonest lawyer? Add that to the list of reasons to vote for Trump and the list of things that are “A good start.”

11) Lee Greenwood’s final tour

Lee Greenwood is one of my favorite musical guests on the “Huckabee” TV show, so I’m sad to see that he plans to make his 2024 tour his final tour, even though I respect his reasons for retiring. See him while you can, I know you’ll enjoy it.

https://www.westernjournal.com/lee-greenwood-makes-big-decision-career-dont-think-can-much-longer/

Note from our pop culture guru Pat Reeder: 

This story mentions that Lee’s Grammy Award wasn’t for “God Bless the USA,” which has become almost a second National Anthem. It was nominated for Best Country Song of 1984 and Lee for Best Male Vocalist, but lost in both categories. To save you having to look it up, the winners were “City of New Orleans” and Merle Haggard for “That’s the Way Love Goes.” I’ll bet that makes you miss the country music of the ‘80s. “City of New Orleans” was written by Steven Goodman, who recorded it in 1971, and Arlo Guthrie had a hit with it in 1972, then Willie Nelson covered it in 1984. As to how it qualifies for “Best Country Song of 1984,” I have no idea.

12) GOP oversight committees are doing all the work right now

When we look back on this period before the ‘24 election to assess what our government actually accomplished, it seems certain that all the praise will go to the Republicans on the House and Senate committees.  They’re the ones actually getting things done.

Otherwise, talk about counterproductive.  Congress passes a continuing resolution to keep the government open, just kicking the can down the road as usual.  The Biden administration and state-level prosecutors continue their make-work program for attorneys, with their never-ending lawfare against Biden’s leading political opponent (!) while covering up Biden family corruption.  The White House tries to make light of President Biden’s doddering and lies about the economy.  Vandalism, theft and violence rage across the country, while the government focuses on controlling not actions but speech.

But the House committees (and Republicans on Senate committees) keep plugging away, getting the work done that the “Justice” Department should be doing but won’t.  And they do it in spite of Americans’ frustration and skepticism that nothing will come of their effort.  To them, it must often seem like a thankless job --- but we thank them.

Legal analyst Margot Cleveland has been keeping up with the job they’re doing.  After the House Oversight Committee issued a slew of subpoenas last Wednesday in the House impeachment inquiry, she wrote that they also need to pay attention to a detailed letter sent last month by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley to Attorney General Merrick Garland citing 25 DOJ and FBI personnel who still need to be interviewed.  “While the House Oversight Committee is understandably focused on unraveling the extent of foreign influence-peddling,” she writes, “the House should not ignore the second half of the scandal:  the DOJ, FBI, and now the Biden administration’s cover-up of the scandal and their cover-up of the cover-up.”

Keep in mind, Sen. Grassley, as only the ranking member of a Democrat-controlled committee, has no subpoena power, so he must depend on the GOP-controlled House committees to issue them.  That goes for both in-person testimony and documents.  So, heads up, Congress!

Yes, we want accountability for the Bidens.  But did you realize that Grassley has been working for SEVERAL YEARS on this other critical aspect of the scandal, the corruption within our “Justice” Department?  He is a hero.  If we can fix the internal problems at DOJ and FBI --- and we must --- it will be largely thanks to him.   His office has been the one relatively safe haven for whistleblowers, and Grassley says that if their allegations turn out to be true, it will establish that the DOJ and FBI “have been institutionally corrupted to their very core.”

It was thanks to a lead generated by Grassley that we now know about the FBI’s “1023” interview notes from a “highly credible” confidential human source (CHS) saying Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky had remarked that he’d paid “$5 million to one Biden and $5 million to another Biden.”

It was also Grassley who revealed that an FBI Supervisory Agent had done an assessment that resulted in scandalous Hunter Biden findings being falsely branded as “foreign disinformation.” He also cited the Foreign Influence Task Force for improperly briefing him and Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson on “disinformation” to further the narrative that the Hunter story wasn’t real.

The House should take their cues from Grassley’s letter, Cleveland says.  “Every member of the Foreign Influence Task Force should be questioned by the House,” she advises, “and every communication between the [FITF] and Brian Auten, and the various FBI offices involved in wrongly closing out sources should be subpoenaed.”  The sources themselves should also be subpoenaed, as well as any materials used in the assessment.

Grassley also “highlighted several relevant field offices,” Cleveland says, noting the Seattle field office as “a new thread to pull.”  Also, the Cleveland field office.

She can tell, based on Sen. Grassley’s specific wording in that letter, that the House should ask for all records with the words “Russian disinformation” from January 2019 to the present.  She suspects he knows what the DOJ is still hiding.

Cleveland’s piece mentions numerous other information-rich targets who should be subpoenaed, all taken from Grassley’s letter.  She suspects that Grassley’s interest in Special Agent in Charge Tim Thibault might be telling, even though Thibault previously tried to portray himself as new to the job and “on the periphery of decisions to close-out sources.”  The House needs to dig deeper.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/09/grassleys-bombshells-show-house-investigators-exactly-where-to-aim-their-next-biden-subpoenas/

Cleveland also had a column about Delaware U.S. Attorney (and now Special Counsel) David Weiss’ testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last Tuesday, noting that he STILL can’t keep his story straight on whether or not he had “special attorney” authority to charge Hunter Biden in DC or Central California.

The interview was behind closed doors, but Cleveland reviewed a transcript and saw that he mostly refused to answer questions under the usual guise of not commenting on an ongoing investigation.  However, he did respond to questions about his charging authority.  Did he or did he not have “special attorney” status under Section 515, which allows a U.S. attorney in one district to bring charges in another, “when specifically directed by the Attorney General”?

Cleveland relates the details on how his story keeps getting tweaked and says Weiss and Garland have been playing a “ridiculous lawyers’ game.”  (To hear the variations --- “has full authority,” “will be given full authority,” “has been assured he will be given full authority” --- reminds us of Bill Clinton musing about what the definition of “is” is.)  “Why have we been playing six months of word games?” she asks.

Then she answers her own question, saying that to tell the truth would require them to concede that they --- in particular, Garland --- had misled Congress and the American people about Weiss’ independence.  This would also confirm whistleblower Gary Shapley’s version of events, his claim that Weiss would’ve needed permission to bring charges against Hunter in California --- permission that he obviously didn’t get.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/10/david-weiss-gives-more-conflicting-testimony-about-his-authority-to-charge-hunter-biden/

Also last week, in his opening statement to the committee, Weiss ludicrously assured us that “political considerations” played no part in his team’s decision-making.  Though he told the committee he wouldn’t comment “on any aspect of the investigation or a prosecution,” he assured them that “throughout this investigation, career prosecutors on my team and I have made decisions based on the facts and the law.”

Seems as though the one thing missing from this hearing was a laugh track.

Cleveland focuses on Gary Shapley’s testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee that someone had tipped off Joe Biden’s transition team of the plan to interview Hunter Biden and 10-plus other witnesses on December 8, 2020, giving this group “an opportunity to obstruct the approach on the witnesses.”  When asked about this by the Judiciary Committee last week, Weiss initially said it wouldn’t be appropriate for him to comment.  He said he would address it in his special counsel report.

But as committee members pushed for answers, they uncovered an apparent liaison between the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Biden transition team, a former deputy counsel to then-VP Biden named Alexander Mackler. It’s fun to read Cleveland’s piece and see how Weiss twists and turns when pressed on this situation.  He finally refused to answer the question of what he would do if he found out about such a relationship, saying he would not “speculate on” a “hypothetical” other than saying that “as a general matter, it’s problematic.”

Weiss’ hesitance to address such considerations of political bias on his team is a spectacular failure on his part.  Cleveland calls it “willful blindness.” Weiss buried his head in the sand, she says, leaving the evidence of politicization for IRS whistleblowers and congressional committees to expose with no help from him.  At a time when the government seems to be doing nothing to make things better, these are the people in DC who are getting their jobs done.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/13/willfully-blind-david-weiss-pinky-promises-political-favoritism-didnt-affect-hunter-biden-probe/

13) Report released

This morning, the House Ethics Committee released a report finding that there is “substantial evidence” that New York Republican Rep. George Santos broke the law, including fraud and using campaign funds for personal purposes.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/16/george-santos-ethics-report/

Okay, not to engage in “whataboutism,” but…what about the rest of them?

14) Here’s today’s link to regularly updated news on the war in Israel from Fox News:

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/november-16-israel-hamas-war

The latest: Israeli forces secured a Hamas-run hospital in Gaza and for all the useful idiots accusing Israel of genocide for “attacking a hospital,” they released video of what they found inside. It included AK-47s, ammo, grenades, military uniforms and a bulletproof vest, hidden in such places as behind an MR1 machine and in a medical supply cabinet. They also found a laptop containing information about hostages they’re still holding. The IDF says it holds evidence that Hamas was using the hospital as a base of operations within the last few days.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/israel-finds-weaponsmilitary-equipment-used-hamas-key-gaza-hospital-raid-idf

IDF Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said, "These weapons have absolutely no business being inside a hospital.” (In fact, using such facilities to hide soldiers and weapons is a genuine war crime.) "The only reason they're here is because Hamas put them here, because they use this place like many other hospitals and ambulances and sensitive facilities inside the Gaza Strip for their illicit military purposes."

Must-See Video: An Al-Jazeera reporter interviewed an elderly patient who was injured in the battle for the hospital and tried to get him to condemn Israel. Instead, the man asked why Hamas is hiding among the people, adding, “They can go to hell and hide there.” The reporter quickly turned away from him, and the man appeared to kick him.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/11/16/man-at-gaza-hospital-criticizes-hamas-for-hiding-among-civilians-then-kicks-reporter-for-cutting-away-n2631225

Speaking of useful idiots, with Hamas finally starting to crumble, the UN Security Council called for Israel to hold an “extended pause” in its war on Hamas, and UN human rights chief Volker Turk appeared to call for an international investigation into alleged war crimes...committed by Israel.  He declared that "extremely serious allegations of multiple and profound breaches of international humanitarian law, whoever commits them, demand rigorous investigation and full accountability." Odd, I thought that Israel was making Hamas face full accountability for its profound breach of international humanitarian law, and idiots at the UN want them to stop.

Note: The UN Human Rights Council currently includes such pillars of human rights as Cuba, China and Pakistan, although to their credit, they did eject Russia after it invaded Ukraine. And guess who chairs the 2023 UN Human Rights Council Social Forum. That's right: Iran. Why are we still funding this unfunny clown show?

15) Trump and Hitler

As noted yesterday, you can tell an election year is drawing near because the leading Republican candidate is being called “Hitler” by the leading Democrat candidate, a practice that started with Truman doing it to Thomas Dewey. Now, President Biden is claiming that Trump’s rhetoric echoes that of Hitler.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-cries-wolf-says-trumps-language-echoes-heard-nazi-germany/

Funny, I can remember a leading politician standing in front of a blood red background and condemning half the population as enemies of the state, but that was Biden. As this story points out, we have seen such fascistic practices as the suspension of the First Amendment, government agencies being weaponized against political enemies and a two-tiered “justice” system, but those all happened under Biden. And of course, I can turn on my TV and see violent, black-clad mobs chanting for death to the Jews, but those are all Biden voters.

As for Trump, I see him standing up for Israel and visiting with his Jewish grandchildren, which suggests that if he wants to emulate Hitler, he’s doing it all wrong.

I guess if the Dems are going to scare people into reelecting them, they have to paint Republicans as equal to the worst monster in history. If they compared us to the third- or fourth-worst monsters, voters might say, “Eh, it would still be better than the Democrats.” But as I’ve pointed out before, comparing Trump to Hitler might backfire because we’ve now seen just how many of their constituents would probably vote for Hitler.

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Mayorkas impeachment vote fails

A vote in the House to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas (the worst DHS Secretary ever, and likely the worst Cabinet official in history, period) failed due to eight Republicans joining with Democrats to block it and a dozen other Republicans not voting at all.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/13/republicans-join-with-democrats-to-scuttle-impeachment-of-dhs-secretary-mayorkas-n2166308

I don’t know what their reasons are, but even if they felt it was a waste of time because it never would have passed the Senate, they should have at least gone on the record as condemning Mayorkas, a man charged with protecting America’s border security and who has instead deliberately destroyed it while repeatedly lying under oath. This is further proof that if someone has a (D) beside his name, today’s Democrats will never hold him accountable for anything, and you can always rely on a certain number of Republicans to fall in with them. If Mayorkas can't be impeached, no Democrat can be impeached, at least not unless Republicans have well over a two-thirds majority.

Here’s today’s link to continually-updated news on the war in Israel from Fox News…

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/november-14-israel-hamas-war

Among the most recent headlines: Israel’s military announced a temporary pause of fighting in Gaza City today to allow more civilian evacuations – you know, like people do who DON’T commit genocides. Israel’s foreign minister called on United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres to resign, saying he’s unfit to lead for his moral equivocations and his refusal to say, “clearly and loudly, ‘Free Gaza from Hamas.’”

In light of recent events, you won’t be shocked to learn that a report issued in May by the American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise found that the top donors to US universities are Arab nations such as Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait and Egypt. 

Four hundred government officials from 40 departments and agencies in the Biden Administration signed a letter demanding a ceasefire and opposing Biden’s handling of the situation. From their pro-Palestinian demands, I assume they think he’s siding too much with Israel. This should give you an idea of why Trump had so much trouble getting his agenda enacted, when this is who’s filling those nearly impossible-to-fire positions.

Well, maybe this will mollify them: it’s reported that even after taking heat for freeing up $6 billion in frozen assets for Iran, and watching Iran fund Hamas and other terrorist groups attacking both Israel and our own troops in the Middle East, the Biden State Department is considering giving Iran access to ANOTHER $10+ billion worth of assets currently frozen in Iraq. 

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/11/13/unreal-biden-team-considering-cutting-loose-billions-more-to-iran-n2166305

I know you can’t fix stupid, but could they at least try to reel in the jaw-droppingly stupid?

Hmm, must be an upcoming election...

You can tell an election year is drawing near because Democrats and their media sycophants are already starting to compare the leading Republican candidate to Hitler, which has been their go-to strategy in every election since Harry Truman did it to Thomas Dewey.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/11/13/schiff-trump-tries-to-dehumanize-the-opposition-just-like-hitler-and-mussolini/

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/11/13/scarborough-trumps-rhetoric-mirrors-mussolini-and-other-fascists-from-the-past/

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/11/13/msnbcs-wallace-trumps-affinity-for-hitler-was-always-covered-under-an-umbrella-of-his-stupidity/

However, this year, they might want to rethink calling Trump “Hitler” in light of the recent discovery that a large number of their own constituents would probably vote for Hitler.

Omar gets a primary opponent

Considering the demographics of Ilhan Omar’s district in Minnesota, it’s probably too much to hope that she could be defeated by a Republican. But at least there could be a chance for her Democrat primary challenger, former Minneapolis city council member Don Samuels.

https://www.westernjournal.com/ilhan-omar-faces-challenger-barely-beat-2022-things-changed-drastically-since/

He lost to Omar by 2.1% in 2022, but since then, her constituents have not only seen her blatant anti-Semitism in full flower, but also experienced the deadly effects of defunding the police, which Omar demanded and Samuels opposed. He thinks it’s time to get rid of her conflict and divisiveness and replace her with someone more moderate. I don’t usually root for Democrats, but anything would be an improvement, and frankly, Fidel Castro would be more moderate.

Try not to wince

Try to control your wince reflex as you watch President Biden turn a Veterans Day speech into a combination of LGBTQ propaganda and word salad.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/11/dazed-and-confused-joe-biden-focuses-on-lbtq-plus-stuff-during-veterans-day-speech-flubs-that-too-n2166195

Once again...

It appears that the only people liberals will prosecute for using guns are law-abiding gun owners who use them to stop criminals. Once again, a man who stepped up to save someone from a threatening criminal on the New York Subway is facing prosecution while the criminals doing the threatening continue to run wild. In this case, even the woman he saved denounced him for owning the gun that he used to save her. There’s some gratitude for you.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/12/woman-saved-by-gun-toting-man-in-nyc-throws-him-under-the-bus-n2166226

On the other hand, Florida knows how to treat its heroes, like today’s Huck’s Hero, Army veteran Shane Spicer. Spicer was waiting for his coffee at an Orlando Starbucks when he saw a career criminal with 13 felony convictions trying to carjack a pregnant woman ahead of him. He leaped out of his car, jumped into the woman’s passenger seat, and told the thug, “You’re not going anywhere! You crossed the line.” He held him down until the police arrived. In Florida, they knew which one to arrest, and it wasn’t Spicer for roughing up the criminal or restraint of his trade.

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/11/12/florida-hero-army-veteran-takes-down-serial-felon-in-attempted-carjacking-on-pregnant-woman-n2166236

Don't get your hopes up

Don’t get your hopes up, but there might be some unexpected good news for Republicans in the Virginia Senate election after all, due to some possible shenanigans on the Democrat candidate’s part.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/11/11/hit-the-brakes-virginia-republicans-might-have-a-chance-to-retake-the-state-senate-now-n2631098

Why I Support Trump

Raphael Warnock is not only a very liberal Senator from Georgia, he’s also a Baptist pastor. So the media like to use him to launch attacks on conservative Evangelicals. They did it again Sunday when totally objective MSNBC “journalist” Jen Psaki teed up this softball: “Does it bother you that the Evangelical community seems to continue to be very much behind Donald Trump? Is that surprising?”

