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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!

Elon Musk sues Media Matters

November 22, 2023

You’ve probably heard of the “thermonuclear lawsuit” Elon Musk has filed against Media Matters, a Soros-backed group that claims to be a media watchdog but has actually long been a Democrat Party attack dog. They recently launched an intimidation campaign telling companies that if they advertise on Musk’s platform Twitter (X), their ads will run next to Nazi and white nationalist posts. This has caused IBM, Disney, Apple, Paramount and others to yank their ads.

Musk’s lawsuit says that Media Matters “knowingly and maliciously” manufactured images showing ads next to racist fringe content when “not a single authentic user” saw ads from IBM, Comcast or Oracle next to such content.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/11/21/elon-musks-x-twitter-files-lawsuit-against-far-left-media-matters/

Not only is Musk suing but the attorneys general of Texas and Missouri announced that they’re investigating Media Matters for possible fraud for allegedly deceiving the public in an attempt to limit participation in the public square.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/media-matters-musk-paxton-lawsuit

But what you might not know is what exactly IS Media Matters? Issues & Insights published a good explanation for how this started, what it’s all about, who Media Matters are and what their true motive is, and it’s not fighting anti-Semitism or Nazism. Their twofold goals are (1.) harming Musk for taking away the left’s Twitter monopoly and bringing back free speech online; and (2.) drawing attention away from all the very real anti-Semites who’ve suddenly made themselves known in the Democrat Party.

https://issuesinsights.com/2023/11/21/what-the-latest-attacks-on-musk-are-really-all-about/

 

I hope President Biden had a happy 81st birthday on Monday. If he read any of the press about his birthday, I doubt that he did, so I’ll just wish it for him. Usually, a President’s birthday is one of those feel-good, human-interest stories to fill space. But Biden’s entry into the second year of his eighth decade was covered with the kind of stories that make you think of sharks or vultures circling someone who’s doomed. And as this story from Western Journal notes, it’s not just from conservative critics. The negative chatter is coming from Democrat voters, friendly media and even his own inner circle.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-not-happy-81st-birthday-even-family-members-worried/

Voters are making their concerns known via dreadful poll numbers, including his lowest approval ever in a new NBC News poll, with large numbers expressing doubts that he has the physical and mental stamina to serve a second term. Even a Washington Post reporter noted that “some argue that neither Biden nor his team have effectively communicated a reelection plan, a second-term governing vision or a clear argument against Trump.”

Some of us would argue that he didn’t have what it took to serve a first term, or a first-term governing vision, or a clear argument against Trump other than that he wasn’t Trump; and that was three years ago when he was a spring chicken of 78, but I digress.

This isn’t to say that age is the deciding factor on whether someone can handle the job, but age affects people differently. Mel Brooks is 97, and he just finished co-writing and producing a new series for Hulu. But even those closest to Biden are worried that his age-related difficulties are becoming impossible to deny (not that they don’t keep trying.) 

As that story reports, their method of dealing with it is denial, blaming others for bringing it up, and rather than urging him to retire from the most stressful job in the world, to put him in sturdier shoes and not let him walk very far on camera. Thanks for thinking of what’s best for America, guys.

 


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

The Big Story

November 22, 2023

The big story is that Israel and Hamas are reportedly in the final stages of a deal for Hamas to release dozens of hostages (but only women and children) and to call a five-day temporary ceasefire to deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza. May I point out to all the Hamas defenders accusing Israel of genocide that all it took to end the bombing of Gaza was for the bloody terrorists you support to release their hostages. Of course, they still aren’t releasing all of them, which is why the fighting will eventually continue. You want an end to the siege of Gaza? Tell Hamas to release all hostages and surrender. Abracadabra, it’s done.

Whoever put together Maryland’s task force on hate crimes should look for another line of work, after it was revealed that one member, Zainab Chaudry, is an anti-Israel activist and director of the state office of CAIR, and she’s written numerous anti-Semitic social media posts, such as comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and claiming the babies slaughtered by Hamas on October 7th were “fake.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maryland-hate-crime-task-force-member-claimed-babies-murdered-hamas-fake-compared-israel-nazis

Speaking of Holocaust deniers, it won’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the Palestinian culture in Gaza and the West Bank that the IDF reported finding an “extremist anti-Semitic” book being used as part of school curriculums. The book is called “The Big Lie: The burning of 6 million Jews in the gas chambers.” The IDF said, “Under Hamas’ rule, school curriculums promote extremist antisemitic practices -- calling for genocide against the Jewish people. This is another example (of) Hamas’ true ideology -- and another reason for us to dismantle it.” 

Related MUST-READ: Derek Hunter at Townhall.com on the shock among Jewish progressives and reasonable Democrats upon suddenly discovering that they’ve been sharing a Party with some of the most hateful anti-Semites on Earth, and didn’t notice what they really were because up until now, their violent, intolerant tactics weren't criticized because they were aimed at conservatives.

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2023/11/21/the-great-awakening-of-some-on-the-american-left-n2631440

I especially appreciate Hunter's observation that Joe Biden refers incessantly to the evil Nazis at Charlottesville, but when “the Democratic Party’s Jew-hating Brown Shirts have held rallies 100 times larger than Charlottesville in every major American city and college campus,” instead of unequivocally condemning them, “the White House set up a task force to fight Islamophobia, just in case someone develops an attitude against paragliding assassins.” 

Sinking like a stone

November 22, 2023

The latest NBC News poll shows President Biden’s approval rating has been falling since January, when it was 46%, to its lowest level ever now at 40%. Nearly two-thirds of Independents disapprove.

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2023/11/19/nbc-news-poll-joe-bidens-popularity-slips-lowest-level-presidency/

The biggest driver of the drop came with young voters aged 18 to 34. Their approval of Biden has plummeted from 46% in September to 31%.

Of course, as we’ve seen recently, that could be because so many of the Democrats’ young radical base are Hamas-supporting anti-Semites, and Biden is supporting Israel. He’s caught in an electoral Catch-22, because he needs their votes to win, but if he does what they want, he won’t get any votes from the non-crazy wing of his Party. I believe it was Kurt Schlichter who pointed out that the Democrats are in trouble because a large part of their base suddenly wants to kill another large part of their base. That’s rather hard for even the nimblest politician to straddle.

Related op-ed from Wayne Allyn Root: What if the Democrats get so panicked by Biden’s subterranean approval ratings that they replace him with their dream ticket of Gavin Newsom/Michelle Obama (or vice versa) – then discover that Americans blame all of them, not just Biden, for destroying border security and the economy and encouraging our enemies to launch World War III, and they see through all the indictments of Trump as the dirty abuse of power that they are, and elect Trump anyway?

https://www.westernjournal.com/root-trump-crushing-new-poll-dems-will-bring-not-1-2-ringers-replace-biden/

The column actually ends a little too soon. I think it’s worth considering also how the Democrats would immediately revert to “election deniers” and do everything in their power to block Trump from taking office, and to ask if the Republicans are making any plans to deal with that possibility.

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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

Mike Huckabee


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Matthew 28:19


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

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/november-20-israel-hamas-war 

The big story is that Israel and Hamas are reportedly in the final stages of a deal for Hamas to release dozens of hostages (but only women and children) and to call a five-day temporary ceasefire to deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza. May I point out to all the Hamas defenders accusing Israel of genocide that all it took to end the bombing of Gaza was for the bloody terrorists you support to release their hostages. Of course, they still aren’t releasing all of them, which is why the fighting will eventually continue. You want an end to the siege of Gaza? Tell Hamas to release all hostages and surrender. Abracadabra, it’s done.

Whoever put together Maryland’s task force on hate crimes should look for another line of work, after it was revealed that one member, Zainab Chaudry, is an anti-Israel activist and director of the state office of CAIR, and she’s written numerous anti-Semitic social media posts, such as comparing Israel to Nazi Germany and claiming the babies slaughtered by Hamas on October 7th were “fake.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maryland-hate-crime-task-force-member-claimed-babies-murdered-hamas-fake-compared-israel-nazis

Speaking of Holocaust deniers, it won’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar with the Palestinian culture in Gaza and the West Bank that the IDF reported finding an “extremist anti-Semitic” book being used as part of school curriculums. The book is called “The Big Lie: The burning of 6 million Jews in the gas chambers.” The IDF said, “Under Hamas’ rule, school curriculums promote extremist antisemitic practices -- calling for genocide against the Jewish people. This is another example (of) Hamas’ true ideology -- and another reason for us to dismantle it.” 

Related MUST-READ: Derek Hunter at Townhall.com on the shock among Jewish progressives and reasonable Democrats upon suddenly discovering that they’ve been sharing a Party with some of the most hateful anti-Semites on Earth, and didn’t notice what they really were because up until now, their violent, intolerant tactics weren't criticized because they were aimed at conservatives.

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2023/11/21/the-great-awakening-of-some-on-the-american-left-n2631440

I especially appreciate Hunter's observation that Joe Biden refers incessantly to the evil Nazis at Charlottesville, but when “the Democratic Party’s Jew-hating Brown Shirts have held rallies 100 times larger than Charlottesville in every major American city and college campus,” instead of unequivocally condemning them, “the White House set up a task force to fight Islamophobia, just in case someone develops an attitude against paragliding assassins.”  


Happy Birthday, President Biden

I hope President Biden had a happy 81st birthday on Monday. If he read any of the press about his birthday, I doubt that he did, so I’ll just wish it for him. Usually, a President’s birthday is one of those feel-good, human-interest stories to fill space. But Biden’s entry into the second year of his eighth decade was covered with the kind of stories that make you think of sharks or vultures circling someone who’s doomed. And as this story from Western Journal notes, it’s not just from conservative critics. The negative chatter is coming from Democrat voters, friendly media and even his own inner circle.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-not-happy-81st-birthday-even-family-members-worried/

Voters are making their concerns known via dreadful poll numbers, including his lowest approval ever in a new NBC News poll, with large numbers expressing doubts that he has the physical and mental stamina to serve a second term. Even a Washington Post reporter noted that “some argue that neither Biden nor his team have effectively communicated a reelection plan, a second-term governing vision or a clear argument against Trump.”

Some of us would argue that he didn’t have what it took to serve a first term, or a first-term governing vision, or a clear argument against Trump other than that he wasn’t Trump; and that was three years ago when he was a spring chicken of 78, but I digress.

This isn’t to say that age is the deciding factor on whether someone can handle the job, but age affects people differently. Mel Brooks is 97, and he just finished co-writing and producing a new series for Hulu. But even those closest to Biden are worried that his age-related difficulties are becoming impossible to deny (not that they don’t keep trying.) 

As that story reports, their method of dealing with it is denial, blaming others for bringing it up, and rather than urging him to retire from the most stressful job in the world, to put him in sturdier shoes and not let him walk very far on camera. Thanks for thinking of what’s best for America, guys.

 


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

 


A Threat to Vote Republican

A group of black Chicago residents held a rally outside of Alderman Desmon Yancy to protest the city spending $150 million on taking care of illegal aliens and ignoring the needs of citizens. For instance, homeless Chicagoans are sleeping on the streets while illegals get free hotel rooms.

One protester read this statement: “We’re here to say to black aldermen who were elected by the black citizens of Chicago that we are fed up with your not hearing our stress and our demands but rather do what you want to do to please the Democratic Party.” And in an almost-unheard of, and I’m sure terrifying to Democrats, turn, they even threatened to vote Republican!

https://www.westernjournal.com/fed-black-residents-rally-end-millions-spent-illegals-major-sanctuary-city-threaten-vote-republican/

I wouldn’t get my hopes up, considering the last Republican mayor of Chicago left office in 1931. But at some point, maybe it will get so bad that blue city voters will "stop the insanity" and quit doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result. New Yorkers had to hit rock bottom before they finally elected Rudy Giuliani to save them. He did, they forgot how bad things could get, they voted the Democrats back in, and now they’re at rock bottom again. But miracles can happen. At least, one happened in New York, once…

 


Trump's gag order

Politico reports that a panel of judges from the DC Court of Appeals heard arguments on former President Trump’s request to significantly narrow the gag order put on him in the criminal trial by special counsel Javert -- oops, sorry, Jack Smith – for challenging the 2020 election and allegedly inciting that “worse than 9/11 and Pearl Harbor combined insurrection” on January 6th. They haven’t ruled yet, but in a hopeful sign for Trump, the judges appeared extremely dubious about severely curtailing the free speech of a leading presidential candidate during an election campaign.

https://www.westernjournal.com/federal-appeals-court-appears-indicate-will-take-ax-trump-gag-order/

One judge asked incredulously, “He has to speak ‘Miss Manners’ while everyone else is throwing targets at him?” She added, “It would be really hard in a debate, when everyone else is going at you full bore. Your attorneys would have to have scripted little things you can say.”

Precisely! And considering that judge is an Obama appointee (!), it’s becoming obvious just how far out over his skis Smith is with his creatively unconstitutional legal warfare.

 


Helping at Thanksgiving

I know these are very difficult times economically for a lot of people, but with the holidays coming and inflation making food so expensive, food banks are facing high demand and very strained resources. Here’s more info, and you’re able to help, God bless you.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/11/21/food-bank-demand-surges-after-americans-hit-with-inflation/

However, if you are in a blue city, you might want to look for a food bank that polices who gets the food. Poor Americans in New York City are being left with no Thanksgiving turkeys, thanks to illegal aliens lining up early at the food banks and snapping them all up. I wonder how many New Yorkers will be giving thanks this year that Joe "Open Borders" Biden is President?

https://www.westernjournal.com/illegals-aliens-taking-thanksgiving-turkeys-low-income-nyc-residents/

 


Suing

Former US military members who lost their pay and benefits due to the Biden Administration’s COVID vaccine mandates are suing the US government. It’s currently three lawsuits that they plan to turn into a class action suit, they plan to sue for damages in the billions.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/20/former-troops-punished-over-bidens-vaccine-mandate-sue-for-billions-in-lost-wages/

Their attorney says that while over 8,000 active duty troops were kicked out of the service, the number of troops and reservists who were negatively affected could be as high as 100,000. If you are among them, read the story and see if you might want to join a class action suit over that outrageous injustice against America’s heroes.


Elon Musk sues Media Matters

You’ve probably heard of the “thermonuclear lawsuit” Elon Musk has filed against Media Matters, a Soros-backed group that claims to be a media watchdog but has actually long been a Democrat Party attack dog. They recently launched an intimidation campaign telling companies that if they advertise on Musk’s platform Twitter (X), their ads will run next to Nazi and white nationalist posts. This has caused IBM, Disney, Apple, Paramount and others to yank their ads.

Musk’s lawsuit says that Media Matters “knowingly and maliciously” manufactured images showing ads next to racist fringe content when “not a single authentic user” saw ads from IBM, Comcast or Oracle next to such content.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/11/21/elon-musks-x-twitter-files-lawsuit-against-far-left-media-matters/

Not only is Musk suing but the attorneys general of Texas and Missouri announced that they’re investigating Media Matters for possible fraud for allegedly deceiving the public in an attempt to limit participation in the public square.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/media-matters-musk-paxton-lawsuit

But what you might not know is what exactly IS Media Matters? Issues & Insights published a good explanation for how this started, what it’s all about, who Media Matters are and what their true motive is, and it’s not fighting anti-Semitism or Nazism. Their twofold goals are (1.) harming Musk for taking away the left’s Twitter monopoly and bringing back free speech online; and (2.) drawing attention away from all the very real anti-Semites who’ve suddenly made themselves known in the Democrat Party.

https://issuesinsights.com/2023/11/21/what-the-latest-attacks-on-musk-are-really-all-about/

 


Remember When

I’m so old, I remember when liberals used to condemn what they called “eliminationist rhetoric,” and not actually call for their political opponents to be “eliminated” in a public forum.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/11/21/dan-goldman-trump-must-be-eliminated-n2631479

By the way, if Trump can be prosecuted because someone who allegedly listened to him rioted at the Capitol, why wasn’t Sen. Bernie Sanders charged with conspiracy to commit murder because someone who followed him was inspired to try to kill Rep. Steve Scalise and other Republican House members so that Democrats would get a majority? That seemed like a pretty serious assault on “our democracy” to me.

(Note for the deliberately obtuse: I’m not seriously calling for Bernie Sanders to be indicted for making speeches. I’m just pointing out how ludicrous it is that Trump was indicted for making a speech. Are we clear? Good.)

 


In Case You Missed It

You likely missed it because it wasn’t so newsworthy then, but last month, Javier Milei gave an interview to Tucker Carlson. That interview just became a lot more newsworthy following Milei’s stunning landslide election as the new President of Argentina. In light of that, everyone should read the advice he had for Americans about the need to fight every day to resist the “siren song of social justice” and to stop the socialist “long term agenda that will destroy everything it touches.” Anyone running a business that doesn’t want to follow the “Get woke, go broke” formula down the toilet should especially read this.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/11/21/tucker-carlson-asks-javier-milei-what-advice-he-gives-to-americans-about-socialism-n2631480


Let's hope 2024 ends this sort of insanity

At Ramapo College of New Jersey, yet another male claiming to “identify” as female switched from the men’s to the women’s swim team and miraculously won first place and set a new record in the 100-yard butterfly. See if you can guess which one “she” is from the team photo. Hint: look for the one who towers over the others.

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2023/11/20/transgender-swimmer-at-new-jersey-college-breaks-records-after-switching-to-womens-team/

As usual, the school responded to criticism by ladling out a dollop of pablum about how the school “supports all our student athletes.” Which is a load of manure because if they supported the female athletes, they wouldn’t let male athletes take over their sports and steal their trophies, records and scholarships.

This will only go on as long as the female athletes keep going along with it. Let’s hope that 2024 will bring an end to this insane denial of biological reality, as female athletes finally stand up for themselves and their sports and “Just Say No” to men cheating them out of their rights.

 

 


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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.

This weekend brought some election results that suggest that from the US to Argentina, voters are fed up to the gills with leftist misrule.

On Saturday, there were three statewide elections in Louisiana, and let’s hope they’re a harbinger of what’s coming in 2024. Republican Jeff Landry previously won the primary by a wide enough margin that there won't even be a runoff/gubernatorial election. And on Saturday, all three Trump-backed Republican candidates for Attorney General, Secretary of State, and State Treasurer won their races by 2-1 margins of around 66%-33%.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/19/trump-backed-republicans-sweep-statewide-elections-louisiana/

And in a resounding rebuke to creeping South American socialism, voters in Argentina elected Libertarian outsider congressman and economist Javier Milei of the Liberty Advances party as their new President, in a 55-45% landslide. Voters were sick of the ruling Peronist party’s corruption, poverty, job insecurity and runaway inflation (Sound familiar?)

https://www.foxnews.com/world/javier-milei-crushes-argentine-left-becomes-worlds-first-libertarian-head-state

Milei is a right-wing Libertarian populist who is adamantly anti-socialist and anti-communist and pro-small government. He’s a defender of western values and a staunch ally of Israel. He’s promised to end the central bank, adopt the US dollar as an official currency and distance Argentina from rogue communist nations like China. In his victory speech, he called for the ouster of all current politicians and for Argentina to “once again embrace the ideas of liberty.” You can see why he’s been compared to Trump, and not just because of his interesting hair style.

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2023/11/19/javier-milei-speaks-after-winning-argentina-presidency-today-we-embrace-the-ideas-of-liberty/

Here’s more on Milei from blogger/journalist Jordan Schachtel. I’m cautiously optimistic that I’m going to like this guy.

Javier Milei, who has all of the right friends (and the right enemies), becomes president of Argentina (dossier.today)

 


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Matthew 28:19


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Released: Freedom Rankings Report

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.


Mind-blowing

Here’s a truckload of cognitive dissonance that I’d like to dump on all those leftist college students in the streets and on TikTok who are railing against America and Israel and suddenly discovering the mind-blowing wisdom of Osama Bin Laden:

Last week, the rock band Coldplay played their first-ever gig in Muslim-majority Indonesia at a stadium in Jakarta. While the 70,000 seats sold out within hours, outside the stadium, about 300 members of a conservative Muslim group called the "anti-LGBT movement" protested and clashed with police. They shouted at concertgoers, calling them “LGBTQ supporters” and accused Coldplay of damaging the nation’s faith and morals by supporting gay rights.

https://news.yahoo.com/muslim-anti-lgbtq-groups-protest-130208839.html

News flash: These sound like exactly the sort of extreme views espoused by Osama Bin Laden, who also wanted to impose strict Sharia law worldwide. That not only calls for executing gay people, but forcing women to cover themselves from head to toe and never leave the home unless accompanied by an adult male.

While that would definitely cut down the size of the pro-Hamas campus demonstrations, I can’t help wondering if Osama’s new fan club members were aware that by supporting him, they’re endorsing killing gays and treating women like chattel. Or maybe they’re just being really loud and insistent about something they actually know less than nothing about. Wouldn’t be the first time.

 



Hey, Joe

Someone needs to alert President Biden to the growing threat of imagined Islamophobia.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/11/19/smollett-redux-ohio-man-for-faking-anti-palestinian-hate-crime-n2166568


Turmoil at X

There’s more turmoil at Twitter (now “X”), that I’m not going to try to explain because it would take so much space and time. But you can find out more at this link, and to pique your interest, it involves accusations of anti-Semitism and Elon Musk promising to file a “thermonuclear lawsuit” over those accusations against the leftist cancel culture purveyors, Media Matters.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/11/18/hollywood-boycotts-elon-musk-disney-other-major-studios-pull-ads-from-x-following-antisemitism-controversy/


Necessary

Yes, in 2023, it’s actually necessary to stipulate in the headline that the winner of the Miss Universe Pageant was a biological woman.

https://www.breitbart.com/health/2023/11/19/watch-biological-woman-wins-2023-miss-universe-pageant/


Sinking like a stone

The latest NBC News poll shows President Biden’s approval rating has been falling since January, when it was 46%, to its lowest level ever now at 40%. Nearly two-thirds of Independents disapprove.

https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2023/11/19/nbc-news-poll-joe-bidens-popularity-slips-lowest-level-presidency/

The biggest driver of the drop came with young voters aged 18 to 34. Their approval of Biden has plummeted from 46% in September to 31%.

Of course, as we’ve seen recently, that could be because so many of the Democrats’ young radical base are Hamas-supporting anti-Semites, and Biden is supporting Israel. He’s caught in an electoral Catch-22, because he needs their votes to win, but if he does what they want, he won’t get any votes from the non-crazy wing of his Party. I believe it was Kurt Schlichter who pointed out that the Democrats are in trouble because a large part of their base suddenly wants to kill another large part of their base. That’s rather hard for even the nimblest politician to straddle.

Related op-ed from Wayne Allyn Root: What if the Democrats get so panicked by Biden’s subterranean approval ratings that they replace him with their dream ticket of Gavin Newsom/Michelle Obama (or vice versa) – then discover that Americans blame all of them, not just Biden, for destroying border security and the economy and encouraging our enemies to launch World War III, and they see through all the indictments of Trump as the dirty abuse of power that they are, and elect Trump anyway?

https://www.westernjournal.com/root-trump-crushing-new-poll-dems-will-bring-not-1-2-ringers-replace-biden/

The column actually ends a little too soon. I think it’s worth considering also how the Democrats would immediately revert to “election deniers” and do everything in their power to block Trump from taking office, and to ask if the Republicans are making any plans to deal with that possibility.


Inconvenient truth

Some “progressive” rabbis joined Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s rally demanding Israel call a ceasefire against Hamas, but things went hilariously off the rails when they started reading from the Torah and realized they had to skip over a lot of inconvenient parts about God giving that land to the Jews.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/20/rabbis-join-rashida-tlaib-to-promote-a-ceasefire-and-things-go-hilariously-wrong-n2166576


Britney Spears

I wouldn’t normally be writing about a topic like a memoir by pop star Britney Spears, but her new book contains a news-making revelation that not only shocked fans, it should also be shared with all young women who are lied to by the abortion lobby in so many ways.

Maybe if they read Britney’s own tragic story of what she went through when she was pressured into an unwanted abortion – both the never-ending feeling of loss and guilt from aborting her baby and the horrific physical pain and terror caused by the abortion pill (something abortion proponents don’t like to warn women about) – they’ll listen with a more open mind than when the message comes from politicians or activists.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/11/britney-spears-gives-courageous-voice-to-the-pain-of-coerced-abortion/


A little relief

Since this is a short holiday week, I thought it might be fun to give you a little relief from your Monday blues with some satirical stories from the Babylon Bee. You’ll find more truth about the news from them than you will from MSNBC, and it’s a lot funnier.

https://babylonbee.com/news/san-francisco-mayor-reminds-everyone-to-get-their-christmas-shoplifting-done-early

https://babylonbee.com/news/osama-bin-laden-given-honorary-posthumous-doctorate-from-columbia

https://babylonbee.com/news/target-releases-trans-muslim-chinese-quadruple-amputee-santa

https://babylonbee.com/news/satan-announces-early-retirement-thanks-to-tiktok

https://babylonbee.com/news/im-on-the-right-side-of-history-thinks-college-student-in-front-of-dorm-posters-of-stalin-hitler-osama-bin-laden

https://babylonbee.com/news/the-bee-has-obtained-the-biden-controlled-fbis-top-10-most-wanted-list

Extra Laughs: Eighteen reasons why you really need an electric car:

https://freedomfirstnetwork.com/2023/11/18-reasons-why-you-really-need-an-electric-car


We’re over the target: the left goes insane at release of all J6 video

On Greg Gutfeld’s FOX NEWS show Monday night, Greg showed some examples of headlines reacting with hysteria to House Speaker Mike Johnson’s release of all the Capitol video from January 6...

At FORBES:  NEW JAN. 6 VIDEOS RELEASED – LAUNCHING WILD CONSPIRACIES FROM THE FAR RIGHT

At HUFFINGTON POST:  GOP SENATOR [they mean Mike Lee of Utah] GOES ALL IN ON ‘NUTBALL’ JAN. 6 CONSPIRACY THEORIES

At MEDIAITE:  TRUMP SUPPORTERS CHEER RELEASE OF JAN. 6 FOOTAGE SHOWING TRUMP SUPPORTERS STORMING THE CAPITOL

Recurring themes leap out: “far-right,” “conspiracy theories,” etc.  As Greg said, “Now, one of the ways you know you’re onto something is when the legacy media starts to sing in unison like the Beach Boys on AutoTune.”  They’ve flipped the script:  conservative Trump supporters are the terrorists and Hamas is the legitimate political party.

As we have done, he stressed that conservatives had long condemned the violence that Nancy Pelosi’s J6 committee showed us over and over, in video that’s “cut together so well it was up for an Oscar in the category of Best Editing.”  (For the record, it wasn’t, but its airing on TV should qualify it with that crowd for an Emmy.)

Be sure and see Greg’s monologue and opening panel discussion if you haven’t; the link is below.  It strikes so many right notes that, if my writers had the ethics of Joe Biden, they would’ve just stolen it and run as our own without attribution.  But Greg deserves credit here.

Gutfeld made it clear “to even the half-wits on THE VIEW” that no one is defending the violence that broke out.  (We certainly never did.)  “I may not support riots, but I do support the truth,” he said, “and we have the right to hear the whole story.”

That’s true “especially when many of the protesters were veterans and average citizens who just wanted their voices heard and have been prosecuted like they were Hamas --- actually worse than if they were Hamas, because no one was defending the Jan. 6-ers on campus.”

He noted that the video shows “the Capitol doors [were] more open than Hunter’s nose on a Saturday night” (which is saying something).  We see now that Capitol Police stood by and let protesters in and in some cases even escorted them.  How were these House-guests to have any clue they were doing something wrong?

As for the J6 “select” committee, Greg said, “Usually to get that kind of kangaroo court, you’d have to hop on a flight on Qantas.”  (Cut to:  airliner with kangaroo graphic on tail.)

“What’s now clear is that any video that didn’t fit the committee’s narrative was ditched like one of Joe Biden’s grandkids.”  (Wish we’d come up with that line, but at least we’re not plagiarists.)

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin has already complained about the “partisan nature” (!!) of the released video.  He complained on CNN that releasing it was “like giving a diagram [of the Capitol building] to future insurrectionists and terrorists and anybody who wants to invade our body.”  We won’t say what Greg said he was full of, but you know.

“I wonder if he knows you can take a tour and see most of the Capitol if you want to,” Greg offered, “and most committee hearings are open to the public.”  Of course, Raskin knows this, but he doesn’t expect you to think of it.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/greg-gutfeld-any-video-that-didnt-fit-committees-narrative-ditched-like-one-bidens-grandkids

“The committee claimed to be ‘bipartisan,’” he said, “because they included ‘Republicans’ Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger...[who] cried more times during those hearings than a Kardashian at an onion-eating contest.  The puddles below Adam’s desk were so large, the hearings should’ve had a lifeguard on duty.”

On Monday, Bonchie at REDSTATE reported in an opinion piece that Kinzinger had “an hours-long mental breakdown over Mike Lee and the January 6 tapes.”  That’s no exaggeration; you can see how it unfolded in almost a dozen posts on “X.”  Isn’t it nice to know we had a member of Congress so smart and articulate that he resorts to insults like “dough face”?

Kinzinger is a ridiculous, juvenile person.  Just look at this…

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/19/adam-kinzinger-has-a-multi-post-mental-breakdown-over-mike-lee-and-the-january-6th-tapes-n2166549

We’ll give Kinzinger this:  he’s to be commended for having an Israeli flag in his posts.  But he deserves scorn for joining with Democrats to show just one aspect of the J6 story, which is, in effect, the same as lying to us.  As Bonchie commented, “What they didn't show us is [that] the vast majority of people who were present did what crowds often do, which is to wander around aimlessly with no actual intent to break the law. There's a reason the vast majority of people present at protests that get violent aren't even arrested, much less hunted down and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. That's because the DOJ doesn't typically go after people for being adjacent to riotous behavior.”

Gutfeld’s monologue wasn’t all funny --- one part of it would tear your heart out.  He brought up the case of Matthew Perna, showing the video of him ambling peacefully down a hallway inside the Capitol.  “...Clearly, the police are not concerned or even directing the protesters to leave.”

Note that Perna was the perfect example of someone whom Bonchie described as “adjacent to riotous behavior.”

