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Merrick Garland’s DOJ wrote a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, pledging its willingness to cooperate in good faith with any investigations. It then announced that it will not cooperate with investigations of any ongoing DOJ investigations...

The SCOTUS Leak

January 20, 2023

After months of investigation of about 80 suspects among SCOTUS clerks and others, the US Supreme Court Marshal announced that they have been unable to "identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence" for leaking the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Today in Washington, the annual March for Life is being held, and it’s historic. Not only is it the 50th March for Life, it’s also the first to be held following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that inspired it.

March for Life

January 20, 2023

Today in Washington, the annual March for Life is being held, and it’s historic.
Kevin Downey Jr. at PJ Media has a good commentary on the story of Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Ivan Provorov, who is being savaged by LGBTQ activists and woke sports writers for refusing to wear a rainbow “pride” jersey before a hockey game.
There’s a suspicious backstory to the Biden classified documents scandal, one for which stories about chains of custody and residence visitor logs (which reportedly aren’t kept) are likely being used to provide distraction.

California crazy

January 17, 2023

Someone needs to remind the YMCA in Santee, California (San Diego), that the “C” stands for “Christian.” It sounds as if the people running it no longer identify as Christian.
If President Biden had made a real visit to the border and seen the humanitarian and national security nightmare he’s caused instead of a cleaned-up photo op, maybe he would have had the kind of revelation...
If President Biden had made a real visit to the border and seen the humanitarian and national security nightmare he’s caused instead of a cleaned-up photo op, maybe he would have had the kind of revelation that New York City Mayor Eric Adams apparently experienced...

Update on the Gas War

January 16, 2023

Last week, the news media, in one of those simultaneous blitzes of stories that look suspiciously coordinated, suddenly inundated us with stories about how baaaaad gas stoves are and how we need to be saved from them by having Democrats ban them...
I already told you about the Twitter revelations that the Democrats' claims that social media had to be monitored and censored because of all the “Russian bots” interfering in our elections were based on no evidence.
It’s too bad that the term “blue city” doesn’t mean a city that backs the blue. Los Angeles certainly proved that, as LAPD Chief Michel Moore has banned the “Thin Blue Line” flag from public spaces in the police department.
This week, the new GOP House passed a bill to rescind the Democrats’ $80 billion in new funding for the IRS (the Dems claim this money will make it easier for the IRS to “make the rich pay their fair share.”

Brownies are racist

January 13, 2023

Time once again to spin the Big Wheel of Random Racism and see what’s racist today! There it goes! And it comes to a stop…on….” Brownies!” Mark it down, Brownies are now racist!
A study of the midterm election results by the former editor of Psychology Today found that the red wave might have been blunted largely by Google.
I’ve written before about my theory that hidden somewhere in DC – possibly deep below the Capitol, where guys in Viking helmets can never find it – there is a giant switch.

A New Crusade for the Left

January 11, 2023

The latest leftist crusade to make all our lives more miserable is a jihad against gas stoves, which are not only preferred by most cooks but which also keep working when you’re suffering through an electric blackout also caused by idiotic leftist politicians trying to make your life miserable.

This story exploded like a gas fire after a questionable “study” by an environmentalist group known to oppose gas appeared, claiming that gas is a dangerous pollutant that harms people’s health (which is why we have vent hoods. And windows) and causes climate change (of course.) Cory Booker even channeled an old joke about liberals, claiming that gas stoves disproportionately harm black, Latino and lower-income people. I know that as a white male, I am able to inhale gas with no ill effects at all.