His accommodating answer: “It’s a deep contradiction. And I think that when the history of this period is written, we will have a lot to say about that.” There’s more at the link, but you get the idea.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/11/12/raphael-warnock-evangelical-support-of-trump-is-a-deep-contradiction/

I only bring this up because it is something I hear all the time: “How can you claim to be a Christian and support Trump, with his womanizing history, rough language, mean tweets, etc.?” Even though I’ve repeatedly answered it, apparently, some people need to have it repeated regularly. So here is my response, and please bookmark it for future reference.

First, I’m sure that the world would be a much more peaceful, logical and better-run place if everyone was exactly like me, but unfortunately, that’s not the case. We all have to accept that people come in all different personalities and beliefs. I can’t demand that my plumber agree with me 100% on religious issues. I just need someone competent and trustworthy to fix my plumbing. That’s pretty much the way I view politicians. If I’m looking for someone competent for the job, and my choices are Trump or Joe Biden, it’s a no-brainer.

And as a Christian, I believe in concepts like forgiveness and redemption, so I don’t believe that some sin Trump committed 30 years ago should be held against him forever.

I also believe that the reason many liberals are constantly looking for “charismatic” leaders (JFK, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama) to swoon over (“Obama is the lightbringer! His inauguration signaled the moment when the rising oceans began to fall!”) is that having rejected traditional religion, they’re constantly looking to fill the spiritual hole in their souls with some earthly savior who’ll solve all their problems and “save the planet.” No thanks, I already have a Savior. Even if I didn’t, I certainly wouldn’t be looking for one among the current class of politicians.  

Finally, I would turn the question around and ask Sen. Warnock, and all the hypocritical media figures who are trying to turn people’s religious beliefs against them, this question: “Isn't it a deep contradiction of your religious principles, or even morals in general, to continue to support today’s Democratic Party?”

I know there are good Christians who are lifelong Democrats, but I can’t help thinking that they haven’t been paying attention to the far-left, anti-God direction this party has taken. This is a party that’s actually fired up with glee at the idea that they can win elections by turning out people who think it should be legal to slaughter babies in the womb up to the moment of birth. That wants to put pro-life grandmothers in federal prison for up to 11 years for praying outside an abortion clinic. That coerces social media companies to shut down the speech of anyone who doesn’t bow down before their radical transgender aganda and putting LGBTQ porn in elementary schools. That argues that parents should have no rights to determine what’s taught to their children. That shut down churches and arrested pastors for holding services during the pandemic, but deemed liquor stores and strip clubs “essential businesses” that could remain open.

I could go on and on, but you get the point. I can explain how an Evangelical Christian could support Trump. What I can’t explain is how anyone with religious beliefs, a conscience or just a modicum of common sense and decency could support today's Democratic Party.

And to end on a lighter note, the Babylon Bee (a Christian satire site) reminds us of another reason to vote for Trump…

https://babylonbee.com/news/thousands-already-lined-up-for-black-friday-after-grocery-store-offers-prices-from-when-trump-was-president

Food Recall Warning:

The FDA says that certain cantaloupes sold in October in 10 states and Canada may be tainted with salmonella. There have been no reports of illness so far, but in severe cases, it can be serious, even fatal. Please read the linked story for full information. 

https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-food-drink/trufresh-recalls-cantaloupes-distributed-states-canada-possible-salmonella-contamination

San Francisco gets a cleaning

California Gov. Gavin Newsom admitted that San Francisco was quickly scrubbed clean of homeless people, feces and drug needles because (as the Babylon Bee put it, “his boss”) Chinese President Xi Jinping, was coming to visit. Jennifer Oliver O’Connell at Redstate.com called it “Extreme Makeover: Homeless Edition.”

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/11/13/newsoms-latest-homeless-debacles-have-badly-damaged-his-presidential-chances-n2166287

The quick cleanup has many San Francisco residents demanding to know why city officials have allowed them to suffer from all that filth and crime for years if they can clean it up in a couple of days for a communist dictator’s visit. They might also notice that fencing is being used to keep the homeless people out of downtown, and it actually works. They’d been told for years that walls are racist and don’t work (unless they’re around the gated communities where rich liberal politicians live.)

It's easy for us to mock San Franciscans for being shocked to learn that lawlessness can be stopped by enforcing laws. All it really takes is hiring police, putting criminals in jail, and – here’s the real secret – KEEPING THEM THERE. Or that filth can be ended by cleaning it up, then arresting people who deposit more of it. Or that while it's harder to solve homelessness, it can’t be solved by just letting people live anywhere they want, from sidewalks to parks to restaurant doorways.

For most of us, these are no-brainers. But try to understand: people in blue cities have lived under leftist corruption and incompetence for so long, they might not know that any other way of life is possible. They’re like hermits or college students who have no idea how to use a rotary phone because they’ve never seen one. Consider that the last Republican mayor of San Francisco left office in 1964. No wonder they have no concept of civic competence.

It's arguably even worse in Chicago, where no matter how bad things get, the voters keep electing ever-more-leftist Democrats (their last Republican mayor left office in 1931.) And just as in San Francisco, officials have made it clear that the safety and well-being of their own residents is their very bottom priority.

Recently, many black citizens in Chicago who were upset over all the public funds being spent on illegal immigrants made their views known to the City Council and their new, far-left black mayor. What they learned: (1.) Illegal immigration hurts poor black people the most, and (2.) leftist politicians, no matter what their skin color, couldn’t possibly care less.

https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2023/11/10/chicago-city-council-meeting-on-sanctuary-city-status-shows-citizens-that-elections-have-consequences-n2166165

Our government: so much to CENSOR, so little time (before the next election)

We talk a lot here about election interference, and not just the direct kind that might have happened with mail-in ballots on Election Day.  Much of that interference --- perhaps the type that, overall, bore the most fruit in 2020 and likely affected the outcome --- has to do with the suppression of information that Americans deserve to know before casting their votes.  And nowhere is this more obvious than with the Hunter Biden laptop story in 2020.  At that time, the government was working overtime to make sure you didn’t see it, or, if you did, that you quickly discounted it as “foreign disinformation.”  This from the party that professes so loudly to care about “our democracy.”

Oh, they love democracy, all right, as long as they can game the system and manipulate enough voters to vote their way.

Even as the 2020 election recedes in our rear-view mirror, we’re able to piece together more of what was done then to censor needed information.  This discovery comes to us thanks in large part to outside-government organizations such as Judicial Watch, whose Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests continue to bear fruit, as you’ll see below.  And now there’s America First Legal, headed by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller, who has shown himself to be eminently worthy of The Second Trump Administration if that’s where he would like to be.  Maybe as communications director/press secretary?

In late October, AFL filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) alleging a “coordinated communication” and an unreported in-kind contribution to the Joe Biden presidential campaign and related entities in violation of federal law.  This has to do with that bogus “classic earmarks” letter signed by 51 former U.S. intel officials, with the goal of censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election.

“There are reasons to believe that the public statement by 51 former intelligence officials was a coordinated political operation to help elect Vice President Biden in the 2020 election...” the complaint reads.

The full complaint runs 13 pages with 110 pages of exhibits, stating that “the Biden for President Campaign in 2020, the Biden Victory Fund, the Democratic National Committee, and the Biden Action Fund should have reported on coordinating efforts” as in-kind donations.

It’s hard to say how the value of that letter to Biden’s campaign can even be determined.  At the risk of sounding like a parody of the old MasterCard commercial, we’d say it’s...priceless.

As is now well known, that “classic earmarks” determination by the intel “experts” was completely bogus.   In late 2019, a year before the letter was signed, the FBI had taken possession of Hunter’s laptop from computer shop owner John Paul Mac Isaac and were perfectly aware of what was on the hard drive.  They had to know without a doubt that every disturbing entry was real.  But it didn’t matter --- the officials who unquestioningly signed that letter hadn’t even seen the contents of the laptop.  They did it to help Joe Biden win, perpetuating yet another hoax on the American people to interfere with an election.

As FOX NEWS reports, “The Obama administration officials who signed include former [CIA] Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence [DNI] James Clapper, and former CIA Director and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.  Former George W. Bush DNI Michael Hayden, a vocal Trump critic, also signed.”  We would add the note of sad irony that both Brennan and Clapper, and additional signatory Paul Kolbe of the CIA, have recently been named by DHS Director Alejandro Mayorkas to a new intelligence “expert” board.

The complaint also mentions that Clapper and Panetta donated to the Biden Victory Fund and the Biden for President campaign in 2020.

Based on testimony from former CIA Deputy and Acting Director Mike Morell to the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, we know that then-Biden campaign adviser (now Biden’s Secretary of State) Tony Blinken spearheaded the effort to create this letter.  Morell testified that he’d been recruited by Blinken to write the letter.

According to the Judiciary Committee, Morell also explained that Biden campaign manager Steve Ricchetti called him following the October 22 debate to thank him for writing it.  (During the debate, Biden had played the letter up big, using it as evidence that the laptop story was “Russian disinformation” when he had to know it wasn’t.)  “Morell also explained that the Biden campaign helped to strategize about the public release of that statement,” the committee said.  “Morell further explained that one of his two goals in releasing the statement was to help then-[former] Vice President Biden in the debate and to assist hm in winning the election.”  In other words, it was FOR THE CAMPAIGN.

This bogus letter was also used to provide cover for the censorship by Twitter and Facebook of the Hunter laptop story.  Why, how could it not have been Russian disinformation when 51 intel experts had encouraged that conclusion?    

Reed D. Rubenstein, senior counselor and director of oversight and investigations for America First Legal, concludes that we’re seeing a “pattern” of election meddling, citing intelligence officials’ failed attempt to help Hillary Clinton win in 2016 by lying about “Trump/Russia collusion.”  (Recall examples such as Alpha Bank?)

As Rubenstein said, “The [FEC’s] charge includes election integrity --- Americans have the right to know who is coordinating with federal candidates.  But this right is only as effective as the agency that enforces it.  The FEC must act here.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fec-complaint-alleges-coordinated-disinformation-campaign-bidens-2020-run

In other censorship news, thanks to yet another FOIA request, Judicial Watch has uncovered more government censorship through private entities, this time about COVID, as evidenced in dialogue between the Biden Surgeon General and Facebook in mid-2021.  No wonder we can’t believe anything we hear from either the government or social media on this (or any other) subject.

In just 14 pages of conversation between U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and top FB executives, we see the path to stunning submission to the government by FB, as they sought “to better understand the scope of what the White House expects of us on misinformation going forward.”

Murthy enumerated several helpful suggestions for combating misinformation, such as focusing on addressing “misinformation in live streams, which are more difficult to moderate due to their temporary nature and use of audio and video.”  Also, FB should “prioritize early detection of misinformation ‘super-spreaders’ and repeat offenders” and “impose clear consequences.”  They also should “amplify communications from trusted messengers and subject matter experts” (presumably those agreeing with Dr. Fauci and the CDC).

It’s fascinating to read the correspondence between Murthy and Nick Clegg, VP of Communications and Global Affairs at Facebook, to see how Clegg diplomatically pushes back on some of this, saying they’re “partners in the same battle” but that he “thought the way we were singled out over the past few days has been surprising and misleading, and I believe unproductive to our joint efforts, too.”  Still, Clegg later seems to have resolved his concerns and settled into his role as co-censor, later writing that he “wanted to make sure you saw the steps we took just this past week to adjust policies on what we are removing...as well as steps we are taking to address the ‘disinfo dozen’:  we removed 17 additional Pages, Groups and Instagram accounts tied to the disinfo dozen...(resulting in every entry of the disinfo dozen having had at least one such entity removed.”

Aren’t you intrigued to know who the “disinfo dozen” were and what they were daring to say in their social media posts?  Were they saying that masks didn’t stop the spread?  That vaccines didn’t guarantee protection against infection and transmission?  That COVID might have started in the Wuhan lab?  That mRNA vaccines were experimental and might be dangerous to some?  “Misinformation” like THAT?

Well, we looked them up and found them identified in an article from the FORBES archives that supported “removing their platforms.”  (Not that the writer was calling for censorship, he said as he called for censorship.)  The heretics included Dr. Joseph Mercola and (yes) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.  Ironically, if you want to see some REAL misinformation about COVID vaccines, read this now-horribly-dated FORBES article, which is rife with it, such as that the vaccines are “highly effective” and are “the only realistic way to end the pandemic.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevensalzberg/2021/07/19/de-platform-the-disinformation-dozen/?sh=5cd8a14d7378

Anyway, Clegg later writes to Murthy about “how we can partner in this next push to vaccinate children.”

There’s much more to this; I hope you’ll read the Judicial Watch press release at the link.  Tom Fitton, president of JW, said, “These emails confirm that Facebook censored Americans at the direction of the Biden White House and Biden’s Surgeon General’s political operation.  This is a massive violation of the First Amendment.”

https://www.judicialwatch.org/facebook-covid-censorship

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It’s the “next phase” of the Biden investigation, and many are compromised and scared

Once again, why is wealthy Hollywood entertainment lawyer/producer Kevin Morris playing the role of Hunter Biden’s “sugar brother,” paying off Hunter’s roughly $2 million tax bill, footing his $20,000/month rent on a Malibu beach house, and covering his reported $1 million-a-month legal bills to feed a team of hungry attorneys?

Not surprisingly, that same mystery has been messing with Jim Jordan’s mind as well.  The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee brought up Morris’ name this weekend on SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES with Maria Bartiromo.

“I want to talk to Kevin Morris,” Jordan said.  “I want to talk to the guy who paid Hunter Biden’s taxes, just to come out of nowhere, pay all this tax burden that Hunter Biden had.”  He didn’t mention all the other astronomical bills that continue mounting in the wake of this human money pit.

So, why hasn’t a subpoena been issued for Morris?  Our guess would be that the committee is still awaiting bank records having to do with his payments.  After all, the drawn-out procedure for obtaining bank records is what had held up the subpoenas finally issued for Hunter, James Biden and business associate Rob Walker (for starters).

Jordan said there are a number of additional people they’ll need to talk to.  “We will continue to do that...as we look at this case and gather the facts.”

When Maria asked Jordan if the “Justice” Department might be able to interfere with subpoenas and keep those people from coming in and talking on the record, he said he didn’t think so.  “I mean, everyone else has come forward...In the Judiciary Committee, we’ve deposed seven different people who were involved in the investigation of Hunter Biden.  I think they will come forward, and we will get that information.”  He said that even Hunter’s attorney Abbe Lowell has acknowledged that Hunter “is eager to discuss these matters.”  (Note:  Sure, he is.  Lowell did qualify this by saying “at the right time,” which I’d guess is sometime in 2035.  Rich Lowry said on FOX NEWS SUNDAY that Hunter would have to be “a moron” to testify. Well…)

Hunter can’t discuss these matters AND plead the Fifth, so we’ll see.  Hunter calls this investigation “another political stunt.”  Karine Jean-Pierre furthers that impression by continuing to lie, saying no evidence has been turned up.  In case you need a quick refresher, here’s the real story of the real evidence, as outlined by Ted Cruz on Sunday…

https://rumble.com/v3vc3oe-ted-cruz-believes-special-prosecutor-david-weiss-is-protecting-the-biden-cr.html

If Hunter plays on his addiction --- get ready for that --- and claims he can’t remember anything from that time, his story will still be told by financial records and other people’s testimony.

Jordan said the “crux of the matter” is going to be the Burisma income to Hunter.  The importance of that really just boils down to “four central facts”:

1.  Hunter gets put on the board of Burisma Holdings (and is paid about $83,000 a month).

2.  He has no qualifications at all to be on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.

3.  He’s asked by Burisma executives to weigh in with “DC” to take pressure off the investigation they’re under.

4.  Five days later, VP Biden flies to Ukraine and “starts the process” to get the Ukrainian prosecutor fired, using our tax money for leverage, threatening to withhold money that had already been approved by Congress.

A related scandal implicates our own “Justice” Department in its effort to sweep this under the rug, Jordan said.  When the IRS and FBI were investigating Hunter’s taxes, they let the statute of limitations run out for the key tax years (2014, 2015) when Hunter received his Burisma income, because, as Jordan said, “they didn’t want to get back into this issue and Joe Biden’s actions that benefited his family.”  As Hunter’s former business partner Devon Archer told the committee, Joe’s family had been “making money off the ‘brand.  The brand is what they were selling.”’

We would add that this is what a quid pro quo looks like (remember that term from when Nancy Pelosi impeached Trump just for questioning Biden’s actions in Ukraine?) It’s what bribery looks like.  There may have been other quid pro quos as well, such as Joe’s action on his first day in office to end the China Initiative, which had been intended as a crackdown on China’s spying and theft of intellectual property, but money connections are very difficult to prove in court, even if they seem obvious.  There might have been multiple quid pro quos, but all Congress needs for their impeachment inquiry is ONE.  So expect the Judiciary Committee to focus on Ukraine, as Joe’s actions to quash the Burisma Holdings investigation while his son was raking in money from them seems relatively easy to put together.

Jordan said they expect to get the depositions done during November and December, and then decide early next year “whether the actual evidence warrants going to articles of impeachment.”

But what about China and those other potential quid pro quos?  “Given China’s goal of overtaking the United States as the number one superpower,” Maria asked, “is [the President] compromised in terms of making the right decisions for America’s national security, based on money he’s taken from Chinese Communist Party members?”