Perna was interviewed five days after the rally and charged a couple of days later with trespass, and he accepted that because he had walked into the building, but the legal fallout mounted as charges were piled on and he lost his business and the support of his community.  He lost weight and became more and more depressed.  When the “Justice” Department finally up-charged him with terrorism (!) and he faced a nine-year prison sentence, he cracked.  As you’ll hear in his sister’s story below, he hanged himself before his court date.

Gutfeld pointed out that while peaceful people such as Matt Perna were destroyed and President Trump is condemned for “mean tweeting,” Antifa and pro-Hamas thugs who committed huge acts of violence --- the destruction of a police station in Seattle, the attack on a federal courthouse, even the riot at DNC headquarters --- weren’t investigated.

Dan Bongino delivered some powerful must-see commentary as well, starting about 16 minutes into his Monday podcast, linked to below.  He showed the video of Matthew Perna and told his heartbreaking story.

“The left didn’t want you to see this,” Bongino said, “because now they know you know we do not have two systems of justice; we have one.  It is a communist system of justice with a hierarchy.  If you are a Trump supporter and you...walk in the Capitol --- some through an open door --- you don’t get charged [just] with trespass.  You get a terrorism enhancement, potentially nine years in jail…”

But nothing happens to you, he said, if you’re a leftist who marches into the Capitol and occupies Kevin McCarthy’s office during a vote on a continuing resolution.  “You understand why they wanted to hide these tapes from you?”  The reason is, they don’t want you to be able to compare and contrast this to what the left gets away with.  More than anything, tyrants fear exposure.

“I want you to know, folks,” he said, “they will burn this freaking place to the ground, the left.  They will censor you, they will destroy your career, your finances, destroy the economy, they will put you in jail” so they can remain in power.

Bongino featured Geri Perna, the aunt of Matt Perna, on his radio show Monday to talk about how the government destroyed her nephew.

The wounds are obviously still fresh.  Here’s what Geri had to say in the aftermath of his death…

https://americangulag.org/matthew-pernas-family-speaks-out-his-legacy-continues/

Here’s Tucker Carlson’s interview with her from around that time.  She said the local newspaper had censored a couple of lines from the obituary she had written, one being that “a lot of people were responsible for his death.”  At that time, she also spoke bitterly about the lack of support from Republicans on Capitol Hill.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6302479848001

RELATED READING:  Now that the thousands of hours of video have bene released and picked through, there seems to be no evidence whatsoever that Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn’s sworn testimony about being repeatedly being called the “n-word” by J6 protesters is true.

https://www.theblaze.com/shows/the-glenn-beck-program/did-blaze-media-just-catch-a-j6-hero-cop-in-a-web-of-lies?

Also, here’s a provocative essay that will probably get us demonetized (That’s why we hope you’ll subscribe to the newsletter on Substack if you don’t already!)  Time has been on the side of those who expressed doubts about election integrity on January 6.  Here’s Rob Natelson with his eminently reasonable “Why I Still Doubt the 2020 Election,” which uses history to make a strong case that “changing the rules would be perfectly in character for leftists in charge of election machinery.”  It’s a must-read!

https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/why-i-still-doubt-the-2020-election-5532586?utm_source=opinionnoe&src_src=opinionnoe&utm_campaign=opinion-2023-11-20&src_cmp=opinion-2023-11-20&utm_medium=email&est=xqRKJkngLDuiUu0dJOZu6a9yez97%2F5XEQHqSmeV8yKy2tLRZxkHxr2FWLVg30teU6BrSOw%3D%3D


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Rest in Peace

November 21, 2023

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

A liberal Colorado judge rejected a lawsuit seeking to keep Trump off the 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment ban on “insurrectionists.” The judge found that under the Constitution, a President is not an “officer of the United States” who can be disqualified by the Amendment. However, she went on to say that he "engaged in insurrection" by sparking the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. And of course, that’s the big headline in most of the news stories.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/colorado-judges-allows-trump-primary-ballot-delays-decision-general-election-2023-11-18/

Granted, I’m not a judge – not even an attorney – but in what world does a judge have the right to publicly brand someone guilty on the court record of a crime for which he was never indicted, much less convicted? The finding that the Constitution does not apply was not only all she needed to say, it was all that she had the power to say, not having presided over any trial of those charges. That gives a strained new meaning to the term, “judicial opinion.”

In a related story, the judge in Trump’s election interference case in DC, Judge Tanya Chutkan, rejected a request from Trump’s attorneys to remove language from the indictments referring to "actions of independent actors at the Capitol on January 6,” which Trump did not commit and for which he was not charged. They argued that “allegations related to these actions are not relevant and are prejudicial and inflammatory.” Chutkan ruled that, "Regardless of whether the allegations at issue are relevant, Defendant has not satisfied his burden to clearly show that they are prejudicial,"

Yeah, why would it be prejudicial to fill an indictment with a list of crimes other people committed and that the defendant isn’t even accused of?

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/dc-judge-rejects-trump-bid-remove-prejudicial-language-election-indictments

In Michigan, where a judge threw out a lawsuit trying to keep Trump off the ballot on 14th Amendment grounds, the democracy-hating Democrats who brought it are appealing to the state Supreme Court. Let’s hope they use their gavels appropriately on it.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/michigan-group-appeals-trump-14th-amendment-case-state-supreme-court

Finally, as Gomer Pyle would say, “Sur-prize! Sur-prize!” The judge in Trump’s New York real estate fraud case rejected his attorneys’ filing for a mistrial based on his demonstrated and possibly illegal bias (such as commenting on a case in front of him on a collegiate social media page), finding that it was “utterly without merit.” Funny, that phrase also occurred to me, but not in relation to the mistrial filing.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/judge-rejects-trump-bid-mistrial-ny-fraud-case-utterly-without-merit

In response, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik filed her second ethics complaint against this judge.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/stefanik-files-second-ethics-complaint-against-judge-engoron-after-he-rejects-trump

RELATED: Special Counsel Jack Smith likened himself to a saint, giving everyone a much-needed laugh.

https://www.westernjournal.com/jack-smith-compares-saint-court-brief-trump/

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!

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November 20, 2023

 


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Rest In Peace

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


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

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/november-20-israel-hamas-war

The latest developments: In a dangerous escalation, Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen seized a ship in the Red Sea and took 25 crew members hostage. They’re threatening to destroy Israel’s economy by attacking all Israeli-linked ships. This ship is supposedly tied to a carrier company owned by Israeli billionaire Abraham "Rami" Ungar, but it’s registered in the Bahamas, is owned by a British company, operated by a Japanese company, and the crew members include Ukrainians, Bulgarians, Filipinos and Mexicans, with no Israelis aboard. The Houthis are apparently trying to start World War III all by themselves.

https://www.westernjournal.com/ap-israeli-linked-ship-seized-iranian-backed-militants-grave-incident-global-consequence/

To the surprise of nobody who really knows anything about Hamas, the IDF announced that Hamas had been using the Al-Shifa Hospital to conceal a base of terrorist operations, and they took hostages there. The IDF also reported that 19-year-old female IDF servicemember Noa Marciano, who was taken hostage by Hamas, was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, but instead of treating her, they murdered her.

Prime Minister Netanyahu blasted the Palestinian Authority for claiming that Hamas wasn’t responsible for the hundreds of deaths at the massacre they launched against Israeli music festival attendees on October 7th, but that they were killed by an IDF helicopter firing at the terrorists. Whom I assume were only there to vibe on the music. That’s a story so offensively ridiculous that only the Palestinian Authority or the Harvard faculty could believe it.

Related Reading: Mark Levin on why Secretary of State Antony Blinken has got to go.

https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/antony-blinkens-plot-to-destroy-israel-exposed

 


More evidence of Leftist misrule

This weekend brought some election results that suggest that from the US to Argentina, voters are fed up to the gills with leftist misrule.

On Saturday, there were three statewide elections in Louisiana, and let’s hope they’re a harbinger of what’s coming in 2024. Republican Jeff Landry previously won the primary by a wide enough margin that there won't even be a runoff/gubernatorial election. And on Saturday, all three Trump-backed Republican candidates for Attorney General, Secretary of State, and State Treasurer won their races by 2-1 margins of around 66%-33%.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/19/trump-backed-republicans-sweep-statewide-elections-louisiana/

And in a resounding rebuke to creeping South American socialism, voters in Argentina elected Libertarian outsider congressman and economist Javier Milei of the Liberty Advances party as their new President, in a 55-45% landslide. Voters were sick of the ruling Peronist party’s corruption, poverty, job insecurity and runaway inflation (Sound familiar?)

https://www.foxnews.com/world/javier-milei-crushes-argentine-left-becomes-worlds-first-libertarian-head-state

Milei is a right-wing Libertarian populist who is adamantly anti-socialist and anti-communist and pro-small government. He’s a defender of western values and a staunch ally of Israel. He’s promised to end the central bank, adopt the US dollar as an official currency and distance Argentina from rogue communist nations like China. In his victory speech, he called for the ouster of all current politicians and for Argentina to “once again embrace the ideas of liberty.” You can see why he’s been compared to Trump, and not just because of his interesting hair style.

https://www.breitbart.com/latin-america/2023/11/19/javier-milei-speaks-after-winning-argentina-presidency-today-we-embrace-the-ideas-of-liberty/

Here’s more on Milei from blogger/journalist Jordan Schachtel. I’m cautiously optimistic that I’m going to like this guy.

Javier Milei, who has all of the right friends (and the right enemies), becomes president of Argentina (dossier.today)


Trump in Texas

Former President Trump was in Edinburg, Texas, Sunday to join Gov. Greg Abbott in his Thanksgiving tradition of serving tamales to Texas state troopers and National Guard members who are deployed along the border. Coincidentally, Abbott also officially endorsed Trump for President, saying, "Now more than ever, America needs a President who will secure the border and prioritize national security. President Trump is the clear choice to get the job done."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-gov-abbott-endorses-trump-gop-presidential-bid


With release of all the video, Dems’ J6 narrative is crumbling

“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

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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

 

Biden should write a book

November 20, 2023

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.”

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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

Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

Joshua 24:15 NIV


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Friday was an eventful day for former President Trump on his many legal fronts.

A liberal Colorado judge rejected a lawsuit seeking to keep Trump off the 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment ban on “insurrectionists.” The judge found that under the Constitution, a President is not an “officer of the United States” who can be disqualified by the Amendment. However, she went on to say that he "engaged in insurrection" by sparking the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. And of course, that’s the big headline in most of the news stories.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/colorado-judges-allows-trump-primary-ballot-delays-decision-general-election-2023-11-18/

Granted, I’m not a judge – not even an attorney – but in what world does a judge have the right to publicly brand someone guilty on the court record of a crime for which he was never indicted, much less convicted? The finding that the Constitution does not apply was not only all she needed to say, it was all that she had the power to say, not having presided over any trial of those charges. That gives a strained new meaning to the term, “judicial opinion.”

In a related story, the judge in Trump’s election interference case in DC, Judge Tanya Chutkan, rejected a request from Trump’s attorneys to remove language from the indictments referring to "actions of independent actors at the Capitol on January 6,” which Trump did not commit and for which he was not charged. They argued that “allegations related to these actions are not relevant and are prejudicial and inflammatory.” Chutkan ruled that, "Regardless of whether the allegations at issue are relevant, Defendant has not satisfied his burden to clearly show that they are prejudicial,"

Yeah, why would it be prejudicial to fill an indictment with a list of crimes other people committed and that the defendant isn’t even accused of?

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/dc-judge-rejects-trump-bid-remove-prejudicial-language-election-indictments

In Michigan, where a judge threw out a lawsuit trying to keep Trump off the ballot on 14th Amendment grounds, the democracy-hating Democrats who brought it are appealing to the state Supreme Court. Let’s hope they use their gavels appropriately on it.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/michigan-group-appeals-trump-14th-amendment-case-state-supreme-court

Finally, as Gomer Pyle would say, “Sur-prize! Sur-prize!” The judge in Trump’s New York real estate fraud case rejected his attorneys’ filing for a mistrial based on his demonstrated and possibly illegal bias (such as commenting on a case in front of him on a collegiate social media page), finding that it was “utterly without merit.” Funny, that phrase also occurred to me, but not in relation to the mistrial filing.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/judge-rejects-trump-bid-mistrial-ny-fraud-case-utterly-without-merit

In response, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik filed her second ethics complaint against this judge.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/stefanik-files-second-ethics-complaint-against-judge-engoron-after-he-rejects-trump

RELATED: Special Counsel Jack Smith likened himself to a saint, giving everyone a much-needed laugh.

https://www.westernjournal.com/jack-smith-compares-saint-court-brief-trump/


Biden should write a book

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.”

 



A “Warm War”

Friday, President Biden outrageously invoked a Cold War era law (he’s waging war on the climate now, so apparently this is a “Warm War”) to dump taxpayer money into the domestic manufacture of electric heat pumps to replace gas heaters. To be fair, I’ve heard that those can actually work very well. That is, until we’re having a blizzard and the power grid powered by solar panels and windmills shuts down.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-invokes-wartime-powers-fund-electric-heaters-cracks-down-gas-appliances


Wrong again, Gavin

California Gov. Gavin Newsom seems incapable of making his state livable, so he’s been spending a lot of time slamming states to which his former residents are moving. In his latest self-own, he took to Twitter (X) to claim that Murfreesboro, Tennessee, had “banned being gay in public.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/gavin-newsom-slapped-community-note-pushing-false-gay-ban-narrative/

Actually, the city council already unanimously repealed a 70-year-old ordinance banning homosexuality. The new ordinance bans "indecent exposure, public indecency, lewd behavior, nudity or sexual conduct." But thanks, Gavin, for telling us all how you define what it means to be gay in public. I think he might be spending too much time in San Francisco.


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

 


“Huckabee” Preview

Tonight’s episode of “Huckabee” on TBN has something for everyone! I’ll talk about both history and the latest news with Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade. The founder of the beloved Auntie Anne’s Pretzels chain, Anne Beiler, will show us how to make a delicious Thanksgiving recipe from her new cookbook about her childhood in Pennsylvania’s Amish country. You’ll be amused and amazed by the return of comic magician Dana Daniels, this time with his psychic parrot, Luigi. And we’ll have music and conversation with show business legend Pat Boone.

All this and more starts tonight 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.


Thankful for life, and glad to be an American

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!

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Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

So do not fear, for I am with you;    do not be dismayed, for I am your God.I will strengthen you and help you;    I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah 41:10 NIV


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Tragic News:

The body of Yehudt Weiss, a woman taken hostage by Hamas on October 7th, has been found near the Shifa hospital by IDF troops. She was there to get breast cancer treatments. The Hamas barbarians shot her husband in front of her.

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/11/idf-finds-body-of-hamas-hostage-near-shifa-hospital-in-gaza/


Note to the pro-Palestinian protesters who insist that the Palestinians don’t support the murderous terrorists of Hamas:

A new poll of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank has been released, and this article explains why it could be considered reliable:

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/17/new-polling-out-of-gaza-and-the-west-bank-is-shocking-and-disturbing-n2166463

The findings: 98.2% of Palestinians have a negative view of America, 76% have a positive view of Hamas, and 75% support the October 7th massacre of Israeli civilians. And yet, Israel continues to do everything it can to keep from harming them and to get aid to them while Hamas uses them as human shields.

 

 



“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

 


“Huckabee” Preview

Tonight’s episode of “Huckabee” on TBN has something for everyone! I’ll talk about both history and the latest news with Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade. The founder of the beloved Auntie Anne’s Pretzels chain, Anne Beiler, will show us how to make a delicious Thanksgiving recipe from her new cookbook about her childhood in Pennsylvania’s Amish country. You’ll be amused and amazed by the return of comic magician Dana Daniels, this time with his psychic parrot, Luigi. And we’ll have music and conversation with show business legend Pat Boone.

All this and more 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’ 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 6th 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)


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Awakening The Woke Church

November 17, 2023

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. 

Did anyone think it would turn out differently?  It didn’t exactly take a psychic to predict that neither President Biden nor anyone on his team would be charged by this “Justice” Department after classified documents from Biden’s time as Vice President, and even as a U.S. senator, were discovered in the personal library of his home in Wilmington, his garage, his beach house, his non-secure office in DC at the Penn Biden Center (funded by China), a warehouse in Chinatown and his Boston attorney’s office.  Special Counsel Robert Hur says he’ll be “critical” in the final report he writes, but that’s all that comes of this.  Another bleeping report.

With this timing, the decision to close the case with no charges filed could not be more stark in its comparison with Trump’s Mar-A-Lago “classified” documents case.  (We put quotation marks around the word “classified” in his case because Trump claims to have declassified those materials under his authority as President.  Biden had no such authority as Vice President or Senator; documents from that time marked as classified remain classified to this day.)

The treatment of the two Presidents was vastly different from the start, with Trump being subjected to the shocking, unprecedented armed FBI raid of his home.  Compare the figurative slap in the face Trump got with Biden’s kid-glove treatment, as his attorneys were allowed to shuffle through papers at their leisure, all by themselves.  (Recall that Hillary had gotten the kid gloves, too, during the “investigation” --- have to trot out the quotation marks again --- of her possession of tens of thousands of subpoenaed documents, over a hundred of them classified, on a non-secure personal server and her blatant obstruction of justice in having them deleted and/or physically destroyed.)

Remember what then-FBI Director James Comey said during his infamous announcement on July 5, 2016 that saved Hillary’s presidential candidacy: “Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”

The Trump and Biden cases do have some differences, and in some ways the Biden case looks much more serious.  To be in possession of classified documents from before he was President, Biden had to have essentially smuggled them out.  Another unique aspect of the Biden case: son Hunter Biden, who had business with foreign entities including some controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and other adversaries of the U.S., was living at Joe Biden’s house while classified material was kept there.  While Trump’s documents at Mar-A-Lago were behind a secure, locked door on a property guarded by both Secret Service and private security, Biden’s documents were lying around the garage where Hunter would go to take Joe’s ‘vette for a spin.  If Hunter didn’t crib from classified State Department analyses for his communications with business associates, maybe he just used them for rolling papers.

Kidding aside, we don’t know that he did.  The point is, he COULD have.

NO case will be brought against the “Big Guy” by this DOJ, as run by Attorney General Merrick Garland and his Obama-holdover deputy Lisa Monaco.  In sweeping banana-republic style, it has diverted essentially all its resources to the persecution of former President and current presidential candidate Donald Trump, and his supporters as well.  Thanks to whistleblowers at the IRS and FBI, we know some officials there are even trying to purge Trump supporters from its own ranks.

As we commented yesterday, this “Justice” Department is not doing its job, and so that job has fallen to the GOP-led House Committees and the Republicans on Senate Committees.  It sure is a good thing Congress has the constitutional responsibility of oversight, because the Executive Branch is out of control and needs oversight like never before.

In fact, just a few days ago, on November 13, the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed former White House Counsel Dana Remus to appear for a deposition concerning the way Biden aides handled the classified documents.  Recall that one of those aides was Kathy Chung, who now works in the Defense Department as an aide to Lloyd Austin but who previously was then-VP Biden’s aide, recommended to the VP by son Hunter.  Here’s something very interesting that investigative reporter Paul Sperry turned up on her in June of this year.  His piece is a must-read.  By default, it’s going to fall to Congress to look further into any national security implications...

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/06/08/key_player_in_biden_documents_removal_was_caught_up_in_bill_clinton-era_chinagate_scandal_897961.html

As Sperry reports, Chung worked at the Commerce Department during the Clinton administration --- Hunter knew her even back then --- and was a witness in the investigation of China-born banker and Clinton donor John Huang and was suspected of covering up for him.  Huang was suspected of trading government secrets and access to China.  In 1999, he pleaded guilty to a felony violation of campaign finance laws for arranging illegal foreign donations to Bill Clinton and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for one year of probation, when he could have received five years in prison.  If you don’t recall Clinton’s “Chinagate” scandal, Sperry’s piece offers a refresher.

“While Donald Trump and Mike Pence are also under investigation for removing classified documents from the White House and storing them at their private residences,” Sperry wrote, “GOP congressional investigators say comparisons to Trump and Pence miss the point.  In interviews with [RealClear Investigations], they insisted that Biden’s document scandal is potentially more serious than just mishandling state secrets.  They suspect it could mushroom into a counterespionage case involving China and national security, though the White House dismisses such speculation as ‘baseless.’”

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL had the story of the Biden case being closed without charges on Thursday afternoon before an official announcement was made.  “Hur is expected to prepare a report with harsh criticism of how Biden and his aides handled classified documents,” James Lynch at the DAILY CALLER reported, “but his investigation is not expected to result in criminal charges.”  Hur’s team says it hopes to have that report finished by the end of this year.  They interviewed about 100 people, including Hunter Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/16/robert-hur-biden-classified-docs-unlikely-charge-anybody

Here’s Sean Hannity’s commentary from Thursday night.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6341275682112

Guests Alan Dershowitz and Gregg Jarrett weigh in as well in this must-watch segment.  As they see it, the differences in the treatment of these two Presidents by our “justice” system --- here come those quotation marks again --- are about clear as it gets, in an administration that’s relentlessly out to get Trump.  Dershowitz is at his most outspoken yet.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6341276484112

 


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The Democrats’ Frankenstein wakes up

Democrat Party leaders are learning how Dr. Frankenstein felt when the monster he created turned on him. Wednesday night in Washington, DC, about 150 pro-Palestinian protesters demanding an immediate ceasefire (these people are SO peaceful!) clashed with police outside the DNC headquarters. Half a dozen officers were injured, and an undisclosed number of people were arrested for “illegally and violently” protesting. One organizer claimed they were peaceful and the cops attacked them, but Rep. Brad Sherman (who was huddling in the basement with six other lawmakers) said they were pepper-spraying officers and trying to break into the building.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/pro-palestinian-violent-protest-erupts-outside-dnc-headquarters-washington-dc-capitol-police-injured

Due to the possible threat, all House buildings were locked down and all Congress members evacuated from the area. Here’s more from Nick Arama at Redstate.com…

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/11/15/watch-wild-riot-as-hundreds-of-anti-israel-rioters-try-to-break-into-dnc-n2166406

Arama also makes two excellent points: Last weekend, 300,000 pro-Israel protesters filled DC, and there was no violence whatsoever. Also, it appears that these people can desecrate all the national monuments they want with no repercussions, but if they mess with the DNC headquarters, they actually get arrested.


It has happened

Many of us figured that at the rate San Francisco was going, it wouldn’t be long before it looked like Beijing, and now it’s happened.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/15/watch-chinese-flags-line-san-francisco-streets-for-xi-jinping/

Turns out, though, you can only put so much of San Francisco’s accumulated homelessness and crime behind a fence to spruce the place up for China’s communist dictator. A Czech TV crew discovered that some of the local culture was still in place when they were robbed at gunpoint by three masked criminals while shooting footage for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. What more appropriate way to say, “Welcome to San Francisco, suckers!”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/czech-news-crew-covering-apec-in-san-francisco-robbed-reports-say/ar-AA1jUIo9

Speaking of getting robbed in San Francisco, it looks as if the US is about to fall for more false promises from China. President Xi Jinping can somehow blow smoke about how there shouldn’t be any conflict or confrontation between China and the US because “planet Earth is big enough for the two countries to succeed. And one country’s success is an opportunity for the other”…while simultaneously building up its military and making tacit threats about taking back Taiwan whether we like it or not. 

And speaking of blowing smoke, if anyone really believes that China has suddenly decided to join us in reducing CO2 emissions (even as it builds more and more coal-fired power plants), then I have some clean, safe retail space in San Francisco that I’d like to sell you.

https://nypost.com/2023/11/15/news/biden-and-chinas-xi-shake-hands-to-kick-off-san-francisco-summit/

And it got worse…

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/15/biden-blabs-about-an-israeli-pause-in-utterly-disgraceful-and-confusing-pro-china-press-conference-n2166407

There was one moment of inadvertent truth when President Biden referred to Xi as a “dictator,” causing Secretary of State Antony Blinken to visibly wince. But I’m sure Biden saved it by explaining that Xi is just a dictator “in the sense that he is the guy who runs the country that is a community country…based on a form of government different than ours.” Well, that’s different!

https://nypost.com/2023/11/16/news/antony-blinken-winces-as-biden-calls-chinas-xi-dictator/

Worth Noting: The President who claims our biggest threat isn’t terrorism or China but CO2 emissions took Air Force One to San Francisco to meet with the world’s biggest carbon emitter, and on that one-way flight spewed 130,000 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere, more than the average American emits in four years.

https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/climate-change-is-ultimate-threat-to-humanity-biden-says-before-boarding-private-jet-to-meet-worlds-largest-carbon-emitter/

 

 



A motion for a mistrial

Wednesday, President Trump’s legal team filed a motion for a mistrial in his New York real estate fraud case, claiming that Judge Arthur Engoron and clerk Allison Greenfield have “tainted” the proceedings with blatant and illegal bias, and a mistrial is the only way to “salvage what is left of the rule of law.”

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2023/11/15/former-president-donald-trumps-legal-team-files-mistrial-motion-in-ny-fraud-case-n2166398

They cited as grounds the extensive consultations that Engoron has with Greenfield, who has been accused of making donations to Democrats in excess of legal limits, and something new: they discovered that Engoron has been writing posts on a Wheatley School alumni page that he appears to run, referencing the case and people involved in it, include Eric Trump, Donald Trump and his attorney Alina Habba. They point out that under New York legal code, “a judge shall not make any public comment about a pending or impending proceeding in any court within the United States or its territories.” Sounds like the judge should have put a gag order on himself.

If this were a real trial rather than the kangaroo variety, I’d say that was a slamdunk argument for a mistrial, but don’t be surprised if it’s denied. It will be more ammunition to overturn it all on appeal, though.


Eric Trump blasts NYC lawfare tactics

After being forced to testify that he had nothing to do with property valuations on loan contracts, Eric Trump blasted New York City and the lawfare tactics of its rabidly partisan Attorney General Letitia James, who seems unable to find any real crime in New York to prosecute. Eric warned any business people that it’s now impossible to do business in New York because if their attorney general doesn’t like your politics, she’ll try to destroy your business by charging you with phony crimes that nobody complained about.

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-jr-skewers-new-york-city-exits-courthouse-says-begging-guys-like-donald-trump-return/

Maybe you think that’s self-serving or hyperbolic, but tell it to Pepsi. As Bonchie at Redstate.com reports, Pepsi went all-in on pandering to the left and genuflecting to wokeness after the George Floyd riots. And here’s how the left is repaying them: 

New York Attorney General Letitia James just announced a massive lawsuit against Pepsi, blaming them for plastic pollution in the Buffalo River, apparently because Pepsi consumers don’t dispose of their bottles properly. And it’s all Pepsi’s fault, apparently, just like it’s the gun maker’s fault when someone uses a gun to kill somebody. Or if they use a hammer, it’s Home Depot’s fault.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/15/big-business-learns-the-hard-way-why-you-dont-sell-out-to-woke-democrats-n2166388

Between businesses fleeing Democrat-run cities because of the epidemic theft, and businesses fleeing Democrat-run states because of the weaponized leftist legal systems, it may soon be as hard to find a Pepsi in New York as it is to find a Walgreens in San Francisco.

 


Nikki Haley vs Trump

I’ve been intending to get around to answering a comment from a reader, asking why I support Trump when the primaries haven’t even started yet and polls show that Nikki Haley would be more likely to beat Biden. The first part of my answer is that I’ve warned for years that nobody should make any decisions based on polls taken a year before an election. In fact, just by procrastinating a few days, that point about Nikki Haley seems to have been nullified.

https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2023/11/16/the-morning-briefing-so-much-for-nikkimentum-n4923948/

I back Trump because I think he was a fine President; that the attacks against him and his supporters have been false, hysterical and unconstitutional; and that having been through what he has, he’s the candidate with the most knowledge, experience and incentive to actually do something about fixing Biden's messes and cleaning up the cancerous partisan corruption.

While I appreciate the commenter thinking that my opinion carries weight, I don’t seriously believe that my endorsement would sway enough voters to determine who wins the GOP primary (if it did, I’d be President.) Any of the GOP candidates would be exponentially better than letting the Democrats stay in power for another four, possibly irreversible years. And let me assure you that while I back Trump, if for some reason he’s not the nominee, then I will work night and day to assure that whoever is replaces Joe Biden. I hope every one of you will make the same vow. When the future of America is at stake, it’s no time to take your ball and go home if you don’t get exactly what you want.


 Now that we know for sure…

I haven’t commented yet on that huge fire in Los Angeles that shut down one of the major traffic arteries because the cause wasn’t yet determined. I suspected it would be due to either incompetent or negligent government, but I hated to say such things until we knew for sure.

Now we know for sure.

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/11/15/the-very-stupid-reason-for-that-devastating-los-angeles-freeway-fire-n4923926

Stephen Green at PJ Media has more on what hecalls “the bone-crushing stupidity” of allowing businesses to stuff underpasses “full of kindling and flammable goo,” while letting it cohabitate with “unpoliced homeless encampments filled with vagrants, addicts, and the mentally ill.” 


Awakening The Woke Church

By 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. 

 


Surprise, surprise:  Biden not to be charged in mishandling classified documents

Did anyone think it would turn out differently?  It didn’t exactly take a psychic to predict that neither President Biden nor anyone on his team would be charged by this “Justice” Department after classified documents from Biden’s time as Vice President, and even as a U.S. senator, were discovered in the personal library of his home in Wilmington, his garage, his beach house, his non-secure office in DC at the Penn Biden Center (funded by China), a warehouse in Chinatown and his Boston attorney’s office.  Special Counsel Robert Hur says he’ll be “critical” in the final report he writes, but that’s all that comes of this.  Another bleeping report.

With this timing, the decision to close the case with no charges filed could not be more stark in its comparison with Trump’s Mar-A-Lago “classified” documents case.  (We put quotation marks around the word “classified” in his case because Trump claims to have declassified those materials under his authority as President.  Biden had no such authority as Vice President or Senator; documents from that time marked as classified remain classified to this day.)