The idea of meddling bureaucrats banning gas stoves got a reaction like touching a hot stove. Americans quickly made their fury known, including a restaurateur who told President Biden that it would destroy the restaurant industry (guess he didn’t know that destroying entire industries is kind of Biden’s thing.)

https://www.foxnews.com/media/restaurant-owner-sounds-alarm-proposed-gas-stove-ban-this-will-destroy-our-industry

Someone even unearthed a photo of Jill Biden demonstrating a favorite recipe on her fancy gas cooktop.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-admin-considers-ban-gas-stoves-damning-photo-jill-biden-goes-viral/

The response got so heated that a commissioner from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission rushed out a statement denying that they were considering banning gas stoves.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/consumer-watchdog-not-coming-anyones-gas-stoves

But that’s not the issue, is it? We’ve seen this scenario enough times that we’re all on to the scam by now. We know that once the left finds a new target, they don’t rest until they destroy it. We’re already hearing plans for laws banning gas lines into new buildings, and Biden has been waging war on domestic gas production since he took office. Natural gas, which until recently was hailed as a clean, cheap form of energy that brought down fuel prices and helped make America energy independent, has been utterly demonized. The time to fight back and say “NO” is now because we can all see what’s coming from a mile away: they won’t take away our gas stoves, they’ll just make sure there’s no gas to burn in them, rendering them useless.

Unless you’re one of the liberal anointed, like Jill Biden. I’m sure they assume they will always have gas stoves to provide their perfect crepes and tofu stir fries while the rest of us eat bugs. No, thanks.

 

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Just two days after posing for a photo op at a wall at the border in El Paso, President Biden met with the leaders of Canada and Mexico. Mexico’s President praised him for being the first US President in a long time who hasn’t built “even one meter of wall” on the border.
This is a good article about my daughter Sarah’s inauguration speech as Governor of Arkansas, and how she immediately went to work, issuing a slate of important executive orders...
The latest leftist crusade to make all our lives more miserable is a jihad against gas stoves, which are not only preferred by most cooks but which also keep working when you’re suffering through an electric blackout also caused by idiotic leftist politicians trying to make your life miserable.

Evening Edition: Just Crazy

January 10, 2023

Chalk up another Biden campaign promise that’s no longer “operative.” President Biden dismissed criticism that he was draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to artificially lower gas prices before the elections by claiming that he was going to refill them with lower-priced oil and actually “make money for the taxpayers.”

Morning Edition: Epic Day

January 10, 2023

After Democrats literally made a federal case out of President Trump having documents marked “classified” at Mar-A-Lago (seized in an outrageous and unprecedented raid on a former President’s home), it was reported Monday that a batch of documents from Joe Biden’s time as Vice President, including classified documents...

Epic Day

January 10, 2023

Today is a pretty epic day for the Huckabee family. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, youngest of our 3 children, becomes the 47th Governor of Arkansas today at noon in a swearing in ceremony on the steps of the Arkansas State Capitol.

I expect this of Democrats

January 9, 2023

I want to try and make sense of what was supposed to be a Republican majority House of Representatives starting this week.
In a 3-2 decision, the South Carolina Supreme Court struck down the new state law banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, ruling it an unconstitutional violation of a woman’s right to privacy.
On Tuesday, journalist Matt Taibbi, acting on behalf of Twitter CEO Elon Musk, dropped “Twitter Files” #11 and 12, internal documents that tell the story of how government agencies wormed their way into Twitter...

A Great Victory

January 5, 2023

In a great victory for the First Amendment, the 9th District Court of Appeals has ruled that a former middle school science teacher in Evergreen, Washington, can sue the principal for harassing him for bringing a “Make America Great Again” cap to a couple of school training events.

Today's Must Read

January 5, 2023

A former New Yorker who loved the city describes what finally drove her family to flee to Florida, and it wasn’t cold weather, COVID or “imaginary” high crime rates.

House Speaker Update

January 5, 2023

After six votes Wednesday, holdouts were still refusing to back Rep. Kevin McCarthy, and the House voted to adjourn and reconvene later today. Reports are that negotiations continued last night with some possible progress.
The media are straining themselves trying to convince the public that President Biden is doing a great job, and all those worries about the economy and inflation are just nitpicking by Republican grumps...
“Twitter Files” #11 and 12 dropped on Tuesday, courtesy of independent journalist Matt Taibbi, although the news cycle was dominated by just two stories: 1) the tragic on-field collapse of Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin, and,,,

Biden to go to the border

January 5, 2023

Two years after deliberately causing the worst illegal immigration crisis in history, President Biden announced that he finally intends to visit the border this month.
 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

Blessings on you and your family from all the Huckabee staff! Thank you for subscribing and I hope you enjoy today’s newsletter.