(It’s shocking, isn’t it, that Americans should ever have to be asking a question like that?)

Jordan said that regarding the money from Chinese energy company CEFC, “we’re digging into that as well,” as Congress has the constitutional duty of oversight.  “We’re driven by the facts, not the politics as the Democrats are as they attack President Trump,” he added, mentioning the obviously political hit job currently going on in a Manhattan courtroom.

He seconded what Trump had said concerning what this is really about:  They’re coming after him because he’s fighting for us.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6341005063112

Speaking of Biden and China, the President is meeting with China’s President Xi AGAIN this Wednesday, this time in San Francisco, and Miranda Devine said Sunday that he’s supposedly going to “mention something about Iran.”  (By the way, this is why San Francisco has temporarily hidden away the homeless camps and given the city a spit-and-polish, where mostly there had just been spit.) Devine asserted that Xi “has the measure of Joe Biden.  He knows that he’s a bought-and-paid-for asset according to all the evidence we’ve seen.”  She’s apparently had no trouble seeing the China Initiative as a quid pro quo.

Devine, who broke the original Hunter laptop story in the NEW YORK POST ahead of the 2020 election but got her story suppressed, also appeared with Bartiromo to report that Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s issuance of subpoenas in the Biden financial case has gone to a “very aggressive level.”  They’re in “the next phase” of the investigation.  She said the Bidens know Comer has the goods on them.

“And this is why you see Hunter Biden’s lawyer panicking, writing to the Speaker, Mike Johnson, and saying, ‘Call your dogs off.’”  (Yes, he did that.)  She also pointed to “hit jobs” against Comer in the so-called prestige media.

Devine also said Comer has also set his sights on one of the President’s donors.  No, she’s not talking about Kevin Morris, but about a wealthy Delaware car dealer who happens to be a Ukrainian and “has a lot of interests in Ukraine that are being protected by American weapons.”  She said she’s been told “by people in Delaware who are frightened to speak out” that this man will have some very interesting things to say.

She explained that the Democrats’ persistent denial of the Bidens’ wrongdoing is because there were a lot of people “compromised by the fact that they’ve covered up for the Biden family.”  That includes officials in the DOJ, FBI and CIA, who ignored, buried and suppressed the evidence.  She should know.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/miranda-devine-comers-subpoenas-hunter-james-biden-notching-investigation-very-aggressive-level

RELATED:  Now that you’ve read about the “Justice” Department working so hard to protect the Bidens for as long as possible, here’s a story, reminiscent of IRS official Lois Lerner investigating Tea Party groups, about the IRS opening an investigation into the tax-exempt status of the American Accountability Foundation (AAF), an organization that dared to release information on some of Biden’s nominees and issue calls for them to be withdrawn from consideration.

AAF President Tom Jones said, “This sudden request by the IRS is not random.  The IRS is demanding ‘correspondence files, emails and information posted on a website that relates to current public elected officials’ – clearly a sign that they are targeting our research and education activities.  It’s a deliberate attempt to punish and suppress AAF’s activities.  It is surely no coincidence that AAF – the very organization that exposed the weaponization of the IRS – is now a target of it.”

The DAILY CALLER has more…

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/06/biden-irs-audit-aaf-nominees/

ALSO RELATED: As mentioned above, when San Francisco officials knew that the President of China was coming, they somehow managed to remove all the homeless people from the streets and clean them up in just a couple of days. Which has a lot of people, including liberals at the New York Times, asking the obvious question: If they could clean up the city and restore law and order that fast for a communist dictator, how come they couldn’t do it for their own residents who’ve been suffering this lawless, filthy nightmare for years?

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/11/12/surprise-surprise-san-francisco-is-suddenly-cleaned-up-and-the-reason-is-infuriating-n2166243

Here is today’s link to continuously-updated news on the war in Israel from Fox News…

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/november-13-israel-hamas-war

Some of the stories you’ll find: For all the deluded protesters who think that Israel is committing genocide because when they kill Hamas terrorists, some of the human shields they’re cowering behind are also inadvertently harmed, maybe this will rip their blinders off (but don’t count on it.) The IDF released video showing a Hamas terrorist firing an RPG and an anti-tank missile at Israeli forces from the DOOR OF A GAZA HOSPITAL.

The IDF also announced that it had killed Ahmed Siam, a Hamas commander who was holding about 1,000 people hostage in a Gaza hospital.  

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/11/12/good-news-idf-eliminates-top-hamas-commander-who-held-1000-palestinian-civilians-human-shields-n2166252

And footage is circulating online that purportedly shows Hamas militants shooting Palestinian civilians who are trying to flee a pediatric cancer center. Hey, all you boneheaded college students chanting “From the river to the sea”…those are the monsters you’re siding with.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/11/11/sick-footage-appears-to-show-hamas-terrorists-shooting-fleeing-palestinian-civilians-n2166194

CNN cut ties with a Gaza-based journalist they’d been using after he was photographed embracing and receiving a kiss from the local Hamas leader. You have to be a lot more subtle than that about your biases if you’re going to work for CNN.

The open anti-Semitism and threats and violence against Jews continue to rage. A black-clad person was caught on video attempting to break the window of a Pennsylvania business, apparently because the owner displayed a pro-Israel sign. Idiots continue to rip down posters advertising for information on the whereabouts of children kidnapped by Hamas terrorists. And in New York City, a pro-Palestinian mob ripped down American flags that were put up to honor veterans on Veterans Day, as authorities stood by and did nothing.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/12/watch-pro-palestinian-protesters-in-nyc-honor-veterans-day-by-ripping-down-us-flags/  

Conservative commentator Benny Johnson called it a “Hamas-surrection,” while podcaster Graham Allen tweeted, “These people hate America. They are RIPPING DOWN OUR FLAG and replacing it with the Palestinian flag ON AMERICAN SOIL.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/12/watch-pro-palestinian-protesters-in-nyc-honor-veterans-day-by-ripping-down-us-flags/

It should worry every American to see how Democrat officials are apparently so afraid of offending their anti-Israel constituencies that they allow this to go on, even as the Biden White House is pressuring Israel to call a ceasefire and let the Hamas barbarians who slaughtered their people get away and live to do it again.  If they’re that weak and that afraid to stand up and defend America on our own soil, what would they do to protect us from an October 7^th-style attack? We already know that even securing the border is too much to ask of them.

It's also a sad and sobering day for London, as what Hitler couldn’t accomplish with bombs, the left has accomplished with “education” and open immigration.

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/11/13/london-has-fallen-n591974

Remember Linda Sarsour, the woman honored by the Obama White House as a “Champion of Change,” and who has always been a vicious anti-Semite? Well, she just found a disgusting new way of telling us what she really is.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/11/13/watch-linda-sarsours-viral-vile-antisemtic-rant-about-those-hostage-posters-n2166257

Matt Vespa at Townhall.com reports that MIT officials backed down from taking disciplinary action against pro-Hamas student protesters who have threatened Jewish students and staffers because they discovered it might cause “visa issues” for foreign students here on student visas, and even get them thrown out of the country. To which I offer this one-word response: “GOOD!!”

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/11/13/so-thats-why-mit-decided-not-to-suspend-pro-terrorists-students-causing-mayhem-on-campus-n2631119

But here are three stories to restore your faith in humanity. Sunday, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in France…not to support Hamas, but to protest anti-Semitism.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/11/12/hundreds-of-thousands-take-to-streets-of-francenot-to-celebrate-hamas-but-to-protest-antisemitism-n2166245

More than 300 UCLA faculty members actually worked up the guts to sign a letter demanding that the administration denounce pro-Hamas protests that incite violence against Jewish students and teachers.

https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2023/11/12/ucla-faculty-demand-school-administrators-condemn-pro-hamas-protesters-n4923837

And the Jewish owner of Manhattan’s Caffè Aronne was facing possible closure after six anti-Israel employees quit over him hanging posters of Israeli hostages. But he said he’s been inundated with love from New Yorkers volunteering to help. He’s even had surgeons and attorneys offering to make espresso, pour wine, wash dishes or just do something to help. He said, "It's just been so heartwarming to really see New York come and support us. It's phenomenal." 

https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-yorkers-offer-work-jewish-cafe-anti-israel-staffers-reportedly-walk-out

Senator Scott suspends his campaign

Last night on Trey Gowdy’s Fox News show, Sen. Tim Scott announced that he is suspending his campaign for President.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sen-tim-scott-announces-2024-presidential-campaign

Scott said, "I think the voters, who are the most remarkable people on the planet, have been really clear that they’re telling me, ‘Not now, Tim.’" He also said he won’t be endorsing any other candidate and that “being Vice President has never been on my to-do list,” so he’s not interested in being anyone’s running mate.

I know how hard this decision is, so I offer my best wishes to Sen. Scott and congratulate him on a good run, and for bringing some important issues and a unique and much-needed perspective to the race. The good news is that he can now concentrate full time on the Senate, where the Republicans very much need him.

40% drop

I think it’s safe to say from the 40% drop in viewership since the last GOP primary debate that Republicans are getting tired of what the RNC thinks is a legitimate debate (letting candidates call each names while liberal moderators ask them questions hot off the DNC text feed.) And after the last election, Republicans have definitely had a bellyful of the RNC’s terrible results and feeble excuses.

So when the RNC tried to flex its muscles by demanding that the candidates not attend the Family Leader’s “Thanksgiving Family Forum” in Iowa (branding it a “competing debate”), the candidates quite rightly told them to go whistle up a rope.

https://www.westernjournal.com/mcdaniel-rnc-cave-threatening-disqualify-candidates-christian-event/

What do you know? The RNC decided the Forum wasn’t a debate after all. Carry on!...

RELATED: As usual, Kurt Schlichter doesn’t hide his feelings about what he’d like to see happen at the RNC…

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/11/13/resign-ronna-n2631083

Something the GOP and RNC had better do something about before the 2024 election: How the Biden Administration keeps winning elections by weaponizing federal agencies to turn out votes exclusively among Democrats.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/what-republicans-dont-understand-about-biden-really-wins-elections

Latest liberal media strategy to scare Americans into reelecting Joe Biden:

If Trump is elected, he might weaponize the Deep State to go after his political enemies, order troops to arrest pro-Palestinian protesters, deport millions of illegal immigrants and reopen a lot of oil drilling.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/11/12/psakis-defense-of-joe-biden-would-make-terrific-ad-for-trump-and-the-gop-n2166251

https://www.westernjournal.com/trumps-got-big-plans-elected-2024-already-called-revenge-term/

So in short, he might do one thing that Biden is already doing, and a lot of things Americans want that Biden refuses to do. I don’t think this is the winning strategy they think it is. They might have to fall back on Politico’s argument, which is that Biden might be incapable of doing the job, but if Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney help him, maybe he can get reelected. Of course, he’ll still be incapable of doing the job, but he’ll be reelected, and apparently, that’s all that matters to Politico.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/13/politico-absolutely-demolishes-joe-biden-for-his-age-and-inability-to-do-his-job-n2166262

Great News on the Legal Front:

In a supposedly “unwinnable” lawsuit, a Florida jury just awarded Maya Kowalski $261 million in damages from Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital. The claims included medical kidnapping, medical malpractice, billing fraud, false imprisonment, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, fraudulent billing, medical negligence and driving her mother to suicide. But as this article explains, the unspoken motivation behind it was religious discrimination.

https://pjmedia.com/megan-fox/2023/11/10/maya-kowalski-wins-260-million-groundbreaking-judgment-against-jhach-n4923808

And it’s not over: there’s now a criminal complaint for sexual assault.

https://pjmedia.com/megan-fox/2023/11/11/maya-kowalski-files-criminal-complaint-against-johns-hopkins-all-childrens-hospital-for-sexual-assault-n4923816

I hope this is just a preview of the many forthcoming lawsuits that will likely explode out of quack doctors and greedy hospitals separating children from parents and brainwashing them into irreversible and harmful “trans” surgeries.

Infuriating

I reported last week on a former CIA agent who pleaded guilty to drugging and sexually assaulting dozens of women across 14 years of overseas postings. I pointed out that while the DOJ was focusing on investigating every ludicrous allegation against Trump, “how did they manage to miss the fact that one of their own trusted officials was a blatant, serial sex criminal?”

Well, the Daily Caller has another example of how Trump Derangement Syndrome at the DOJ may be letting sex criminals evade justice.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/12/opinion-how-many-perverts-did-the-fbi-ignore-while-it-chased-jan-6-suspects-suzanne-downing/

The FBI admitted that they were set to arrest an Alaska man for distributing child pornography, expressing disgusting fantasies online about male children and trying to set up a date with a prepubescent male online. That is, they were set to arrest him right up until January 6, 2021, when they suddenly dropped the ball and devoted all their efforts to tracking down and arresting over 1100 Trump supporters. After nearly a three-year delay, during which he might have done who-knows-what to various children, he was finally indicted in late October of 2023.

Read the full story at the link, but prepare to be both disgusted and infuriated.

Mike Huckabee

Once again, why is wealthy Hollywood entertainment lawyer/producer Kevin Morris playing the role of Hunter Biden’s “sugar brother,” paying off Hunter’s roughly $2 million tax bill, footing his $20,000/month rent on a Malibu beach house, and covering his reported $1 million-a-month legal bills to feed a team of hungry attorneys?

Not surprisingly, that same mystery has been messing with Jim Jordan’s mind as well.  The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee brought up Morris’ name this weekend on SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES with Maria Bartiromo.

“I want to talk to Kevin Morris,” Jordan said.  “I want to talk to the guy who paid Hunter Biden’s taxes, just to come out of nowhere, pay all this tax burden that Hunter Biden had.”  He didn’t mention all the other astronomical bills that continue mounting in the wake of this human money pit.

So, why hasn’t a subpoena been issued for Morris?  Our guess would be that the committee is still awaiting bank records having to do with his payments.  After all, the drawn-out procedure for obtaining bank records is what had held up the subpoenas finally issued for Hunter, James Biden and business associate Rob Walker (for starters).

Jordan said there are a number of additional people they’ll need to talk to.  “We will continue to do that...as we look at this case and gather the facts.”

When Maria asked Jordan if the “Justice” Department might be able to interfere with subpoenas and keep those people from coming in and talking on the record, he said he didn’t think so.  “I mean, everyone else has come forward...In the Judiciary Committee, we’ve deposed seven different people who were involved in the investigation of Hunter Biden.  I think they will come forward, and we will get that information.”  He said that even Hunter’s attorney Abbe Lowell has acknowledged that Hunter “is eager to discuss these matters.”  (Note:  Sure, he is.  Lowell did qualify this by saying “at the right time,” which I’d guess is sometime in 2035.  Rich Lowry said on FOX NEWS SUNDAY that Hunter would have to be “a moron” to testify. Well…)

Hunter can’t discuss these matters AND plead the Fifth, so we’ll see.  Hunter calls this investigation “another political stunt.”  Karine Jean-Pierre furthers that impression by continuing to lie, saying no evidence has been turned up.  In case you need a quick refresher, here’s the real story of the real evidence, as outlined by Ted Cruz on Sunday…

https://rumble.com/v3vc3oe-ted-cruz-believes-special-prosecutor-david-weiss-is-protecting-the-biden-cr.html

If Hunter plays on his addiction --- get ready for that --- and claims he can’t remember anything from that time, his story will still be told by financial records and other people’s testimony.

Jordan said the “crux of the matter” is going to be the Burisma income to Hunter.  The importance of that really just boils down to “four central facts”:

1.  Hunter gets put on the board of Burisma Holdings (and is paid about $83,000 a month).

2.  He has no qualifications at all to be on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.

3.  He’s asked by Burisma executives to weigh in with “DC” to take pressure off the investigation they’re under.

4.  Five days later, VP Biden flies to Ukraine and “starts the process” to get the Ukrainian prosecutor fired, using our tax money for leverage, threatening to withhold money that had already been approved by Congress.

A related scandal implicates our own “Justice” Department in its effort to sweep this under the rug, Jordan said.  When the IRS and FBI were investigating Hunter’s taxes, they let the statute of limitations run out for the key tax years (2014, 2015) when Hunter received his Burisma income, because, as Jordan said, “they didn’t want to get back into this issue and Joe Biden’s actions that benefited his family.”  As Hunter’s former business partner Devon Archer told the committee, Joe’s family had been “making money off the ‘brand.  The brand is what they were selling.”’

We would add that this is what a quid pro quo looks like (remember that term from when Nancy Pelosi impeached Trump just for questioning Biden’s actions in Ukraine?) It’s what bribery looks like.  There may have been other quid pro quos as well, such as Joe’s action on his first day in office to end the China Initiative, which had been intended as a crackdown on China’s spying and theft of intellectual property, but money connections are very difficult to prove in court, even if they seem obvious.  There might have been multiple quid pro quos, but all Congress needs for their impeachment inquiry is ONE.  So expect the Judiciary Committee to focus on Ukraine, as Joe’s actions to quash the Burisma Holdings investigation while his son was raking in money from them seems relatively easy to put together.

Jordan said they expect to get the depositions done during November and December, and then decide early next year “whether the actual evidence warrants going to articles of impeachment.”

But what about China and those other potential quid pro quos?  “Given China’s goal of overtaking the United States as the number one superpower,” Maria asked, “is [the President] compromised in terms of making the right decisions for America’s national security, based on money he’s taken from Chinese Communist Party members?”

(It’s shocking, isn’t it, that Americans should ever have to be asking a question like that?)