The treatment of the two Presidents was vastly different from the start, with Trump being subjected to the shocking, unprecedented armed FBI raid of his home.  Compare the figurative slap in the face Trump got with Biden’s kid-glove treatment, as his attorneys were allowed to shuffle through papers at their leisure, all by themselves.  (Recall that Hillary had gotten the kid gloves, too, during the “investigation” --- have to trot out the quotation marks again --- of her possession of tens of thousands of subpoenaed documents, over a hundred of them classified, on a non-secure personal server and her blatant obstruction of justice in having them deleted and/or physically destroyed.)

Remember what then-FBI Director James Comey said during his infamous announcement on July 5, 2016 that saved Hillary’s presidential candidacy: “Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.”

The Trump and Biden cases do have some differences, and in some ways the Biden case looks much more serious.  To be in possession of classified documents from before he was President, Biden had to have essentially smuggled them out.  Another unique aspect of the Biden case: son Hunter Biden, who had business with foreign entities including some controlled by the Chinese Communist Party and other adversaries of the U.S., was living at Joe Biden’s house while classified material was kept there.  While Trump’s documents at Mar-A-Lago were behind a secure, locked door on a property guarded by both Secret Service and private security, Biden’s documents were lying around the garage where Hunter would go to take Joe’s ‘vette for a spin.  If Hunter didn’t crib from classified State Department analyses for his communications with business associates, maybe he just used them for rolling papers.

Kidding aside, we don’t know that he did.  The point is, he COULD have.

NO case will be brought against the “Big Guy” by this DOJ, as run by Attorney General Merrick Garland and his Obama-holdover deputy Lisa Monaco.  In sweeping banana-republic style, it has diverted essentially all its resources to the persecution of former President and current presidential candidate Donald Trump, and his supporters as well.  Thanks to whistleblowers at the IRS and FBI, we know some officials there are even trying to purge Trump supporters from its own ranks.

As we commented yesterday, this “Justice” Department is not doing its job, and so that job has fallen to the GOP-led House Committees and the Republicans on Senate Committees.  It sure is a good thing Congress has the constitutional responsibility of oversight, because the Executive Branch is out of control and needs oversight like never before.

In fact, just a few days ago, on November 13, the House Oversight Committee subpoenaed former White House Counsel Dana Remus to appear for a deposition concerning the way Biden aides handled the classified documents.  Recall that one of those aides was Kathy Chung, who now works in the Defense Department as an aide to Lloyd Austin but who previously was then-VP Biden’s aide, recommended to the VP by son Hunter.  Here’s something very interesting that investigative reporter Paul Sperry turned up on her in June of this year.  His piece is a must-read.  By default, it’s going to fall to Congress to look further into any national security implications...

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/06/08/key_player_in_biden_documents_removal_was_caught_up_in_bill_clinton-era_chinagate_scandal_897961.html

As Sperry reports, Chung worked at the Commerce Department during the Clinton administration --- Hunter knew her even back then --- and was a witness in the investigation of China-born banker and Clinton donor John Huang and was suspected of covering up for him.  Huang was suspected of trading government secrets and access to China.  In 1999, he pleaded guilty to a felony violation of campaign finance laws for arranging illegal foreign donations to Bill Clinton and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in exchange for one year of probation, when he could have received five years in prison.  If you don’t recall Clinton’s “Chinagate” scandal, Sperry’s piece offers a refresher.

“While Donald Trump and Mike Pence are also under investigation for removing classified documents from the White House and storing them at their private residences,” Sperry wrote, “GOP congressional investigators say comparisons to Trump and Pence miss the point.  In interviews with [RealClear Investigations], they insisted that Biden’s document scandal is potentially more serious than just mishandling state secrets.  They suspect it could mushroom into a counterespionage case involving China and national security, though the White House dismisses such speculation as ‘baseless.’”

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL had the story of the Biden case being closed without charges on Thursday afternoon before an official announcement was made.  “Hur is expected to prepare a report with harsh criticism of how Biden and his aides handled classified documents,” James Lynch at the DAILY CALLER reported, “but his investigation is not expected to result in criminal charges.”  Hur’s team says it hopes to have that report finished by the end of this year.  They interviewed about 100 people, including Hunter Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, former White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/16/robert-hur-biden-classified-docs-unlikely-charge-anybody

Here’s Sean Hannity’s commentary from Thursday night.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6341275682112

Guests Alan Dershowitz and Gregg Jarrett weigh in as well in this must-watch segment.  As they see it, the differences in the treatment of these two Presidents by our “justice” system --- here come those quotation marks again --- are about clear as it gets, in an administration that’s relentlessly out to get Trump.  Dershowitz is at his most outspoken yet.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6341276484112


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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 14th 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 6th 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.

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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DAILY BIBLE VERSE

The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

Nahum 1:7



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 7th-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.


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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

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/

“We are all Jews here”

November 13, 2023

October 7, savages from the terrorist group Hamas went on a killing spree targeting unarmed civilians in Israel and murdering over 1200 Jews in cold blood.  The barbaric nature of the killings shocked the sensibilities of anyone with a conscience, which means it didn’t shock or even bother such vile antisemitic Jew-hating radicals like Rashida Tlaib or most of the faculty of Ivy League schools like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.  In fact, leave it to the far left to try and blame Israel for the psychopathic behavior of Iran-sponsored Hamas and their Palestinian enablers.

Large rallies in cities across the world like New York, London, Paris, and Washington, DC showed support for Palestinians and ignored the atrocities suffered by innocent Israeli civilians.  The horrors inflicted upon them such a placing live babies in ovens, ripping open the womb of an Israeli woman who was 4 months pregnant, raping women repeatedly and violently in front of their children, or setting elderly people on fire while they were confined to wheelchairs are just some of the acts these precious souls were subjected to.  Some have called the beheading of babies in their cribs as that of animals, but animals don’t viciously kill for sport or for the purpose of causing unspeakable pain.  There is something else going on here.  And it’s not new.  Jews have been targeted for extinction going back to the time of Abraham when God chose the descendants of Isaac to inherit the land and to be designated as God’s chosen people. 

Hating and wishing to annihilate Jews is irrational.  There are only about 16 million Jews in the entire world, making up 0.2% of the world’s population.  Just over 7 million Jews live in Israel and slightly more Jews than that live in the US.  So why would such a small minority of people be so hated and targeted not merely for isolation and harassment, but for systematic elimination?  There is no rational answer.  But there IS an answer:  It’s not political, geographical, economic, or religious.  It’s the result of spiritual darkness that originated in the very bowels of hell.  It’s the ultimate enmity between God and Satan, and we need to see it for what it is and be willing to resist this manifestation of sheer evil.

I’m not a Jew, but without hesitation or reluctance, I stand with the Jews and oppose the attempts to marginalize or murder them.  I recognize that the hate toward them is really hate toward God for having chosen them and blessed them.  Hate crimes against Jews just in the US are up 200%. 

After the Battle of the Bulge in WW II, a group of over 1000 US troops were captured by the Nazis and placed in the Ziegenhein Stalag.   In January of 1945, the Nazi commandant ordered the America Jewish soldiers to separate from the other captives.  The ranking American in the camp was Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds who hailed from Knoxville, TN.  He ordered everyone of the American soldiers to fall out in formation when the Jews were ordered to report.  The shocked Nazi Major demanded that Sgt. Edmonds identify which ones were Jews.  Sgt. Edmonds said, “We are ALL Jews here.” 

The incensed German commander took a pistol and held it tight to Edmonds head and threatened to shoot him if he didn’t identify the Jews who would surely be murdered if identified.  Sgt. Edmonds gave his name, rank, and serial number and told the Nazi Commandant that he could shoot him, but unless he shot everyone of the over 1000 soldiers, he would be held responsible for the war crime and they all knew who he was and he would pay for his crimes when the Allies won the war.  The Nazi officer then withdrew.  The courage of Sgt. Edmonds to declare that all of the soldiers were Jews had saved the lives of 200 of actual Jews in captivity.  Sgt. Edmonds risked his life when he defied the order to identify the Jews and boldly declared, “We are all Jews here.”  70 years later, Sgt. Edmonds would be the first ever US serviceman to be named a “Righteous Among the Nations” at Yad Vashem.  There are now thousands of children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren of those 200 Jewish soldiers who instead of being turned over to the Germans to be murdered, were instead saved by the heroic act of a farm boy from Tennessee turned soldier who ultimately came home, led a good life and was father to Chris Edmonds, who became a Baptist Pastor in Maryville, TN.

So as we witness the unspeakable evils being inflicted upon Jews in Israel and around the world, I pray we will all summon the courage to stand with those who Satan has targeted and defy the evil and say, “We are ALL Jews here.”

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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

Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

8 It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.

Psalm 118:8


Downgraded

Friday, Moody’s Investors Service kept the US government’s credit rating at AAA, saying they expect the US to “retain its exceptional economic strength” for the near future. But Moody’s lowered its ratings outlook for the US from stable to negative. They cited rising risks to the nation’s financial stability, including high interest rates and no effective policies to reduce deficits or increase revenues.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/10/moodys-cuts-usa-outlook-to-negative-citing-higher-interest-rates-and-deficits.html

The Biden White House denied Moody’s findings, claiming the economy is doing great, and Biden spokeswoman Katrine Jean-Pierre blamed Moody’s negative outlook on the economy on “Congressional Republican extremism.” You know, the only people in Washington who are actually trying to reduce deficits.

Hey, totally unrelated to all that, I’m sure, is the news that, thanks to high interest rates and out-of-control spending, the interest alone on the national debt will top $1 trillion this year for the first time in history.

https://thehill.com/business/4301871-annual-interest-payments-on-us-debt-cross-1t-bloomberg/


“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 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.


FBI seizes NYC Mayor’s electronic devices

In a stunning turn of events, the FBI ordered New York Major Eric Adams’ security to stand aside at a public event as they entered Adams' SUV, presented him with a warrant and seized his electronic devices. It’s reportedly part of an investigation into his 2021 campaign. Seven people who fundraised for Adams have already been indicted on various counts. This, along with the generally terrible state of New York City, is sparking calls for Adams to resign.

https://www.westernjournal.com/fbi-seizes-democratic-mayors-ipad-mobile-phones-discovers-folder-another-seized-device-interesting-name/

On the other hand, this aggressive action, along with leaks about the case to the press, are also fueling speculation that this could be more weaponized lawfare by the corrupt Biden FBI against a political enemy. Adams is a fellow Democrat, but he’s also dared to slam Biden for the open border that’s unleashed a flood of illegal aliens into the Big Apple.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/10/fbi-seize-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-phones-speculation-of-biden-payback-runs-rampant-n2166167

Before anyone accuses us of spreading “conspiracy theories,” let me make it clear that I’m not accusing the FBI, I’m just reporting that a lot of people are voicing these suspicions. Personally, I wish that the FBI still had such a sterling reputation for being impartial and incorruptible as to make such speculation absurd. The fact that it no longer does, and that it’s so easy to question its motives, is a result of FBI leadership destroying the agency’s reputation. Don't blame the messenger; they did that all by themselves.



 

Strike three

After Tuesday’s electoral disaster for Republicans, the latest in a string of losses despite the Democrats being truly horrible at running anything, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel is facing angry calls to resign from a number of prominent Republicans. She was nearly ousted before, but Trump’s backing saved her, so now there are calls for Trump to use his experience at saying, “You’re fired.” So far, McDaniel is refusing to resign. She dismissed her critics as a “divisive Twitter mob” and denies blame for the losses. But her critics accuse her of spending RNC funds as if they were her own instead of spending to turn out voters in key races.

One of the worst losses came in Virginia, where Republicans hoped to win the Senate and not only failed, they also lost their Assembly majority. It’s now the center of a mystery: McDaniel claimed the RNC didn’t get involved there at Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s request, even though the Democrats outspent Republicans by $8 million. But Virginia state GOP chair Rich Anderson claims he asked McDaniel for funds weeks before the election and was denied. If the Republicans had turned out just a couple thousand more votes, they would’ve won.

https://www.westernjournal.com/video-ronna-mcdaniel-claims-rnc-wasnt-needed-virginia-gop-outspent-8m/

As John Haughey at the Epoch Times points out, since Trump appointed her in 2017, her salary has tripled while the GOP “lost the House in 2018, the presidency in 2020, the Senate in 2022, and everywhere but Mississippi and Louisiana in 2023’s limited slate of off-year elections.” I don’t know the truth about this particular “he said/she said” mystery. But I do know that even the highest-paid baseball player only gets three strikes before he's out.


Texas Archbishop is removed

Pope Francis has abruptly removed Texas Archbishop Joseph Strickland from his duties in the archdiocese of Tyler for, as far as I can tell, committing the sin of being an actual Catholic.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/11/pope-francis-bishop-joseph-strickland-social-media-hit-vatican-investigation-diocese-tyler-texas/


Veterans day is for promoting Veterans

Sounds as if this Washington State elementary school’s officials could use a reminder of how important Veterans’ Day is, and that it’s far more important to honor our veterans than to promote UN propaganda and DEI doubletalk.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/wa-elementary-school-veteransday-unday


Here is today’s page of continually updated news on the war in Israel from Fox News…

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/november-10-israel-hamas-war

The IDF reported this morning that since the offensive in Gaza began, they’ve targeted more than 15,000 terrorist targets and destroyed or confiscated over 6,000 weapons, including firearms, rockets, anti-tank missiles, anti-aircraft missiles and explosive devices. I would add that all of these dangerous devices were being hidden in close proximity to Palestinian civilians, but it’s supposedly Israel that doesn’t care about the safety of the Palestinians.  

Here in America, the Biden White House announced that Israel had agreed to a daily, four-hour “humanitarian pause” in its Gaza offensive, a claim that Israel quickly denied. The IDF said they will have “tactical pauses,” limited in time and area, to allow aid delivery to civilians and to let civilians evacuate, but not a daily, four-hour ceasefire, during which Hamas would no doubt regroup.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/11/09/embarrassing-biden-admin-announces-pauses-in-israeli-war-but-israel-sweeps-leg-on-that-claim-n2166114

Leftist elites continue to show their true colors, with a Jewish student building at Boston University being defaced with pro-Palestinian graffiti, and the Washington Post retracting an editorial cartoon that accurately depicted a Hamas spokesman accusing Israel of attacking civilians while shielding himself with a woman and some children tied all over his body. This reportedly caused an “internal uproar” among some staffers and readers, resulting in the opinion editor deleting it and issuing a groveling apology for not realizing it would be “divisive.”

FYI: If you find it “divisive” to speak the irrefutable truth that Hamas are a bunch of terrorists who use civilians as human shields, then you must have a lot of staffers and readers who are divided from reality.


“Beneath contempt”

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


“We are all Jews here”

October 7, savages from the terrorist group Hamas went on a killing spree targeting unarmed civilians in Israel and murdering over 1200 Jews in cold blood.  The barbaric nature of the killings shocked the sensibilities of anyone with a conscience, which means it didn’t shock or even bother such vile antisemitic Jew-hating radicals like Rashida Tlaib or most of the faculty of Ivy League schools like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.  In fact, leave it to the far left to try and blame Israel for the psychopathic behavior of Iran-sponsored Hamas and their Palestinian enablers.

Large rallies in cities across the world like New York, London, Paris, and Washington, DC showed support for Palestinians and ignored the atrocities suffered by innocent Israeli civilians.  The horrors inflicted upon them such a placing live babies in ovens, ripping open the womb of an Israeli woman who was 4 months pregnant, raping women repeatedly and violently in front of their children, or setting elderly people on fire while they were confined to wheelchairs are just some of the acts these precious souls were subjected to.  Some have called the beheading of babies in their cribs as that of animals, but animals don’t viciously kill for sport or for the purpose of causing unspeakable pain.  There is something else going on here.  And it’s not new.  Jews have been targeted for extinction going back to the time of Abraham when God chose the descendants of Isaac to inherit the land and to be designated as God’s chosen people. 

Hating and wishing to annihilate Jews is irrational.  There are only about 16 million Jews in the entire world, making up 0.2% of the world’s population.  Just over 7 million Jews live in Israel and slightly more Jews than that live in the US.  So why would such a small minority of people be so hated and targeted not merely for isolation and harassment, but for systematic elimination?  There is no rational answer.  But there IS an answer:  It’s not political, geographical, economic, or religious.  It’s the result of spiritual darkness that originated in the very bowels of hell.  It’s the ultimate enmity between God and Satan, and we need to see it for what it is and be willing to resist this manifestation of sheer evil.

I’m not a Jew, but without hesitation or reluctance, I stand with the Jews and oppose the attempts to marginalize or murder them.  I recognize that the hate toward them is really hate toward God for having chosen them and blessed them.  Hate crimes against Jews just in the US are up 200%. 

After the Battle of the Bulge in WW II, a group of over 1000 US troops were captured by the Nazis and placed in the Ziegenhein Stalag.   In January of 1945, the Nazi commandant ordered the America Jewish soldiers to separate from the other captives.  The ranking American in the camp was Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds who hailed from Knoxville, TN.  He ordered everyone of the American soldiers to fall out in formation when the Jews were ordered to report.  The shocked Nazi Major demanded that Sgt. Edmonds identify which ones were Jews.  Sgt. Edmonds said, “We are ALL Jews here.” 

The incensed German commander took a pistol and held it tight to Edmonds head and threatened to shoot him if he didn’t identify the Jews who would surely be murdered if identified.  Sgt. Edmonds gave his name, rank, and serial number and told the Nazi Commandant that he could shoot him, but unless he shot everyone of the over 1000 soldiers, he would be held responsible for the war crime and they all knew who he was and he would pay for his crimes when the Allies won the war.  The Nazi officer then withdrew.  The courage of Sgt. Edmonds to declare that all of the soldiers were Jews had saved the lives of 200 of actual Jews in captivity.  Sgt. Edmonds risked his life when he defied the order to identify the Jews and boldly declared, “We are all Jews here.”  70 years later, Sgt. Edmonds would be the first ever US serviceman to be named a “Righteous Among the Nations” at Yad Vashem.  There are now thousands of children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren of those 200 Jewish soldiers who instead of being turned over to the Germans to be murdered, were instead saved by the heroic act of a farm boy from Tennessee turned soldier who ultimately came home, led a good life and was father to Chris Edmonds, who became a Baptist Pastor in Maryville, TN.

So as we witness the unspeakable evils being inflicted upon Jews in Israel and around the world, I pray we will all summon the courage to stand with those who Satan has targeted and defy the evil and say, “We are ALL Jews here.”


“You Asked For It”

Our own Laura Ainsworth sadly did not receive the Grammy nomination she deserved, but she is the subject this week of an interview on the podcast of Cadence Magazine, one of the major jazz publications. Laura talks about her background as the daughter of renowned big band musician Billy Ainsworth, her musical influences, her terrific new album “You Asked For It,” and why she’s made it her mission to try to bring some elegance, class and romance back to this ugly, uncouth era. You can listen to the show here:

CMR 090 -Conversation with Laura Ainsworth - Vocalist - Recorded on November 7, 2023 | Cadence Media Podcasts (bandcamp.com)

Her latest albums are here:

https://lauraainsworth.bandcamp.com

And you’ll find links to all of Laura’s albums and more here:

http://www.lauraainsworth.com


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Huckabee Post: Veterans Day

November 11, 2023

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 7th 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 20th 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/


I Just Wanted to Say

Thank you for reading my newsletter.

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/

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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

Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Jeremiah 29:11



Lawsuit dismissed

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Florida’s ban on “trans” athletes competing on sports teams of the gender they “identify” with (i.e., boys competing on girls’ teams.) The judge found that the law has no animus against anyone for their sexual identity, nor does it deny anyone opportunities, since everyone is free to try out for the team of the gender of their birth. That is, you can “identify” as whatever you want, but if you were born a boy, then play on the boys’ team. It's not rocket science. It's biological science.

https://www.christianpost.com/news/florida-can-ban-boys-from-competing-in-girls-sports-court.html

I’m sure there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth on the left about this “denying opportunities” to “trans” athletes. But why should their opportunity to cheat override the female athletes’ opportunities to score trophies, records and scholarships that were meant for them, not males that are twice their size and strength?


A mandatory “preferred pronoun” policy

The Biden HHS has imposed a mandatory “preferred pronoun” policy that forces employees to use such pronouns or face firing. Roger Severino, Heritage Foundation vice president and former head of civil rights at HHS under Trump, said that this policy requires employees to speak falsehoods, adopt a state-approved ideology, and deny their own religious faith, all of which are violations of the First Amendment.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/new-orwellian-hhs-pronoun-mandate-forces-employees-to-deny-reality-violate-law-legal-expert

But since this Administration is expert at denying reality, they’ll probably just say that it doesn’t violate the First Amendment, or possibly that there’s no such thing as the First Amendment. They’ve obviously been working on that since Biden took office anyway.


Our Moral Superiors, Or Jeffrey Epstein II:

Federal authorities in Boston announced that they had busted a “booming” sex ring that provided “high-end” Asian prostitutes for up to $600 an hour to wealthy, well-connected clients.

https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/11/08/brothel-catering-to-politicians-doctors-lawyers-busted-in-boston

US Attorney Joshua Levy said, “Pick a profession, they’re probably represented in this case,” including, according to a DOJ statement, “elected officials, high tech and pharmaceutical executives, doctors, military officers, government contractors that possess security clearances, professors, attorneys” and others. While three people who allegedly ran the ring were arrested, all the clients remain anonymous and none have been arrested. Although Levy noted that the investigation is “just getting going.” Why do I have a feeling it’s going into the same vault we saw at the end of “Raiders of the Lost Ark”?

Incidentally, all three of the alleged sex ring organizers reportedly walked across our open border to set up their business, so maybe we should add Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas to the list of people who helped set up this sex ring.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/11/09/doj-shutsdown-mayorkas-enabled-prostitution-ring/


At least we’re allowed to know the name of one well-connected sex criminal:

The DOJ announced that ex-CIA officer Brian Jeffrey Raymond pleaded guilty Tuesday to committing dozens of sexual assaults in multiple countries over 14 years of overseas postings. He admitted to drugging and sexually assaulting at least 28 women, and taking nude photos of them while they were unconscious or incapacitated. Townhall.com has more details, which I warn you are very disturbing, including the jaw-dropping defenses he was planning to make before taking a plea deal that will put him in prison for up to 30 years.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/11/08/brian-jeffrey-raymond-guilty-plea-n2630938

Here’s my question: While the DOJ was focused like a laser on investigating bogus charges against Trump, including the Steele Dossier’s transparent lie about Russian prostitutes, how did they manage to miss the fact that one of their own trusted officials was a blatant, serial sex criminal?


 

The “Night of Broken Glass”

Last night marked the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass” that started on November 9, 1938, and continued through the next day, marking what is generally considered the beginning of the Holocaust. This article by Jeff Dunetz about the terror of Kristallnacht and the anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish riots that led up to it is today’s absolute MUST-READ.

https://lidblog.com/kristallnacht-the-begining-of-the-holocaust/ 

Kristallnacht arrived with shocking suddenness, but there had been warnings and other pogroms that should have awakened the world to what was happening in Germany – but they didn’t. Just as people today have been shocked by the seeming out-of-nowhere explosion of anti-Semitism in response to Israel defending itself against a horrific and barbaric attack on its civilian men, women and children.

Some of the loudest voices of anti-Jewish hatred are coming from college students who up until now were so sensitive to discrimination that they claimed “words are violence,” yet now they’re cheering horrifying violence against Jews and chanting for the obliteration of Israel. And it’s not just ignorant students, but their professors who helped fill their empty skulls with this hateful poison.

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/11/08/confirmed-man-suspected-of-killing-paul-kessler-is-loay-alnaji-a-computer-science-professor-n2166076

If you doubt that they’re being misled and miseducated on purpose, just look at this stunning ignorance on public display. Especially note the two female college students protesting for Palestine who are shocked to hear from the interviewer, apparently for the very first time, that Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th.

https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/11/09/watch-college-students-learn-in-real-time-that-hamas-are-the-bad-guys-n2389599

In liberal Los Angeles, Israeli-born actress Gal Gadot (who served in the IDF) hosted a screening of footage of Hamas atrocities to help her colleagues see the truth about Hamas. Ironically, this was at the Museum of Tolerance, where outside, pro-Palestinian protesters tried to shut down the showing of the film and brawled with pro-Israel protesters (the brawls reportedly instigated by the pro-Palestinian side, surprise-surprise.)  

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/11/09/watch-brawl-outside-museum-of-tolerance-as-anti-israel-activists-protest-gal-gadot-showing-film-of-hamas-atrocities/

We’re even hearing anti-Semitism openly spewed by members of Congress like Rashida Tlaib, who was deservedly censured, but it’s almost as big a scandal that only 22 of her fellow Democrats refused to side with her. And no wonder they’re scared: a new Issues & Insights/TIPP poll found that one in five Democrats side with Hamas.

https://issuesinsights.com/2023/11/08/shock-one-in-five-democrats-side-with-hamas-ii-tipp-poll/  

So yes, it CAN happen here. It’s already happening even in New York City, with one of the largest Jewish populations in the US. Thursday, anti-Israel protesters climbed statues at the New York Public Library and swarmed Blackrock headquarters and the lobby of the New York Times, smashing a police car and spray-painting “Free Gaza.” They accused Israel of committing genocide with no mention of the genocide Hamas just committed, or any thoughts that their chant of “From the river to the sea” is a call for the genocidal elimination of Israel.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/11/09/watch-anti-israel-protest-occupy-blackrock-and-the-ny-times-n2166137

It’s no surprise that the NYPD just reported that there were 69 hate crimes against Jews in October, up 214% over last October.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/11/09/nyc-hate-crimes-against-jewish-people-shot-up-214-percent-in-october-n2166138

Someone made the very good point that all these pro-Palestinian protests seem to be marked by violence, while pro-Israel protests are peaceful, unless they’re attacked by pro-Palestinian protesters. That’s the perfect microcosm of what’s happening in Israel right now.

As recently as six weeks ago, nobody could have predicted this shocking rise in open anti-Semitic violence. Well, aside from those of us who’ve been paying attention and warning for years against appeasing the enemies of Israel and allowing wide open borders and unlimited immigration of people who have vastly different cultures and refuse to assimilate and adopt tolerant Western values. Or those of us who have been warning of the dangers of letting leftists take over our schools and warp our youth to hate their own culture.

Personally, I think Western values like tolerance are worth fighting for. But we’d better start fighting a lot harder for them before our age of sequels sees a new reboot of Kristallnacht.


Here is today’s page of continually updated news on the war in Israel from Fox News…

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/november-10-israel-hamas-war

The IDF reported this morning that since the offensive in Gaza began, they’ve targeted more than 15,000 terrorist targets and destroyed or confiscated over 6,000 weapons, including firearms, rockets, anti-tank missiles, anti-aircraft missiles and explosive devices. I would add that all of these dangerous devices were being hidden in close proximity to Palestinian civilians, but it’s supposedly Israel that doesn’t care about the safety of the Palestinians.  

Here in America, the Biden White House announced that Israel had agreed to a daily, four-hour “humanitarian pause” in its Gaza offensive, a claim that Israel quickly denied. The IDF said they will have “tactical pauses,” limited in time and area, to allow aid delivery to civilians and to let civilians evacuate, but not a daily, four-hour ceasefire, during which Hamas would no doubt regroup.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/11/09/embarrassing-biden-admin-announces-pauses-in-israeli-war-but-israel-sweeps-leg-on-that-claim-n2166114

Leftist elites continue to show their true colors, with a Jewish student building at Boston University being defaced with pro-Palestinian graffiti, and the Washington Post retracting an editorial cartoon that accurately depicted a Hamas spokesman accusing Israel of attacking civilians while shielding himself with a woman and some children tied all over his body. This reportedly caused an “internal uproar” among some staffers and readers, resulting in the opinion editor deleting it and issuing a groveling apology for not realizing it would be “divisive.”

FYI: If you find it “divisive” to speak the irrefutable truth that Hamas are a bunch of terrorists who use civilians as human shields, then you must have a lot of staffers and readers who are divided from reality.


Hamas' propagandists

Related UPDATE: After yesterday’s story about freelance photojournalists in Gaza possibly having advance notice of Hamas’ October 7th attack and doing nothing to warn anyone but just taking photos of the carnage, CNN and the AP immediately cut ties with them. But the New York Times put out an eye-popping statement attacking the outlet that reported the story, claiming these “reckless allegations” might put their reporters in Gaza at risk, and insisting that “the Times has extensively covered the Oct. 7 attacks and the war with fairness, impartiality, and an abiding understanding of the complexities of the conflict.”

So they covered a genocide with “fairness and impartiality”? Well, give them another Pulitzer Prize to put next to their whitewash of Stalin’s deliberate famines.

Bonchie at Redstate.com has much more on this, including reminders that the “journalists” in Gaza are actually propagandists who slant stories and censor photos to cover for Hamas, and the "fair and impartial" New York Times was one of the first outlets to spread the fake news that Israel bombed a hospital and killed 500 people.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/09/the-nyts-puts-out-astonishing-statement-on-photojournalist-who-was-with-hamas-during-terror-attack-n2166134

 


Important reminder:

Tomorrow is Veterans’ Day. Be sure to fly your flag as a symbol of thanks and respect for our veterans who put their lives on the line to safeguard our freedom. And check local community calendars for an event you can attend to show your support and gratitude. Here’s an article with more information about Veterans Day.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/is-today-veterans-day-what-to-know-about-when-the-federal-holiday-is-observed-for-2023/3274785/

 


Impeachment inquiry update:  still more subpoenas to Biden associates

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/


I Just Wanted to Say

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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." 

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 11th 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.

 

Two new J6 stories

November 9, 2023

I shudder to think how much we might know about the January 6th Capitol riot if we’d had a legitimate January 6th 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 6th. Maybe someday, we’ll actually get one out of Congress.

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

 


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 7th.

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 7th, 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 7th, 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 11th 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 14th 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." 


 

Is This Even News?

Hillary Clinton compared Donald Trump to Hitler and claimed it will be the end of America if he gets elected in 2024, I guess like it was the end of America when he got elected in 2016 instead of Hillary.

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/11/08/watch-hillary-drops-hitler-card-on-trump-waxes-histrionic-about-end-of-our-country-if-he-wins-in-2024-n2166065

This might be more persuasive if Democrats hadn’t compared every Republican candidate since Thomas Dewey to Hitler, and if a large portion of their own base hadn’t suddenly revealed themselves to be admirers of Der Fuhrer and his work on the Holocaust.