Mike


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

John 16:33

 

1. House Speaker Update

By Mike Huckabee

After six votes Wednesday, holdouts were still refusing to back Rep. Kevin McCarthy, and the House voted to adjourn and reconvene later today. Reports are that negotiations continued last night with some possible progress. The New York Times, citing confidential sources, claims that McCarthy “privately agreed to more demands from the right-wing rebels that he had previously refused to countenance, including allowing a single lawmaker to force a snap vote at any time to oust him from the speakership.”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/05/us/house-speaker-vote?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20230105&instance_id=81893&nl=from-the-times&regi_id=185440375&segment_id=121640&te=1&user_id=e72989d1d346165df7b3f4d8aabe2fdd

McCarthy has offered an astounding number of concessions, listed here by Victoria Taft at PJ Media.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/01/05/here-are-the-latest-deals-kevin-mccarthy-has-made-to-become-speaker-n1658804

The Club For Growth has also reportedly cut a deal with a super PAC associated with McCarthy that could result in them endorsing him as Speaker.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/04/speaker-race-breakthrough-mccarthy-pac-agrees-conservatives-no-spending-safe-open-seat-primaries/

Fox News has comments from Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, the latest alternative proposed for McCarthy.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-speaker-race-rep-elect-byron-donalds-responds-retribution-running-against-kevin-mccarthy

As noted in the article, until there’s a Speaker, the new House can’t even be sworn in, so this is preventing necessary action from being taken on many fronts.

McCarthy’s detractors still have no alternative candidate who is more conservative and can attract enough votes to win. They keep pointing to the last time conservatives forced McCarthy to withdraw in 2015, but back then, a dark horse “unity” candidate stepped forward and won. Considering that was Paul Ryan, whom they now vilify as a squishy, Trump-hating RINO, it’s not exactly a ringing endorsement for this strategy.

This is a continuing (and continuing!) story, so keep checking the regularly updated Fox News feed for the latest developments.

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/house-speaker-vote

One thing to note: While the 10% wants to rule over the 90% (who has ever allowed that or thought it was the way elections work?), it’s revealing that some of the holdouts have said in interviews that what they are “demanding” of Kevin McCarthy is that they get choice committee assignments and a promise they won’t be punished for their attempted coup. That’s not only delusional, but very telling. If a person is objecting by sheer principle, one is willing to suffer whatever the consequences for the rebellion. When a person says, “Hey, this is about ME…protecting MY position, MY role in leadership, and MY being able to take any shot I want at 90% of my colleagues and have no consequence other than being rewarded.” THAT my friend is NOT acting on “principle.” It’s a selfish act of a power grab and publicity stunt. Reward THAT behavior and you’ll keep getting more of it in the future.

Leave me a comment, I read them.


2. Biden to go to the border

By Mike Huckabee

Two years after deliberately causing the worst illegal immigration crisis in history, President Biden announced that he finally intends to visit the border this month.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-says-its-his-intention-visit-u-s-mexico-border-amid-historic-crisis

How bad is the Biden border crisis? According to the government’s own reported figures, in 2022, 2,38 million illegal entrants were arrested trying to cross the border. A little over a million were turned back due to Title 42, which Biden is fighting like crazy to do away with. Another 1.3 million were processed and most of them released into the US to go wherever they want. The number removed, mostly for having criminal records: about 28,000. The number removed for violating our immigration laws: only about 1,300. Those would be the immigration laws that Biden took a sworn oath to enforce. Sounds like more of an impeachable offense than anything they ever came up with on Trump.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bidens-open-borders-1-3-million-in-28-000-out

Colorado is so overwhelmed with illegal immigrants that even the state’s liberal Democrat Governor is defending busing some of them to New York.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/democrat-colorado-gov-defends-busing-migrants


3. The latest on Kari Lake’s appeal

By Mike Huckabee

Katie Hobbs may have giggled her way through a swearing-in ceremony as Arizona Governor from which reporters were banned, but this story is not yet over. Here’s the latest update on Kari Lake’s appeal of her challenge to Maricopa County’s election that stank like week-old halibut.

https://www.westernjournal.com/not-yet-kari-lake-election-challenge-moves-forward-judges/

A three judge panel of the Arizona Court of Appeals will hear oral briefings on January 24th. It’s two Democrats to one Republican, which is a bad sign. But either way, as Lake points out, this will end up being appealed to the state Supreme Court, so I don’t know why they don’t just comply with Lake’s request to hear it now. Maybe they hope that if it’s dragged out long enough, voters will actually start thinking of Hobbs as Governor material.