Jordan said that regarding the money from Chinese energy company CEFC, “we’re digging into that as well,” as Congress has the constitutional duty of oversight.  “We’re driven by the facts, not the politics as the Democrats are as they attack President Trump,” he added, mentioning the obviously political hit job currently going on in a Manhattan courtroom.

He seconded what Trump had said concerning what this is really about:  They’re coming after him because he’s fighting for us.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6341005063112

Speaking of Biden and China, the President is meeting with China’s President Xi AGAIN this Wednesday, this time in San Francisco, and Miranda Devine said Sunday that he’s supposedly going to “mention something about Iran.”  (By the way, this is why San Francisco has temporarily hidden away the homeless camps and given the city a spit-and-polish, where mostly there had just been spit.) Devine asserted that Xi “has the measure of Joe Biden.  He knows that he’s a bought-and-paid-for asset according to all the evidence we’ve seen.”  She’s apparently had no trouble seeing the China Initiative as a quid pro quo.

Devine, who broke the original Hunter laptop story in the NEW YORK POST ahead of the 2020 election but got her story suppressed, also appeared with Bartiromo to report that Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s issuance of subpoenas in the Biden financial case has gone to a “very aggressive level.”  They’re in “the next phase” of the investigation.  She said the Bidens know Comer has the goods on them.

“And this is why you see Hunter Biden’s lawyer panicking, writing to the Speaker, Mike Johnson, and saying, ‘Call your dogs off.’”  (Yes, he did that.)  She also pointed to “hit jobs” against Comer in the so-called prestige media.

Devine also said Comer has also set his sights on one of the President’s donors.  No, she’s not talking about Kevin Morris, but about a wealthy Delaware car dealer who happens to be a Ukrainian and “has a lot of interests in Ukraine that are being protected by American weapons.”  She said she’s been told “by people in Delaware who are frightened to speak out” that this man will have some very interesting things to say.

She explained that the Democrats’ persistent denial of the Bidens’ wrongdoing is because there were a lot of people “compromised by the fact that they’ve covered up for the Biden family.”  That includes officials in the DOJ, FBI and CIA, who ignored, buried and suppressed the evidence.  She should know.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/miranda-devine-comers-subpoenas-hunter-james-biden-notching-investigation-very-aggressive-level

RELATED:  Now that you’ve read about the “Justice” Department working so hard to protect the Bidens for as long as possible, here’s a story, reminiscent of IRS official Lois Lerner investigating Tea Party groups, about the IRS opening an investigation into the tax-exempt status of the American Accountability Foundation (AAF), an organization that dared to release information on some of Biden’s nominees and issue calls for them to be withdrawn from consideration.

AAF President Tom Jones said, “This sudden request by the IRS is not random.  The IRS is demanding ‘correspondence files, emails and information posted on a website that relates to current public elected officials’ – clearly a sign that they are targeting our research and education activities.  It’s a deliberate attempt to punish and suppress AAF’s activities.  It is surely no coincidence that AAF – the very organization that exposed the weaponization of the IRS – is now a target of it.”

The DAILY CALLER has more…

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/06/biden-irs-audit-aaf-nominees/

ALSO RELATED: As mentioned above, when San Francisco officials knew that the President of China was coming, they somehow managed to remove all the homeless people from the streets and clean them up in just a couple of days. Which has a lot of people, including liberals at the New York Times, asking the obvious question: If they could clean up the city and restore law and order that fast for a communist dictator, how come they couldn’t do it for their own residents who’ve been suffering this lawless, filthy nightmare for years?

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/11/12/surprise-surprise-san-francisco-is-suddenly-cleaned-up-and-the-reason-is-infuriating-n2166243

Mike Huckabee

DAILY BIBLE VERSE

20  Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:20

Veterans Day

Today is Veterans Day, when we should all fly our flags and do whatever we can to express our gratitude to America’s veterans and active duty military for putting their lives on the line to protect our freedom and security, and for all they do to protect other innocent people all over the world.

Despite all the other news demanding our attention, this day should never be overshadowed or overlooked. Today is about something far more important than passing political news. It’s about the men and women who make it possible for us to have elections and the Constitutional rights to freedom of speech and religion, and to protest and seek redress when we think our government isn’t doing right by us (even though we have far too many people in DC who seem to have forgotten that we have those rights.)   

Memorial Day in May is to honor veterans who gave their lives in defense of America.  But Veterans Day is to honor all veterans, living or dead, past and present.

It began as Armistice Day, declared by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919, to commemorate the end of World War I. In 1945, World War II veteran Raymond Weeks of Birmingham, Alabama, began a personal crusade to expand Armistice Day into a state holiday honoring all veterans. In 1953, an Emporia, Kansas, shoe store owner named Al King launched a campaign to make it a national holiday. Just one year later, in 1954, he succeeded. It helped that the President was a retired army general from Kansas named Dwight Eisenhower.

Not only is today Veterans Day, but yesterday was the 248th birthday of the United States Marine Corps. It commemorates the day in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress established the Continental Marines to serve in the war against Great Britain. After the Revolutionary War ended, the Marines were disestablished for a time until President John Adams reestablished the Marines as we know the Corps now, on July 11, 1789. But November 10th, 1775, is still considered the birth of the US Marines.

So if you see someone in uniform, this is a great day to say “Thank you.” Then again, any day is a great day to do that.

“Huckabee” Preview

Join me tonight for a brand-new episode of “Huckabee” on TBN! Former Trump aide Peter Navarro will reveal how he was swept up and arrested in the unprecedented lawfare war aimed at Trump and his associates. I also have lots of great entertainment for you. Actress Leigh-Allyn Baker will give us a sneak peek at her funny and inspiring new Christmas film. We’ll visit “Our Kind of Town” and enjoy the ventriloquism and magic of the amazing Brynn Cummings. We’ll top it all with a salute to our veterans by the best finger-picking guitarist in Nashville (or anywhere else), the incredible Doyle Dykes.

It all starts 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.

Here's today’s link to Fox News’ continually updated stories on the war in Israel…

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/november-11-israel-hamas-war

Recent developments: Multiple drones targeted US forces in northeast Syria this morning, bringing the number of attacks to 48 since October 17. Fortunately, there were no injuries or serious damage. Obviously, the bombing of that weapons facility in Syria on Wednesday didn’t send a strong enough message.

Open acts of anti-Semitism and threats against Jews continue to rage in nations where people should know better. In New York City on Friday afternoon, pro-Palestinian protesters flooded the streets, tried to break into Grand Central Terminal, and tore up Jewish newspapers. And at MIT (which I used to think was attended by smart people), pro-Palestinian and pro-Hamas students from a group calling itself the CAA physically prevented Jewish and Israeli students from attending class after harassing Jewish staff members in their offices. With no clear response from the administration, Jewish students now fear leaving their dorm rooms.

https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2023/11/10/mit-jewish-students-n2389636

Here’s my question: If they know who these people are, why are they still on the campus of MIT instead of being expelled, arrested, and where applicable, deported?

While our own young people are deluded or ignorant of what Hamas really is, that’s not true of Mosab Hassan Yousef, the eldest son of Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef. He appeared on “Hannity” to denounce his own father’s organization. He said it’s not a political party, it’s a religious movement with a 7^th century mentality that won’t compromise because killing Jews is in its charter. He said these pro-Palestinian protesters are “living in denial” and don’t know what Palestine is. He said, “Hamas represents chaos. This is where they thrive. Israel represents order; democracy – Hence those are the two opposite extremes that have been clashing."

At an Islamic-Arab summit on the war in Saudi Arabia, the president of Iran declared, "The only solution for this conflict is the resistance continuing against the Israeli oppression until the establishment of the Palestinian state from the river to the sea."  I assume Rep. Rashida Tlaib is celebrating the news that Iran is now calling for “peaceful coexistence,” since she idiotically claims that’s what “from the river to the sea” means.

The shocking anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hatred that’s become apparent on the left is red-pilling a number of Jewish liberals, among them Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. After listening to former President Barack Obama's moral equivalence/we-are-all-complicit horse manure and his use of the Hamas buzzword “occupation,” Dershowitz has had it.

https://www.westernjournal.com/dershowitz-goes-off-obama-israel-comments-ashamed-friend/

He called Obama’s equating of Israel and Hamas “despicable” and “beneath contempt,” adding, “Whatever respect I had for you, I have absolutely lost.” He said he believes Obama "has always had a deep hatred of Israel in his heart. He hid it very well." (That's the one thing I'd disagree with him on.) There’s more at the link, and I recommend you read it. His reaction to Obama’s outrageous comments shouldn’t come as a surprise if you saw my recent interview with him on “Huckabee,” which I also highly recommend:

https://www.huckabee.tv/guests/alan-dershowitz

Dumbest Headline of the Day? You make the call!

1.  From Vox.com: “The problem isn’t inflation. It’s prices.”

https://www.vox.com/money/2023/11/8/23951098/economy-inflation-prices-job-market-sticker-shock

2. “Olympic Athlete: ‘My testicles don’t make me less of a woman.’”

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2023/11/09/olympic-athlete-my-testicles-dont-make-me-less-of-a-woman-n4923778

Anti-Semitic activity in the West

David Strom at Hotair.com has an excellent round-up of all this shocking anti-Semitic activity in the West, along with some other warning signs of societal rot, all adding up to a chilling conclusion: “Barbarism is winning.”

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/11/09/barbarism-is-winning-n591033

Time for a MISTRIAL in Trump’s Manhattan real estate case?  Sure looks that way

With every passing week, it becomes increasingly obvious that the “Justice” Department has stacked the deck against President Trump in their repeated use of lawfare to knock him off the ballot.  Some of the examples are so egregious, it’s hard to believe that this is happening in the United States and that the target is a former President and current presidential candidate, running against the incumbent.

The Shining City on a Hill has never looked so tarnished.

The latest example was discovered by Laura Loomer --- portrayed in the media as a “far-right pro-Trump operative,” as if that negated what she found --- and deals with Judge Arthur Engoron, who’s presiding over the civil real estate fraud trial of Donald Trump brought by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.  This case has the potential to affect thousands of people in that city by shutting down the entire Trump Organization in New York, over something that many real estate professionals have said is common practice.

Even without Loomer’s story, Engoron has already done plenty to signal his obvious anti-Trump bias, from mugging for cameras on the first day of trial to saying, “No, I’m not here to hear what [President Trump] has to say,” to ruling BEFORE THE TRIAL HAD EVEN BEGUN concerning what Trump had allegedly done, severely limiting what Trump’s attorneys can use in his defense.

But as REVOLVER NEWS reported Thursday, Loomer appears to have discovered a social media account belonging to Dawn Marie Engoron, Judge Engoron’s wife, on which she allegedly posted “F--- TRUMP” along with photoshopped pictures of him in an orange prison jumpsuit, one shot looking particularly frightful with his head shaved.  (It might not be bloody like Kathy Griffin’s murderous “severed head” picture of Trump, but it’s still just as hateful.)  Never mind that this is a civil case, not criminal.  Loomer also posted on “X” that this woman was “openly attacking” Trump attorney Alina Habba.  She says she took screenshots of Mrs. Engoron’s posts, and they are here...

https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/status/1722244994965414277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctw

The posts were taken down, and REVOLVER hasn’t been able to confirm that Loomer’s screenshots are from Mrs. Engoron’s account or if they’re from some other “Dawn Marie.”  At the time of this writing, we can’t be 100 percent sure, either --- more like 95 percent --- but it’s important that someone determine right away whether or not they’re real.  To quote REVOLVER, “If the social media posts in question really do belong to Mrs. Engoron, then this entire case should be dismissed outright.  It seems our judicial system has devolved into a farce, fueled by the left’s insatiable desire to dismantle anything associated with ‘Trump.’  We must stand against this extreme animosity becoming the force that grinds this country and the values we believe in into the dust.”

Or, to put it more bluntly: “A judge with a crazy, biased, crackpot wife like this has no business overseeing a case like this.”

https://revolver.news/2023/11/alleged-photos-of-judge-engorons-wifes-anti-trump-social-media-posts-threaten-to-shut-everything-down/

Some on social media --- gearing up, I suppose, for the account to be found genuine --- are already trying to imply, “So what?” by saying, “Okay, now let’s look at Mrs. Clarence Thomas.”  Sorry, folks, this goes far beyond a spouse having her own political opinions and activities.  If these posts are genuine, they show a spouse making it clear she wants to see a man convicted who is on trial in her husband’s courtroom.

Bestselling author and persuasion expert Scott Adams weighed in on this Thursday during his podcast, “Coffee With Scott Adams.”

“In what world do you continue the trial?” Adams asked, “assuming this is true, and I think Laura Loomer has the right information.  Seriously, in what world do you do that?”

He continued: “They need to shut down the trial, immediately, or else I will never think this country is credible again...I mean, my opinion of the justice system will go to ‘completely broken’ if there’s even one more day of this trial.”

“You cannot have a judge who can only have one outcome or else he can’t (BLEEPING) go home.”

“...There’s no way he’s going to go home to that.  No human husband is free of that bias...In our world it doesn’t exist that he can do his job independently if he has to go home to that.  Nobody could --- I couldn’t, you couldn’t.  There’s no amount of ‘training,’ of legal, ethical behavior that has any bearing on this.”

“...So, congratulations, Laura Loomer,” he said.  “I think you ended this trial.  And if you didn’t, there’s just no way this is gonna be credible.”

Here’s his full video segment.  Language alert:  f-bombs are sprinkled here and there.  Obviously, he feels very strongly about this.

https://rumble.com/v3uvwtw-dilbert-creator-scott-adams-says-laura-loomers-investigation-should-end-the.html

If the case does go on and Engoron delivers the verdict he so obviously craves, Adams wonders if there could be an appeal based on this.  He was advised by a viewer that Jonathan Turley had said there could be; we’ll look into that.  Turley has already criticized Engoron, along with Special Counsel Jack Smith and Judge Tanya Chutkan, for violating Trump’s free speech rights; you might remember this column...

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/10/29/jack-smiths-war-on-free-speech-attorney-general-garland-should-rein-in-his-special-counsel/

Going to Loomer’s own site, she adamantly stands by her story under the headline “NEWSWEEK miserably fails to discredit bombshell Loomer report on Judge Engoron’s wife.”  They wrote a deceptive headline, she says, but ultimately could not show that this wasn’t Dawn Marie Engoron’s account. (Dawn did deny to NEWSWEEK that it was her account.  All they used to “debunk” the allegation was her denial.)

Loomer also posted the sensible rules judges are supposed to follow to avoid a conflict of interest or appearance of impropriety.  Judge Engoron is way out of step with them.  We are deep in kangaroo-court territory.

https://loomered.com/2023/11/10/exclusive-newsweek-miserably-fails-to-discredit-bombshell-loomer-report-on-judge-engorons-wife/

Speaking of Judge Chutkan, who has demonstrated obvious anti-Trump (and anti-Trump supporter) bias while presiding over other January 6 trials, she partially granted a motion by Special Counsel Jack Smith to make Trump say in advance whether he’s going to use the defense that he was acting on his attorneys’ advice, which Trump has claimed in public.  By forcing him to state this, Smith is maneuvering to get Trump to waive attorney-client privilege in this criminal trial.

"When a defendant invokes such a defense in court, he waives attorney-client privilege for all communications concerning that defense," Smith's team wrote, adding that "the government is entitled to additional discovery and may conduct further investigation, both of which may require further litigation and briefing."

Or, with the above statement, Smith could be trying to get Trump to NOT USE that defense, even if Trump can provide sufficient evidence of that, as it could make Smith’s job harder.  (Note:  We’re donning our lawyers’ hat here to speculate what Smith has in mind, but we are not attorneys.)  For example, as the WASHINGTON EXAMINER mentions, to get a conviction, Smith would have to convince the jurors that Trump knew he was breaking the law even if his lawyers had told him his actions were legal.  Otherwise, Trump’s reliance on his attorneys could raise doubts about his alleged criminal intent.

Criminal intent??  The trial sounds like even more of a joke now.  If Trump’s attorneys told him his actions were legal, how WOULD he know if they weren’t?  He had no criminal intent.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/trump-ordered-advice-counsel-defense-2020-j6

Related: New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik has filed an official judicial complaint against Judge Engoran for his “inappropriate bias and judicial intemperance” in what she described as “this disgraceful lawsuit” that’s part of the state’s “dangerous, weaponized lawfare against President Trump.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/gop-rep-stefanik-files-ethics-complaint-judge-engoron-alleging-bizarre-behavior-anti-trump-bias/

Black Swans

Those who are already trying to handicap (or “differently able”) the 2024 election are learning that it’s still way too early, and any number of black swans could appear and shatter all their assumptions. In fact, we got two this week.

The Democrats were already looking at a tough electoral map for holding on to their tiny Senate majority, but that got a lot harder with West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s announcement that he will not seek reelection. Manchin was one of the dodo bird-rare, remaining moderate Democrats. West Virginia is a flaming red state that went for Trump over Biden in 2020 by about 69%, so Manchin’s days were likely numbered. His seat is seen as the surest lock for a Republican pickup.

Worse for Biden, Manchin is talking about touring the nation to talk to people about whether there’s support for a movement of voters in “the middle.” Some pundits note that that kind of “listening tour” talk is what politicians say when they’re pondering launching a presidential run.