Kurt Schlichter has more on the Democrats’ existential problem that half their base want to murder the other half of their base, and their leadership is so scared, no more than 22 of their House members had the guts to vote to censure Rashida Tlaib for spewing blood libels and chants for the eradication of Israel.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/11/09/think-the-gop-has-problems-meet-the-democrats-n2630892


A couple of rays of sunshine on the local race front from Tuesday’s dismal election results…

In Loudoun County, Virginia, voters barely elected a Republican DA over a Soros-backed Democrat. Maybe they’ll now have someone who will actually prosecute the sexual assault of female high school students, and hopefully, any school board members who aid and abet them.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/08/republican-challenger-declares-victory-over-soros-backed-prosecutor/

Meanwhile, some surprise victories for Republicans in New York. A surprise because I assumed all the Republicans had already moved out of New York.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gop-flips-new-york-seat-held-democrats-20-years-political-earthquake


Two new J6 stories

I shudder to think how much we might know about the January 6th Capitol riot if we’d had a legitimate January 6th 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 6th. 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


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BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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

Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

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John 14:6



A bad omen for 2024

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


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Here are the latest updates on the war in Israel from Fox News:

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

Israeli forces continue to press into Gaza as the UN estimates that 15,000 people have fled south. The IDF announced that it had killed Moshen Abu Zina, one of Hamas’ top weapons manufacturers, in an airstrike. Meanwhile, former Trump National Security Council official Richard Goldberg said that despite sending US warships to the Middle East, President Biden is doing nothing to deter Iran from backing groups that are attacking US troops and his continued pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran and unfreezing their assets is sending a message of weakness and appeasement.


Incidents of anti-Semitism are on the rise

Around the world, incidents of anti-Semitism are on the rise. In a scene scarily reminiscent of World War II, French authorities are investigating the painting of Stars of David on properties around Paris by a Moldovan couple.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/duo-painted-stars-of-david-in-alleged-intimidation-as-antisemitic-acts-have-exploded-reports

Gun store owners told Fox News that they’re seeing a growing number of Jewish customers buying guns and signing up for firearms training to protect themselves.

Speaking of people who are firing up boneheads to anti-Semitic violence, Tuesday, in a bipartisan vote of 234-188 (22 Democrats supporting and four Republicans opposing), the House voted to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib for “promoting false narratives regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and for calling for the destruction of the state of Israel.” That includes falsely blaming Israel for allegedly bombing a hospital and refusing to apologize, even after the story was debunked. She also posted a video of the chant “From the river to the sea,” which is universally understood to be a call for the eradication of Israel, and ludicrously claiming it was an “aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/rashida-tlaib-breaks-tears-house-floor-attempts-make-victim/

It’s ironic that some Republicans who voted no did so out of concern that the censure would infringe on free speech, but if you thought it would stop Tlaib from spewing more nonsense, you’re sadly mistaken. With her fellow “Squad” members comforting her, Tlaib gave a tearful speech defending herself that made it all about her being the victim, calling for a ceasefire and calling Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu an “extremist,” but with zero mention of the Hamas terrorists who tortured, raped and murdered hundreds of Israelis on October 7th.

For all the drama, censure isn’t really much of a punishment. Here’s the description of what it entails from Wikipedia: "In the House of Representatives, censure is essentially a form of public humiliation carried out on the House floor. As the Speaker of the House reads out a resolution rebuking a member for a specified misconduct, that member must stand in the House well and listen to it. This process has been described as a morality play in miniature.

In short, it’s a public shaming, a morality play for people with no morals. And since it’s most recently been aimed at people like Tlaib and Adam Schiff who are completely shameless, it’s of limited effectiveness. Just hope and pray that by the next election, voters in her district will come to their senses and use their removal power to cleanse the House of her for real.


Must-Read:

An article on why so many Californians are fleeing the state, not for Florida or Texas but for Arkansas. It’s written by the state’s outstanding new Governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/why-people-leaving-california-arkansas

I have two messages to all the Californians moving to Arkansas:

1. Welcome!

2. Don’t vote the way Californians do and ruin my home state.



 

Overpaid

Last night, the House approved a measure to slash “Transportation Secretary” Pete Buttigieg’s salary to $1 a year. I know what you’re thinking: yes, he’d still be overpaid.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-approves-bill-slashing-pete-buttigiegs-salary-1-dollar

The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene agrees, saying she doesn’t think he deserves one penny. Under his “leadership,” the US has suffered multiple train derailments, airline cancellations and supply chain disruptions, while he seemingly does nothing (he kicked off the job by taking months of parental leave, and nobody even noticed he was gone.)

Greene said that for Buttigieg, the job is “all about fake photo ops and taxpayer-funded private jet trips to accept LGBTQ awards.” She said, “Pothole Pete staged fake bike rides to the White House and used private planes funded by taxpayers to receive awards for the way certain people have sex. American taxpayers should not be on the hook for paying for his lavish trips or his salary."

I wholeheartedly agree, but sadly, this will never pass the Democrat Senate or be signed by President Biden. Can you imagine any of them taking a public stand that federal officials should be paid what they’re actually worth?


Out

Instapundit notes that the hilarious CNN euphemism for riots (“fiery but peaceful protests”) is out. The new buzz term to cover violence and vandalism by pro-Palestinian protesters is “passionate protests.” As long as you’re “passionate,” anything goes. Unless you’re passionate about supporting Trump, that is.

https://instapundit.com/615720/


Quote of the Day:

Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz was asked about Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s outrageous claim that the chant “From the river to the sea” is an “aspirational call for freedom, human rights, and peaceful coexistence.” His response: “‘From the river to the sea’ means the destruction of Israel and everyone who’s in it, okay? Just like ‘Mein Kampf’ is not a coloring book and the final solution means exactly what Hitler meant it to mean.”


Crowder releases “manifesto” excerpts

Monday, Steven Crowder released excerpts from what he claimed to be the long-suppressed “manifesto” of Covenant School mass shooter Audrey Hale. It was not a sad portrait of an oppressed trans person that “did not include specific political, religious or social issues (the narrative we’ve been led to believe.) Instead, the excerpts painted a sick portrait of someone so fired up by hatred of kids with “white privilege” that she was reveling in the chance to murder as many of the little blonde “crackers” as possible.

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/11/06/tn-bureau-investigation-wont-confirm-purported-leak-covenant-school-shooters-journal-sneering-victims-white-privilege/

I’m not going to go into a lot of detail on this story yet because there are conflicting reports and charges about whether it’s authentic or parts are taken out of context (if this is true, what possible “context” could alter its meaning?) Some pundits noted that Nashville authorities’ reaction was to launch an investigation into the leak, which you wouldn’t think they’d do if it weren’t authentic. If it is authentic, then it’s already out there, so why not release the entire thing and let the public make up their own minds, especially if the narrative is not what we’ve been told and the shooter was actually fired up by all the divisive, racist, anti-white rhetoric from the left? Why be afraid of sunlight and truth?


In closed-door hearing, Weiss’ testimony supports claim of IRS whistleblowers

Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who is now special counsel in the Hunter Biden tax/finance case, sat for a transcribed interview Tuesday with the House Judiciary Committee.  There were no cameras in the room --- presumably because this testimony would involve an ongoing investigation --- but the committee posted afterwards that Jim Jordan had told reporters this:

“When [Weiss] was specifically asked, did you ever request special counsel authority under Section 515, Mr. Weiss’s response was yes, in the spring of 2022.  So that goes to the heart of the matter.”

Weiss said the authority was not given, and so he “never had that authority throughout the time and yet he pretends that somehow he did have that.”  And then finally, in August, “he gets special counsel status when he requests that from the Attorney General.”

Jordan said that Weiss “won’t answer a lot of questions,” but that the “key takeaway” is that his original request for that authority was denied by Main Justice, just as whistleblower Gary Shapley had said in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee in May.

“So once again,” Jordan told reporters, “Shapley and Ziegler’s testimony continues to stand up to every single witness we brought in for an interview.”  A trove of documents released by the House Ways and Means Committee supports their testimony as well.

https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1721980735681130606?ref

This does throw some shade on the changing story that came from Merrick Garland, who had tried to maintain that Weiss had “ultimate authority” all along.  All the other testimony is showing Weiss did not.

A note of clarification:  Special ATTORNEY authority and special COUNSEL authority are two different things.  As the DAILY CALLER explains, “Special attorney authority under Section 515 would have authorized Weiss’ office to level charges against Hunter Biden outside of his district without needing to collaborate with the U.S. Attorneys in those jurisdictions.”  In July, Weiss wrote a letter to South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham saying he did not request special counsel authority.  He alluded to internal discussions about Section 515 special attorney authority without disclosing the results of those discussions.”

Weiss had asked for special attorney authority after having been denied cooperation by U.S. Attorney for DC Matthew Graves on bringing tax charges against Hunter in his district.  (There’s news about conflicts of interest regarding the Biden-appointed Graves elsewhere in the newsletter, in today’s January 6 update.)

Graves testified before the Judiciary Committee in October and did confirm his decision not to cooperate with Weiss on bringing charges against Hunter.  Again, Graves WAS APPOINTED BY JOE BIDEN.  This confirms whistleblower Shapley’s testimony a few months back… 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-appointed-dc-us-attorney-quashed-hunter-s-felony-tax-charges-irs-whistleblower-testifies/ar-AA1e5nqz

The U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, Martin Estrada, who also refused to cooperate with Weiss on bringing charges against Hunter, WAS ALSO APPOINTED BY JOE BIDEN.

Prior to his answers yesterday, Weiss seemed to be all over the map about what authority he had and what he asked for at what time.  He told Jordan in a letter dated June 7 of this year that he had “ultimate authority” over charging Hunter, though clearly, he did not, as he had been denied cooperation by Graves in March 2022.  Later in June, Weiss wrote another letter to Jordan in which he admitted his charging authority was geographically limited.

As for Jordan telling reporters after the meeting that Weiss “won’t answer a lot of questions,” we now have to wonder what questions were asked, which ones were answered and which were not.  Most likely, Weiss repeatedly relied on the prosecutor’s standard non-answer: “I can’t comment on an ongoing investigation.”  The Judiciary Committee really should release the transcript and let us see how that played in the hearing room.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/07/hunter-biden-prosecutor-david-weiss-detail-whistleblower-testimony-jim-jordan

Meanwhile, legal analyst Margot Cleveland at THE FEDERALIST has turned her attention to the testimony of another top DOJ official, Stuart Goldberg at the Tax Division.  Her concern is that even though Goldberg has confirmed the accuracy of Shapley and Ziegler’s testimony about the DOJ putting up roadblocks, he still refused to acknowledge that Attorney General Garland and U.S. Attorney Weiss were misleading with their claims that Weiss had ultimate authority.

Instead of letting Weiss and the DOJ stand by their story, she says, Congress needs to stop deferring to that tired “ongoing investigation” excuse for withholding information.  “Oversight Committees,” she says, “should start issuing and enforcing subpoenas to expose the DOJ’s cover-up of Biden family corruption --- and its cover-up of the cover-up.”

Goldberg provided needed clarification in his testimony by saying the Tax Division has authority to decide whether to open a grand jury investigation for felony tax crimes and whether to authorize prosecution for those crimes.  He said the Tax Division even had to approve the specific charges that were brought.  (Translation:  Weiss never did have “ultimate authority” on charging Hunter with those crimes.)  Certain other investigative steps also require a sign-off from the Tax Division.  And even beyond the normal approval procedures required for all tax cases, in a high-profile case such as this, there would be “closer supervision” of the investigation by the Tax Division, including authorization at a higher level than normal.

We had speculated that authorizations for this case were placed squarely at deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco’s level.  And Goldberg’s testimony bears that out, as he said that if the Tax Division refused to bring charges, a U.S. attorney could “appeal” that decisions to...the deputy attorney general!  Goldberg said this had happened only once in the past three years.

But Cleveland points out something of concern that happened during Goldberg’s testimony about this.  When he was asked specifically whether the Tax Division had recommended criminal felony charges in 2022, Goldberg’s attorney --- a “Justice” Department lawyer --- directed him not to answer the question.

So the Judiciary Committee took a different approach: “Between DOJ Tax and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware, who would you say is the primary decision-maker on this case with regard to the tax component?”

Goldberg tried to threat the needle, saying that from his perspective, Weiss and his office were “leading” the case and “running” the case, and that “Tax Division had responsibilities under the Justice Department procedures and policies to review certain things,” but that “any disagreement or difference of opinion...would have to be decided by someone in higher authority.”

Is that muddled enough for you?  It gets worse:  after Goldberg concedes that Weiss was not the ultimate authority, he weasels out of acknowledging the obvious when confronted with Weiss’ letter claiming he HAD ultimate authority.  In typical lawyerly fashion, he (and the DOJ representing him) tries to have it both ways.  He says that, yes, the Tax Division has the authority to “authorize or not authorize” tax cases under Department policies.  But he also justifies Weiss’ statement claiming authority, saying that as he recalled, Weiss’ letter qualified the authority to say that it was “consistent with” Department’s rules and policies and federal rules.

He said the same of Garland’s claim that Weiss had full authority.

But the DOJ’s policies NEGATE full authority.  We’re tired of all this doublespeak from government attorneys.  Either Weiss had authority to charge Hunter Biden or he did not.  It’s clear now that he did not and that obstacles were put in his path, by the DOJ and by the U.S. Attorneys’ offices in DC and California.  Even Weiss’ second-in-command in the Delaware office, Lesley Wolf, was placing roadblocks.  Both Weiss and Garland have made claims about authority that were not true.

Anyone who has tried through weasel testimony to discourage us from concluding this is part of the Biden administration’s cover-up.  It must be hard not to play weasel with a “Justice” Department lawyer sitting next to you, ostensibly representing you but more likely representing the “Justice Department, but that’s the truth.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/06/with-more-smoke-and-mirrors-about-hunter-biden-charging-decisions-doj-covers-up-a-cover-up/


Our Military: The Only Endangered Species Liberals Don't Worry About! 

By Ken 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.



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A bad omen for 2024

November 8, 2023

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

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.

Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss, who is now special counsel in the Hunter Biden tax/finance case, sat for a transcribed interview Tuesday with the House Judiciary Committee.  There were no cameras in the room --- presumably because this testimony would involve an ongoing investigation --- but the committee posted afterwards that Jim Jordan had told reporters this:

“When [Weiss] was specifically asked, did you ever request special counsel authority under Section 515, Mr. Weiss’s response was yes, in the spring of 2022.  So that goes to the heart of the matter.”

Weiss said the authority was not given, and so he “never had that authority throughout the time and yet he pretends that somehow he did have that.”  And then finally, in August, “he gets special counsel status when he requests that from the Attorney General.”

Jordan said that Weiss “won’t answer a lot of questions,” but that the “key takeaway” is that his original request for that authority was denied by Main Justice, just as whistleblower Gary Shapley had said in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee in May.

“So once again,” Jordan told reporters, “Shapley and Ziegler’s testimony continues to stand up to every single witness we brought in for an interview.”  A trove of documents released by the House Ways and Means Committee supports their testimony as well.

https://twitter.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1721980735681130606?ref

This does throw some shade on the changing story that came from Merrick Garland, who had tried to maintain that Weiss had “ultimate authority” all along.  All the other testimony is showing Weiss did not.

A note of clarification:  Special ATTORNEY authority and special COUNSEL authority are two different things.  As the DAILY CALLER explains, “Special attorney authority under Section 515 would have authorized Weiss’ office to level charges against Hunter Biden outside of his district without needing to collaborate with the U.S. Attorneys in those jurisdictions.”  In July, Weiss wrote a letter to South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham saying he did not request special counsel authority.  He alluded to internal discussions about Section 515 special attorney authority without disclosing the results of those discussions.”

Weiss had asked for special attorney authority after having been denied cooperation by U.S. Attorney for DC Matthew Graves on bringing tax charges against Hunter in his district.  (There’s news about conflicts of interest regarding the Biden-appointed Graves elsewhere in the newsletter, in today’s January 6 update.)

Graves testified before the Judiciary Committee in October and did confirm his decision not to cooperate with Weiss on bringing charges against Hunter.  Again, Graves WAS APPOINTED BY JOE BIDEN.  This confirms whistleblower Shapley’s testimony a few months back… 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-appointed-dc-us-attorney-quashed-hunter-s-felony-tax-charges-irs-whistleblower-testifies/ar-AA1e5nqz

The U.S. attorney for the Central District of California, Martin Estrada, who also refused to cooperate with Weiss on bringing charges against Hunter, WAS ALSO APPOINTED BY JOE BIDEN.

Prior to his answers yesterday, Weiss seemed to be all over the map about what authority he had and what he asked for at what time.  He told Jordan in a letter dated June 7 of this year that he had “ultimate authority” over charging Hunter, though clearly, he did not, as he had been denied cooperation by Graves in March 2022.  Later in June, Weiss wrote another letter to Jordan in which he admitted his charging authority was geographically limited.

As for Jordan telling reporters after the meeting that Weiss “won’t answer a lot of questions,” we now have to wonder what questions were asked, which ones were answered and which were not.  Most likely, Weiss repeatedly relied on the prosecutor’s standard non-answer: “I can’t comment on an ongoing investigation.”  The Judiciary Committee really should release the transcript and let us see how that played in the hearing room.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/07/hunter-biden-prosecutor-david-weiss-detail-whistleblower-testimony-jim-jordan

Meanwhile, legal analyst Margot Cleveland at THE FEDERALIST has turned her attention to the testimony of another top DOJ official, Stuart Goldberg at the Tax Division.  Her concern is that even though Goldberg has confirmed the accuracy of Shapley and Ziegler’s testimony about the DOJ putting up roadblocks, he still refused to acknowledge that Attorney General Garland and U.S. Attorney Weiss were misleading with their claims that Weiss had ultimate authority.

Instead of letting Weiss and the DOJ stand by their story, she says, Congress needs to stop deferring to that tired “ongoing investigation” excuse for withholding information.  “Oversight Committees,” she says, “should start issuing and enforcing subpoenas to expose the DOJ’s cover-up of Biden family corruption --- and its cover-up of the cover-up.”

Goldberg provided needed clarification in his testimony by saying the Tax Division has authority to decide whether to open a grand jury investigation for felony tax crimes and whether to authorize prosecution for those crimes.  He said the Tax Division even had to approve the specific charges that were brought.  (Translation:  Weiss never did have “ultimate authority” on charging Hunter with those crimes.)  Certain other investigative steps also require a sign-off from the Tax Division.  And even beyond the normal approval procedures required for all tax cases, in a high-profile case such as this, there would be “closer supervision” of the investigation by the Tax Division, including authorization at a higher level than normal.

We had speculated that authorizations for this case were placed squarely at deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco’s level.  And Goldberg’s testimony bears that out, as he said that if the Tax Division refused to bring charges, a U.S. attorney could “appeal” that decisions to...the deputy attorney general!  Goldberg said this had happened only once in the past three years.

But Cleveland points out something of concern that happened during Goldberg’s testimony about this.  When he was asked specifically whether the Tax Division had recommended criminal felony charges in 2022, Goldberg’s attorney --- a “Justice” Department lawyer --- directed him not to answer the question.

So the Judiciary Committee took a different approach: “Between DOJ Tax and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware, who would you say is the primary decision-maker on this case with regard to the tax component?”

Goldberg tried to threat the needle, saying that from his perspective, Weiss and his office were “leading” the case and “running” the case, and that “Tax Division had responsibilities under the Justice Department procedures and policies to review certain things,” but that “any disagreement or difference of opinion...would have to be decided by someone in higher authority.”

Is that muddled enough for you?  It gets worse:  after Goldberg concedes that Weiss was not the ultimate authority, he weasels out of acknowledging the obvious when confronted with Weiss’ letter claiming he HAD ultimate authority.  In typical lawyerly fashion, he (and the DOJ representing him) tries to have it both ways.  He says that, yes, the Tax Division has the authority to “authorize or not authorize” tax cases under Department policies.  But he also justifies Weiss’ statement claiming authority, saying that as he recalled, Weiss’ letter qualified the authority to say that it was “consistent with” Department’s rules and policies and federal rules.

He said the same of Garland’s claim that Weiss had full authority.

But the DOJ’s policies NEGATE full authority.  We’re tired of all this doublespeak from government attorneys.  Either Weiss had authority to charge Hunter Biden or he did not.  It’s clear now that he did not and that obstacles were put in his path, by the DOJ and by the U.S. Attorneys’ offices in DC and California.  Even Weiss’ second-in-command in the Delaware office, Lesley Wolf, was placing roadblocks.  Both Weiss and Garland have made claims about authority that were not true.

Anyone who has tried through weasel testimony to discourage us from concluding this is part of the Biden administration’s cover-up.  It must be hard not to play weasel with a “Justice” Department lawyer sitting next to you, ostensibly representing you but more likely representing the “Justice Department, but that’s the truth.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/06/with-more-smoke-and-mirrors-about-hunter-biden-charging-decisions-doj-covers-up-a-cover-up/

Go Vote

November 7, 2023

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.

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 7th 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 7th 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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I Just Wanted to Say

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I always caution people not to pay attention to polls taken a year before an election, but a new New York Times/Sienna College poll is giving the vapors to Democrats. The results are absolutely devastating for President Biden.

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-leads-biden-significant-margin-crucial-swing-states/

The poll shows Trump with solid leads in five of six swing states, with Biden ahead only in Wisconsin by 2 points (I assume that’s due to the Cheesehead vote.) It also found that two-thirds of Americans think the country is moving in the wrong direction (one-third think this is the RIGHT direction?!), and a majority say Biden’s policies have personally hurt them.

Most terrifying for Democrats, the poll shows that Biden’s jaw-dropping incompetence is causing their coalition of interest groups to fray. Biden’s lead among Hispanics is down to single digits, he leads among voters under 30 by only one point, and his lead in urban areas is half that of Trump’s lead in rural areas. This terrifies Democrats because their route to winning is to separate Americans into warring identity groups, then cobble together enough of them to add up to over 50% of the vote.

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/11/05/the-biden-beatdown-continues-as-damning-poll-shows-the-coalition-that-elected-him-is-fraying-n2165922

This poll is just the latest reason why people like Democrat strategist David Axelrod are urging Biden not to run for reelection, but to retire, go home and try to figure out how many grandchildren he has.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/david-axelrod-questions-wise-biden-stay-2024-race-stakes-dramatic-ignore

“Trans Awareness Month”

November 6, 2023

I’ll bet you breathed a sigh of relief when “Gay Pride Month” in June finally ended (it seemed to go on all summer), but now, activists are trying to force us to observe November as “Trans Awareness Month.” As if we already weren’t “aware” of trans people far beyond their actual numbers. Didn’t we cover that with the “T” in “LGBTQ” during “Gay Pride Month?” Apparently, that wasn’t enough attention for them. 

But I don’t think they’re going to like the news stories that kicked off “Trans Awareness Month,” because all they did was make people even more aware of how unfair and dangerous it is to let males who claim to “identify” as female compete in sports against women.

First, there was the story of the “trans” cyclist who won gold in the Chicago CycloCross Cup, marking “her” tenth gold medal stolen from women competitors in less than a year. The Chicago race organizers said that anyone who disagrees with transgenderism will be “asked to leave.” That’s a great idea: all women competitors should leave any events that force them to compete against men and start their own events. We could call them “A league of their own.”

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2023/11/02/trans-cyclist-celebrates-tenth-medal-won-racing-against-women/

But then came even worse PR for “Transgender Awareness”: a shocking video that went viral of a girls’ high school field hockey game in Massachusetts. A male who reportedly “identifies” as female and was allowed to compete against girls hit the ball so hard that it struck a girl in the face and knocked her teeth out. You can hear her scream in pain (warning: disturbing video at the link.)

https://www.westernjournal.com/video-school-tries-shift-blame-teammate-male-player-knocks-teeth-girl/

The school defended this with the usual load of softsoap about acceptance and inclusion and the “right to play,” but that hasn’t quelled the rising public outrage. Everyone with eyes and a functioning brain could see how unfair and dangerous this mass societal delusion has become for female athletes. How many girls will have to not only lose trophies and scholarships but be seriously injured or even killed before we demand that schools and sports organizations come to their senses and stop forcing them to compete against males who are twice their size and strength?

That link has some good comments from Riley Gaines and Chad Prather, but I think the best comments came from women’s sports activist Amy E. Sousa:

"Sports are segregated by sex because women deserve physical fairness and safety in sports! Men who physically harm women on the field and steal women’s rightful accomplishments have been emboldened by federal and state policies that are outright abusive to women. Policies that prioritize men’s identity claims over the physical safety of women are more than sexist, they constitute ABUSE.”

The Power of Capitalism

November 6, 2023

One of the dumbest traps that Republican candidates fall into is taking seriously the question, “What will you do about income inequity?” The answer ought to be, “Celebrate it! Income inequality is one of the BEST features of capitalism. It means that people are rewarded with monetary incentives if they work hard, are innovative and create products and services a lot of people like, and those traits are good for everyone in society.”

You know where you’ll find income equality? In communist nations like Cuba, where everyone has pretty much nothing. That is, unless you count the leaders, who always seem to live like kings. No wonder the people who whine the most about income inequality tend to be socialists. They want us to institute an unjust economic system that’s failed miserably everywhere it’s been tried because they picture themselves being the power brokers who prosper under that corrupt system. Ask any regular working person who fled to America from a socialist nation if they want to import that garbage here.

There are three factors that make capitalism such a powerful force in creating wealth and growing the economy: incentive, innovation and competition. Profit isn’t a factor; it’s the very purpose of all three of those factors. Profit provides the incentive that makes everyone who engages in capitalism believe their efforts can pay off in gaining wealth and improving their lives.

Leftists may see colleges as socialism indoctrination centers, but the only reason most people take on the time, effort and debt of getting a degree is because they assume it will result in a bigger paycheck since gender studies majors are in for a rude awakening. People take risks that benefit us all, whether going to college, opening a business or patenting new inventions, not just because they’re following their passion but in hopes of making money.

All this creative energy that powers capitalism is generated by people motivated by the knowledge that the system can and will reward their success. This opportunity didn’t exist under the feudal system, it’s severely hampered by socialism, and it’s nonexistent under communism. That’s why those systems are so economically stagnant and far behind capitalist nations in innovation. Capitalism is the true “economic justice;” it’s lifted more people out of poverty worldwide than any other system.

If you want to see the perfect A-B comparison of communism and capitalism, look at a nighttime satellite photo of Korea. Capitalist South Korea is so prosperous that its lights shine brightly enough to be seen from the moon. Communist North Korea is in the dark, figuratively and literally. 

That’s also a perfect illustration of how the “unequal income” generated by encouraging incentive, innovation and competition helps the entire society. Innovation that responds quickly to market demand brings us new and better products and services that improve everyone’s lives. Young people today who claim to hate capitalism couldn’t imagine a world without Amazon, Uber, smart phones, streaming entertainment and other innovations of capitalism that didn’t even exist when I was their age. Competition improves services, keeps prices lower and provides choice.  Russians in the old USSR used to wait in long lines for everything because the government was the only supplier and the government didn’t care if there were no choices or quality in the products or services.

Capitalism can even be better for the environment. When consumers began demanding cleaner processes, greener products and more fuel-efficient cars, industry quickly responded. You can now find countless organic products available at Walmart, and the air and water are far cleaner than they were 50 years ago. Capitalism is so much more efficient than government planning that while President Biden is trying to mandate that everyone drive electric cars by 2030, I would bet that long before then, private industry will have developed new auto technologies that make today’s lithium battery EVs look as obsolete as Model T’s. That is, if the government will quit thinking it can predict the future and pick winners and losers with subsidies, and just get the heck out of the way.   

When you hear someone ranting about “income inequality,” remember that you’re hearing someone so lacking in brains, skills and ambition that the only way they could ever get rich is by being a socialist politician.   Think about Bernie Sanders who preaches austerity, but who owns 3 homes. 

Trump Trial Update

November 6, 2023

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.”

 


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


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Israel war update

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

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/blinken-makes-unnannounced-trips-to-west-bank-iraq-in-bid-to-negotiate-humanitarian-pause

The latest developments: Israel says it launched 450 strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza over the past 24 hours and eliminated another senior Hamas commander. They believe Hamas is holding its over 200 hostages in the tunnel system they built beneath Gaza City. Israel is systematically destroying the tunnels, but it’s a dangerous endeavor. Hamas has reportedly bobby-trapped the tunnels, and they’re trying to force Hamas to surrender without harming the hostages. Note to all the morons accusing Israel of genocide: they’re trying to save the innocent people, not slaughter them, like the people you’re rallying to support do.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/11/04/this-is-how-hamas-attempted-to-smuggle-terrorists-out-of-gaza-n2630788


A Modest Proposal:

Here’s a novel suggestion for cleaning out the Hamas tunnels without the risk of dangerous face-to-face combat. Just use water to flush the terrorists out, like the (BLEEP) they are.

https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/11/04/flood-the-gaza-tunnels-n590031


 

How about a fact check from the MSM on this slander?!?

One of the slanders against Israel is that it’s committing war crimes by targeting ambulances and hospitals. No, Hamas is using hospitals as hideouts and shields from which to launch attacks, and they’re using ambulances to try to smuggle their terrorists out of Gaza. For the record, using ambulances to smuggle combatants and weapons is an actual war crime.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/11/04/this-is-how-hamas-attempted-to-smuggle-terrorists-out-of-gaza-n2630788


Blinken out and about

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made unannounced visits to the West Bank and Iraq, trying to pressure Israel to agree to a “humanitarian pause” in its war on Hamas, which is different from a ceasefire because it has another name. So far, Israel has refused because unlike the Biden Administration, it knows how to win a war.


Obama’s disgusting comments

Former President Obama made some comments about the violence in Israel that are being described as “jaw-dropping” (they’re mentioned elsewhere in the newsletter.) His attempt to draw a moral equivalency between Israel fighting for its people’s lives and its survival as a nation with Hamas terrorists brutally slaughtering innocents and causing collateral damage as they hide behind human shields was frankly disgusting. And by the way, stop using the term “occupation” until you can tell us what exactly Israel is “occupying.” They moved all Jewish settlements out of Gaza and let the Palestinians have it in a misguided, liberal-approved attempt at “land for peace.” In return, Hamas uses Gaza as a staging ground to launch attacks on Israel.