 

4. Michigan Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow will not seek reelection

By Mike Huckabee

Michigan Democrat Sen. Debbie Stabenow announced this morning that she will not seek reelection in 2024. It’s not a very likely pickup state for Republicans, but if they can find a really good candidate, having an open seat could improve their odds.

https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/01/05/breaking-democrats-have-their-senate-retirement-ahead-of-tough-2024-map-n683768


5. Why are we doing this?!?

By Mike Huckabee

We’re coming up on three years since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Scientists quickly developed reliable COVID tests that are now cheap, plentiful and available at any drug store. So how come Medicare spent $1.5 billion on COVID tests in 2020 during the full crush of the pandemic, $2 billion on tests in all of 2021, and another $2 billion just through October of 2022? Why are we spending more and more money on tests that are cheaper and less needed?

If you suspect that it might have something to do with fraud, political connections and the government throwing around big piles of money without proper oversight, then you pass the IQ test.

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-fraud-increases-medicare-spending-covid-19-testing

 


6. Not shocking and this needs to be fixed

By Mike Huckabee

Is anyone really shocked to learn that some of our esteemed Congress members were making a killing buying defense company stocks while voting to send billions of dollars to Ukraine to buy weapons?

https://dailycaller.com/2023/01/05/congress-stocks-defense-contractors-ukraine-aid/

 

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On Tuesday, journalist Matt Taibbi, acting on behalf of Twitter CEO Elon Musk, dropped “Twitter Files” #11 and 12, internal documents that tell the story of how government agencies wormed their way into Twitter to get them to “find” Russian election interference and identify posts they found problematic.
In a great victory for the First Amendment, the 9th District Court of Appeals has ruled that a former middle school science teacher in Evergreen, Washington, can sue the principal for harassing him for bringing a “Make America Great Again” cap to a couple of school training events.

Kevin McCarthy for Speaker

January 4, 2023

I’m disgusted with a small and selfish group of Republicans who probably feel they are “Spartacus” but the movie best fitting them is “The Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight.”

Today's Big Political Story

January 3, 2023

The big story to watch in politics today will be the election of a new GOP House Speaker.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mccarthy-short-of-votes-as-house-speaker-contest-enters-final-hours

On the eve of the vote, Rep. Kevin McCarthy is still reportedly several votes shy, with some conservatives digging in their heels and refusing to back him. They want someone whom they believe will have more steel in his spine when it comes to conservative principles, like Rep. Jim Jordan (who reportedly isn’t interested in the job because he wants to be Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.)

The danger in this is that it could lead to a “compromise” candidate or deal that attracts Democrat votes and gives the left even more sway. That’s not likely to happen, but as I’ve written before, as much as I sympathize with the conservative faction, if they don’t have a candidate who can win, then they have to recognize what’s possible and not let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Redstate.com has a timeline of what will be happening today, along with some predictions, history and possible dark horses and black swans that might make an appearance.

https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2023/01/02/buckle-up-everybody-heres-how-tomorrows-speaker-vote-will-go-down-n682542

And just to remind everyone that anybody the Republicans put in charge will be exponentially better than having the Democrats in charge, here’s an entertaining write-up from Bonchie at Redstate.com about noted election denier and House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries. He just made a statement that sounds an awful lot like what the Democrats call “insurrection” when it comes from anyone other than them.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/01/02/hakeem-jeffries-makes-a-very-insurrection-like-call-to-retake-the-house-immediately-n682581

 

House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy says one of the top priorities of the new Republican House will be to repeal the 87,000 new IRS agents being hired under the ludicrously misnamed “Inflation Reduction Act” the Democrats passed last year.