Meanwhile, Biden just picked up another challenger from the left. Perennial Green Party candidate Jill Stein blasted Biden for fueling the “war machine” and announced that she will run against him in 2024. She previously ran in 2012 and 2016, and Hillary Clinton blamed her for siphoning off votes and costing her the presidency. But then, she blames everything for costing her the presidency other than herself.

https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-road-re-election-bid-just-got-rougher-another-left-winger-announces-run/

Prayers and good wishes

Our prayers and good wishes today for former Arizona Republican Sen. Martha McSally, who reported that she was sexually assaulted while running alongside a river on the Iowa-Nebraska border before a scheduled speaking engagement in Omaha.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-arizona-sen-martha-mcsally-she-sexually-assaulted-while-run-iowa

Sally has previously spoken about being a rape survivor. She said a man came up behind her, grabbed her and fondled her. Fortunately, she’s also the first female Air Force fighter pilot to fly in combat, and her instinct was to fight back. She fought him off, threw her water bottle at him and chased him into the woods before calling 911. As of this writing, police were still searching for him. Please join me in also praying that they find him and throw the book at him.

New study

A new study in JAMA Pediatrics claims that in states that have restricted access to abortion, there has been an 11% increase in foster care entry, putting a strain on the foster care system.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2023/11/09/jama-study-about-abortion-and-foster-care-n2630968

As Madeleine Leesman at Townhall.com notes at the link, maybe there wouldn’t be a strain on the foster care system if officials would stop blackballing Christian couples because they might not be fully "affirming" if the child declares itself as LGBTQIA.

Also, given the choice between being in foster care or being dismembered in the womb, I can’t help thinking that most children would choose the former.

RIP Frank

I’ve spoken often about how my heroes when I was a kid were the NASA astronauts of the 1960s. On Thursday, we bid farewell to one of the giants of that era. Air Force fighter pilot and the oldest living astronaut Frank Borman has died in Billings, Montana, at 95.

Borman never got to walk on the moon, but he was one of the first men in space as part of the 14-day Gemini 7 mission in 1965. And in 1968, as the commander of Apollo 8, he and crewmen James Lovell and William Anders became the first humans ever to reach the moon (they circled it 10 times) and to see the Earth from the Moon, laying the groundwork for the moon landing.

On Christmas Eve 1968, in a historic speech that I can’t imagine the government okaying today, Borman read from the book of Genesis in a live broadcast from space to the entire world, "In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep." He ended with, “And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you — all of you on the good Earth.”

God bless Frank Borman, one of the greatest explorers of the 20^th century. You can read more about his extraordinary life here.

https://apnews.com/article/astronaut-frank-borman-died-at-95-ed5eb4edf26a4076a2fef6cc31881aff

Something to consider before connecting your cell phone to your car via Bluetooth:

A federal judge just rejected a class action lawsuit in Washington State against several makers, ruling that if they use your vehicle’s infotainment system to record, intercept or monitor your private text messages and phone logs, that doesn’t reach the threshold of an illegal privacy violation under state law.

https://therecord.media/class-action-lawsuit-cars-text-messages-privacy

Tiny violin

Trust me that I’m playing the world’s tiniest violin as I relate the tragic news that the feminist blog Jezebel is shutting down after failing to attract a buyer (do your own jokes about its lack of attractiveness.) Instapundit provides us with some handy reminders of why it will not be missed.

https://instapundit.com/616198/

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Mike Huckabee

Kentucky Rep. James Comer, chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, announced Thursday that more subpoenas from his committee were issued on the Biden impeachment inquiry.

A day after subpoenas went out for Hunter Biden, James Biden and business partner Rob Walker, they were also issued for business associates Eric Schwerin, who was managing director of Rosemont Seneca Partners, the firm founded by Hunter and Devon Archer, and Mervyn Yan; art gallery owner George Berges; and art patron Elizabeth Naftali, who made news for purchasing Hunter’s art for $500,000 at Berges’ gallery and also being appointed to a prestigious commission.  Remember this?

https://nypost.com/2023/07/25/donor-who-bought-hunter-bidens-art-visited-white-house-a-dozen-times/

Yan is an unfamiliar name, but the committee subpoenaed him back in April, not for testimony but for financial records connected to Hunter’s business dealings.  Now he’ll be questioned.

The committee has also requested a transcribed interview with the trustee of rural hospital operating company Americore Holdings, which paid the Bidens $600,000, reportedly to use Joe Biden’s name and influence to get money from a Middle Eastern investment firm.

As reported by NEWSMAX, several earlier requests for interviews are expected to be backed up this week with subpoenas:  to Sara Biden, James Biden’s wife; Hallie Biden, widow of Hunter’s deceased brother Beau; Elizbeth Secundy, Hallie’s sister; Melissa Cohen, Hunter’s current wife; and former business associate Tony Bobulinski, whom one would think wouldn’t require a subpoena, as he’s already been refreshingly transparent about the “family business.”

Berges the gallery owner, on the other hand, has shown unwillingness to cooperate with the investigation.  Thus the subpoena.

There are more requests for transcribed interviews as well --- and here are some unfamiliar names:  Carol Fox of Americore,  Joey Langston, John Hynansky and Jason Galanis, who, according to NEWSMAX, is currently in prison after pleading guilty in January 2020 to “multiple fraudulent schemes.”

Comer waited until he had evidence in hand before bringing these witnesses in to testify.  “A plethora of bank records, texts, emails and a transcribed interview with Biden family associate Devon Archer all show the Bidens and his business partners sold access to the highest levels of our government, including Joe Biden himself, to the detriment of America’s interests,” he said in a statement.

https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-issues-additional-subpoenas-to-key-biden-family-business-associates-and-for-hunter-bidens-art-deals

House Ways and Means Committee chair Jason Smith said, “Every step of this investigation has uncovered a web of business associates linked to Hunter Biden and the Biden family business with Joe Biden as the brand center of it all...The three committees have identified extensive evidence of influence peddling even with only a limited view of the relevant information due to significant resistance from the individuals and government agencies involved.”

“Americans across this country have made it clear to President Joe Biden, the Biden family, and their associates that the gig is up.”

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/comer-subpoenas-hunter-biden/2023/11/09/id/1141708/

This additional report from Brooke Singman at FOX NEWS Digital includes some interesting details, such as the fact that art dealer Berges has long-standing ties to China and said in 2015 that he wanted to be the art world’s “lead guy in China.”  (Not the “Big Guy”?)

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comer-subpoenas-hunter-biden-art-dealer-business-associates-testimony-ongoing-probe

Singman also reports that Hunter’s attorney Abbe Lowell wrote a letter to new House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana to tell him to stop Chairmen Comer, Smith and Jordan from continuing their investigation.  “This is yet another political stunt,” Lowell said, “aimed at distracting from the glaring failure of Rep. Comer and his MAGA allies to prove a single one of their wild and now discredited conspiracies about the Biden family.”

So, what’s been discredited, exactly?  Lowell’s statement is so pathetically false, sounds like something said in a pinch by White House spokesman Ian Sams.  Any serious thought that these committee chairs would shut down their own investigations, after dealing with an FBI that had effectively done that very thing, is delusional.

Comer appeared on Thursday’s HANNITY show to talk about the subpoenas, saying they’ve issued ten so far and have requested interviews with another ten, with “a few more to go.”  They’ll end up with “about two dozen people,” he said, who have “a great deal of knowledge about just exactly what the Bidens were doing and who the people were that were wiring the money from the foreign countries to the Bidens.”

When asked by Sean Hannity if we know anything the Bidens did for all this money, Comer answered, “Not a thing.  Absolutely nothing.”  They got millions of dollars from “bad people from bad countries,” he said, “that were in trouble or wanting something,” going on to mention the firing of Burisma Holdings prosecutor Viktor Shokin in Ukraine.

Abbe Lowell reportedly wants the “Justice” Department to investigate witness Tony Bobulinski.  According to Comer, Bobulinski responded to this attempt at witness intimidation with, “Bring it on.”  Comer said, “The amount of interference by Biden and his followers is unprecedented in this case, yet we continue to provide new evidence on a daily basis of major criminal wrongdoing by the Biden family.  And at the center of this was President Joe Biden.”

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6340840225112

As Newt Gingrich said last night, the case isn’t complicated.  “Joe Biden and his family are collectively ‘the Sopranos’ of...Delaware,” in that they really are crooks.  Gingrich went further to paraphrase legal analyst Andrew C. McCarthy as saying, “We’re going to have to come to grips with the fact that we have a Chinese Communist agent in the White House --- the President.”  The word “agent” might be too strong, Gingrich said, but by any reasonable standard, Biden has been corrupted by “a series of our enemies.”

Comer and his investigators, Gingrich said, “are finally going to paint a picture so vivid that every American [whether ‘for’ the left or ‘for’ the right] is gonna understand...[we] have a President who is fatally corrupted and who was corrupted by our deepest enemies in the world.  He’s frightening.”

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6340842205112

Comer told investigative reporter John Solomon Tuesday night that his committee WILL hold non-cooperative witnesses in contempt and that the last witness they interview will be President Biden.  This being an impeachment inquiry, the fundamental question will be “what role did Joe play in all of this?”

He says his committee can prove that Joe Biden benefited from his family’s foreign business dealings, but that he’s still looking for evidence on whether or not the money flowing to Joe from brother James had anything to do with “loans.”  The White House has come right out and said they won’t be cooperating on that.

The committee is also trying to determine to what extent Hunter used business proceeds to pay his father’s expenses.  The fact that they were sharing a bank account surely makes this determination challenging, but we’d say just the intermingling of funds says a lot.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/comer-vows-hold-recalcitrant-witnesses-contempt-compel-answers-joe

RELATED READING:

As reported by JUST THE NEWS, Jeffrey Gelfound, a tax accountant hired by Hunter to avoid consequences that would embarrass the Biden family, was a cooperating witness for the IRS in the Hunter tax case and is likely to be a key witness if the first son is charged with tax crimes by Special Counsel David Weiss.  He could also be called by the Oversight Committee.  John Solomon reports that IRS investigators learned that Hunter had allegedly misrepresented his income and deductions even to the accountant he had hired to help.

Read about the “unusual” representation letter this accountant’s firm signed with this challenging client just days after the 2020 election.  For when you have time, there’s lots of information here.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/hunter-biden-misrepresented-income-accountant-he-tried-remedy-tax

So, how will President Biden react as the investigation gets closer to him?  Texas Rep. Pat Fallon predicts “he’ll lawyer-up because he doesn’t want the truth to come out.”  (The interview clip below will roll into another interview with Rudy Giuliani on the same subject; great observations.)

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/joe-biden-pat-fallon-hunter-biden/2023/11/08/id/1141576

And, in more FBI-corruption news, three whistleblowers have accused high-level senior FBI officials of retaliating against agents for their political and religious beliefs, and also for their associations with former employees who were interviewed for the just-released Dinesh D’Souza/Dan Bongino documentary POLICE STATE.  Penalty took the form of revoking their security clearances, which in effect dooms agents’ careers.  In a statement to the WASHINGTON TIMES, the FBI disputed they had done this.  We have to say, though, it reads like a denial written by Christopher Wray, and that is not meant as a compliment.

The WT story is not behind a paywall, so I hope you’ll take advantage of this freebie and read it.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/nov/7/whistleblowers-accuse-senior-fbi-officials-retalia/

Mike Huckabee

There’s no way to deny the sad truth that Democrats had a good election day. They see the results of the Ohio vote enshrining the “right” to abortion as their golden key to turning out voters who will ignore all other issues just for that. So expect to see a lot more demagoguing about abortion in 2024, and attempts to put more laws and constitutional amendments on the ballots in swing states to turn out Democrat voters. It might even turn off some moderate Republicans, who’ve been swayed to think of abortion as a “personal freedom” issue.

Paula Bolyard at PJ Media has more on that Ohio vote, what it might mean, and what it doesn’t really mean. And yes, a large reason for it was that a heavily-funded pro-abortion lobby frightened voters by lying through their teeth about what pro-life legislation would do, while the Republicans did virtually nothing to counter their false narratives.

https://pjmedia.com/paula-bolyard/2023/11/08/if-not-republicans-who-will-stand-up-for-the-little-ones-n4923758  

I was on Sean Hannity’s show last night, talking about the messaging problem that pro-lifers and Republicans have on abortion.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6340774418112

We need to stop playing defense and go on offense. We need to start fighting back against the left’s false rhetoric about killing babies in the womb being “women’s health care” and that anyone who isn’t all-in on abortion wants to harm women. We must make it clear that we recognize that an abortion has two victims: both the baby and the birth mother, who in many cases got talked into the abortion by the father, a relative, or even the abortion providers themselves, for whom dismembering unborn babies is a lucrative business.

We must let women know that we are not out to punish the mother, but to help her, whether it’s to keep her baby or to find a loving adoptive home, but never to condemn her. And to counter the slanderous claim that we don’t care about women’s health, we need to talk about the fact that women are exploited by abortion proponents. They’re not told about the long-term consequences of abortion, physically, emotionally or spiritually.

And instead of getting bogged down in arguments over “how many weeks,” we should talk about something everyone understands and can relate to, like the heartbeat. We all know that when your heart stops beating, you die. It stands to reason that if a baby’s heart has started beating, it’s alive. Everyone gets that.

Remember: surveys show that most people agree that there should be limits on abortion, but they vote for the “no limits” crowd because they’ve been led to believe that pro-lifers are extremists when it’s really the pro-abortion crowd who are far more extreme than most Americans.

We need to stop making the mistake of acting like we need to be afraid of this issue. We don’t. We need to say, “We are for life. We may disagree on how exactly we’re going to make that work, but all of us agree that if an unborn child is in the eighth month of development, nobody should be allowed to slice it to pieces and call it 'women’s health.' It isn’t healthy at all, for the baby or the mother." 

Mike Huckabee

BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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

Mike Huckabee

DAILY BIBLE VERSE

27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Hebrews 9:27-28

War in Israel update

Here is today’s Fox News link to the latest on the war in Israel and the rising anti-Semitic threats worldwide.

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/november-8-israel-hamas-war

The latest developments: Israel reports that 130 terrorist tunnels have been destroyed, and a fighter jet strike has killed Ibrahim Abu-Maghsib, the head of Hamas' anti-tank missile unit in the Central Camps Brigade who was accused of directing many attacks against Israelis. Israeli authorities are also interviewing witnesses to gather evidence about the gang rape and murder of a young woman by Hamas terrorists on October 7^th.

For those accusing Israel of not caring about Palestinian lives because the human shields Hamas uses may accidentally be hurt or killed, the IDF reports that it found a Hamas-operated weapons production and storage facility inside a residential building next to a child's bedroom. Who is it who doesn’t care about Palestinians’ lives?

The Biden White House has been criticized for not taking serious action to stop Iran-backed factions from launching attacks on US troops. There have been 42 attacks since October 7^th, with two in the last 24 hours. So on Wednesday, the US launched an airstrike on a weapons facility in Syria in retaliation.

This story is so shocking that I’m going to withhold judgement until we learn more. But if it turns out to be true, there had better be some major consequences.

https://honestreporting.com/photographers-without-borders-ap-reuters-pictures-of-hamas-atrocities-raise-ethical-questions/

HonestReporting.com is raising serious ethics questions about Gaza-based photojournalists who work for news outlets such as AP and Reuters, and freelance for CNN and the New York Times. They were on the scene early on October 7^th, capturing photos of the Hamas terrorists as they invaded Israel and murdered unarmed civilians. The questions: Were they tipped off in advance about this invasion; and if so, did they do nothing to warn anyone about it, other than show up and tag along with the terrorists to photograph it?

If so, that’s not journalism, that’s complicity in genocide.

The third GOP primary “debate”

Last night was the third GOP primary “debate,” hosted by NBC News and moderated by two liberals and Hugh Hewitt (Breaking News: The next one will be moderated by Megyn Kelly.) The participants this time around were whittled down to Ron DeSantis, Nicky Haley, Chris Christie, Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy. The general consensus was that there were no breakthroughs. DeSantis did the best, with Haley second. Vivek started strong with a flamethrower opening about NBC News and the repeat loser RNC, but went downhill from there.

You can read more about it here: 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republican-candidates-clash-third-presidential-primary-debate-while-trump-tries-steal-spotlight

https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-vivek-ramaswamy-rips-debate-moderator-fiery-opening-statement/

https://www.westernjournal.com/video-vivek-exposes-dick-cheney-3-inch-heels-rise-millionaire-status-leaving-govt/

This is a good analysis by Guy Benson…

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2023/11/09/analysis-sparks-fly-but-no-breakthrough-at-third-gop-debate-n2631005

And just for fun, scroll back through the comments on Redstate.com’s live blog…

https://redstate.com/liveblog/2023/11/08/redstate-live-blog-of-the-3rd-2024-gop-presidential-debate-n250

I’m not going to do a blow-by-blow recap, or recount who got called “scum,” or who called whom “Dick Cheney in three-inch heels,” or other petty in-fighting. That just plays into what the media wants: turning these events into divisive sideshows that make Republicans look bad. Why else did the moderators wait until an hour into it, when many viewers had no doubt tuned out, before even addressing the major domestic issues most important to voters, like the economy or the #1 issue for many, our wide-open border? That’s taken on even more urgency, now that people are finally waking up to the dangers of letting terrorists pour across it.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/issue-dominates-voters-minds-year-presidential-election

I’ve stood on the presidential debate stage many times, and in 2016, the moderators tried to get me to attack Trump. I refused, and for the same reason I’m not going to critique this (not really) debate. I follow Reagan’s 11^th Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican. Just as I said then when we were running against Hillary Clinton, we might have our differences, but there’s not a single person on that stage who wouldn’t be an exponentially better President than Joe Biden.