Here’s some of the reaction to Obama’s babble. At least a lot of people partially agreed with his claim that “all of us are complicit” in the current violence, finding that he and Biden were very much complicit in helping to create it.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/11/05/obama-weighs-in-on-israel-hamas-war-with-jaw-dropping-claim-nobodys-hands-are-clean-n2165942

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/11/04/republican-jewish-coalition-to-obama-you-are-complicit-in-the-death-and-suffering-in-israel-and-in-gaza/


Just imagine if these were Trump voters

Around the world over the weekend, many Westerners have been shocked by the large numbers of people turning out for pro-Palestinian (but in truth, pro-Hamas, anti-Israel) protests. One of the biggest was in Washington, DC, where tens of thousands of protesters vandalized monuments, smeared red paint on the White House fence and gate, and left anti-Semitic graffiti on buildings.

https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2023/11/04/barbarians-at-the-gate-shocking-video-of-pro-hamas-protesters-smearing-fake-blood-on-white-house-gate-n2165913

All this resulted in exactly ONE arrest. Acting DC police chief Pamela A. Smith said, "The Metropolitan Police Department handles hundreds of protests, demonstrations, and other events every year, and we support and facilitate people safely and peacefully exercising their First Amendment right to protest." I doubt that it felt very safe or peaceful to any Jewish people living in DC. And I think we all know what would have happened if those protesters were Trump voters or pro-life activists.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pro-palestinian-dc-protest-yields-just-1-arrest-vandalism-protesters-trying-scale-white-house-fence

Speaking of violent, anti-Semitic protests, like Joe Biden with our open border, Europeans never imagined that there might be a downside to allowing in millions of Middle Eastern, Islamic immigrants who hate their host nations’ culture and refuse to assimilate. Faced with violent mobs of anti-Semitic radicals in their streets, they’re suddenly waking up to reality, with a new poll in Germany finding that 61% of Germans (who fancy themselves enlightened “progressives”) now want to ban any further immigration from predominantly Muslim countries.

https://hotair.com/headlines/2023/11/05/cant-imagine-why-majority-of-germans-now-completely-over-muslim-immigration-n590205

I’m old enough to remember when Joe Biden called Trump “xenophobic” for wanting to temporarily limit immigration from a handful of nations that were hotbeds of anti-American terrorism, only some of which were majority Muslim. My, how times have changed, for the worse.

It’s not surprising that it took German journalists to expose a phony “victim of Israeli aggression” who’s been turning up all over the place in propaganda videos credulously posted by the New York Times, the BBC and other liberal outlets. They never even seemed to notice, or care, that he would be injured in one video, cheering in another, dead in one, then alive again in the next one.

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/11/06/his-name-is-mr-fafo-crisis-actor-n590144


This is CNN

Jordanian national Sohaib Abuayyash, 20, was arrested in Houston for illegally owning a variety of guns with a non-immigrant visa. Although he’s so far only charged with the gun crime, federal authorities allege that he was also researching how to obtain explosives and was plotting a terrorist attack on the local Jewish community. He had reportedly posted online of his hatred of Jews and his support for killing Jews. Taking all that into account, here’s now CNN headlined its story:

“Jordanian arrested in Houston made statements supporting killing individuals of particular faiths, judge’s order says.”

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/11/04/did-you-see-how-cnn-framed-the-story-about-the-foiled-houston-terror-attack-n2630781

Memo to CNN: Since it’s just one particular faith that he wants to eradicate, maybe you could bring yourself to tell us which one it is.


For the disbelieving dupes of Hamas

In an attempt to head off the rising tide of neo-Holocaust denial, Israel released video footage of the Hamas terrorists’ attack on unarmed civilians at the music festival. Warning: This is graphic, shocking, horrifying and heartbreaking, but apparently, that’s what it takes to penetrate some people’s very thick skulls.

https://www.westernjournal.com/graphic-video-israeli-rescuer-releases-footage-music-festival-massacre-aftermath-counter-unprecedented-denial-campaign/


Must-See Video:

For all the liberals who sympathize with the “peaceful Palestinian cause” and use idiotic terms like “occupation” to describe Israel (looking at you, Barack), here is a desperately-needed lesson in the history of the folks you’re defending. He explains why none of the Arab nations in the region are willing to take them in, even as temporary refugees.

https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/11/05/nick-freitas-schools-hamas-lovers-with-actual-history-of-palestine-getting-kicked-out-of-arab-nations-n2389437


Another Must-See Video:

Gay, Jewish comedian Daniel Ryan-Spaulding released a video telling all the blue-haired, radical left college students who are rallying in support of Hamas exactly what they’re supporting and what that makes them.

https://redstate.com/videos/2023/11/06/gay-jewish-comedian-is-back-with-another-important-message-for-hamas-sympathizers-n2165946


Bill Maher also has a message for all the liberal Hamas sympathizers chanting anti-Israel slogans:

Remember those tiki torch-carrying Nazis in Charlottesville that you attacked Trump for not denouncing (actually, he did denounce them, “totally”)? Well, “you’re the ones with the tiki torches now.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/video-bill-maher-message-trump-haters-one-tiki-torches/


How dumb are the Hamas sympathizers?

In Indianapolis, a wannabe terrorist backed her car into what she thought was a Hebrew school. Fortunately, nobody was hurt. And the building was actually the Israelite School of Universal and Practical Knowledge, which is designated by the SPLC (I hate citing them, but in this case, they’re right) as an “extreme and antisemitic” sect of the radical group, the Black Hebrew Israelites.  

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/11/06/woman-purposely-drives-car-into-what-she-thought-was-jewish-school-but-made-ironic-mistake-n2165943


Election Reminder:

There are a number of local elections around the nation on Tuesday, and as out-of-control, radical left school boards and criminal-releasing, Soros-backed DAs have proven, even “small” local races can have huge consequences, so get out and VOTE!!


GO VOTE

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.


Daylight Savings Time

I hope you remembered to set your clocks back an hour yesterday. But as we once again participate in this jarring, semi-annual attempt to make the sun stay up longer (which is about as futile as thinking we can control the climate), not everyone is going into it willingly.

Rick Moran of PJ Media reports on a growing number of studies questioning the value of daylight savings time. Studies show that the time change leads to an increase in heart attacks, strokes, and depression, and related health care costs. A ten-year-old study found that the springtime clock change alone costs the economy $433 million. A 2021 study claims DST costs the airline industry hundreds of millions of dollars. And a recent study suggests that because it’s more dangerous to drive in the dark, ending DST would save $1.2 billion in reduced traffic accidents, not to mention preventing injuries and death.

https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2023/11/05/for-gods-sake-end-daylight-savings-time-before-we-all-die-n4923648

Feel free to vent in the comments about whether you like or hate DST. I will say that it inspired a great cartoon I saw over the weekend. It showed a record store window advertising the new #1 album by the Rolling Stones and the new single from the Beatles. One passerby is asking another, “How far back did we set the clocks?!”


This poll is giving Democrats the vapors

I always caution people not to pay attention to polls taken a year before an election, but a new New York Times/Sienna College poll is giving the vapors to Democrats. The results are absolutely devastating for President Biden.

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-leads-biden-significant-margin-crucial-swing-states/

The poll shows Trump with solid leads in five of six swing states, with Biden ahead only in Wisconsin by 2 points (I assume that’s due to the Cheesehead vote.) It also found that two-thirds of Americans think the country is moving in the wrong direction (one-third think this is the RIGHT direction?!), and a majority say Biden’s policies have personally hurt them.

Most terrifying for Democrats, the poll shows that Biden’s jaw-dropping incompetence is causing their coalition of interest groups to fray. Biden’s lead among Hispanics is down to single digits, he leads among voters under 30 by only one point, and his lead in urban areas is half that of Trump’s lead in rural areas. This terrifies Democrats because their route to winning is to separate Americans into warring identity groups, then cobble together enough of them to add up to over 50% of the vote.

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/11/05/the-biden-beatdown-continues-as-damning-poll-shows-the-coalition-that-elected-him-is-fraying-n2165922

This poll is just the latest reason why people like Democrat strategist David Axelrod are urging Biden not to run for reelection, but to retire, go home and try to figure out how many grandchildren he has.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/david-axelrod-questions-wise-biden-stay-2024-race-stakes-dramatic-ignore


Media starting to acknowledge Biden’s lies about family “business”

In his “Coffee With Scott Adams” podcast on Sunday, bestselling author, trained hypnotist and persuasion expert Scott Adams spoke of the importance of not staying in a partisan “bubble” where news is concerned.  Both sides of an issue, he said, are guilty of leaving out information that would add heft to the opposing point of view.  For example, any documentary that presents just one side is going to seem highly persuasive; it’s like any prosecution’s one-sided case as presented to a grand jury that gives rise to the expression, “You can indict a ham sandwich.”

We’d like to think Adams would approve of the effort we’re making to get the broader picture of the Biden financial scandal.

For example, while it would be easy just to absorb and spew out opinions from conservative sites that suit our own conclusions about what the Bidens have done, we take as many side trips into mainstream media coverage as we can stand without risking having our heads explode.  (Admittedly, it’s not many.)  It’s fascinating, in fact, to analyze what they’ve been doing to shape the narrative and how they shift their strategy as more evidence emerges.

So, let’s go to POLITICO.  This Sunday, November 5, they ran a story written by Ben Schreckinger headlined, “Fresh revelations contradict Joe Biden’s sweeping denials on Hunter.”  And, yes, that headline is refreshing to see and certainly borne out by the facts.  But then there’s this pesky subhead:  “The president hasn’t been shown to have committed wrongdoing, but a POLITICO review of recent developments casts doubt on several statements.”

Hold the phone --- “the president hasn’t been shown to have committed wrongdoing”?  That’s the disclaimer we virtually always see in some form in mainstream reports on this scandal.  For the moment, let’s set aside the question of whether Joe Biden has broken criminal laws --- he won’t be indicted as a sitting President, anyway --- and start by defining “wrongdoing.”

Is it wrong to lie to the American people about whether you or your family have taken money from China?  In a presidential debate yet, with millions watching, while pointing a finger at President Trump and accusing him of the very thing we now know HIS family did?  Joe Biden did that.  Is it wrong to lie (also during a presidential debate) and portray Hunter’s laptop as “Russian disinformation”?  He did that, too.  Is it wrong to repeatedly feign ignorance about your son’s foreign business affairs, deny meeting his business associates and such?  He also did that.  Indeed, the main point of the POLITICO piece is that we can now see he’s done those things.

So, unless lying your head off doesn’t count as “wrongdoing,” whoever wrote that subhead (to be fair, Schreckinger probably didn’t) is negating the very point of the article.

Schreckinger himself is to be commended for the facts he put in his piece, but he left out a lot.  Why would a brand new piece that came out over the weekend fail to include last week’s blockbuster revelations from the House Oversight Committee, the hard evidence in the form of bank records, the 20 shell companies, multitudes of bank accounts spread out among family members, and the money trail leading from a CCP-affiliated company through Hunter’s companies through James and Sara Biden and on to the “Big Guy,” to give him his cut of 10 percent, paid for by a personal check to Joe labeled “loan repayment”?  Is Schreckinger saving all that for a follow-up piece?  Will it still say there’s no proof of wrongdoing?

The POLITICO piece throws in a few obligatory disclaimers that are essentially immaterial.  For example, it says Republicans “have turned up no proof for the claims of Biden’s most zealous detractors:  that he took official actions on account of his relatives’ business dealings.”  Yes, proof of that would be even more serious, but we’d like to see the Oversight Committee shine a light on Biden’s suspicious action on his first day in office (!) to abolish the China Initiative against Chinese spying and theft of intellectual material, which is not mentioned in this piece.  In the meantime, whether “official actions” can be proved in court or not, the Biden family profiting from trading on his name is still BRIBERY.

Schreckinger also mentions there’s no proof Biden discussed business or offered favors to Hunter’s foreign business associates at the infamous Cafe Milano dinner.  Fine to include, but this is something else that doesn’t matter.

If you go on to read the POLITICO piece, you’ll also see that much information is left out about the firing of Viktor Shokin.

There was one thing the author DID include that we’d been unaware of and find very interesting.  One of the two digital experts who authenticated emails about the Cafe Milano dinner for POLITICO insisted on anonymity because he feared “retaliation.”  What about THAT?  Retaliation from whom??

The main take-away from this piece is that the mainstream media are slowly coming to terms with the President’s repeated lying about his family’s finances and business ties.  They really have no choice, because it’s coming out no matter what.  This evidence of corruption, when combined with Joe’s fading cognitive ability, plummeting poll numbers and increasingly chaotic administration, both domestically and globally, ensures that he won’t be the nominee in ‘24.  The media must be taking their marching orders from...somewhere...and they’ve been given the okay to start picking at the scab that is the Biden administration.

And to show that we’re not just presenting one side, here’s that POLITICO piece.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/05/hunter-joe-biden-business-testimony-00125056

So, just who might be flipping that switch and giving the media that go-ahead?  Recall that President Obama was in the news last week for speaking about something deceptively called “inclusive capitalism.”  He made another appearance on Saturday, this time on POD SAVE AMERICA to talk about the conflict in the Middle East, carefully threading the needle by condemning the actions by Hamas but also sympathizing with Gaza.

The solution, he said, would be “one that is based on genuine security for Israel, a recognition of its right to exist, and a peace that is based on the end of the occupation and the creation of a viable state and self-determination of the Palestinian people.”  As if genuine security for Israel were even possible, given Hamas’ mission of destroying all Jews and their recent unprovoked demonstration of that unquenchable desire.

Obama spread the blame around, saying you “have to admit that nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree.”  He asked of his time in office, “What could I have done during my presidency to move this forward?  As hard as I tried --- and I’ve got the scars to prove it --- was there something else I could have done?”

We’re bringing this up here not to get into a discussion on Israel (we’ll cover that elsewhere, along with the outraged reaction to Obama’s moral equivalency and “occupation” blather), but to show that Obama is still very much in the mix and is starting to make his appearance increasingly felt.  He can’t run for another term, but the Democrat on the ticket next year will no doubt be his hand-picked successor, to continue his legacy while he pulls the strings.  That’s his preferred way of operating; he’s admitted as much.  So if you wonder why the mainstream/left media are coming down harder on Biden all of a sudden, this might have something to do with it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12711427/Barack-REFUSES-pick-Obama-condemns-horrific-actions-Hamas-says-whats-happening-Palestinians-unbearable.html

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RELATED READING:

Here’s a more comprehensive analysis of what President Biden must have known about his family’s influence-peddling, which is to say, “...During Joe Biden’s two terms as Vice President, the influence of his public office was sold to governments and nationals in at least four countries to the tune of $20 million.  James E. Campbell asks some sharp questions.  And this was written on October 29, before the Oversight Committee had reported their latest on the Biden bank records.

https://realclearwire.com/articles/2023/10/29/what_must_the_president_have_known_149980.html

As reported in the DAILY CALLER, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has opened an investigation of the federal intelligence agencies for alleged obstruction in the probe of the Biden family business dealings.

He accuses the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) of giving Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson a briefing in August 2020 that was used by political opponents to falsely claim their investigation was based on “foreign disinformation.”  Jordan is also investigating the FITF for allegedly coordinating with social media companies to censor speech online, including the NEW YORK POST Hunter laptop story.  Details here…

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/01/jim-jordan-investigating-intel-agencies-grassley-johnson-biden-family-business-dealings

By the way, Jordan is bringing in Special Counsel David Weiss tomorrow (Tuesday) for a behind-closed-doors deposition.

RELATED WATCHING:

If you didn’t see Maria Bartiromo’s SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES yesterday --- maybe you forgot to reset your clock --- here’s what you missed regarding the Biden scandal…

In a great interview, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson comments on Jim Jordan’s above-mentioned investigation of the intelligence agencies.  Their suppression of evidence of Biden corruption is “a massive, massive scandal,” he says.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6340564197112

Kentucky Rep. James Comer says that with most of the bank records in hand, his issue of subpoenas to the Biden family are “imminent.”  Citing the POLITICO piece about Biden’s lies that we wrote about above, he suggests that the media are starting to turn.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6340561632112


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In his “Coffee With Scott Adams” podcast on Sunday, bestselling author, trained hypnotist and persuasion expert Scott Adams spoke of the importance of not staying in a partisan “bubble” where news is concerned.  Both sides of an issue, he said, are guilty of leaving out information that would add heft to the opposing point of view.  For example, any documentary that presents just one side is going to seem highly persuasive; it’s like any prosecution’s one-sided case as presented to a grand jury that gives rise to the expression, “You can indict a ham sandwich.”

We’d like to think Adams would approve of the effort we’re making to get the broader picture of the Biden financial scandal.

For example, while it would be easy just to absorb and spew out opinions from conservative sites that suit our own conclusions about what the Bidens have done, we take as many side trips into mainstream media coverage as we can stand without risking having our heads explode.  (Admittedly, it’s not many.)  It’s fascinating, in fact, to analyze what they’ve been doing to shape the narrative and how they shift their strategy as more evidence emerges.

So, let’s go to POLITICO.  This Sunday, November 5, they ran a story written by Ben Schreckinger headlined, “Fresh revelations contradict Joe Biden’s sweeping denials on Hunter.”  And, yes, that headline is refreshing to see and certainly borne out by the facts.  But then there’s this pesky subhead:  “The president hasn’t been shown to have committed wrongdoing, but a POLITICO review of recent developments casts doubt on several statements.”

Hold the phone --- “the president hasn’t been shown to have committed wrongdoing”?  That’s the disclaimer we virtually always see in some form in mainstream reports on this scandal.  For the moment, let’s set aside the question of whether Joe Biden has broken criminal laws --- he won’t be indicted as a sitting President, anyway --- and start by defining “wrongdoing.”

Is it wrong to lie to the American people about whether you or your family have taken money from China?  In a presidential debate yet, with millions watching, while pointing a finger at President Trump and accusing him of the very thing we now know HIS family did?  Joe Biden did that.  Is it wrong to lie (also during a presidential debate) and portray Hunter’s laptop as “Russian disinformation”?  He did that, too.  Is it wrong to repeatedly feign ignorance about your son’s foreign business affairs, deny meeting his business associates and such?  He also did that.  Indeed, the main point of the POLITICO piece is that we can now see he’s done those things.

So, unless lying your head off doesn’t count as “wrongdoing,” whoever wrote that subhead (to be fair, Schreckinger probably didn’t) is negating the very point of the article.

Schreckinger himself is to be commended for the facts he put in his piece, but he left out a lot.  Why would a brand new piece that came out over the weekend fail to include last week’s blockbuster revelations from the House Oversight Committee, the hard evidence in the form of bank records, the 20 shell companies, multitudes of bank accounts spread out among family members, and the money trail leading from a CCP-affiliated company through Hunter’s companies through James and Sara Biden and on to the “Big Guy,” to give him his cut of 10 percent, paid for by a personal check to Joe labeled “loan repayment”?  Is Schreckinger saving all that for a follow-up piece?  Will it still say there’s no proof of wrongdoing?

The POLITICO piece throws in a few obligatory disclaimers that are essentially immaterial.  For example, it says Republicans “have turned up no proof for the claims of Biden’s most zealous detractors:  that he took official actions on account of his relatives’ business dealings.”  Yes, proof of that would be even more serious, but we’d like to see the Oversight Committee shine a light on Biden’s suspicious action on his first day in office (!) to abolish the China Initiative against Chinese spying and theft of intellectual material, which is not mentioned in this piece.  In the meantime, whether “official actions” can be proved in court or not, the Biden family profiting from trading on his name is still BRIBERY.

Schreckinger also mentions there’s no proof Biden discussed business or offered favors to Hunter’s foreign business associates at the infamous Cafe Milano dinner.  Fine to include, but this is something else that doesn’t matter.

If you go on to read the POLITICO piece, you’ll also see that much information is left out about the firing of Viktor Shokin.

There was one thing the author DID include that we’d been unaware of and find very interesting.  One of the two digital experts who authenticated emails about the Cafe Milano dinner for POLITICO insisted on anonymity because he feared “retaliation.”  What about THAT?  Retaliation from whom??

The main take-away from this piece is that the mainstream media are slowly coming to terms with the President’s repeated lying about his family’s finances and business ties.  They really have no choice, because it’s coming out no matter what.  This evidence of corruption, when combined with Joe’s fading cognitive ability, plummeting poll numbers and increasingly chaotic administration, both domestically and globally, ensures that he won’t be the nominee in ‘24.  The media must be taking their marching orders from...somewhere...and they’ve been given the okay to start picking at the scab that is the Biden administration.

And to show that we’re not just presenting one side, here’s that POLITICO piece.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/05/hunter-joe-biden-business-testimony-00125056

So, just who might be flipping that switch and giving the media that go-ahead?  Recall that President Obama was in the news last week for speaking about something deceptively called “inclusive capitalism.”  He made another appearance on Saturday, this time on POD SAVE AMERICA to talk about the conflict in the Middle East, carefully threading the needle by condemning the actions by Hamas but also sympathizing with Gaza.

The solution, he said, would be “one that is based on genuine security for Israel, a recognition of its right to exist, and a peace that is based on the end of the occupation and the creation of a viable state and self-determination of the Palestinian people.”  As if genuine security for Israel were even possible, given Hamas’ mission of destroying all Jews and their recent unprovoked demonstration of that unquenchable desire.

Obama spread the blame around, saying you “have to admit that nobody’s hands are clean, that all of us are complicit to some degree.”  He asked of his time in office, “What could I have done during my presidency to move this forward?  As hard as I tried --- and I’ve got the scars to prove it --- was there something else I could have done?”

We’re bringing this up here not to get into a discussion on Israel (we’ll cover that elsewhere, along with the outraged reaction to Obama’s moral equivalency and “occupation” blather), but to show that Obama is still very much in the mix and is starting to make his appearance increasingly felt.  He can’t run for another term, but the Democrat on the ticket next year will no doubt be his hand-picked successor, to continue his legacy while he pulls the strings.  That’s his preferred way of operating; he’s admitted as much.  So if you wonder why the mainstream/left media are coming down harder on Biden all of a sudden, this might have something to do with it.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12711427/Barack-REFUSES-pick-Obama-condemns-horrific-actions-Hamas-says-whats-happening-Palestinians-unbearable.html

 

 

…..

RELATED READING:

Here’s a more comprehensive analysis of what President Biden must have known about his family’s influence-peddling, which is to say, “...During Joe Biden’s two terms as Vice President, the influence of his public office was sold to governments and nationals in at least four countries to the tune of $20 million.  James E. Campbell asks some sharp questions.  And this was written on October 29, before the Oversight Committee had reported their latest on the Biden bank records.

https://realclearwire.com/articles/2023/10/29/what_must_the_president_have_known_149980.html

As reported in the DAILY CALLER, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has opened an investigation of the federal intelligence agencies for alleged obstruction in the probe of the Biden family business dealings.

He accuses the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) of giving Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson a briefing in August 2020 that was used by political opponents to falsely claim their investigation was based on “foreign disinformation.”  Jordan is also investigating the FITF for allegedly coordinating with social media companies to censor speech online, including the NEW YORK POST Hunter laptop story.  Details here…

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/01/jim-jordan-investigating-intel-agencies-grassley-johnson-biden-family-business-dealings

By the way, Jordan is bringing in Special Counsel David Weiss tomorrow (Tuesday) for a behind-closed-doors deposition.

 

 

RELATED WATCHING:

If you didn’t see Maria Bartiromo’s SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES yesterday --- maybe you forgot to reset your clock --- here’s what you missed regarding the Biden scandal…

In a great interview, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson comments on Jim Jordan’s above-mentioned investigation of the intelligence agencies.  Their suppression of evidence of Biden corruption is “a massive, massive scandal,” he says.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6340564197112

Kentucky Rep. James Comer says that with most of the bank records in hand, his issue of subpoenas to the Biden family are “imminent.”  Citing the POLITICO piece about Biden’s lies that we wrote about above, he suggests that the media are starting to turn.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6340561632112

Israel Update

November 5, 2023

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.

Good morning, everyone! Blessings on you and your family from all the Huckabee team! 

Sincerely,

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BREAKING:  Judge Cannon to delay Trump’s “classified documents” trial

As we discussed yesterday, Special Counsel Jack Smith, in coordinating two trials against President Trump --- the “January 6” trial in DC with Judge Tanya Chutkan and the “classified documents” trial in Florida with Judge Aileen Cannon, has stacked the court dates in such a way that Trump’s attorneys claimed they’re required to literally be in two places at once.  This certainly has to be deliberate on his part, to make their job as difficult as possible --- even to the point of defying the laws of physics.

Judge Cannon sees the obvious problems with this and has decided to delay the “classified documents” trial in response to a petition by the defense.  As Julie Kelly posted Friday, “BREAKING:  As expected, Judge Cannon will delay the trial schedule in Jack Smith’s classified documents case against Trump.  Details to follow.”

The revised start date has not been determined.  Kelly said she’d have a column about it after the order has been filed, so stay tuned for more information.

But for now, she’s slamming the DOJ as being entirely to blame for this, saying, “Jack Smith brought 2 unprecedented federal cases against a former president within two months of each other.”  (We would add that he deliberately scheduled them to take place during prime campaign season next year.)  Kelly notes that all the attorneys had to obtain security clearances so they could go into a SCIF (secure room) and look at the documents.  The SCIF was only set up on October 18, so they’re really just now getting started reviewing a massive amount of material.  According to Kelly, that includes 1.3 million unclassified pages; 5,500 classified pages, and “years’ worth of security footage from Trump’s properties.”

“Smith is playing games,” Kelly says.  “Chutkan lets him; Cannon doesn’t.  Which is why she has earned the enmity of corporate media and their ‘expert’ lapdogs.”

In other words, the very reasonableness towards President Trump and his legal team (and, we assume, towards anyone who appears in her courtroom) that leads us to praise her as a judge are what make leftists dislike and relentlessly criticize her.  The opposite is true for Chutkan in DC, who refused to recuse herself from Trump’s J6 case even after demonstrating extreme anti-Trump (and anti-Trump-supporter) bias.  We may assume from her comments that she already thinks Trump shouldn’t be walking around free.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-judge-cannon-will-delay-dojs-trial-against-trump-in-seized-documents-case#google_vignette

If anyone believes that the White House hasn’t been neck-deep in the prosecution of President Trump while it was denying any contact with prosecutors, Trump’s legal team says they have evidence suggesting otherwise concerning his “classified documents” trial.

As reported in REVOLVER, “Trump’s attorney claims to possess evidence suggesting the Biden White House is deeply embroiled in the prosecution of Trump.”  And this isn’t the first time such a collaboration has been suggested.  Recall that a couple of months ago, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland and White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients about the DOJ’s Jay Bratt, top assistant to Special Counsel Jack Smith, visiting the White House a number of times in the weeks before Smith indicted Trump.  This activity took place during the time when Trump was negotiating with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for the return from Mar-A-Lago of presidential records from his time in office.

This wasn’t the first time the Judiciary Committee had raised concerns about Bratt’s behavior.  (An excerpt from Jordan’s letter reprinted in the REVOLVER story gives more details.)

Jordan wrote, “These facts reinforce the serious concern that Mr. Smith is not running an impartial and unprejudiced investigation and prosecution.  The Committee has a significant interest in examining how the Department runs its Special Counsel investigations to inform potential legislative reforms concerning the Special Counsel practices and operations.”

But now Trump’s attorneys have upped the ante, telling Judge Cannon they have PROOF of this collusion by the White House with various government agencies in deciding which documents should be in the indictment of President Trump, apparently going beyond the fact that Bratt visited the White House when he did.  Recall that Biden has claimed he’s not in contact with the special counsel’s office.  As investigative reporter Julie Kelly posted, “To emphasize:  Trump’s attorneys told Judge Cannon this afternoon they have evidence that the Biden White House collaborated with NARA, DOJ and intel agencies to determine which documents to include in Jack Smith’s indictment.”

This is the kind of discovery that could lead to a mistrial, at least if a reasonable judge is in the driver’s seat.  Fair and impartial judges seem to be increasingly rare these days --- especially in dealings with Trump and his supporters --- but Cannon certainly appears to be one.

https://revolver.news/2023/11/trump-legal-team-drops-biggest-bombshell-yet-right-on-jack-smith/


Must-See Video:

Comedian Mikey Greenblatt asked people to sign a petition to support Hamas’ efforts to “free Palestine.” Many of them were eager to sign until he told them that he first had to read the “terms and conditions” to make sure they knew what they were signing. It listed what Hamas is really all about, in their own words. 

For instance: that every Jew, Christian and non-Muslim in the world should be slaughtered…that homosexuality should be punishable by jail or death…that strict Sharia law must be imposed on all women…and that a terrorist group that rapes women and beheads babies should replace the only democracy in the Middle East.

https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2023/11/02/terms-and-conditions-brilliant-video-shows-people-what-theyre-supporting-with-free-palestine-n2389310

Watch how quickly these people change their minds about signing once they realize what they would actually be supporting. It only takes them 10 seconds to become informed and realize their mistake. So how come all those American college students remain so wildly uninformed about Hamas’ true nature? Maybe because for all the tuition money their parents are paying, nobody there has spent even 10 seconds telling them the truth.


An original idea to make life better

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/


Trump’s attorneys are making his case

Democrats who decided to abuse the legal system to target their political opponent Donald Trump forgot that unlike Pelosi’s January 6th Kangaroo Kommittee, in actual courtrooms, the accused get to defend themselves. After months of anti-Trump media spin, Trump’s attorneys are finally starting to make their case, and this might not be the slamdunk Spanish Inquisition that anti-Trumpers were hoping for.