Besides, I’ve already said I back Trump, he’s ahead in the polls by up to 30 points, and as one commentator said, it’s likely most of the candidates by now have resigned themselves to the idea of Trump being the nominee, and they’re just auditioning for Cabinet posts.

Latest Trump news

As is his SOP, Trump didn’t show up for the debate, which he dismissed as the “undercard,” instead holding a competing rally in Florida. The biggest piece of news that came out of that is that he received the formal endorsement of America’s best Governor.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/arkansas-sarah-sanders-makes-major-endorsement-2024-republican-presidential-race

Donald Trump also made some news by posting the document he wanted to show in court that he said exonerated him on real estate fraud charges for overvaluing properties. But the judge refused to allow it, saying he’d already ruled that it wasn’t a defense.

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-posts-paper-pulled-testimony-tried-show-judge/

The document was a copy of the extensive disclaimer that appeared at the beginning of every financial statement to lenders. It warns that “considerable judgment is necessary to interpret market data and develop the related estimates of current value,” and that the estimates herein were not necessarily indicative of amounts that could be realized by selling the assets. It adds, “Users of this financial statement should recognize that they might reach different conclusions about the financial condition of Donald J. Trump.”

Granted, I’m not an expert in the laws of New York, but I find it hard to understand how someone can be guilty of fraud for not accurately valuing a property when the contract says on page one that the property values might not be accurate so you’d better check them yourself. It’s like the left’s allegation that Trump only ran for President to enrich himself: if that was his intention, he sure had a weird way of going about it.

Related: In a court win for Trump, the Minnesota Supreme Court dismissed the lawsuit seeking to keep him off the ballot under the 14^th Amendment ban on “insurrectionists.” Unfortunately, like so many judges these days, they dodged ruling on the salient issue behind all these dumb lawsuits: that Trump was never charged with nor convicted of “insurrection.” They just found that there’s no state law barring any major political party from putting anyone it wants on the ballot whether they’re eligible to hold office or not.

https://www.westernjournal.com/minnesota-supreme-court-hands-trump-win-tosses-14th-amendment-case/

Another reason why consumers don't want EVs

With car manufacturers sounding the “Mayday” alarm after losing billions of dollars building electric cars that are gathering dust unsold on dealers’ lots, here’s yet another reason consumers don’t want them that doesn’t get much press. It’s a Tik-Tok video showing a long line of cars at a charging station in Burbank, waiting at 11:15 p.m. so they can finally get to a charger and spend another hour recharging their batteries so they can get home by 3 a.m. It will make you miss Jimmy Carter-era gas lines.

https://www.westernjournal.com/video-shows-massive-line-electric-vehicles-waiting-charge-11-pm/

Just a reminder: the same party that claims to be the “party of women’s rights,” and that’s pushing for men to steal female athletes’ trophies and scholarships and put them in hospitals, also thinks it’s a great idea for women to have to wait for hours in the dark to recharge their low EV batteries with no way to flee sexual predators released by Democrat DAs who might be hanging around these target-rich areas.

And here’s another welcome sign that some sanity and reality are finally starting to permeate the great “electric vehicle” mandatory revolution.

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/11/09/diesel-wins-new-york-gives-thumbs-down-to-electric-snow-plows/

The messaging problem that pro-lifers and Republicans have on abortion

There’s no way to deny the sad truth that Democrats had a good election day. They see the results of the Ohio vote enshrining the “right” to abortion as their golden key to turning out voters who will ignore all other issues just for that. So expect to see a lot more demagoguing about abortion in 2024, and attempts to put more laws and constitutional amendments on the ballots in swing states to turn out Democrat voters. It might even turn off some moderate Republicans, who’ve been swayed to think of abortion as a “personal freedom” issue.

Paula Bolyard at PJ Media has more on that Ohio vote, what it might mean, and what it doesn’t really mean. And yes, a large reason for it was that a heavily-funded pro-abortion lobby frightened voters by lying through their teeth about what pro-life legislation would do, while the Republicans did virtually nothing to counter their false narratives.

https://pjmedia.com/paula-bolyard/2023/11/08/if-not-republicans-who-will-stand-up-for-the-little-ones-n4923758  

I was on Sean Hannity’s show last night, talking about the messaging problem that pro-lifers and Republicans have on abortion.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6340774418112

We need to stop playing defense and go on offense. We need to start fighting back against the left’s false rhetoric about killing babies in the womb being “women’s health care” and that anyone who isn’t all-in on abortion wants to harm women. We must make it clear that we recognize that an abortion has two victims: both the baby and the birth mother, who in many cases got talked into the abortion by the father, a relative, or even the abortion providers themselves, for whom dismembering unborn babies is a lucrative business.

We must let women know that we are not out to punish the mother, but to help her, whether it’s to keep her baby or to find a loving adoptive home, but never to condemn her. And to counter the slanderous claim that we don’t care about women’s health, we need to talk about the fact that women are exploited by abortion proponents. They’re not told about the long-term consequences of abortion, physically, emotionally or spiritually.

And instead of getting bogged down in arguments over “how many weeks,” we should talk about something everyone understands and can relate to, like the heartbeat. We all know that when your heart stops beating, you die. It stands to reason that if a baby’s heart has started beating, it’s alive. Everyone gets that.

Remember: surveys show that most people agree that there should be limits on abortion, but they vote for the “no limits” crowd because they’ve been led to believe that pro-lifers are extremists when it’s really the pro-abortion crowd who are far more extreme than most Americans.

We need to stop making the mistake of acting like we need to be afraid of this issue. We don’t. We need to say, “We are for life. We may disagree on how exactly we’re going to make that work, but all of us agree that if an unborn child is in the eighth month of development, nobody should be allowed to slice it to pieces and call it 'women’s health.' It isn’t healthy at all, for the baby or the mother." 

Two new J6 stories

I shudder to think how much we might know about the January 6^th Capitol riot if we’d had a legitimate January 6^th investigating committee instead of a one-sided kangaroo committee that existed for the sole purpose of smearing Trump. We’re coming up on three years since it happened, and we’re still getting new information that contradicts what we’ve been told. There may be even more if Speaker Johnson goes through with releasing all the security footage, which should have been released years ago.

For instance, here are two stories that came in just this week:

Time-stamped video from inside the Capitol building on J6 shows that David Lazarus, a Capitol Hill police officer who testified that he witnessed a "very antagonistic" interaction with four Oath Keepers, couldn't possibly have been around to see it, at least if the testimony of another officer, Harry Dunn, is correct.  Lazarus apparently didn't get to that location until after those four guys had left that area and were exiting the building.  So why did he testify that he saw it?

No video from that day was shown to jurors in the Oath Keepers' trial, so the possibility that testimony against them was provably false could be grounds for appeal or reversal.  Georgia Rep. Barry Loudermilk, chairman of the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, released the video to the public after Blaze News investigative reporter Steve Baker looked at it and saw the problem. 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/us-rep-releases-jan-6-video-images-of-capitol-police-officer-who-blaze-media-writer-says-appears-to-have-lied-in-court

Investigative reporter Julie Kelly also has a detailed report on a J6 mystery: How does a judge she has dubbed “the Forrest Gump of J6," U.S. Circuit Court Judge Cornelia Pillard, keep turning up on all the most politically-charged three-judge panels connected with J6?  Since these are supposed to be randomly-assigned, what are the odds?  Kelly is skeptical to say the least. 

https://www.declassified.live/p/the-forrest-gump-of-january-6-cases

Pillard, an extremist who once compared pro-life activists to the Ku Klux Klan, was appointed by Obama in 2013, and he really wanted her. So much so that it was her confirmation that led to Dems exercising the "nuclear option" and using a simple majority vote to halt the filibuster and vote her in.

Kelly also shows links between Pillard and Fatima Goss Graves of the $100 million National Women's Law Center.  They're the ones trying so desperately to get Clarence Thomas off the bench.

You just have to read about the close political and professional ties of these two women.  And guess who Goss Graves is married to?  Matthew Graves, the U.S. Attorney for DC who is in charge of prosecuting all the J6 defendants! Wow, the coincidences just keep piling up like poker chips.

This is a serious injustice. With her conflicts of interest, Pillard should have recused herself from all these cases, yet she was assigned to all of them, which in itself is so unlikely as to be highly suspicious. Again, if only there had been a real investigation of January 6^th. Maybe someday, we’ll actually get one out of Congress.

Texas has a plan

Some liberals are green in the face over the news that Texas plans to use half a billion dollars of “carbon reduction funds” in Biden’s infrastructure spending bill on building highways, which the last time I looked were actual infrastructure.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/transportation/article/txdot-carbon-reduction-strategy-climate-18472058.php

The leftists are complaining that this barely meets the minimum requirement for using those funds, to which I’d reply, “So you admit it meets the minimum requirement.” Texas officials say that better highways mean fewer idling cars in traffic jams, which reduces emissions. Makes sense to me, certainly more than blowing the funds on more well-connected green crony companies that will go belly-up the minute the government subsidies run out. At least Texas will have some highways to show for all that federal money.

Possibly related: A new study found that from 1999-2018, Antarctica has cooled by about 1 degree Celsius, while Western Antarctica is 1.8 degree C. cooler.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/11/07/new-study-finds-most-of-antarctica-has-cooled-by-over-1c-since-1999w-antarctica-cooled-1-8c/

Finally:  House Oversight Committee subpoenas Bidens and top associate

The subpoenas for in-person testimony have finally started flying, now that congressional committees have had some time to pore through long-awaited Biden family bank records.

“Unlike the many lies President Biden has told the American people about his family’s business schemes, bank records don’t lie,” said House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer of Kentucky on Wednesday.  “The House Oversight Committee has followed the money and built a record of evidence revealing how Joe Biden knew, was involved, and benefited from his family’s influence-peddling schemes,” Comer said.  Now it’s time to question them on this evidence.

“These records reveal how the Bidens sold Joe Biden around the world to benefit the Biden family, including Joe Biden himself, to the detriment of U.S. interests,” Comer said. “The House Oversight Committee, along with the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, will continue to follow the facts and deliver the transparency and accountability that the American people demand and deserve.”

Ah, transparency --- how we’ve needed some of that in the disingenuous America of 2023.  As for accountability, it’s yet to be seen whether there will be any and what form it will take. But keep in mind that transparency has to come first, and that’s where we are in the process.

Comer signed subpoenas for Hunter Biden, his uncle James Biden, and business partner Rob Walker to appear for questioning.  Others asked to come in voluntarily for transcribed interviews include James Biden’s wife Sara, who wrote personal checks for up to $200,000 to Joe Biden, designated “loan repayment”; Hallie Biden, widow of Hunter’s brother Beau and one-time girlfriend of Hunter; Elizabeth Secundy, Hallie’s sister; Melissa Cohen Biden, Hunter’s current wife; and Tony Bobulinksi, Hunter’s former business partner.  Comer says there will be more.

Here’s the subpoena for Hunter, who has been “commanded” to appear at 9:30 a.m. on December 13 and “not to depart without leave of said committee or subcommittee.”

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Subpoena-Robert-Hunter-Biden.pdf

Bobulinski has already been open about the Biden family business, since his name first turned up in emails found on Hunter’s laptop in October 2020.  From the start, he has acknowledged that “the Big Guy” is definitely Joe Biden, but Democrats and the media (pardon the redundancy) ignored him. That Democrats can still say there’s “no evidence” Joe had anything to do with his family’s shady foreign “business” is testament to the amazing power of denial possessed by the human mind, which borders on scary at times.

Those of us who have been paying attention knew about this since BEFORE the 2020 election, in spite of the “Justice” Department’s dedicated cover-up efforts on many fronts.

As the Oversight Committee detailed in a press release Wednesday, they have evidence that the Biden family, their companies and business associates received over $24 million over five years from foreign nationals from China, Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Kazakhstan.  In what can only be an effort to conceal these transactions, the Biden family set up over 20 shell companies, most of them during the time Joe was Vice President.

In addition to bank records, they also have the testimony of former business partner Devon Archer, who has told them Joe Biden was “the brand” sold around the world for its access to power and influence.  He gave detailed testimony about the specific personal involvement of Joe Biden.

We don’t need to go over all the evidence again, because you pay attention and already know about it.  But last month, the Oversight Committee released records showing two checks that had been cut to Joe Biden from James and Sara Biden’s personal account, one for $40,000 and the other for $200,000.  Both bore the handwritten note, “loan repayment.”  The Biden family is apparently not even making a move to document that these actually were loan repayments, as the White House has out-and-out refused.  Try that approach with the IRS and see how far you get.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/white-house-refuses-proof-biden-family-payments-china

(Contrast this with the transparency of the two IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler, whose testimony about the so-called Biden “investigation” has been borne out by new evidence.)

Comer says the $200,000 check to Joe appears to be tied to $600,000 in payments to the Bidens from bankruptcy-bound rural hospital operator Americore Health in 2018.  From bankruptcy court records, we know that James Biden was using Joe’s magic name to try to get a big infusion of money from a Middle Eastern investor for the financially troubled business.

Comer has already showed --- we had the flowchart --- how a $400,000 money transfer to the Biden family from a Chinese company associated with the CCP-connected energy company CEFC translated into a $40,000 check to Joe, which, conveniently enough, is “the Big Guy’s” 10 percent cut.  It has been “held” by Hunter, just as specified in the infamous memo found on Hunter’s laptop.

“No one should be shielded from legal scrutiny based on their last name,” Comer said.  That has absolutely been the case, though, and it has to stop, even if it means the entire “Justice” Department has to be shut down and fumigated.  Those are our words, not Comer’s, but he’d no doubt agree.

Missouri Rep. Jason Smith, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (which has the authority to deal with personal tax information), said, “Congress has a constitutional duty to conduct oversight to determine whether our nation’s elected leaders have used public office to enrich themselves or their families, or more importantly, whether those public officials may be compromised by their family’s foreign business dealings.  Subpoenaing key members of the Biden family influence peddling operation is the next logical step in this investigation.”

https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-issues-subpoenas-to-biden-family-associates?/

The testimony of Biden business partner Rob Walker might shed some light on that CEFC transaction, the one that netted Joe $40,000.  In 2017, his company Robinson Walker LLC received $3 million from State Energy HK (assumed to stand for “Hong Kong,” but it’s a Chinese company) and sent $1 million of that to Biden family accounts.  Another $1 million went to a company linked to former associate James Gilliar.  The FBI interviewed Walker in December 2020.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/07/white-house-refuses-provide-evidence-joe-biden-latest-defense-corruption-allegations/

RELATED:  The report released Monday by the House Judiciary Committee about the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) working with social media to shut down conservative opinion (including Team Huckabee’s --- even jokes!), includes a look at FBI Agent Elvis Chan.

Recall that Chan, who was a member of the Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF), has repeatedly failed to show up for questioning by Congress.  The last time he didn’t show, Jordan was weighing contempt charges, but this was during the time Congress didn’t have a Speaker and no business could be brought to the floor.  Chan ran the San Francisco field office; is that where he currently is?

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/biden-investigation-fbi-no-show-prompts-gop-contempt

According to the Judiciary report, Chan wrote in an email in October 2020 that his “mandate” from the FBI was to coordinate with social media platforms on censoring speech.

The “Twitter Files,” compiled after Elon Musk bought that social media giant, revealed Chan as a conduit between the FITF and various social media platforms.  Matt Taibbi put that particular information together, as reported by the DAILY CALLER late last year.

https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/18/even-twitters-censorship-chief-yoel-roth-perplexed-fbi-demands/

“The idea of the FBI acting as conduit for the Intelligence Community is interesting,” Taibbi wrote at the time, “considering that many agencies are barred from domestic operations.”

This new story from the DAILY CALLER details all the times Jim Jordan tried in vain to get Chan in for questioning by Judiciary, even with subpoenas.  Chan is a consistent no-show.  Could the real reason be that he knows he’ll get in trouble on the stand, because Jordan has accused him of lying under oath concerning his role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story?  That was in Chan’s deposition for the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-fbi-agent-deposed-allegedly-working-meta-hunter-biden-laptop-story

So where is Chan?  And now that we have a Speaker, why hasn’t he been charged with contempt?

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/07/fbi-agent-testify-jim-jordan-mandate-pressure-platforms-censorship-house-report-finds

Kenneth Allard

American schizophrenia is reaching heights only recently reserved for COVID. Last weekend, Palestinian protestors mobbed Washington DC, trying to hurdle the White House fence, spraying red paint on its gates and defacing statues in nearby Lafayette Square. The equally shocking images of scrawled swastikas and Raghida Talib televised in mid-snarl provided convincing proof for finishing Trump’s border wall while making citizenship rights conditional on good behavior.

Expect some contrasts between those repulsive follies and next weekend’s commemorations of Veterans Day. Even so, Veterans Day may eventually end up like Columbus Day as a declining fall observance since only half of one percent of Americans now serve in uniform while the all-volunteer force faces chronically declining enlistments. Other than murmuring the obligatory “Thank you for your service,” to an isolated, aging veteran population, what exactly do the rest of you even have in common with us?