I told you yesterday about Trump’s attorney making a monkey out of Eric Swalwell (not that big a job) by forcing him under oath to admit that the Trump rhetoric he was claiming incited insurrection was just typical political talk that he himself had used on Twitter.

https://www.westernjournal.com/extensive-communications-trump-drops-bombshell-evidence-biden-wh-jack-smith-classified-docs-case/

And here’s more about a story alluded to elsewhere in the newsletter, about Trump’s attorneys providing the judge in the classified documents case with evidence of “extensive communications” between the Biden White House and the DOJ and other agencies, colluding to target Trump and strip him of his executive privilege protections.

https://www.westernjournal.com/extensive-communications-trump-drops-bombshell-evidence-biden-wh-jack-smith-classified-docs-case/

And the judge in that case also just delivered a heck of a beatdown to special counsel Jack Smith for his attempts to deny plaintiffs the right to discovery in seeing all the evidence against them. She called the prosecution’s arguments a “broad and atextual interpretation” of the law, one that is “unconvincing” and “almost blithe,” and that would require changing the definition of the word “defendant.”

Anyone who knows Smith and his history of distorting the law to obtain politically-motivated convictions that were later unanimously overturned shouldn’t be surprised to learn that he’s following his tried-and-true tactics. But it should be a warning bell to rabid anti-Trumpers who think “this time, they’ve got him for sure!” that in the real world, the trial’s not over until the defendant gets to present a defense.


Who lives in California? Maybe not Adam Schiff

There was something of a to-do (as much as the media would allow with anything involving Democrats) when California Gov. Gavin Newsom replaced the late Sen. Diane Feinstein with a woman who apparently didn’t even live in California but in Maryland. Now, some questions are being raised about where Adam Schiff, who is running for that same seat in 2024, lives, because it doesn’t appear to be California, either. It seems that he just keeps a small condo in Burbank but has designated his house in Maryland as his primary residence for 20 years.

https://www.westernjournal.com/docs-reveal-adam-schiff-living-past-2-decades-not-california/

I knew a lot of people were getting the heck out of California, but doesn’t ANYBODY still live there anymore who can be their Senator?


Don’t listen to what they say, watch what they do:

Jeff Bezos, the uber-rich liberal founder of Amazon.com, has spent a lot of money to try to impose progressive policies on America. Now, he is fleeing one of the cities where those policies are most fully in effect – Seattle – and moving to income tax-free, low crime, lopsidedly Republican Florida.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/jeff-bezos-leave-seattle-miami-nearly-30-years-after-founding-amazon

He claims it’s because he’s originally from Florida and wants to be closer to his parents. Which I’m sure is true. I’m also sure he could afford to move his parents to Seattle, but you’ll notice he’s not doing that.


FBI Raid

The FBI raided the home of New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ chief fundraiser Thursday as part of an investigation into alleged illegal funds received from a foreign government.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/02/fbi-raids-home-new-york-mayor-eric-adams-fundraising-chief/

Unfortunately, the FBI has so trashed its own reputation that this raid will likely spark conspiracy theories about whether law enforcement was the true motive. I predict we’ll hear these theories floated:

1. They had to raid a Democrat to prove that they don’t target only Republicans, and this guy was far enough removed from DC to be expendable.

2. They wanted to send a message to Adams to back off criticizing Biden’s open border.

3. They only care about illegal money from foreign sources if it doesn’t pass through Hunter Biden.


Those who refuse to see

There are none so blind as those who refuse to see, and the leftwing site Salon.com may have just set a new Guinness record for world’s thickest blinders. With Hamas slaughtering and beheading Israelis, Iran backing them and threatening America, and leftist radicals across the US openly supporting Hamas and attacking and threatening Jews, Salon thought this was the perfect moment to run a piece by former Playboy White House reporter Brian Karem doubling down on the braindead charge that MAGA voters and “Christian nationalists” are a greater threat to America than actual terrorists like Hamas.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/former-playboy-white-house-reporter-maga-christian-nationalism-bigger-threat-hamas

I have a proposal for Salon: ask your most outspoken gay writers (I’m sure there are plenty to choose from) whether they prefer to be locked in a room for an hour with a group of Christian Trump voters or a group of Hamas militants. If they choose Hamas, then I will concede Karem’s point. I will also go call for an ambulance.


Interesting and informative article

This is a very interesting and informative article from Jerry Wilson at Redstate.com about why Evangelicals love Israel and “progressives” hate Israel. And yes, in case you hadn’t noticed up until now, “progressives” hate Israel.

https://redstate.com/jerrywilson/2023/11/03/why-evangelicals-love-israel-and-progressives-do-not-n2165847

Some of them aren’t so particular and just seem to hate Jews in general.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/11/02/harvard-student-surrounded-by-pro-palestinian-mob-in-latest-campus-madness-n2165846

Much-needed laugh: From our pop culture guru Pat Reeder’s Facebook page:

“Does anyone else find it hilarious that the Rolling Stones brought out their first album in 18 years, and all anyone’s talking about is the new Beatles single?”


Obama edging back into the White House, pushing “inclusive capitalism”

Halloween might be over, but here’s a story to send a chill up your spine:  As NBC NEWS reported and Sean Hannity spoke about Friday, Biden “quietly tapped” Obama to help him shape the strategy for the AI executive order (!) he’s just signed.  Obama went to the White House to have lunch with him so they could work on this together.  This is apparently the largest official role Obama has played in the Biden administration and raises the question of how involved he is.

We’ve always maintained that the Obama Machine is still running the place through strategically placed operatives such as Lisa Monaco at DOJ, and the next Democrat presidential candidate will be aointed on the basis of who can best continue the Obama legacy.  (Hint:  it won’t be Joe this time.)

But here’s where the baddest chill comes:  AXIOS reports that Obama is pushing something called “inclusive capitalism,” which he calls “a new economic framework that addresses inequality and prepares citizens for the coming changes in how we will live and work.” (Whatever it actually is, I’m sure it will bear as much resemblance to actual capitalism as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics did to a republic.) Obama must feel the timing is right to trot this out, and we’re about to see not just how far to the left Obama really is but how much influence he still has.  Be afraid.  Be very afraid.

Victor Davis Hanson appeared on Hannity’s show to talk about the dangers of this.  We’ll let him take the discussion now while we go scream into a pillow or something.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6340466718112

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/

Halloween might be over, but here’s a story to send a chill up your spine:  As NBC NEWS reported and Sean Hannity spoke about Friday, Biden “quietly tapped” Obama to help him shape the strategy for the AI executive order (!) he’s just signed.  Obama went to the White House to have lunch with him so they could work on this together.  This is apparently the largest official role Obama has played in the Biden administration and raises the question of how involved he is.

We’ve always maintained that the Obama Machine is still running the place through strategically placed operatives such as Lisa Monaco at DOJ, and the next Democrat presidential candidate will be aointed on the basis of who can best continue the Obama legacy.  (Hint:  it won’t be Joe this time.)

But here’s where the baddest chill comes:  AXIOS reports that Obama is pushing something called “inclusive capitalism,” which he calls “a new economic framework that addresses inequality and prepares citizens for the coming changes in how we will live and work.” (Whatever it actually is, I’m sure it will bear as much resemblance to actual capitalism as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics did to a republic.) Obama must feel the timing is right to trot this out, and we’re about to see not just how far to the left Obama really is but how much influence he still has.  Be afraid.  Be very afraid.

Victor Davis Hanson appeared on Hannity’s show to talk about the dangers of this.  We’ll let him take the discussion now while we go scream into a pillow or something.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6340466718112

 


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Israel Update

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.



 

Trump Trial Update

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.”


“Trans Awareness Month”

I’ll bet you breathed a sigh of relief when “Gay Pride Month” in June finally ended (it seemed to go on all summer), but now, activists are trying to force us to observe November as “Trans Awareness Month.” As if we already weren’t “aware” of trans people far beyond their actual numbers. Didn’t we cover that with the “T” in “LGBTQ” during “Gay Pride Month?” Apparently, that wasn’t enough attention for them. 

But I don’t think they’re going to like the news stories that kicked off “Trans Awareness Month,” because all they did was make people even more aware of how unfair and dangerous it is to let males who claim to “identify” as female compete in sports against women.

First, there was the story of the “trans” cyclist who won gold in the Chicago CycloCross Cup, marking “her” tenth gold medal stolen from women competitors in less than a year. The Chicago race organizers said that anyone who disagrees with transgenderism will be “asked to leave.” That’s a great idea: all women competitors should leave any events that force them to compete against men and start their own events. We could call them “A league of their own.”

https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2023/11/02/trans-cyclist-celebrates-tenth-medal-won-racing-against-women/

But then came even worse PR for “Transgender Awareness”: a shocking video that went viral of a girls’ high school field hockey game in Massachusetts. A male who reportedly “identifies” as female and was allowed to compete against girls hit the ball so hard that it struck a girl in the face and knocked her teeth out. You can hear her scream in pain (warning: disturbing video at the link.)

https://www.westernjournal.com/video-school-tries-shift-blame-teammate-male-player-knocks-teeth-girl/

The school defended this with the usual load of softsoap about acceptance and inclusion and the “right to play,” but that hasn’t quelled the rising public outrage. Everyone with eyes and a functioning brain could see how unfair and dangerous this mass societal delusion has become for female athletes. How many girls will have to not only lose trophies and scholarships but be seriously injured or even killed before we demand that schools and sports organizations come to their senses and stop forcing them to compete against males who are twice their size and strength?

That link has some good comments from Riley Gaines and Chad Prather, but I think the best comments came from women’s sports activist Amy E. Sousa:

"Sports are segregated by sex because women deserve physical fairness and safety in sports! Men who physically harm women on the field and steal women’s rightful accomplishments have been emboldened by federal and state policies that are outright abusive to women. Policies that prioritize men’s identity claims over the physical safety of women are more than sexist, they constitute ABUSE.”

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The Power of Capitalism

One of the dumbest traps that Republican candidates fall into is taking seriously the question, “What will you do about income inequity?” The answer ought to be, “Celebrate it! Income inequality is one of the BEST features of capitalism. It means that people are rewarded with monetary incentives if they work hard, are innovative and create products and services a lot of people like, and those traits are good for everyone in society.”

You know where you’ll find income equality? In communist nations like Cuba, where everyone has pretty much nothing. That is, unless you count the leaders, who always seem to live like kings. No wonder the people who whine the most about income inequality tend to be socialists. They want us to institute an unjust economic system that’s failed miserably everywhere it’s been tried because they picture themselves being the power brokers who prosper under that corrupt system. Ask any regular working person who fled to America from a socialist nation if they want to import that garbage here.

There are three factors that make capitalism such a powerful force in creating wealth and growing the economy: incentive, innovation and competition. Profit isn’t a factor; it’s the very purpose of all three of those factors. Profit provides the incentive that makes everyone who engages in capitalism believe their efforts can pay off in gaining wealth and improving their lives.

Leftists may see colleges as socialism indoctrination centers, but the only reason most people take on the time, effort and debt of getting a degree is because they assume it will result in a bigger paycheck since gender studies majors are in for a rude awakening. People take risks that benefit us all, whether going to college, opening a business or patenting new inventions, not just because they’re following their passion but in hopes of making money.

All this creative energy that powers capitalism is generated by people motivated by the knowledge that the system can and will reward their success. This opportunity didn’t exist under the feudal system, it’s severely hampered by socialism, and it’s nonexistent under communism. That’s why those systems are so economically stagnant and far behind capitalist nations in innovation. Capitalism is the true “economic justice;” it’s lifted more people out of poverty worldwide than any other system.

If you want to see the perfect A-B comparison of communism and capitalism, look at a nighttime satellite photo of Korea. Capitalist South Korea is so prosperous that its lights shine brightly enough to be seen from the moon. Communist North Korea is in the dark, figuratively and literally. 

That’s also a perfect illustration of how the “unequal income” generated by encouraging incentive, innovation and competition helps the entire society. Innovation that responds quickly to market demand brings us new and better products and services that improve everyone’s lives. Young people today who claim to hate capitalism couldn’t imagine a world without Amazon, Uber, smart phones, streaming entertainment and other innovations of capitalism that didn’t even exist when I was their age. Competition improves services, keeps prices lower and provides choice.  Russians in the old USSR used to wait in long lines for everything because the government was the only supplier and the government didn’t care if there were no choices or quality in the products or services.

Capitalism can even be better for the environment. When consumers began demanding cleaner processes, greener products and more fuel-efficient cars, industry quickly responded. You can now find countless organic products available at Walmart, and the air and water are far cleaner than they were 50 years ago. Capitalism is so much more efficient than government planning that while President Biden is trying to mandate that everyone drive electric cars by 2030, I would bet that long before then, private industry will have developed new auto technologies that make today’s lithium battery EVs look as obsolete as Model T’s. That is, if the government will quit thinking it can predict the future and pick winners and losers with subsidies, and just get the heck out of the way.   

When you hear someone ranting about “income inequality,” remember that you’re hearing someone so lacking in brains, skills and ambition that the only way they could ever get rich is by being a socialist politician.   Think about Bernie Sanders who preaches austerity, but who owns 3 homes. 


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As we discussed yesterday, Special Counsel Jack Smith, in coordinating two trials against President Trump --- the “January 6” trial in DC with Judge Tanya Chutkan and the “classified documents” trial in Florida with Judge Aileen Cannon, has stacked the court dates in such a way that Trump’s attorneys claimed they’re required to literally be in two places at once.  This certainly has to be deliberate on his part, to make their job as difficult as possible --- even to the point of defying the laws of physics.

Judge Cannon sees the obvious problems with this and has decided to delay the “classified documents” trial in response to a petition by the defense.  As Julie Kelly posted Friday, “BREAKING:  As expected, Judge Cannon will delay the trial schedule in Jack Smith’s classified documents case against Trump.  Details to follow.”

The revised start date has not been determined.  Kelly said she’d have a column about it after the order has been filed, so stay tuned for more information.

But for now, she’s slamming the DOJ as being entirely to blame for this, saying, “Jack Smith brought 2 unprecedented federal cases against a former president within two months of each other.”  (We would add that he deliberately scheduled them to take place during prime campaign season next year.)  Kelly notes that all the attorneys had to obtain security clearances so they could go into a SCIF (secure room) and look at the documents.  The SCIF was only set up on October 18, so they’re really just now getting started reviewing a massive amount of material.  According to Kelly, that includes 1.3 million unclassified pages; 5,500 classified pages, and “years’ worth of security footage from Trump’s properties.”

“Smith is playing games,” Kelly says.  “Chutkan lets him; Cannon doesn’t.  Which is why she has earned the enmity of corporate media and their ‘expert’ lapdogs.”

In other words, the very reasonableness towards President Trump and his legal team (and, we assume, towards anyone who appears in her courtroom) that leads us to praise her as a judge are what make leftists dislike and relentlessly criticize her.  The opposite is true for Chutkan in DC, who refused to recuse herself from Trump’s J6 case even after demonstrating extreme anti-Trump (and anti-Trump-supporter) bias.  We may assume from her comments that she already thinks Trump shouldn’t be walking around free.

https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-judge-cannon-will-delay-dojs-trial-against-trump-in-seized-documents-case#google_vignette

If anyone believes that the White House hasn’t been neck-deep in the prosecution of President Trump while it was denying any contact with prosecutors, Trump’s legal team says they have evidence suggesting otherwise concerning his “classified documents” trial.

As reported in REVOLVER, “Trump’s attorney claims to possess evidence suggesting the Biden White House is deeply embroiled in the prosecution of Trump.”  And this isn’t the first time such a collaboration has been suggested.  Recall that a couple of months ago, Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland and White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients about the DOJ’s Jay Bratt, top assistant to Special Counsel Jack Smith, visiting the White House a number of times in the weeks before Smith indicted Trump.  This activity took place during the time when Trump was negotiating with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for the return from Mar-A-Lago of presidential records from his time in office.

This wasn’t the first time the Judiciary Committee had raised concerns about Bratt’s behavior.  (An excerpt from Jordan’s letter reprinted in the REVOLVER story gives more details.)

Jordan wrote, “These facts reinforce the serious concern that Mr. Smith is not running an impartial and unprejudiced investigation and prosecution.  The Committee has a significant interest in examining how the Department runs its Special Counsel investigations to inform potential legislative reforms concerning the Special Counsel practices and operations.”

But now Trump’s attorneys have upped the ante, telling Judge Cannon they have PROOF of this collusion by the White House with various government agencies in deciding which documents should be in the indictment of President Trump, apparently going beyond the fact that Bratt visited the White House when he did.  Recall that Biden has claimed he’s not in contact with the special counsel’s office.  As investigative reporter Julie Kelly posted, “To emphasize:  Trump’s attorneys told Judge Cannon this afternoon they have evidence that the Biden White House collaborated with NARA, DOJ and intel agencies to determine which documents to include in Jack Smith’s indictment.”

This is the kind of discovery that could lead to a mistrial, at least if a reasonable judge is in the driver’s seat.  Fair and impartial judges seem to be increasingly rare these days --- especially in dealings with Trump and his supporters --- but Cannon certainly appears to be one.

https://revolver.news/2023/11/trump-legal-team-drops-biggest-bombshell-yet-right-on-jack-smith/

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November 3, 2023


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DAILY BIBLE VERSE

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Proverbs 18:16


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Congratulations

Congratulations to the Tennes family of Michigan for scoring a great legal win for religious freedom. They were banned from selling wares from their farm, Country Mill Farms, at the East Lansing farmer’s market after dad Steve Tennes said on a Facebook post that as Catholics, they believe marriage is between one man and one woman. City officials began pressuring the market to ban them, then created a new policy requiring vendors to “embody the spirit of the market" by complying with the city’s “ordinances and public policy against discrimination.”

The Tennes family said they never discriminated or refused service to anyone, and they sued the city for violating their First Amendment rights. Backed by the Alliance Defending Freedom, they got an injunction to continue selling at the market. Now, after six long years of legal battles (in which, I might add, the city officials were clearly and outrageously in the wrong from day one), a federal court ruled in their favor in August, and now, a federal appeals court has upheld that ruling.

https://www.persecution.org/2023/10/15/the-tennes-familys-stand-for-religious-freedom/

Their ADF attorney said it’s not just a victory for them but for free speech and for other vendors who will now be protected from having the city kick them out because of their beliefs.

Incidentally, the farm’s mission is “to glorify God by facilitating family fun on the farm and feeding families.”  Steve Tennes added, “We continue to happily serve everyone who comes to our stand.” And these are the kind of people whom today's leftists think represent the biggest threat to America.


Kentucky UPDATE:

Earlier this week, I told you about the 11-story coal plant in eastern Kentucky that collapsed, trapping two workers inside. Since then, rescuers found one of the workers, but tragically, he did not survive. As of this writing, they’re still trying to locate the other under a tremendous amount of steel and concrete. One witness said it reminded him of what he saw in New York after 9/11. Rescuers warned that it “doesn’t look good,” but the Governor urged people to keep praying for him and his family.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/kentucky-coal-plant-collapses-trapping-workers-under-concrete-and-steel-with-one-dead/ar-AA1jgbEt


Feeling the heat

Back in the USA, Biden is feeling the heat from the surprisingly (to some) large numbers of Democrats who support Hamas over Israel, enough that it’s dropping his poll numbers and eroding his reelection chances even further. The appalling anti-Semitism of the left is also hitting other Democrats, with Sen. John Fetterman taking flak even from former staffers for his strong defense of Israel. And dozens of brainwashed Columbia University students staged a walkout of Hillary Clinton’s class on women’s involvement in peace processes because she told the truth about Hamas just using ceasefires to rebuild their weaponry and attack Israel some more.

I wonder if any of those overprivileged young ignoramuses realize that Hamas’ view of “women’s involvement in the peace process” is that they’re there to be raped, beaten and burned alive?

Rep. Rashida Tlaib continued her lobbying of President Biden to demand a ceasefire and her blaming of the suffering of Hamas’ human shields on Israel. And she can keep on spewing her bilge because an attempt to censure her failed, thanks to the unanimous votes of all House Democrats (who applauded when the measure failed) plus 23 Republicans.

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/november-2-israel-hamas-war

The Republican nays included some solid conservatives like Rep. Chip Roy, who raised objections that the resolution was legally or factually flawed, or that it infringed on free speech, even if the speech was vile and reprehensible, as Tlaib’s virtually always is. You can read more at the link above and see if you agree with them.

And these are all the 23…

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/01/23-republicans-voted-no-censure-rashida-tlaib/

At least if Tlaib is allowed to keep freely spewing her hateful toxic sludge, she will also keep reminding America’s voters exactly what she is and what her fellow Democrats actually applaud.


Reason #10,518 Not To Send Your Kid To Harvard:

Watch the editor of the Harvard Law Review verbally and physically assault an Israeli student during an anti-Israel protest on campus. I'm sure he expects to have a cushy, well-paid job awaiting him upon graduation. I hope and pray that he is dead wrong.

https://twitchy.com/chad-felix-greene/2023/11/01/future-federal-prosecutor-and-judge-editor-of-the-harvard-law-review-assaults-jewish-students-n2389289

Seriously, trade school is a far better choice at this point. Harvard has mostly become about making connections, and you don’t want your kids connecting with slime like this.


 

Latest laughable attempt at a hit piece on new Speaker Mike Johnson:

He can actually relate to struggling working Americans because he hasn’t enriched himself like so many of our other “public servants” who mysteriously become multi-millionaires while working at a government job that pays $174,000 a year.

https://www.westernjournal.com/hit-piece-speaker-johnsons-finances-backfires-spectacularly-supposed-angry/

Apparently, they're claiming he has too much integrity to be the House Speaker. If that’s the criteria, we might have to bring back Nancy Pelosi.


Good and Bad News

The bad news: President Biden responded to the rising wave of anti-Semitism by deciding that the real problem is “Islamophobia.”

The good news: He put Kamala Harris in charge of fighting Islamophobia, so we can assume he doesn’t really take this claim seriously, and we’ll likely never hear another word about it.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/01/biden-confronts-wave-of-antisemitism-by-putting-kamala-harris-in-charge-of-islamophobia/

As noted in that article, the number of hate crimes against Muslims is dwarfed by the number of hate crimes against Jews, and I predict that divide is only growing much wider every day.

FYI: If this ludicrous liberal response to the attack on Jews sounds like a joke, it might be because it was a joke that the late, great Norm McDonald told seven years ago.

https://twitchy.com/samj/2023/11/02/kamala-harris-islamophobia-n2389302


Democrats just received shocking news:

If you let criminals out of jail early, about 70% of them will go back to committing crimes.

https://www.westernjournal.com/dem-governor-gets-backlash-report-shows-whopping-70-criminals-released-covid-reoffended/


Fauci Watch

With so many other earth-shattering stories going on, we haven’t been keeping you up on the latest on Dr. Anthony Fauci. But we’d hate for you to miss this story from the Daily Mail. It’s about an investigation of a taxpayer-funded NIH lab in Montana overseen by Fauci that allegedly was experimenting with coronaviruses shipped from the Wuhan lab and tested on bats a year before the COVID outbreak.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12693441/fauci-nih-infected-bats-camp-david-coronavirus.html

If liberals who worship Fauci still aren’t moved by this news, maybe they’ll care that the lab was a hotbed of animal cruelty. One visitor called it “disgusting” and “awful;” said it was “a place where animals are sent to suffer,” and “you can see the pain in these animals’ eyes;” and asked, “How is this place even legal?”

Maybe it wasn’t. Then again, if it was run by Dr. Fauci, does it even matter if it was illegal?


Christians have a point…

I mentioned recently that while liberals used to mock Christians for not wanting Halloween in school because they think it’s satanic, now it's liberals who are trying to ban it because it might offend various ethnic or grievance groups. But I think Christians still have a more solid basis for their complaint when one teacher in Arizona celebrates Halloween by dressing up as a devil, waving a pitchfork over students’ heads and saying, “Hail, Satan.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/arizona-teacher-leave-after-dressing-up-devil-telling-students-hail-satan


“Election Fraud Is A Rightwing Conspiracy Theory”

A judge in Bridgeport, Connecticut, overturned the win by the incumbent mayor in the Democratic primary after watching what he described as “shocking” surveillance video of absentee ballot voting fraud. Is this like the video in “2000 Mules” that we’ve been assured means nothing?

https://ctexaminer.com/2023/11/01/court-overturns-ganim-win-in-bridgeport-primary-calling-evidence-of-fraud-shocking/

The video allegedly showed 16 incidents of the vice chair of the Bridgeport Democratic Town Committee and operations specialist for the city and a former City Council member stuffing ballot dropboxes, dropping off absentee ballots or handing them off to others. Under the law, absentee ballots can only be returned by the ballot applicant, a family member, a police officer, an election official or a caretaker. The two officials took the Fifth, and the office of the (Democrat) Secretary of State (who was named as a defendant in the case) argued that the court should reject the challenge to the ballots. 

The plaintiff also claimed many ballots were improperly stamped or missing signatures, but the judge ruled that they were “substantially compliant” (So the election integrity standard is “Eh, close enough”? Was this Connecticut or Arizona?)

Nevertheless, the judge ruled that with the margin of victory being only 250 absentee votes, the ballot box stuffing video was sufficient evidence to overturn the election and order a new primary.

It’s ironic that while Democrats always claim there’s no such thing as voter fraud, we now have evidence that they’re even doing it to each other.


Is this really news?

This newsletter is supposed to feature commentary on the news, but when Mitt Romney slams a fellow Republican for standing up for conservative principles and blocking Democrats from getting what they want, I’m not sure if that even qualifies as news. So I’ll just let Bonchie at Redstate.com comment on it.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/01/mitt-romney-slams-his-fellow-republicans-and-it-says-everything-about-the-gop-n2165811

I’ll add that while I’m sure there are some well-deserved military promotions being held up, it’s hard to imagine that most of the people the Democrats want to promote will do anything with that increased power other than undermine and weaken our military.


Take a closer look

If you’re buying or selling a house, take a close look at your Realtor commission to make sure it adds up. A jury in Missouri just found the National Association of Realtors and several residential brokerages guilty of conspiring to inflate sales commissions on over 260,000 homes in Missouri, Kansas and Illinois. They found them liable for $1.78 billion in damages, which could be tripled to over $5.3 billion under US antitrust law. The defendants denied any wrongdoing and are planning to appeal.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/realtors-liable-1-8-billion-damages-commission-inflation


RIP Bob Knight

Legendary college basketball coach Bob Knight died Wednesday at 83 at his home in Bloomington, Indiana. Our condolences and prayers for his family.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/legendary-college-basketball-coach-bob-knight-dead-83

During his 29 seasons coaching the Indiana Hoosiers, he was a three-time national champion and made the Final Four five times and the March Madness tournament 24 times. He also coached Texas Tech from 2001 to 2008, then became an analyst for ESPN. He was a member of both the Basketball and College Basketball Halls of Fame.

Knight was also notorious for his sometimes volatile temper, like the infamous throwing-a-chair-across-the-court incident, but now is not the time to dwell on that. Like us all, he had his faults, but unlike most of us, he was uniquely great at what he did. That’s what he’ll be remembered for.


Israel Update

Here’s today’s Fox News link to the latest updates on the war in Israel…

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/israel-hamas-war-november-3

The top news over the past 24 hours: Israeli troops are closing in around Gaza and engaging in fierce battles with Hamas militants. They report killing a Hamas commander and capturing 37 terrorist suspects. They’ve also begun using explosives to destroy Hamas’ 300-mile network of tunnels beneath Gaza that are used to hide out and stage terrorist attacks.

Here are some statistics for the useful idiots to Hamas who like to accuse Israel of committing genocide (and especially those in Congress): Israel has so far dropped more than 1 million leaflets, sent 6 million text messages and made 4 million phone calls to Palestinian civilians in Gaza urging them to evacuate. That’s because unlike Hamas, they DON’T want to kill innocent civilians.  

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel, where he met with Prime Minister Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials and is expected to talk to the press later today. I hope he will also talk to his boss and tell him that now is not the time for a ceasefire or a “humanitarian pause” or whatever other dumb euphemism is being used for “giving Hamas more time to restock its ammo, fortify its positions, find new hiding places and take more hostages.”


Israel Aid Bill Passed

The Republican House passed a stand-alone aid bill for Israel. It passed with the votes of 12 Democrats and without the votes of two Republicans, Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor-Greene. Details here:

https://redstate.com/beccalower/2023/11/02/republican-house-passes-143b-israel-aid-bill-n2165840


A New Jobs Report

The Labor Department reported Friday morning that in October, the US economy added 150,000 jobs, significantly lower than the 180,000 forecast by economists. The unemployment rate also “unexpectedly” rose to 3.9%, the highest in two years. And the job gains for August and September were revised sharply downward by a total of 101,000 jobs, as this article puts it, “suggesting that the labor market is weaker than it previously appeared.” No fooling?

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/us-jobs-report-october-2023

Those downward revisions have become kind of a running gag of late, with the government trumpeting big jobs numbers, then quietly lowering them a month or two later. I’ve taken to treating these rosy jobs reports sort of like negative stories about Trump: I reserve judgement until after enough time passes for the truth to come out.

If you’re looking for a silver lining, I suppose you could argue this means those higher interest rates are finally having the desired effect of putting the brakes on economic growth to lower inflation. But it illustrates the vicious cycle that incompetent leadership has created: Government spending ignites inflation, interest rates are jacked up to cool the economy and reduce inflation, and if “successful,” that means fewer jobs are created and we could go into a recession.

To the average American, all that adds up to everything they buy costing more, every debt they owe costing more, and it’s harder to find a job to pay for any of it. Heckuva job, Joe!

Bonchie at Redstate.com has more, including the hilariously pathetic attempt by the Washington Post to spin these underwhelming job numbers as a win for Bidenomics.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/03/bidenomics-chickens-come-home-to-roost-and-the-spin-is-hilarious-n2165851

 


Hunter reminds us he’s an addict to distract from Biden financial scandal

Coverage of the Biden financial scandal actually runs along two separate tracks:  first, the actual money trail that implicates now-President Joseph R. Biden in a multimillion-dollar international family influence-peddling scheme, and second, the special treatment given to Hunter (and, by extension, Joe) by our nakedly partisan “Justice” Department and the rest of the legal system.

Today, let’s start with the second track, and include the media as part of that system.  On Thursday, USA TODAY allowed itself to be used by Hunter and his defense team by publishing an op-ed under Hunter’s byline using his addiction as a last-ditch ploy to deflect scrutiny and draw attention away from the mountain of evidence against him and his family that is growing day by day.  It got attention, all right, but in a shameful public relations spin that, as Emma-Jo Morris at BREITBART NEWS put it, “insults millions of Americans struggling with illness and millions more with a loved one who is.”

The piece Hunter and/or his attorneys put together refers to the “all-out annihilation” of his “reputation” (!) in a “vile and sustained disinformation campaign.”  Wouldn’t it seem that by engaging in the types of ill-advised and illegal behavior and business influence-peddling activities he was involved in, documenting every lurid moment of his life exhaustingly on his laptop, and abandoning it at a Delaware computer shop, he ruined his reputation all by himself?  Just the fact that he did all this tells us that Hunter Biden is indeed dumber than Mykola Zlochevky’s dog.  On crack.

If he wants to know who ruined his reputation, he should look in the mirror.

But, no, Hunter points to the “stigma” of addiction.  He suggests that he’s under legal and political scrutiny for being an addict and that this attention from “partisan and craven factions” will dissuade users across the country from getting clean.

“The weaponization of my addiction by partisan and craven factions represents a real threat to those desperate to get sober but are afraid of what might await them if they do,” he writes.  “It is already a near-impossible decision for addicts to get sober, and the avalanche of negativity and assault of my personal privacy may only make it harder for those considering it.”

He tries to have it both ways in this piece.  While striking out at others and wrapping himself in his addiction, he also says, “I accept that the choices and mistakes are mine.  I am not a victim.  By any standard, I grew up with privilege and opportunity, and fully accept that the choices and mistakes I made were mine, and I am accountable for them and will continue to be.  That is what recovery is about.”  He’s right; it is.

And Hunter is to be commended if he is in sobriety, as that would mean he has come a very long way from the depths of addiction.  That is something to celebrate.  It might be considered a miracle that he is alive, as so many don’t make it.  And it’s always difficult for someone in the public eye.  But his piece, when taken as a whole, comes across more like a PR effort or legal strategy suggested by his $1 million-a-month defense team (paid for by a fabulously wealthy Hollywood entertainment lawyer friend) than a heartfelt plea on behalf of other addicts.  Just the opposite --- it plays like an exploitation of addiction.  The program for recovering addicts typically involves taking responsibility and making amends for one’s own behavior, not striking out at perceived enemies.  Hunter is somehow trying to thread the needle and do both here.

Hunter knows perfectly well that the investigation into his and his family’s finances has nothing to do with his being an addict.  Ironically, his piece comes as the focus really has moved from his past personal behavior --- the “old news” --- to his family’s emerging money trail, the “new news.”  He’s the one talking about his addiction, not Congress and not us.

As Emma-Jo Morris points out in BREITBART, “...Ironically, as he wraps himself in the struggle of addiction, and wraps himself in the pain of millions across this country who grapple with it, he is the one demonizing addiction by attributing cashing in with the ‘(bleeping) spy chief of China’ as just the normal behavior of addicts.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/02/morris-hunter-biden-insults-addicts-to-deflect-from-corruption/

Sarah Arnold at TOWNHALL writes about this, too, offering more from Hunter’s piece.  (Yes, it brings up brother Beau, who died of brain cancer.)  Hunter also attacks Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro by name, saying they shouldn’t be allowed to “debase me and dehumanize me for their own gains.”

Arnold views this op-ed as an attempt “to re-direct the light away from his questionable businesses,” seeing as it was published the day after the House Oversight Committee released a memo saying Joe Biden received $40,000 in “laundered” Chinese money from CEFC, via brother James and his wife Sara.

And thanks to Arnold for passing along Miranda Devine’s tweet: “Hunter Biden’s woe-is-me op-ed in USA Today is a strategic misdirection as congressional investigators close in on his father’s financial involvement in the family’s corrupt influence-peddling schemes.  It’s not about you, Hunter.”

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/11/02/hunter-biden-op-ed-n2630699

Here’s the full Hunter Biden op-ed:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2023/11/02/hunter-biden-addiction-substance-abuse-not-political-ploy/71332255007/

Now, let’s move from media to courtroom.  Victoria Taft at PJ MEDIA has some pure speculation about how Hunter might be able to slither out of a conviction.  The FBI, she suggests, will actually try to claim Hunter was one of their assets, a confidential human source “or something.”  She brings this up in a fascinating interview (included at the link) with former transcriptionist for President Biden Mike McCormick, and he admits he’s considered this possibility, too.

Maybe such a ruse actually could stop the prosecution of Hunter.  But it would come nowhere near explaining the big money circulating among the Biden family, including, as we now know, to Joe Biden’s own bank account.

https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2023/11/02/how-hunter-biden-will-slither-out-of-his-family-scandals-n4923544

Speaking of Joe Biden’s bank account, House Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer has come up with a handy chart to show the flow of money into it.  He traces some of the money from one $5 million transaction with a CCP-owned Chinese company, showing how Joe eventually gets his cut, with a personal check from his sister-in-law saying “loan repayment.”  Comer, whose background is in the banking business, is able to simplify a very complex scheme to show the American people what the Bidens were up to.  Let’s go to the video...

https://rumble.com/v3t6dtb-oversight-chair-james-comer-lays-out-the-money-trail-from-the-chi-coms-to-t.html

Margot Cleveland has looked at Comer’s presentation, along with a 12-page memorandum from the Oversight Committee’s staff to the majority (GOP) staff, with a lawyer’s eye and tells the story of that particular payment in a new column.  The trail started with Hunter’s apparent “shake-down” of a Chinese business associate at CEFC, with a threatening text in which Hunter claimed his father was sitting there in the room with him.  Hunter was demanding $10 million or else.

We know from a memo found on Hunter’s laptop and verified by business associate Tony Bobulinski that 10 percent of this deal was supposed to be held by “H” for “the big guy.”  Cleveland notes that, sure enough, the $40,000 pocketed by Joe is exactly 10 percent of the $400,000 Hunter got from the CEFC funds.

She also points out that these funds originated from individuals connected to the CCP who first partnered with Hunter while Joe was Vice President.  It was money their company paid after Hunter’s threatening message, and he used his father’s name and (claimed) presence to back up his threat.

There’s much more to come.  In the meantime, if you have friends or family who still believe there’s “no evidence” of Joe Biden’s financial involvement in this scheme, please share this…

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/01/follow-40000-from-communist-china-directly-to-joe-bidens-bank-account/


Dumbest Story of the Day

By “Huckbee” pop culture guru Pat Reeder

This isn’t what I normally write about, but I had to share it because it gives new meaning to the term “bird brain.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-a-hundred-bird-species-about-to-be-renamed-because-racism

The American Ornithological Society just announced that it’s going to rename over 100 bird species because their current names are somehow politically incorrect or insufficiently woke, or as their president simperingly put it, “exclusionary and harmful.” For instance, the Audubon’s shearwater will be renamed because despite being the greatest illustrator of birds in history and a man whose name is synonymous with bird watching, John J. Audubon was a slaveholder who opposed abolition. Question: How many people even knew that and how exactly does it “harm” anyone in 2023?

If you think that’s obscure, how about these names that must be changed in the name of confusion…sorry: “inclusion.” Gambel’s Quail, Lewis’ Woodpecker, Anna’s Hummingbird, Bullock’s Oriole, Bewick’s Wren and Scott’s Oriole. That last one was named after Winfield Scott, a General who removed the Cherokees from their land. I’ll bet a Venn diagram of people who would be offended by that and people who even knew it would probably encompass about enough people to fill a toucan cage.

God only knows what sins Lewis and Anna committed. And who the heck were Gambel and Bewick? If you have to go to Wikipedia to find something to be offended about, you have a pretty good life. Some might accuse me of being a Pollyanna, but she was right when she taught us that if you go looking for the bad in people, you will surely find it.

The reason this grinds my gears is because birds and I are on a first-name basis. My wife Laura and I support several parrot rescues and share our home with a dozen rescued parrots and cockatoos. Even though I converse daily with birds, I have no idea, nor do I care, where the names of their species came from.

For instance, we have a Goffin’s cockatoo. Who was Goffin? What if he sold wooden nutmegs to Native Americans? What about our Meyer’s parrot? Did Meyer commit the same offense as Speaker Mike Johnson and have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate soldier? We also have a Jardine’s parrot. Did Jardine ever say the N-word (if he did, I hope it wasn’t around a parrot.)

Sorry, I’m not going to start calling our Quaker parakeet an Atheist parakeet, or our Amazon parrot a “woman of stature parrot.” And anyone who tries to make me can take the umbrella that our Umbrella Cockatoo, Ozzy, was named after and shove it you-know-where.


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Galatians 3:26-27


New Ambassador to Israel is approved by the Senate

Tuesday, the Senate approved former Obama Treasury Secretary Jack Lew as our new Ambassador to Israel. Lew was touted by supporters for being an observant Jew, but as noted here, he’s also a rabid partisan who strongly supported Obama’s anti-Israel policies, was critical of Benjamin Netanyahu, and backed Obama’s Iran nuclear deal to the hilt.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/31/senate-approves-jack-lew-who-backed-obamas-anti-israel-policies-as-israel-ambassador/

Boy, the Dems sure have a way of picking the right person at the right time, don’t they?


Bizarre

Here’s just one of the more bizarre examples of how insane the Israel haters and Hamas supporters are…

https://www.foxnews.com/media/protester-dumps-box-mice-painted-palestinian-flag-colors-mcdonalds-restaurant


Some reporting on Donald Trump’s judge and gag order

Newsweek reports that despite pressure from the Biden DOJ, the judge in the ludicrous prosecution of Donald Trump over January 6th will not threaten him with jail if he violates the gag order that she shouldn’t have imposed in the first place, but just reinstated…and which his comments about his former Attorney General Bill Barr (who attacked him first) likely violated, which shows just one of the many problems with trying to limit a candidate’s freedom of speech during an election campaign.

This article has more details…

https://www.westernjournal.com/judge-shoots-dojs-request-trump-jailed/

And if you’d like an expert legal opinion from a non-Trump-supporter on why these gag orders are unconstitutional (and even the Trump-hating ACLU agrees!), here’s Jonathan Turley explaining it. He also reminds us that prosecutor Jack Smith has a history of trampling on defendants’ rights and trying to destroy Republicans by stretching the law to an egregious degree, so much so that his conviction of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell was unanimously overturned by the Supreme Court.

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


Snap, crackle, pop

A couple of top Biden officials got roasted like chestnuts in the Senate Tuesday. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who continues to lie about the border being secure even as thousands of unvetted illegal entrants pour into the US every day, got his rear end handed to him by Sen. Josh Hawley.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/hawley-grills-mayorkas-dhs-employee-celebrated-hamas-terror-attack

Hawley asked him about a DHS employee who posted a photo of a paragliding Hamas terrorist with a machine gun invading Israel with the caption “Free Palestine,’ and asked if she still worked at the DHS. Mayorkas tried to pull a Greta Thunberg-style “How dare you?!” and puffed that the question maligned DHS workers and was “despicable,” but Hawley was having none of it. 

He cut off Mayorkas and snapped, "Don’t come to this hearing room when Israel has been invaded and Jewish students are barricaded in libraries in this country and cannot be escorted out because they are threatened for their lives. You have employees who are celebrating genocide, and you are saying it’s despicable for me to ask the question? Has she been fired?"

Short answer: no. She’s on “administrative leave.” How comforting.

Hawley also asked if the DHS is considering revoking the visas of foreign students who are publicly calling for the destruction of Israel and the genocide of Jews. Mayorkas’ nitpicky response that there is a distinction between "espousing or endorsing terrorist ideology and speech that is odious” was so odious that it makes me wonder if he even knows what “DHS” stands for.

FBI Director Christopher Wray also took time out from pursuing our biggest terrorist threat (Trump voters) to appear before the Senate Homeland Security Committee. He warned that the threat of a terrorist attack against Americans had been raised to a “whole other level” due to the outbreak of violence in the Middle East. But when Sen. Rick Scott asked him the ultimate no-brainer question – Are we safer from terrorist threats now than when Joe Biden took office? – Scott fell silent. After a long, awkward pause, he gave a typical, DC evasive non-answer that I’m not even going to bother to quote (you can read it at the link if you’re a fan of empty verbiage.)

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/watch-fbi-director-goes-silent-when-asked-if-country-safer-under-biden

After the hearing, the White House said it "couldn't possibly answer" whether terrorists had already crossed over the southern border. I’ll take that as a “yes.”


 Intel Analyst: Open border policy has made US unsafe

Not that it would take any particular expertise or psychic abilities to predict this, but an intel analyst with 39 years’ experience says he believes, with as close to 100% certainty as possible, that the US will suffer multiple terrorist attacks over the next 14 months. This is based largely on his assumption that up to 2 million potential terrorists from all over the world are already in the US, with their entry aided, abetted and funded by the Biden Administration and its open border policy.

https://www.westernjournal.com/39-year-intel-analyst-will-multiple-terrorist-attacks-u-s/


Democrats are working overtime to slander Speaker Mike Johnson

Speaker Mike Johnson has barely been on the job for a week, and Democrats and the media (pardon my redundancy) are already having conniption fits trying to find ways to slander him. So far, here’s what they’ve come up with:

He’s endangering the world by making Congress vote on one issue at a time instead of, say, attaching Ukraine aid to a bill to help Israel, and by insisting that new spending be paid for somehow.

https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/11/01/democrats-outraged-as-god-forbid-speaker-mike-johnson-tries-to-limit-spending-bills-to-a-single-issue-n2165771

Also, he’s a “fascist” and a “nationalist,” comparable to the Taliban and the Mullahs in Iran, and also like the lunatics who stage mass shootings, and all because he’s a Bible-believing Christian. His response to these “disgusting” false attacks on his faith makes me like him all the more.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/speaker-mike-johnson-responds-liberal-media-attacks-christian-faith-disgusting


Why Elon bought Twitter

In a blockbuster interview with Joe Rogan, Elon Musk was asked why he bought Twitter. His eye-opening response:

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/10/31/elon-does-amazing-interview-with-joe-rogan-n2165755

He said Twitter was having a corrosive effect on society; Twitter headquarters was in an area of San Francisco that looks like a zombie apocalypse, and it was clear as you walked around that it was “the end of civilization.” Musk said he asked himself what philosophy led to this? And while that destructive niche philosophy would normally stay localized, Twitter was being used to propagate that “mind virus” worldwide and suppress any dissenting views.

He compared Twitter to Pravda and said when he took it over, it was suppressing Republicans at ten times the rate of Democrats (that’s odd; I was assured by all our top media outlets that the social media censorship of conservatives was a false, rightwing conspiracy theory.)

Musk also gave his opinion of George Soros: that he “fundamentally hates humanity,” and that’s why he does things that “erode the fabric of society,” like funding the election of DAs who refuse to prosecute criminals.

That provides a perfect lead-in to this story: Guess which wildly misnamed dark money organization is spending millions funding the groups that are staging these pro-Hamas, anti-Israel protests? That’s right, now guess where its money comes from. Right again!

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/10/29/you-wont-be-surprised-to-learn-who-is-backing-the-pro-hamas-protests-n2165673


Middle East War For Dummies:

For anyone who thinks the attack on Israel was about freedom, oppression, self-rule for the Palestinian people or any other high-falutin concept, let this leader of Hamas make it crystal clear for you: The Palestinian nation is one of “martyrs” who are proud to die for their cause, that cause being the “annihilation of Israel.” Got it?

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/01/hamas-spokesman-saws-the-limb-out-from-under-all-its-pathetic-apologists-n2165769


Democrats aren’t protecting women

Any women who still think, for some inexplicable reason, that Democrats are the party of protecting women might want to know that thanks to Biden’s open border, New York City now has a new red-light district where Venezuelan migrant women are working as prostitutes.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/01/red-light-district-erupts-in-new-york-with-influx-of-venezuelan-prostitutes/

Mayor Eric Adams slammed leftist activists who are trying to legalize prostitution, saying, “This is where idealism collides with realism… I’ve had elected officials tell me that the women are just trying work – ‘why are you trying to harm them?’ – [but] there are real issues around illegal sex work, from STDs to sex trafficking girls to violence.”

Incidentally, it’s not clear whether the women were working as prostitutes before coming here or turned to it after arriving. I guess because we wouldn’t want to ask any personal questions about someone’s background before letting them come into the US illegally.


Car company GM backtracks on green energy agenda

I suppose too many people like me have been telling the truth about the limitations and actual pollution levels of electric cars, because GM just became the latest automaker to admit they flushed billions down the toilet on the insane assumption that Joe Biden could predict the future of automotive technology. He can’t even do his OWN job!

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/10/31/gm-backtracks-on-joe-bidens-green-energy-agenda-after-investing-billions/

There are solid reasons why most Americans don’t want to buy EVs. They’re a developing technology, so you may pay through the nose for one now and lose your shirt if you try to resell it in two or three years. And while they’re nice toys for rich liberals who like to buy the latest tech and virtue signal as they drive to and from Whole Foods, they’re useless for what most Americans need: vehicles that can reliably go long distances at high speeds, carry heavy loads, pull trailers, refill quickly and safely, and keep running no matter what the weather conditions. And I didn’t even get into the issues with the batteries, like mining the materials, disposing of old ones, and putting them out if they burst into flames.

I’ve made this observation before, but it’s always worth repeating: EVs’ virtues were wildly oversold to the public, they’re far more costly than we were told they would be, and they create big messes that the media tries to ignore. They’re the Joe Biden of cars.

Related: In ultra-lefty, super green Boulder, Colorado, the school district just ordered five new diesel school buses. Why not electric buses? Well, they wanted to, but they admitted that when you have mountains (not to mention cold winters), you need buses that can reliably drive uphill without suddenly running out of juice and rolling to the bottom.

https://www.wnd.com/2023/10/green-district-green-city-green-state-buying-diesel-school-buses/


Here’s a double dose of Kurt Schlichter

While these columns aren’t as funny as Kurt usually is, they make some very important points and I’d say both fall into the “Must-Read” category.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/11/01/americas-shame-n2630567

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/10/30/accept-that-savagery-is-the-true-nature-of-the-world-and-deal-with-it-n2630502


Sen. Johnson to Wray:  How can the FBI hide information from SENATORS?

While testifying under oath, FBI Director Christopher Wray, already well known for his tendency not to answer even the most basic questions from legislators, would not even say for sure whether he’d cooperate with Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley’s oversight of the FBI’s handling of Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings.

Wray was testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee when pressed by Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson about a letter Sen. Grassley had written to him and Attorney General Merrick Garland about there being more than 40 confidential human sources who had provided the FBI with “criminal information” about Joe, James and Hunter Biden.  (Recall our report from a few days back about the FBI mislabeling it “foreign disinformation” when they knew good and well it wasn’t.)  He wanted to hear from Wray’s own mouth whether the FBI had followed up on this information or shut the investigation down.

Johnson first quoted part of Grassley’s letter, followed by part of a column from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL about it and some of the testimony from Western Pennsylvania U.S. Attorney Scott Brady, who’d said the FBI had stonewalled his attempts to investigate Hunter’s relationship with corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings.

As you know, it was Brady who vetted that FBI “1023” form, an agent’s notes from a follow-up meeting with a confidential human source (CHS) who said Burisma founder Mykola Zlochevsky (whose dog Hunter is dumber than) had claimed to have “paid $5 million to one Biden and $5 million to another Biden.”  Brady confirmed that this allegation of bribery came from an extremely credible CHS with a long history of supplying information to the FBI.

But when asked a direct question by Sen. Johnson about what the FBI intended to do abut this information, Wray was his usual cagey self.

“Senator Grassley’s letter concludes that he has obtained names from his whistleblower, 25 Department of Justice [and] FBI personnel to interview at a future date,” Sen. Johnson said.  “He is also requesting a bunch of information.  Will you provide those FBI personnel for interviews with his office and mine and will you provide those documents?”

That should be a simple, “Yes, of course, Sen. Johnson.”  But Wray said, “I’ll have to review the specific requests and we’ll see how we can be helpful.”  In other words, don’t hold him to anything.

As the DAILY CALLER reports, “The FBI previously declined to comment on the Grassley letter and referred [us] to Special Counsel David Weiss…”  And, after Brady’s testimony, the Bureau gave the news outlet this spiel:  “The FBI’s investigative work is thorough, methodical and rigorous.  We follow the facts without regard for politics.  Any information we receive must be verified, whether it is a tip provided by a member of the public or information provided by a source.  While other opinions and criticism often come with the job, we will continue to follow the facts wherever they lead, do things by the book, and speak through our work.”

Well, they’re speaking through their work, all right.  But their work includes testifying before House and Senate committees.  And one of the things they’re telling us in their testimony is that they can’t even answer a basic yes-or-no question.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/31/fbi-director-refuses-say-cooperate-congressional-oversight-biden-family-wray

Sen. Johnson wasn’t having it.

“The problem I have is I simply cannot trust what the FBI is providing me,” he said to Wray.  “And I don’t say that with any joy in my heart.  I think that’s a travesty.  The American people want to believe and to trust the FBI.  We want credibility and integrity restored to your institution.  But Director Wray, you have not done that since assuming office, and I could go through a long laundry list of the reasons why trust has been violated.”

He said to Wray, “I’m happy to sit down and meet with you and go over these things in detail, but [first]...ask me, ‘What can I do to restore trust?’  Start by being transparent.”

Wray countered Johnson’s remarks by citing a dramatic increase in the number of those applying to be special agents (let’s hope they’re not all Ivy League grads), defending in high-blown language the “integrity and professionalism” of the FBI, and taking exception to Johnson’s characterization of the Bureau “in this particular case.”

“That’s not how I characterized it,” Johnson replied.  “I’m talking about partisanship at the top with some specific partisan actors.  I said the vast majority of the 33,000 are people with integrity.”

Wray described himself as “a Republican appointee” and “a lifelong Republican” and tried to use that to counter Johnson’s allegations of bias.  Americans who lean conservative/constitutionalist would say the “Republican” label doesn’t tell us anything.  Robert Mueller was widely touted as a registered Republican, appointed FBI director by George H. W. Bush.

“I’m happy to read you chapter and verse of all the reasons why that credibility has been destroyed,” Johnson said, and he could have, too.  We would have popped the popcorn.

Sen. Johnson is masterful in this examination of Wray.  The video is here, and it’s a don’t-miss.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/31/ron-johnson-fbi-wray-hunter-biden

Johnson had a great question for Wray:  “Why is it that --- this makes no sense --- I’m an elected U.S. Senator; I have the highest security clearance; why is it that unelected members of the FBI can see the documents unredacted but I can’t, even in a secure briefing room?  That makes no sense whatsoever.  But that’s exactly how federal law enforcement, Department of Justice, FBI, who are the law, remain above the law, remain above scrutiny, and completely scorn our constitutional responsibility and authority to provide oversight.  We just can’t do it…”

That’s one policy we’ve always wondered about and have never before heard challenged this directly.  If Sen. Johnson is a U.S. Senator, serving on a committee conducting its constitutional responsibility of oversight, and he has a top level security clearance, why is he not able to go into a secure briefing room and read anything he wants or needs to?  Why does some bureaucrat get to decide what he can and cannot see, blackening entire pages of documents and interview notes?


Trump’s legal team hints at evidence of WH collusion in classified documents trial

Investigative reporter Julie Kelly has been in Judge Aileen Cannon’s courtroom for President Trump’s classified documents trial, and Wednesday she said that Trump’s attorneys informed her of evidence suggesting the Biden White House collaborated with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the “Justice” Department, and intelligence agencies to determine which documents should be included in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump.

The Trump team say they have “extensive communications.”  If memory serves, Biden has said the White House is staying out of that entirely.  But then, he’s also said he’s never spoken to his son about business.

So, Biden’s White House was “colluding” with prosecutors who were putting together a case against his main presidential rival for ‘24?  Does anyone see a problem with this?  We hate to bring up the words “banana republic” again (sigh), but they’re the first ones that come to mind.

They also apparently have a letter from June of this year (shortly after Smith indicted Trump) asking the Department of Energy to revoke Trump’s active security clearance.

“If substantiated,” Kelly writes, “the development could shed light on a coordinated effort to target the former President and might significantly impact the case’s trajectory.”

https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/report-trumps-attorneys-hinted-at-damning-evidence-of-biden-collusion-in-docs-case-mace/

THE GATEWAY PUNDIT has more details on where they are in the classified documents case.  On Tuesday, Trump and his team visited a SCIF (“Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility,” or secure room) to view documents related to the case.

Judge Cannon sees the problems --- clearly created on purpose by the special counsel --- with scheduling Trump’s multiple court dates right on top of each other and, on Wednesday, signaled she might postpone the trial, which for now is set to start May 20.  As Trump and his attorneys put it, these dates require them “to be in two places at once.”  Also, discovery in the classified documents case is not nearly complete.

According to Julie Kelly, when the DOJ’s Jay Bratt told her the March 4 trial date for Trump’s J6 case in Washington, DC, won’t run into the May 20 trial date, Judge Cannon admonished him for his “level of understanding to these realities.”

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/judge-cannon-signals-she-may-postpone-trump-classified/


So, Weiss DID need permission from DOJ to charge Hunter Biden

All this back and forth.  But it appears we do have a fairly clear answer to the question of whether Delaware U.S. Attorney (and now Special Counsel) David Weiss had the independent authority to charge Hunter Biden.

He didn’t.  At least on the tax charges.  That’s according to testimony reviewed by the DAILY CALLER.

In October, Stuart Goldberg, acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Matters at the DOJ Tax Division, testified before the House Judiciary Committee, clarifying for them how the process generally works, adding that in discussions in which “some agreement couldn’t be reached, then it would have to be decided by somebody else in higher authority.”  And the DOJ Tax Division would still have to approve tax charges, according to Goldberg.

It sure doesn’t sound as though Weiss had the “ultimate authority” that Garland, the “higher authority,” testified Weiss had.

Oh, and remember the tax charges against Hunter that, after the crash-and-burn of his “sweetheart deal,” were dropped so they could be refiled in another court?  Weiss has still not refiled them.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/01/david-weiss-authorization-doj-tax-division-charges-hunter-biden-stuart-goldberg/


The Biden financial scandal:  lots of news from Oversight Committee

Rep. James Comer must be working nonstop!  Here’s what he’s shared most recently…

Comer says that of President Biden’s known 82,000 “pseudonym” emails, only 14 have been turned over, and that this is “looking more like obstruction every day.”

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/comer-says-congress-has-only-gotten-14-pages-joe-bidens-pseudonym

On Wednesday, Comer released bank records showing Joe Biden personally took $40,000 from various family members soon after they received the money from Chinese business associates.  Comer lays out the dizzying money trail.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/01/comer-bank-records-joe-biden-40000-chinese-money/

Finally, the 20 shell companies set up for the Biden family each have “dozens and dozens of bank accounts.”  Now that they have the accounts, Comer says, and now that they can trace the money, they can start subpoenaing the Bidens.  “We have mountains of evidence,” he says, “and now we’re ready.”

https://rumble.com/v3t1qk8-oversights-comer-reveals-biden-crime-family-has-dozens-of-bank-accounts-for.html


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33 “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


The next RNC debate

A conservative group called Restoration of America is calling on the RNC to drop its plans to let NBC host the next Republican primary debate with liberal NBC anchors Lester Holt and Kristen Welker moderating along with conservative Hugh Hewitt.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/27/conservative-group-calls-on-rnc-to-abandon-nbc-debate-plans/

ROA president Doug Truax wrote, “It is beyond comprehension that the RNC would give a conservative-smearing, round-the-clock misinformation network like NBC the right to host a Republican presidential debate…In case you’ve been in a coma the last few years, we live in a new world where the government, Big Tech and establishment media are openly colluding to hide the truth and help Democrats,” and “NBC is right at the tip of this spear. It has spread thousands of false Russian collusion hoax stories, racial hoaxes, climate hoaxes, and gender and abortion misinformation. It lies 24/7 about nearly everything.”

I’m sure NBC will assure us that its moderators will be fair and impartial, which will also be a lie. But then, they are professionals, so I’m sure they’ll ask the candidates plenty of probing questions about the issues of most importance to Republican primary voters: climate change and January 6th.


Kentucky Tragedy

As we were finishing up the newsletter Wednesday morning, word came of a coal plant collapse in Martin County, Kentucky. The Governor declared a state of emergency and asked for prayers for the safety of two workers who are trapped inside and the teams that are working to rescue them. I know you’ll join me in that prayer.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/kentucky-declares-state-emergency-coal-plant-collapse-rescue-efforts-2-trapped-workers-continue


Update on the effort to keep President Trump off the ballot

The Colorado judge who allowed the stupid lawsuit to proceed to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot due to the 14th Amendment ban on “insurrectionists” (aimed at Confederate officials) was reported to have been appointed by the state’s Democrat Governor. And the plaintiffs are citing a successful suit to remove a New Mexico county commissioner on the same grounds, but he actively participated in the January 6th riot.  Still, this could be the most serious threat based on these frivolous grounds thus far. It’s truly amazing to me how people who claim to be so concerned about protecting “our democracy” are working so hard to keep Americans from being allowed to vote for whomever they want.

https://www.westernjournal.com/trial-remove-trump-ballot-begins-guess-appointed-judge-hearing-case/

For those who have the time and really want to delve into the legal issues involved in all this lawfare against Trump, I recommend this article at Redstate.com. It’s about a story that hasn’t gotten much press, and that’s Trump’s attorneys’ arguments that these cases should be thrown out on constitutional and statutory grounds, including the claim that Presidents are immune from prosecution for actions taken while in office. His critics might scoff at that, but as this explains, it’s based on some pretty solid arguments, and so far, prosecutor Jack Smith has offered little of substance to refute it other than repeating “Nobody is above the law,” which we all know is laughably untrue in this “Justice” Department.

https://redstate.com/shipwreckedcrew/2023/10/30/do-former-presidents-have-immunity-from-criminal-prosecution-trumps-lawyers-say-yes-they-may-be-right-n2165684

Meanwhile, Trump took to social media Sunday to issue a warning to President Biden about these norm-shattering Democrat lawsuits and prosecutions of his chief political opponent and how they waited three years to try them during the election campaign. His warning: “You’re setting a BAD precedent for yourself, Joe. The same can happen to you.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-tells-biden-careful-wishes-can-happen/

It’s a warning that Biden should heed, but he won’t. One of the hallmarks of the modern day Democrats is that they’re fixated on immediate political advantage and never engage in the longterm thinking necessary to consider what will happen if they lose power and the new rules they created are applied to them. For instance, they ignored warnings and did away with the Senate filibuster of judges, then were outraged when Republicans took power and started confirming conservative judges. They refused to defend the free speech of conservatives on campus, and now are crying that loudmouthed anti-Semites are being held accountable for their words.