The short answer is not much, but there are three short lessons characterizing the American way of war. The first was learned in basic training and still resonates fifty years later: Mutual dependence on your buddy because your lives as well as the mission still depend on it. My BCT experience was much more Forrest Gump than Full Metal Jacket, but our drill sergeants had already survived two or three Vietnam combat tours so their pointed lessons commanded respect. One of the first was that Army Green transcended all other racial, ethnic, cultural, educational and behavioral considerations. “And that goes twice for you nuts from California!” my DI roared as he took charge of our platoon. His succinct lesson introduced us to an Army that would become increasingly diverse: professional volunteers (not draftees) who were often Black, Hispanic, female and, later, even gay.

For most of my military career, however, the Army was not “woke” nor even an institution that worried much about political correctness. The reason: We were effectively “scared straight” in 1973, after coming perilously close to World War III. The Yom Kippur War (between Israel and a powerful coalition of Arab armies) eventually spilled over into a superpower confrontation that neither side wanted. In its aftermath, the US belatedly recognized that, during our lengthy sojourn in Vietnam, Soviet modernization had stolen a march on the West. Not only had we stripped our armies in Europe to re-supply Israel but we also faced the dilemma of technology innovation to cope with a dramatically more lethal battlefield. We studied Soviet equipment and tactics while rigorously analyzing how the Israelis had found new ways “to fight out-numbered and win.” We also recalled Sun Tsu’s ancient wisdom to “Know your enemy…” in order to defeat Saddam’s Soviet-style armies twice, the first time in just over 100 hours.

Now such fundamentals as the brotherhood of arms and knowing one’s adversaries are not typically taught in the nation’s professional schools where the other 99% of the population receives their career training. This rigid class separation leads to the third American characteristic of war, namely that politicians of either party seldom learn the lessons that truly matter. George W. Bush ignored several centuries of civil-military theory by committing our professional military to the long-term War on Terror while the country was sent back to its colleges and shopping malls. “Hey, your kid goes to Kandahar while mine majors in antisemitism studies at Harvard. So what?” Eventually, this manpower stalemate produced the presidencies of Barack Obama, who went from Middle Eastern apology tours to the debacles of Benghazi, Stuxnet, ISIS-as-Junior-Varsity-opponent and, eventually, to Iran’s resurgence as America’s Enemy Number One in the Middle East. The real price of ignorance in matters of war and peace: the combined presidencies of Barack Obama and Joseph Biden as well as the natural elevation of toadies from three administrations to positions of honor, influence and replication.

Consequently, I approach this Veterans Day 2023 with misgivings, and pervasive questions rather than a deep-seated confidence that America’s core institutions will handily see us through. That persistent well-being vanished over the last month as those pro-Holocaust, pro-barbarism demonstrations besieged our colleges with hardly a word of denunciation from the vaunted Ivy League.

In the words of Walter Russell Mead, possibly our most eminent historian, “This is the bleeding edge of something much more widespread that has the potential to touch the lives of every American.”  https://www.thefp.com/p/are- we-tipping-into-a-new-world- war-fanon-mead

And what exceptionally bad timing for our military to become an endangered species! 

A Vietnam-era draftee, Colonel (Ret.) Ken Allard is a former West Point professor, Dean of the National War College and on-air military analyst with NBC News.

Mike Huckabee

I dread having to tell you about Tuesday’s elections, because on the whole, they were another disaster for the Republican Party. I'll soften it by starting with the few bright spots, like the (too close) reelection of Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves and strong GOP legislative wins in Mississippi and Kentucky, but it would really be a shock if we’d lost those states. But all the high-profile races were a total rout.

Deep-red Kentucky reelected Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear by 52.4% to 47.5% over Republican Daniel Cameron. It’s a mystery why. Beshear is 180 degrees out of phase with most Kentucky voters, but he poses as a moderate while the reliable overrides of his vetoes of conservative bills have helped prevent voters who don’t pay much attention from realizing what his true colors are. Cameron took a lot of attacks, some of them shockingly racist, from Democrats who are especially terrified of letting black conservatives achieve prominent positions and disprove their false narratives. The results were hardly a shock; while polls had tightened, most showed Beshear ahead. Still, the actual gap was larger than the polls, and in a state like Kentucky, that’s a bad omen for 2024.

The worst news, though, came out of Ohio and Virginia. In Ohio, by a 56-44% margin, voters enshrined abortion as a constitutional “right.” This article explains what the amendment says and what Republicans in the legislature might do to overcome it. It also makes clear that the abortion laws being pushed by Democrats are actually far more radical than those in European nations they want us to emulate, and more radical than most Americans' beliefs on the subject, yet they keep winning on this issue.

https://apnews.com/article/ohio-abortion-amendment-election-2023-fe3e06747b616507d8ca21ea26485270

That vote was propelled by a pro-abortion campaign heavily funded by outside leftist groups that outspent the pro-life side by $10 million. Aided by media sycophants and their own utter shamelessness, Democrats have successfully framed the slaughter of babies in the womb up to the moment of birth as “women’s health care” or “bodily autonomy.” Ohio voters also voted to legalize marijuana, which along with abortion created a perfect storm to turn out their base. They plan to use abortion to the hilt in the 2024 elections, so brace for a tsunami of demagoguery.

In Virginia, where Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin was hoping for the GOP to retake the Senate, they not only failed but lost their majority in the Assembly. This race also was heavily impacted by abortion, with Youngkin pushing for a 15-week ban on abortion, with exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother.

I honestly don’t know what to make of Virginia voters. They just lived through watching Democrats arrest parents for getting upset that their daughters were being raped in school by "trans" males in their bathrooms, and now, they’ve decided to hand power back to them in the name of "women's rights"?

On a larger level, how can anyone look at the worldwide disaster created by Democrat rule and vote to keep these people in charge of anything? The cities they run are violent cesspools of crime, homelessness and corruption; the states they run are losing population because all the sane, productive people are fleeing; and their national policies have everything from the economy to border security to the Middle East crashing down around their ears. Joe Biden’s only been in office for three years, and we once again have Nazis attacking Jews in the streets and the threat of World War III! Who can look at the endless catastrophes of Democrat rule and think the most important voting issue is being allowed to kill babies in the womb until the moment of birth?

There are a lot of problems to address if we’re going to stop these electoral debacles and save America from the certain destruction of four more years of Biden and Co. “in charge.” One is that after the Dobbs ruling, the Democrats were able to monopolize the framing of abortion, shroud its brutal reality in fuzzy euphemisms (“women’s health care,” “reproductive justice,” etc.) and convince too many women of the insane notion that the GOP wants to chain them in kitchens and force them to have babies. The pro-life movement worked so hard and so long to overturn Roe v. Wade that I fear they didn’t realize how much effort they would have to keep putting into winning hearts and minds state by state. They might have also underestimated their opponents’ conscience-free zeal in pushing abortion to the utmost limits. They have to redouble their efforts to fight back against the propaganda.

Another issue is turnout. In many of these races, the results could have been flipped if only a higher percentage of Republicans had voted, but they didn’t. Some think it doesn’t matter, “the Democrats will just steal the election anyway, so why bother to vote,” etc. Do you know what that kind of defeatist attitude results in? Defeat! As the horrific results of this election start to become apparent over the next year, I’m sure many Republicans will be complaining about how bad things are getting, and wondering how such incompetent people with such awful ideas came to power. If they didn’t vote, then they can look for the reason in the nearest mirror.

That brings us to the RNC. There was a big push to change the RNC’s leadership that failed, but we were assured they’d learned their lesson and had plans to turn out voters. Well…where were they? I heard a lot of complaints about important races not getting the funding they needed, and saw a lot of races lost to low GOP turnout. Meanwhile, the biggest news I’ve heard from the RNC lately was that it agreed to let NBC and two liberal news anchors host the next GOP primary debate. How many at-bats and strike-outs should they get before they're sent to the Democrat-run unisex showers?

Finally, a lot of people are trying to blame this latest election debacle on Trump, even though he had little to no involvement in most of these races. It’s true, Trump Derangement Syndrome is a big motivator for the Democrat base, but it’s a brain-wasting disease, and I’m sure that will be true for years to come whether Trump is in politics or not. Let’s face it: the current Democrat Party can’t run on its successes and achievements because it has none, other than knowing how to stay in power despite outrageous failure. It succeeds almost entirely on smears, vilification and scare narratives.

If they don’t have Trump, then whoever comes along next will quickly be smeared as “worse than Trump” (they used to say “worse than Hitler,” but I think they’re realizing a lot of their young base are admirers of Hitler.) To them, all Republicans are racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic monsters who want to chain women in the kitchen and bring back slavery (which is odd because Republicans fought a Civil War to make Democrats give up their slaves.) And it makes no difference who the Republican is (just look at the wild attempts to paint new Speaker Mike Johnson as a crazy, dangerous radical right-winger when they don’t even know who he is.)

No, whether Trump is running or not, Republicans will always have to deal with the problem of misled, miseducated voters whose emotions have been fired up by phony Democrat propaganda. We need to have competent leaders to counter that, and the best way is to find someone who can motivate rational people to get off the couch and vote. That didn’t happen yesterday, and it’s going to cost a lot of innocent lives in Ohio.

Here's a round-up of election results…

https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/11/07/live-election-results-kentucky-mississippi-ohio-pennsylvania-rhode-island-virginia-n2166023

Some commentary from Fox News…

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/top-takeaways-election-day-2023-what-they-say-about-2024-showdowns

And I think some pretty spot-on comments from Todd Starnes…

https://www.toddstarnes.com/politics/dont-blame-trump-for-what-happened-on-election-day/

And from Bonchie at Redstate.com…

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/08/republicans-werent-tired-of-losing-yet-n2166041

A Bright Spot In Tuesday’s Elections: Bonchie at Redstate.com also points out that while the GOP didn’t take the legislature in Virginia, they actually overperformed, winning in every district that voted for Biden by less than 9 points. Virginia is a blue state infested with federal employees, so it may be impossible for Republicans to take it. But the strength they showed even in a state like that could bode well for them in swing states in 2024. Hope that makes it easier to get through your day.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/08/the-2023-elections-produced-a-lone-bright-spot-virginia-n2166044

Mike Huckabee

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

Mike Huckabee

Daily Bible Verse

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. 

John 15:13

Advice

Having run twice for President unsuccessfully (sadly for America), I don’t claim to be the greatest expert at how to win the White House. But I think I did well enough to offer this advice: Don’t lecture a large part of your party’s base that they’re petty, angry and "reprehensible" and can’t handle the truth.

https://www.westernjournal.com/chris-christie-crashes-burns-freedom-summit-boos-kills-campaign-insulting-crowds-reprehensible-beliefs/

Chris Christie’s appearance at the Florida Freedom Summit is being described by some as the worst campaign moment since Hillary Clinton called half the country a “basket of deplorables.” But to give Hillary credit, at least she didn’t call Republicans deplorable while she was trying to get them to vote for her.

Strange Bedfellows:

Here's video of an Antifa idiot attempting to get fellow pro-Palestinian protesters to help him attack a conservative opponent of “trans” butchery on kids, only to be informed by them that Islam is strongly opposed to all forms of LGBT, especially the “trans-ing” of children.

https://www.westernjournal.com/antifa-punk-tries-rally-muslims-conservative-backfires-spectacularly-brings-lgbt/

How stupid would you have to be not to know that the Islamic religion doesn’t approve of LGBT activity? Now we know: stupid enough to join Antifa.

Overturned

Friday, a three-judge panel of the 7^th Court of Appeals overturned an injunction on Illinois’ “assault weapons” ban, ruling the AR-15, one of the most popular rifles in America that’s been around for half a century, is not protected by the Second Amendment. I can’t imagine anyone betting that that will stand up on appeal.

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/11/04/7th-circuit-ar-15s-not-protected-second-amendment/

Food Alert

Food Alert! Saturday, the FDA announced that anyone who has Tyson’s dinosaur-shaped chicken nuggets should return them to the store after some buyers reported finding metal shavings. Nobody has been seriously harmed, and no, this isn’t how the dinosaurs went extinct, but it’s still a good idea to return them.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/tyson-recalls-tens-of-thousands-of-pounds-of-dinosaur-shaped-chicken-nuggets

Ordering up another woke crash and burn

Disney has crashed its stock price and destroyed its reputation by injecting DEI and LGBT propaganda into what used to be beloved, traditional American family entertainment. You’d think that would serve as a lesson to similar enterprises. But the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade organizers just looked at the Disney debacle and said, “Hold muh Bud Light!”

https://www.westernjournal.com/family-friendly-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-goes-woke-gender-non-conformity-will-front-center/

Election Day

This is election day, with key races today in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Mississippi, Virginia, Rhode Island and New Jersey. Here are some of the major issues, from Daniel Cameron’s bid to reclaim the Kentucky Governor’s seat for the GOP to the left’s well-funded attempt to institute unfettered abortion as a constitutional right in Ohio to Virginia Republicans’ effort to take back power for the people that the Democrats took away (remember the Loudoun County school debacle.)

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/06/election-day-america-kentucky-mississippi-virginia-new-jersey-pennsylvania-ohio-vote-setting-stage-2024/

Here’s more on some of the major races from Townhall.com.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/11/07/election-preview-kentucky-virginia-ohio-ballot-question-n2630831

Wherever you may be, remember that it’s vitally important that you vote, that every vote matters, and that there’s no such thing as a “small, unimportant race.” Who would have imagined just 10 years ago that school boards would be having parents arrested for terrorism for objecting to having gay porn in elementary schools and naked males in girls’ locker rooms? That’s what comes from not paying attention to “small” local elections. It’s like how every termite infestation begins with just a couple of them getting in through a small crack in the foundation.

More truth than serious news

The Babylon Bee once again proves there’s more truth in satire than you’ll find in the “serious news” outlets these days.

https://babylonbee.com/news/fbi-races-past-protesters-screaming-kill-the-jews-to-arrest-woman-praying-silently-outside-abortion-clinic

One month anniversary

Today marks one month since Hamas barbarians invaded Israel and murdered, tortured, burned and beheaded hundreds of innocent, unarmed men, women and children. So now we know how long it takes some people to forget what an actual genocide looks like. Here’s today’s link to Fox News’ continually-updated news on the war in Israel…

https://www.foxnews.com/category/world/world-regions/israel

Among the latest developments: The IDF says it’s taken control of a Hamas military stronghold in the northern Gaza Strip.

Prime Minister Netanyahu vowed that there will be no ceasefire unless Hamas agrees to release all hostages. To all the nitwits accusing Israel of “genocide” for fighting to kill these murderous terrorists and save the hostages, has the thought ever crossed your tiny minds that all Hamas has to do to prevent any more Palestinians civilian casualties is to simply release their hostages and surrender? They’re the ones who started it, and they’re the ones who are making Israel use force to end it. Every death of a human shield is the fault of the cowards hiding behind them.

Former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett schooled MSNBC’s Katy Tur on the history of Israel, Gaza and Hamas. When Tur brought up the fatuous liberal call for a “two-state solution,” Bennett told her they’d tried precisely that, and “it failed.” He informed her that the Palestinians were given everything they wanted, with Israel leaving Gaza in 2005 in hopes that if the Palestinians "just have good enough lives, they’ll get off our case," but instead "they created a nightmare." They elected Hamas, which hadn’t allowed an election since, and Hamas turned Gaza into a terrorist hotbed and staging ground for constant attacks on Israel. With the October 7^th attack and slaughter, Israel can no longer allow a border with a place run by Hamas.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/ex-prime-minister-israel-shuts-msnbc-host-history-gaza-got-everything-wanted

Welcome sign

In a welcome sign for American campuses, Brandeis University announced that it will no longer recognize Students For Justice In Palestine, due to its open support of Hamas and its anti-Semitic chants. SJP accused the school of “trying to silence us from speaking our truth.” Well, that’s what happens when “your truth” is a vile, threatening blood libel.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/brandeis-university-bans-students-justice-palestine-support-hamas

Trump on the witness stand

Yesterday, Democrats got what they’ve been pining for ever since Donald Trump came down the escalator to join the presidential race in 2016: getting him on the witness stand in a trial against him. And like their dreams of getting his mugshot, it blew up in their faces so badly that you’ll notice you’re not hearing much about it in the mainstream news.

That’s also probably because they’d have to cover what Trump said just before testifying, about the judge, the attorney general, the nature of the case and the Third World, banana republic-style election interference being waged against him by the Democrats, with the Biden White House as the source of it all. I’d describe it, but I prefer you read it all in his own words for full effect:

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-fires-off-forceful-message-just-testifying-court/

Trump’s testimony went about as smoothly as you’d expect, considering the personalities of both Trump and this judge. Trump kept giving lengthy answers and inserting his opinion of this “very, very unfair trial” and the “political hack” Attorney General pressing it. Judge Engoron got frustrated and kept telling him to limit his answers to yes or no (does he even know Trump?) He told Trump attorney Chris Kise to “control” his client. Kise said it would be more economical to let “the former and future chief executive” just answer the questions in his own words.

https://www.westernjournal.com/trumps-attorney-perfect-response-judge-says-control-client/

When Trump brought up that all the loan contracts had disclaimer clauses that the lenders were expected to do due diligence to confirm the property values, the judge tried to stop him, saying he’d ruled against citing the disclaimer clauses. Trump fired back, “You’re wrong in your opinion. He called me a fraud, and he didn’t know anything about me.”

https://headlineusa.com/trumps-explosive-testimony-slams-hack-james-and-leftist-judge/

Trump’s lawyers objected that he was trying to say how these deals work, and Engoron snapped, “We are not here to hear what he has to say. We are here to have him answer questions.”

(Does anything else think it was extremely revealing that the judge admitted he didn’t want to hear what the defendant had to say in his defense?)

At another point, Trump attorney Alina Habba said if the state prosecutor wanted more succinct answers, he should ask more succinct questions. The judge shouted at her to “sit down.” She later said, “I was yelled at and I’ve had a judge, who is unhinged, slamming a table. Let me be very clear: I don’t tolerate that in my life. I’m not going to tolerate it here.”

Habba said the judge decided the case before ever even hearing the defense’s arguments, and “The judge doesn’t like when President Trump explains what actually happened because it’s not good for his narrative.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-lawyer-unleashes-judge-yells-not-going-tolerate/

Still, after all that drama, Trump came out saying the final five minutes were “outstanding” because the judge seemed to concede the appeal court's ruling about the statute of limitations so “about 80 percent of the case is over.”

I can only imagine the Judge ending the day looking like Dean Wormer in “Animal House” after tangling with the Delta boys, or like a dog that wanted to chase a car, but then caught one.

“King Of The Hill” Star Death Still A Mystery

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

In August, Texas comedian Johnny Hardwicke was found dead in his bathtub during a welfare check. At the time of his death, he weighed only 100 pounds. After a lengthy investigation, the autopsy report could not assign a cause of death due to “extensive decompositional changes.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/11/05/king-of-the-hill-star-johnny-hardwicks-cause-of-death-still-undetermined-extensive-decompositional-changes-cited/

Hardwicke won an Emmy for voicing Hank Hill’s neighbor Dale Gribble, the shades-and-cap-wearing conspiracy maven, over 13 seasons of “King of the Hill,” which I consider one of the best TV shows of the past 25 years. But then, I’m a Texan and used to live in Garland, which is reportedly the inspiration for Arlen, so I know a lot of Dale Gribbles. It’s a very sad end for a man who gave us all a lot of laughs, and a mystery that only Dale Gribble would be able to explain.

Judiciary Committee delivers report on agency that targeted us for “misinformation”

By Team Huckabee

It’s hard to remember how long ago we first reported on the ironically-named Election Integrity Partnership at Stanford University and how it worked in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) to suppress free speech on social media ahead of the 2020 election.  In recent months, that story received little attention, in part because there was just so much other news.  That reality certainly hasn’t changed, but the House Judiciary Committee has just released a 103-page staff interim report, based on never-before-seen emails and internal communications, to show in detail how this collaboration worked.

The NEW YORK POST has exclusively obtained a copy of the staff report, which says, “[T]he federal government and universities pressured social media companies to censor true information, jokes [editorial aside:  a Huckabee joke!] and political opinions.”

We’ve all known for a long time that this was going on, and certainly as writers of conservative opinion  (and jokes!), the Huckabee team was directly threatened.  The very idea of this kind of government interference before an election is so unacceptable that it’s hard even to put a limit on what we have to do to stop it.  We’ll go with “whatever is necessary.”  Anyone in this administration who had anything to do with this travesty has got to be escorted by security out of the building.  Not in our America can this be allowed to continue.

The NY POST quotes an email from July 31, 2020, from one of the EIP’s founding partners, the Atlantic Council’s Digital Research Lab, describing CISA’s central role.  From the lab’s senior director, Graham Brookie, in an internal memo:  “I know the Counsel has a number of efforts on broad policy around the elections, but we just set up an election integrity partnership at the request of DHS/CISA and are in weekly [communications] to debrief about disinfo.”

From the Judiciary Committee report (and it’s what we already knew):  “This pressure was largely directed in a way that benefitted one side of the political aisle: true information posted by Republicans and conservatives was labeled as ‘misinformation’ while false information posted by Democrats and liberals was largely unreported and untouched by the censors.”

The report also says that while under the purview of CISA’s Countering Foreign Influence Task Force, the central focus of the feds’ effort was to “censor Americans engaged in core political speech in the lead up to the 2020 election.”

Our own social media posts, along with those of President Trump, North Carolina Rep. Thom Tillis, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, other news organizations such as NEWSMAX, and even satirical sites (!) such as the BABYLON BEE, and many others, were flagged as “misinformation.”  Yes, they were “fact”-checking the BABYLON BEE.

The Election Integrity Partnership assumed this effort in July 2020 after the DHS, being a government agency, acknowledged it could not “openly endorse” a centralized portal for the purpose of suppressing information.  The DHS simply off-loaded the job to them.  This is according to an email included in the staff report.

As the NY POST points out, this shows that CISA realized it was on shaky legal grounds to be doing this.  It even added a disclaimer at the bottom of many emails saying that its requests were “voluntary” and that the agency “neither has nor seeks the ability to remove what information is made available on social media platforms.”

Well, we’d like to know how many times the social media platforms dared to deny their requests.  We’d be surprised if you couldn’t count them on one hand.  In fact, CISA did try to have it both ways (typical lawyers) by adding to that disclaimer an intimidating line saying that the “information may also be shared with law enforcement or intelligence agencies.”

Alex Stamos, former director of Stanford’s “Internet Observatory” (SIO) who had also been chief security officer at Facebook, testified to the House Judiciary subcommittee that CISA’s collaboration with the FBI came across as a threat, saying that “dealing with a law enforcement agency that has coercive powers is just a risky thing to do if you’re part of some big organization and some other --- there might be some investigation involving the organization that you don’t even know about.”  At public companies, he said, the executives “understand that there’s lots of parts of the government that can punish you for activity that you thought was appropriate.”

Smart man.  But by now, everyone knows that New York Sen. Chuck Schumer was right when he said the intelligence agencies have “six ways from Sunday” to get back at you.  That was one time Schumer actually spoke the truth.

Anyway, Stamos testified that SIO was conceived as a “one-stop shop for local election officials, DHS and voter protection organizations” to coordinate with social media platforms in the censorship effort.  Well, isn’t that conveeeeeeeenient? Does anyone perhaps see a problem with this?

The Judiciary report also references the groundbreaking lawsuit Missouri v. Biden, in which CISA-CFITF Director Brian Scully testified that they employed a tactic called “switchboarding” to refer to removal requests from state and local officials (example:  the Colorado secretary of state) to Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites.  Some of these actually involved PARODY accounts.

According to the report, there were “a number” of Stanford University students doing work for the Election Integrity Partnership, and at least four Stanford University students working for CISA during their work with the EIP.  Those four used their government email accounts to communicate with CISA officials and other “external stakeholders” involved with the EIP.  We’d like to know more about who these external stakeholders were.

When contacted by the NY POST, CISA Executive Director Brandon Wales said in part that the agency “does not and never has censored speech or facilitated censorship.  Every day, the men and women of CISA execute the agency’s mission of reducing the risk to U.S. critical infrastructure in a way that protects America’s freedom of speech, civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy.”

He sounds a lot like Christopher Wray, doesn’t he?  It goes on for another paragraph, but I’ll spare you any more of this steaming load.  They were doing the opposite of this: whatever they could do within the technical bounds of the law, and perhaps beyond those bounds, to squelch freedom of speech.  Their mission appears to have been to flag as misinformation part of what I and/or my staff had carefully researched and written, when its only shortcoming lay in not agreeing with would-be government opinion-setters and failing to provide the “context” that would have been in the article THEY wrote.

As the NY POST says in its report, CISA was established by...(drum roll, please)...President Trump in 2018 to improve cybersecurity programs and protect government software from hackers.  If that seems surprising, it should also be noted that this agency was intended to provide protection from foreign influences, not to be turned inward on American citizens.  It was created before Biden began treating cyber communication as part of our “infrastructure.”  Note to Biden administration:  Speech is not infrastructure!

https://nypost.com/2023/11/06/news/new-emails-show-dhs-created-stanford-disinfo-group-that-censored-speech-before-2020-election/

Here’s Jim Jordan’s Twitter (“X”?) thread about the new Judiciary Committee staff report.  Scroll down, and he lists a number of those who were targeted, including us.  We’re in good company, fourth from the top after President Donald Trump (winner and still champion!), North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.  A few of the other fine people of note:  Sean Hannity, Mollie Hemingway, Harmeet Dillon, Candace Owens, Paul Sperry, Jack Posobiec, Sean Davis, James O’Keefe, Charlie Kirk and Benny Johnson of Turning Point USA, Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch, the reporters at NEWSMAX, and, yes, the BABYLON BEE.

https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1721674469096161649

Why, you might be on this list, too!  According to the report, they targeted “an untold number of everyday Americans of all political affiliations.”  As Jordan says, “The American people deserve to know if they were targeted by their own government and so-called “disinformation” experts.” So he’s made the data from their report available here…

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/e/2PACX

He links to the report as well.  Why, there’s the Gov.’s handsome mug on page 5.

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/EIP_Jira_Ticket_Staff_Report_11-6-23_Clean.pdf

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RELATED:  Former Director of National Intelligence Ric Grenell and Stephen Miller’s organization America First Legal are suing the Biden administration after DHS announced the formation of an “expert” board to address issues of national security and put none other than ex-CIA Director John Brennan, ex-DNI James Clapper, and ex-CIA Operations Officer Paul Kolbe on it.

All three signed that sham letter in October 2020 saying Hunter’s laptop had the “classic earmarks” of Russian disinformation.  At that time, our intel agencies knew perfectly well the laptop was Hunter’s.  They’d had it in their possession for approximately a year.

We’ve spoken here many times of the deceptions of Brennan and Clapper.  If the administration is going to do anything with those two, it should be to yank their security clearances.  Details here…

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/06/exclusive-former-trump-official-sues-biden-admin-over-committee-members-signed-hunter-biden-laptop-letter/

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Mike Huckabee

Here’s a story about why it’s vitally important for Republicans to turn out and vote in Virginia.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/why-this-governor-could-be-biggest-winner-election-day-2023

One of the more interesting races is the Kentucky Governor’s race. Kentucky is a deep red state that for some reason has a Democrat Governor, Andy Beshear. He won in 2019 by only 0.4% against an unpopular incumbent. He poses as a moderate, but he has repeatedly vetoed popular conservative legislation, such as a ban on barbaric “trans” procedures on minors, and seen those vetoes overridden. Nevertheless, polls showed him with a healthy lead over Republican challenger Daniel Cameron. That is, until the last week or so, when the polls have suddenly shifted, showing the race virtually tied.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2023/11/05/what-is-going-on-in-kentucky-n4923643

Democrats seem to be panicking at the thought that they might lose this race; so since Cameron is black, they’re launching some shockingly racist attacks against him.

One thing the Democrats have taught us recently is that every white person is a racist. Even if you think you aren’t a racist, that just proves what a racist you are. They’re triggered even by alleged “microaggressions.” HOWEVER…there’s one caveat. If you are a white liberal talking about a black conservative, then it’s perfectly okay to be as blatantly, openly racist as a KKK grand wizard at a George Wallace rally. Chris Queen at PJ Media offers some disgusting examples.

https://pjmedia.com/chris-queen/2023/11/03/kentucky-democrats-go-full-racist-against-daniel-cameron-n4923601

Cameron responded, "I never faced racism or discrimination while growing up or working in Kentucky until I decided to stand up to the national Democrat establishment. I don’t support their policies, so the Left attacks me for my skin color."

Anyone who knows the real history of the parties shouldn’t be surprised at the resort to race-baiting (guess which party actually invented Jim Crow laws), but in 2023, this nauseating tactic should be rejected by any decent American. I hope and pray you all turn out to vote in every state, county and city and in every race to remove this cancer from American politics. A vote for Daniel Cameron in Kentucky would be an excellent start.

Mike Huckabee

BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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

Mike Huckabee

DAILY BIBLE VERSE

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Matthew 10:16 KJV

Mike Huckabee

As former President Trump’s show trials start heating up, his attorneys are doing a good job of shining a spotlight on the biased officials and rigged system. Elsewhere in the newsletter, you’ll find info on their claim of extensive communications between the Biden White House and the DOJ on the classified documents case. They’ve also revealed in the Colorado case where plaintiffs are attempting to keep Trump off the ballot for “inciting insurrection” that the judge who claims to be impartial gave a donation to a group fighting J6-style “insurrections.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/judge-trump-insurrectionist-ballot-appearance-trial-donated-group-formed-prevent-violent-insurrections-j6/

And the New York real estate fraud trial descended into chaos when his attorneys announced that they might seek a mistrial based on a perception of bias because of all the notes the judge is passing back and forth with law clerk Allison Greenfield. They noted that Breitbart News reported that Greenfield may have violated state law by making donations in excess of $500 to Democrats.

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-trial-devolves-total-chaos-right-eric-trump-takes-stand/

There was audible scoffing in the court at the mention of Breitbart (being a conservative news site, it apparently deserves no respect, even though the left can’t dispute the contents of their article, which came direct from the state election donation database, complete with exact amounts, dates and recipients.) So the furious judge pulled out another gag order of questionable constitutionality and barred Trump’s attorneys from mentioning his law clerk’s political bias and possible violation of campaign donation laws.

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2023/11/03/angry-arthur-ny-judge-gags-trump-lawyers-from-discussing-confidential-communications-of-activist-court-clerk/

The big story of the day from that trial was expected to be Eric Trump’s testimony, but I never expected much from that, considering he has nothing to do with property valuations (these people really have no clue how major corporate loan contracts are written.) But he did say something worth quoting because it sums up this trial perfectly:

Eric Trump called the trial “a joke, an absolute joke,” adding, “This is a big charade that is a huge waste of taxpayer money and it’s the very reason everyone’s moving out of New York state, and I was actually one of them.”

Mike Huckabee

Here's the latest on the war in Israel from Fox News…

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/israel-hamas-war-november-3

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday to press him for multiple “humanitarian pauses” in the war to get aid to Palestinians. He claims this is different from an all-out ceasefire, which would give Hamas time to retrench and launch an offensive. But Netanyahu wisely rejected it. His view is that if Hamas wants their destruction paused, they should release their hostages and surrender. Otherwise, their choice is to surrender or die.

A number of Democrats are frantically trying to distance themselves from the blatant anti-Semitism that’s suddenly become so obvious in their party. For instance, on Thursday, the House passed a resolution condemning the on-campus support of terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, and the vote was 396 to 23. The 22 Democrats who voted against it are under fire and some are trying the usual self-righteous excuses for their inexcusable behavior.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/democrats-confronted-no-vote-house-resolution-condemning-antisemitism-lies

The only one that I would give any credence to is New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, who claims he voted against it by mistake. He said he’s submitted a correction for the record, adding, "I have no use for pro-Hamas protestors, and I despise them with every fiber of my being."  The only Republican to vote no was Rep. Thomas Massie, who says he opposed it on free speech grounds.

Of course, that leaves the gaggle of radicals like the Squad who refuse to back down from their anti-Israel, anti-American, anti-Semitic rhetoric. Perhaps worst of all is Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who is such a cheerleader for Hamas terrorism, she might as well be carrying explosive pompoms. She slammed President Biden for supporting Israel, saying she might not support his reelection, and claiming he’s aidingg in “the genocide of the Palestinian people.” This must be the first genocide where the people allegedly committing it are going to extraordinary lengths to keep from harming anyone.

Speaking of genocide, Tlaib took to Twitter (X) to feebly argue that when her supporters chant “From the river to the sea,” it’s not the universally-known call for the annihilation of Israel and for Palestinians to take over the land it now occupies.  No, perish the thought! She tweeted that “From the river to the sea is an aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence, not death, destruction, or hate. My work and advocacy is always centered in justice and dignity for all people no matter faith or ethnicity.”

And I have some prime oceanfront property in Little Rock that I’d love to sell you.

Respondents rightly ripped her to shreds for that “peaceful coexistence” camel manure, posting graphic photos and videos of the actual genocide inflicted on innocent Israeli civilians, including children and babies, by the barbaric Hamas terrorists she’s defending.

I hope she’s right that “we will not forget” when we vote in 2024, and that Americans will remember who the real genocide-endorsing, terrorist-supporting abominations are and vote them out of office and into political oblivion.

Mike Huckabee

In this age of slash-and-burn/horse race/lawfare political campaigns, here’s something you almost never see anymore: a candidate proposing an original idea to make life better for Americans.

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-one-ups-biden-education-announces-american-academy-plan/

Donald Trump announced a proposal to create a new university that he calls the American Academy. He said it would be paid for with “billions and billions of dollars that we will collect by taxing, fining and suing excessively large private university endowments.” Trump said it would offer top-tier educational content online, including lectures, study groups, mentors and industry partnerships, to “make a truly world-class education available to every American — free of charge.”

Sounds much better, cheaper and more efficient than going into the poorhouse to send your kids to Harvard and have them turned into communist Hamas sympathizers. It’s also the first proposal I’ve seen from anyone that recognizes the reality that the old model of expensive, four-year colleges is already antiquated, when you can get all the world’s information over the Internet (FYI: you can already watch all the classes from MIT free on YouTube.) For many young people, college has become less about learning anything useful than about making social contacts, getting indoctrinated into leftism, and avoiding joining the real world and the workforce for four years.

Some of us have been talking about the problem of higher “education” (only the price is higher) for years, but for many, the recent outbreaks of pro-Hamas, anti-Jewish radicalism on campus have finally opened their eyes. I think this meme from Instapundit sums up the sudden shift in the public’s attitude toward the Ivy League perfectly:

https://instapundit.com/614975/