As Kurt Schlichter warned them repeatedly, “You’re not going to like the new rules you’re creating when they start getting applied to you.” And if anyone has been hurling stones at Trump from inside a glass White House, it’s Joe “Garage Full of Classified Documents” Biden.

 


Permission granted

The mayor of Boston has given the police permission to dismantle the “Methadone Mile,” a homeless tent city that for years has been allowed to fester as a hotbed of crime and drugs. Proving that given enough time, eventually, even Democrats get fed up with Democrat policies.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/blue-citys-methadone-mile-to-be-dismantled-after-progressive-mayor-makes-order


 

More fiction from “Sixty Minutes”

I’m going to assume that not many of my readers are avid fans of CBS’ “Sixty Minutes,” so you might not know that on Sunday, they made yet another attempt to convince us that Vice President Kamala Harris is really great at her job, no matter what everyone might think. And Kamala tried to convince us that Biden’s policies are making all our lives better, but we just don’t recognize that because of a “messaging” problem (I guess there just aren’t enough Democrats in the media who want to sell us a load of clams about Biden and Harris – you know, like “Sixty Minutes.”)

But as Bonchie at Redstate.com reports, Kamala being Kamala, even the puff piece was still a train wreck, with the most-quoted line being her assurance that “Joe Biden is very much alive and running for reelection.”

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/10/30/kamala-harris-60-minutes-reboot-was-an-abject-disaster-n2165690


Inflation reporting

The Babylon Bee doesn’t even pretend that its stories are real, but they still give us more correct information about inflation under Biden than Kamala Harris did on “Sixty Minutes.”

https://babylonbee.com/news/mcdonalds-now-offering-36-month-0-interest-financing-on-all-value-meals


Update on Eventbrite

They apparently don't handle criticism well.

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2023/10/31/riley-gaines-gets-last-laugh-as-eventbrite-digs-deeper-hole-after-delisting-campus-speech-event-n2165760


Israel War update

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

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/november-1-israel-hamas-war

Among the latest news: Israel reports that it’s hit more than 11,000 terrorist targets in Gaza, and lost 11 more soldiers as the intense ground offensive continues to kill Hamas militants and destroy the terrorists’ tunnels. A drone attack on a US base in Syria was blocked by the base’s defenses. This makes at least 27 attacks on US and coalition forces on bases in Syria and Iraq since October 17th for those who claim it's "not our fight." Fortunately, the attacks have mostly been blocked, although there have been some injuries and one American contractor died of cardiac arrest.

Another Iran-backed terrorist group (there seems to be no shortage of those) declared war on Israel in solidarity with Hamas, and no, I’m not talking about Ivy League college students.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/10/31/iran-backed-houthis-declare-war-on-israel-after-reported-killing-of-saudi-troops/

An Israeli woman who was taken hostage and released said that her fellow captives were still alive. Speaking of hostages, a claim went viral on social media that 500 Americans were being held hostage in Gaza, but Forbes claims that’s not true. About 500 Americans are trapped there because there are no flights out and they can’t cross into Egypt, but Forbes says they’re not being held hostage by Hamas. The controversy seems to hinge on how you define “hostage.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/10/31/viral-claim-hamas-holding-500-americans-hostages-in-gaza-isnt-true/?sh=f3559466c8bc

Also, there are disputes over why people can’t leave. The White House claims Hamas is stopping people from leaving, while some journalists claim it’s because Egypt won’t open its border gate. And Egypt’s leader has made it clear he won’t accept a single Palestinian refugee. Personally, I could see both of those claims being true.

The media continue to soft-pedal rabidly anti-Semitic protests by calling the participants “pro-Palestinian” rather than “pro-Hamas terrorists” and “pro-Jewish genocide,” which they make it clear that they are, with printed signs and loud chants and threats. It’s been interesting to see how many liberals are expressing shock and dismay at such Nazi-like behavior and rhetoric coming from their own enclaves, such as college campuses and blue cities. They allowed the purveyors of poison to peddle their toxic ideas for years, and are now shocked to discover they poisoned some people's brains.

Our alleged intelligence agencies were also apparently blindsided by all the terrorist sympathizers and genuine Nazis in our midst. Maybe if they’d spent more time doing their real jobs instead of surveilling and jailing Trump voters, concerned parents and grandmothers praying at abortion clinics, they wouldn’t have been caught unawares.

At least, it’s also yanked the blinders off and forced people to see the rank hypocrisy of the leftists running our universities, who have bullied, punished, silenced and fired professors, students and speakers for years just for expressing conservative opinions, but are now making lame “free speech rights” arguments to try to protect their students and faculty from any consequences for threatening Jewish students and chanting for the mass murder of Jews. Oh, so THAT’S what the First Amendment was written to protect! If that’s what they teach, I’m glad I didn’t get a degree from an Ivy League school.

Oh, but wait! Stop the presses!! An Ivy League college student just learned what an ACTUAL aggression is!

https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2023/10/31/breaking-cornell-student-facing-federal-charges-for-online-threats-to-shoot-pig-jews-n2165767

Let's hope he also learns what "consequences for your actions" are.


I am losing my optimism

For the past few years, a common question posed to me is if I believe our country and our civilization will survive.  My answer has always been, “Yes…I’ve lived through moments in history when it appeared that all was so far gone, but we have recovered.”  I’ve cited the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Dr. Martin Luther King; the violent race riots of the early and mid-60’s and the anti-war protests and the mayhem on college campuses in the late 60’s and early 70’s.  I remember the sexual liberation craze of the 60’s and 70’s where commitment and marriage were scoffed at in favor of open sexual promiscuity brought on in part by easy access to birth control pills and abortion.  I watched our cities burned down in riots and lootings.  I remember the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago when police and protestors violently clashed, or the May 1970 Kent State killing of 4 students and 9 others wounded by National Guard troops who opened live fire on campus protestors.  I witnessed the scandal and ultimate resignation of a President; the Iranian takeover of an embassy and the taking of 52 American hostages, held for 444 days by radical Muslims.  I’ve seen oil embargoes that caused long lines at gas stations, and saw interest rates for home mortgages climb to 17 and 18% causing economic upheaval.  There have been drug use crises that made it appear that an entire generation would drop out and get doped up. 

But through it all, there were glimpses of hope and we experienced an ebb and flow of history that fluctuated between the worst and the best.  We saw the Civil Rights act passed and a landing on the moon, and major medical breakthroughs that saved lives, and innovations in technology that brought us personal computers and ultimately smart phones and world-wide communications through something called the world-wide-web, commonly known as the internet. 

But when people ask me now if we’re going to be okay, I say soberly, but honestly, “I don’t know.”

The reason is that there are signs of such depravity that is not only occurring but being approved by those who are well-educated and should know better. 

A new Harvard-Harris Poll found that among 18-24-year-old Americans, a majority (51-49%) think Hamas’ slaughter of 1300 innocent Israeli civilians was justified. Overall, Americans disagree by 76-24%, with those over 65 disagreeing by 91-9%.  Which means that while people in my generation are overwhelmingly appalled by the massacre of children, the violent rape of women, and the torturing of elderly, younger Americans actually consider such behavior justified.  And worse, much of that attitude prevails on the campuses of what once were the elite institutions of higher education—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia.  How is it that in places where we ought to find the smartest people, we are instead seeing the most immoral, least aware, spiritually blind, and intellectually ignorant? 

We have people appointed to the Supreme Court who can’t answer the simple question “What is a Woman,” for fear it might offend those who argue that gender is no longer a scientific or biological reality, but it’s whatever we imagine it to be based on nothing more than a whim.  People advocate for the chemical castration and surgical mutilation of children who are as prepared to make such permanent life-altering decisions as they are to be handed loaded firearms or given the choice of eating vegetables or ice cream for dinner. 

But the reason for which I lose my optimism most is that in the past, there was a remnant of sane and moral people who never wavered from believing and advocating for Biblical truth and the Judeo-Christian norms of treating others as one desired to be treated and believing that there was a God, He was involved in our world, and we should follow his laws.  I now see many younger, but very popular pastors who have moral confusion and, in an attempt, to be relevant and loved are embracing sexual immorality as just a personal choice, and who in the name of love, have dismissed sin as anything other than a personal lifestyle choice.  If this trend continues, I can’t imagine the patience of God lasting indefinitely.  There may soon come the time when He either lets us collapse into oblivion, or He finally says, “That’s it.  It’s time for putting this evil generation to rest and call a halt to a people who have destroyed themselves by rebellion.”

I hope I’m wrong.  I pray for reformation.  But I fear for the Apocalypse.


A viral video from a Hollywood celebrity

Mayim Bialik (“The Big Bang Theory,” “Jeopardy!”) is an unusual Hollywood celebrity, in that she has a degree in neuroscience and is an observant Jew. She also risked alienating her liberal peers by releasing a video describing her horror not only at the Hamas attack on Israel but at the widespread demonstrations of anti-Semitism and the support for the Jew-haters masquerading as Palestinian supporters in elite circles like her alma mater UCLA, where she said students were chanting for a “Jewish genocide.”

The video was very moving and quite brave, considering her profession, and it quickly went viral. But it also sparked a sympathetic but somewhat critical response from reality TV star and Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Sheila Nazarian, an Iranian-American Jew whose family fled Iran during the 1979 revolution

https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/10/30/rude-awakening-dr-sheila-nazarian-blasts-mayim-bialiks-belated-epiphany-regarding-antisemitism-n2165727

She made the point that, previously, Bialik and other Hollywood “progressives” supported organizations like BLM and the Women’s March whose leaders were clearly anti-Semitic, but apparently didn't notice. She said people like her who escaped socialist countries “have been smelling the same smells here in America for years, and we've been trying to tell you. Why didn't you listen? 'Oh, they're just conservative voices, they're weird, (they) don't make sense, they're this, they're that, they're conspiracy theorists.’”

She went on, "I want you to ask yourself why it took a massacre of our people for you to listen. Maybe it's time you listened to voices again that are different than your own, just like we listen to you. Do not discount the voices of people who have a different life experience than you and who — yes — might know more than you.” She said it’s easy for those who live in “privileged, American safe spaces” and have never experienced war or anti-Semitism, to turn a blind eye to the dangers in the rest of the world like Islamic extremism and tune out those who suffered under it, but “you need to wake up.”

Dr. Nazarian’s concluding message to Ms. Bialik, but really to every liberal who is shocked to suddenly see the results of allowing this toxic hatred to be imported into the US and fed to our children by tenured professors, is this: “I'm sorry that you're just waking up. I'm sorry that you're devastated. I'm sorry that you're disappointed. We've been feeling that way for years. Welcome to the club."


House Oversight Committee releases still more on the Bidens

At the risk of sounding like Jerry Seinfeld, what is the deal with Kevin Morris?

Before the Hunter Biden scandal, he was known primarily as a Hollywood based entertainment lawyer associated with such projects as the animated TV show SOUTH PARK and the Broadway musical THE BOOK OF MORMON.  The man who has become known as Hunter Biden’s “sugar brother,” paying off his massive tax bill and footing the $20,000/month rent for his Malibu beach house, also acquired his share in Chinese investment firm Bohai Harvest RST and assumed a $250,000 loan debt.

The loan was from Hunter’s longtime Chinese business partner Xiangsheng “Jonathan” Li in August 2019.  The beneficiary address was listed as Joe Biden’s Delaware home, though Hunter was living in California at the time.  Morris assumed the debt after Biden had become President.  We don’t know if he’s actually paid it off.

(The report of Morris acquiring Hunter’s share in Bohai Harvest is not new; this appears to have been done so Hunter could technically say he had “divested himself” of Chinese holdings.  The same seems to be the case with the 10 percent of BHR Partners that Morris also controls.)

On Tuesday, the Oversight Committee tweeted (“X’d”?), “In July 2019 (three months after Joe Biden announced he was running for President), Hunter Biden received a $250,000 ‘loan’ from one of his Chinese business associates.  This is the wire that used Joe Biden’s Delaware house as the beneficiary address.”

The committee continued: “Well, now we know neither Hunter Biden nor any other Biden paid that loan back.  Instead, Democrat donor and Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris acquired Hunter’s stake in Bohai Harvest RST (one of Hunter’s China deals) and assumed the debt for Hunter.  It’s worth noting that Morris and Hunter first met at a Joe Biden fundraiser in November 2019.”

“Why is a Democrat donor taking on Hunter Biden’s China debt?  This raises serious ethical questions that the White House must answer.”

https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1719041203914625525?ref

It’s with a sigh that we note comments after the tweet such as “What does this have to do with Joe Biden?”  Really, with all that we know at this point, idiots still ask that?

Joe Biden has a confirmed connection to the Chinese business associate who gave the “loan” to Hunter.    As Devon Archer testified in July, Joe Biden met for coffee with Li in Beijing and did a favor for him, writing a college recommendation letter for Li’s daughter to get into college.  Joe had already announced his bid for the 2020 presidential race before Li’s payment to Hunter.

This truly was a family affair.  Joe’s brother and Hunter’s business partner James Biden thanked Morris “on behalf of the family” for assisting Hunter with the tax bill, according to a September memo released by the House Ways and Means Committee.  The document says Hunter had asked James to send a thank-you for the family.

The relationship between Morris and the Biden family has seemed like the biggest question mark in all this.  Why would an individual who appears to have been only peripherally associated with politics be paying millions of dollars’ worth of Hunter’s bills?  (The way Hunter goes through money, you’d think he’d be in Congress, on the Budget Committee.)  Gary Shapley shed at least a little light on this in May during his testimony before the Ways and Means Committee, describing Morris’ first encounter with Hunter Biden at a campaign donor event.

“And, then ultimately, in late 2019-2020, a Kevin Patrick Morris comes into the picture,” Shapley testified.  Morris was described as meeting Hunter Biden at a campaign finance event.  “And he paid off several different tranches of tax due and owing, to include Federal and DC tax and owing.”

Talk about a cash cow --- Morris also helped Hunter pay for his aggressive legal strategy, with legal expenses topping $1 million a month.  Even with congressional committees investigating him (and supposedly the DOJ), he’s apparently got plenty of money to sue individuals caught up in the story.  Cases in point:  John Paul Mac Isaac, Rudy Giuliani, even the IRS over the disclosures made by whistleblowers Shapley and Joseph Ziegler.  Where does all this money come from?  Entertainment law in Hollywood is a lucrative field for sure, especially when representing the profitable enterprises Morris does, but this is SO MUCH MONEY.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/30/hunter-biden-kevin-morris-250000-debt-chinese-business-associate

Steven Richards and John Solomon at JUST THE NEWS simply say that Hunter “befriended” Morris after meeting him at that fundraiser.  “The relationship is now under investigation by Congress,” they write. “Most of Morris’ assistance is in the form of loans, according to a source close to Hunter Biden.  Morris has also been a member of Hunter Biden’s legal team from time to time.”  I think we may safely assume this was pro bono.

Oversight Committee Chair James Comer of Kentucky spoke with JUST THE NEWS and wondered the same thing we’ve been asking about for many months: “Why is Kevin Morris, who is a lawyer and a Democrat donor, taking on Hunter Biden’s China debt?  This raises serious ethical questions that the White House must answer.”

JUST THE NEWS’ latest report has much more detail on the Bidens’ deals with the Chinese.  Hunter Biden got another infusion of Chinese money, this one a $5 million “interest-free loan” from CCP-controlled energy company CEFC.  It was intended to benefit THE BIDEN FAMILY.  We know because an email to Hunter’s then-business partner Tony Bobulinski on Hunter’s laptop read like this:

“5 million is lent to BD family in the 10 million charter capital. How will this 5 million be used (or the 10 million as a whole)? This 5 million loan to BD family is interest-free. But if the 5 M is used up, should CEFC keep lending more to the family? If CEFC lends more, they need to know the interest rate for the subsequent loan(s).”

That’s three times in one paragraph that the word “family” is used.  Again, to anyone who still insists on believing Joe Biden isn’t involved:  THE BIDEN FAMILY.  And they’re talking about lending more in the future.  But they also mention that the risk management department of CEFC is “showing concerns” about this “JV” (assumed to mean “joint venture”).

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-10/2017-07-26_-_11.49_-_Latest_update_from_DZ.pdf

Bobulinski later confirmed the existence of the loan in an interview with the FBI, the notes of which were reviewed by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.  Grassley, doing the FBI’s job once again, sent a letter to to AG Merrick Garland, FBI Director Chris Wray, and Delaware U.S. Attorney (now also Special Counsel) David Weiss to advise them of this loan, which was unsecured and “intended to be forgivable,” he wrote.

It was IRS investigator Ziegler who figured out that Hunter was in the habit of describing outright payments as “loans,” probably to avoid the taxes.

Anyway, Congress DOES have the “smoking gun” that shows the Biden family was benefiting financially from those Chinese payments, not just Hunter.  Emerging bank records are backing this up.  But for us, the question remains, why is Kevin Morris paying all those millions of dollars to Hunter?  Even attorneys as fabulously wealthy as Morris aren’t usually THAT charitable.  This is a mystery to be solved.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/250k-wire-hunter-bidens-chinese-partner-was-loan-assumed-lawyer


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Israel update

November 1, 2023

Here is today’s page of continuously-updated stories on the war in Israel from Fox News:

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/october-31-israel-hamas-war

In the latest news, IDF forces safely liberated a female Israeli soldier, 19-year-old Private Ori Megidish, who was being held hostage by Hamas. Israel’s military also announced that another 300 Hamas targets had been attacked in Gaza over the last 24 hours. A spokesman said, "We are hunting their commanders. We are attacking their infrastructure and whenever there is any potent target that is related to Hamas, we strike it. Now we do so with professionalism. Hamas is the enemy, not the civilian population." It's also reported that the Hamas commander who directed the October 7th attack has been killed in an airstrike.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a strong speech rejecting calls for a ceasefire.  He said, “Just as the US would not agree to a ceasefire after the bombing of Pearl Harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9/11, Israel will not agree to a cessation of hostilities with Hamas after the horrific attacks of 7 October. Calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism. The Bible says ‘there is a time for peace, and a time for war,’” and “This is a time for a war. A war for our common future. Today, we draw a line between the forces of civilization and the forces of barbarism.”

Netanyahu said Israel is giving Hamas just two choices: “Die or surrender.” Anyone who thinks that’s too harsh should consider that it’s one more choice than Hamas gave their victims.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/10/30/israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu-says-no-to-ceasefire-until-hamas-is-completely-and-utterly-destroyed-n2165730

Surprisingly, even Hillary Clinton agrees. To her fellow Democrats who are crying for a ceasefire, Hillary said they “don’t understand Hamas.” She said, "It would be such a gift to Hamas because they would spend whatever time there was a ceasefire in effect rebuilding their armaments, creating stronger positions to be able to fend off an eventual assault by the Israelis."

To give Hillary credit, she’s absolutely right about this. And as Nick Arama at Redstate.com points out, among those who don’t (or to be kind, didn’t) understand how Hamas exploits ceasefires was Joe Biden, who in May of 2021 bragged about negotiating a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. He promised aid to Gaza and not to let Hamas restock their weapons. And then there was another “ceasefire” in May of this year. They really worked out great, didn’t they?

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/10/30/lets-talk-about-those-calls-for-a-ceasefire-and-what-hillary-clinton-just-said-n2165709

Give Cori Bush credit

November 1, 2023

It must be hard to stand out as the dumbest member of “The Squad,” but give Rep. Cori Bush credit for giving it the old, anti-Semitic Ivy League college try.

After Israel waited for weeks to give innocent Palestinians time to get out of Gaza before they came in to kill murderous Hamas terrorists, Bush sent out this tweet. Brace yourself, just reading it might make your IQ plummet:

"We can’t be silent about Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign. Babies, dead. Pregnant women, dead. Elderly, dead. Generations of families, dead. Millions of people in Gaza with nowhere to go being slaughtered. The U.S. must stop funding these atrocities against Palestinians."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/squad-member-cori-bush-accuses-israel-ethnic-cleansing-war-hamas

Wow, where to start? First, since even Hamas is claiming that 8,000 Palestinians have died, I don’t think you can say “millions” are being slaughtered. And if they have “nowhere to go,” it’s because her pals in Hamas are blocking the escape routes and forcing them to go back and be human shields. She’s right that babies, pregnant women, the elderly and entire generations of families have been slaughtered in an ethnic cleansing atrocity, but those were Israeli Jews slaughtered by her Hamas buddies. Any non-terrorist Palestinian killed by Israel isn’t being “ethnically cleansed,” but is an inadvertent casualty of a war Hamas started because Hamas is using them as - one more time for the slow learners - HUMAN SHIELDS.

I almost feel sorry for the other members of the Squad for having to come up with something to say that’s even more braindead than that. But I have full faith that they are up to the challenge.

Related: Speaking of “Squad” members, is anyone really surprised by a report that Rep. Rashida Tlaib has extensive fundraising ties to pro-Hamas activists and that she hired the founder of a pro-terror Facebook page as the chairman of her campaign finance committee?

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/10/26/report-tlaib-employed-hamas-activists-had-extensive-fundraising-ties-to-hamas-supporters-n587830

I am losing my optimism

November 1, 2023

For the past few years, a common question posed to me is if I believe our country and our civilization will survive.  My answer has always been, “Yes…I’ve lived through moments in history when it appeared that all was so far gone, but we have recovered.”  I’ve cited the assassinations of JFK, RFK, and Dr. Martin Luther King; the violent race riots of the early and mid-60’s and the anti-war protests and the mayhem on college campuses in the late 60’s and early 70’s.  I remember the sexual liberation craze of the 60’s and 70’s where commitment and marriage were scoffed at in favor of open sexual promiscuity brought on in part by easy access to birth control pills and abortion.  I watched our cities burned down in riots and lootings.  I remember the 1968 Democrat Convention in Chicago when police and protestors violently clashed, or the May 1970 Kent State killing of 4 students and 9 others wounded by National Guard troops who opened live fire on campus protestors.  I witnessed the scandal and ultimate resignation of a President; the Iranian takeover of an embassy and the taking of 52 American hostages, held for 444 days by radical Muslims.  I’ve seen oil embargoes that caused long lines at gas stations, and saw interest rates for home mortgages climb to 17 and 18% causing economic upheaval.  There have been drug use crises that made it appear that an entire generation would drop out and get doped up. 

But through it all, there were glimpses of hope and we experienced an ebb and flow of history that fluctuated between the worst and the best.  We saw the Civil Rights act passed and a landing on the moon, and major medical breakthroughs that saved lives, and innovations in technology that brought us personal computers and ultimately smart phones and world-wide communications through something called the world-wide-web, commonly known as the internet. 

But when people ask me now if we’re going to be okay, I say soberly, but honestly, “I don’t know.”

The reason is that there are signs of such depravity that is not only occurring but being approved by those who are well-educated and should know better. 

A new Harvard-Harris Poll found that among 18-24-year-old Americans, a majority (51-49%) think Hamas’ slaughter of 1300 innocent Israeli civilians was justified. Overall, Americans disagree by 76-24%, with those over 65 disagreeing by 91-9%.  Which means that while people in my generation are overwhelmingly appalled by the massacre of children, the violent rape of women, and the torturing of elderly, younger Americans actually consider such behavior justified.  And worse, much of that attitude prevails on the campuses of what once were the elite institutions of higher education—Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia.  How is it that in places where we ought to find the smartest people, we are instead seeing the most immoral, least aware, spiritually blind, and intellectually ignorant? 

We have people appointed to the Supreme Court who can’t answer the simple question “What is a Woman,” for fear it might offend those who argue that gender is no longer a scientific or biological reality, but it’s whatever we imagine it to be based on nothing more than a whim.  People advocate for the chemical castration and surgical mutilation of children who are as prepared to make such permanent life-altering decisions as they are to be handed loaded firearms or given the choice of eating vegetables or ice cream for dinner. 

But the reason for which I lose my optimism most is that in the past, there was a remnant of sane and moral people who never wavered from believing and advocating for Biblical truth and the Judeo-Christian norms of treating others as one desired to be treated and believing that there was a God, He was involved in our world, and we should follow his laws.  I now see many younger, but very popular pastors who have moral confusion and, in an attempt, to be relevant and loved are embracing sexual immorality as just a personal choice, and who in the name of love, have dismissed sin as anything other than a personal lifestyle choice.  If this trend continues, I can’t imagine the patience of God lasting indefinitely.  There may soon come the time when He either lets us collapse into oblivion, or He finally says, “That’s it.  It’s time for putting this evil generation to rest and call a halt to a people who have destroyed themselves by rebellion.”

I hope I’m wrong.  I pray for reformation.  But I fear for the Apocalypse.

As bad as Hillary’s email scandal was --- thousands of official State Department documents kept secret on a private server --- President Biden’s looks to be potentially much worse, at least in terms of scale.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), finally responding to a lawsuit by the nonprofit public interest law firm the Southeast Legal Foundation, said in a federal court filing in Atlanta on Monday that it has found 82,000 pages (!) of emails that Joe Biden sent or received under one of three pseudonyms he was using while serving as Vice President.  According to the filing, they will be producing “non-exempt” portions of this material on a “monthly rolling basis.”

The foundation sought these emails after JUST THE NEWS reported a year ago that Joe Biden had been using three email accounts with fake names:  Robert L. Peters, JRBWare, and Robinware456.

So, what’s in the many thousands of emails Biden wrote or received while he was VP?  We have no idea.  As John Solomon writes, “NARA has completed a search for potentially responsive documents and is currently processing those documents for the purpose of producing non-exempt portions of any responsive records on a monthly rolling basis,” the status report stated. “Given the scope of Plaintiff’s FOIA request, which seeks copies of all emails in three separate accounts over an eight-year period, the volume of potentially responsive records is necessarily large.”

We would word that a little differently:  that it’s “necessarily large” because of Biden’s attempt to hide his communications from FOIA requests in THREE SEPARATE ACCOUNTS.  In other words, don’t blame the plaintiff’s request, which he has every right under the law to make.  Blame Biden.

According to the court filing, NARA and the legal foundation are working together, “discussing ways to narrow the request for records to get copies of the emails out in a more expeditious manner.”

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-10/SELF-NARA-BidenPseudonymEmails.pdf

As we learned with Hillary’s email scandal, government officials’ use of private email for official government business is “discouraged under law.”  Under the Federal Records Act, officials such as then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-VP Joe Biden are required to preserve all government-related emails conducted on their private email accounts.  Hillary’s had actually been under subpoena, and yet she and her aides deleted over 22,000 more that she had deemed “personal.”  (You know, the ones about yoga classes and Chelsea’s wedding.)  It turned out that some of the material was classified, including 22 emails that were “top secret.”  It didn’t matter; then-FBI Director James Comey, unbelievably, let Hillary off the hook in his infamous speech on July 5, 2016, saving her presidential candidacy ahead of the Democratic National Convention when she had done something that would put regular people --- and certainly Donald Trump --- in the slammer.

Hillary apparently wasn’t using made-up names for herself, although it might be fun to think of some she could have used.

We don’t yet know if any of these Biden-pseudonym emails were classified, but he’s currently under investigation, or so they tell us, by Special Counsel Robert Hur for having classified documents from his time as senator and VP and keeping them, well, in a variety of non-secure places.  Were any of these places raided Mar-A-Lago style?  Don’t be silly; of course not.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/archives-locates-82000-pages-joe-biden-pseudonym-emails-possibly

As the DAILY CALLER reports, another group, Stephen Miller’s America First Legal, also received a status report from the National Archives on its own FOIA lawsuit in early October identifying nearly 20,000 emails with Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Seneca and over 4,000 with Hunter himself.  Others were with Joe’s brother Jim and Jim’s company.  But AFL still hasn’t seen the actual documents.  I’m sure they were all about the weather.

The Southeastern Law Foundation suit is what turned up the Biden pseudonyms Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters and JRB Ware.  While he was Vice President, Biden was apparently using these names for government business, as there was one from “Robert L. Peters” setting up a meeting with Ukraine’s then-president Petro Porochenko ON HUNTER’S LAPTOP.

The House Oversight Committee wrote a letter to NARA in August demanding that they be given “unrestricted access” to the Biden pseudonym documents under the Presidential Records Act.  NARA has only partially complied so far, allowing the committee to review the Ukraine-related email and a small number of others in September.

The committee has also requested that NARA turn over records related to Hunter Biden’s rides on Air Force Two, plus the communications between Joe’s White House office and/or Hunter and Hunter’s business associates.  From the State Department, they’re asking for records surrounding Biden’s administration and the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/30/national-archives-identifies-82000-potential-records-joe-biden-fake-names/

 

EPOCH TIMES investigative reporter Mark Tapscott posted yesterday about what a joke the Freedom Of Information Act is.  He says that every day, bureaucrats at every level of government “thumb their noses” at it.  This is a law with absolutely no teeth that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966.

It can take years for the “responsive” records to be produced, and we have to take their word that it’s all there.  Often entire pages are obscured with black bars.  As Tapscott says, “They redact, ignore, delete, overlook, wait, misconstrue, etc. etc., whatever it takes to avoid providing the transparency and accountability the law requires.”  And why not?  There are no penalties.  Nobody’s going to jail for failing to comply.

Have you ever tried to get documents released via a FOIA request?  Tapscott links to an article detailing the bureaucratic road traveled by Hans Bader when he had to sue the Department of Education under FOIA to get thousands of pages of documents concerning proposed regulation of charter schools.  Bader, who worked in the Department of Education under Trump, submitted his request on behalf of Liberty Unyielding and the Bader Family Foundation.  He’s sued federal agencies over unfulfilled FOIA requests 13 times since 2021.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bader_Family_Foundation

When the Department of Education did not comply or offer any response at all within the proscribed 20-day period, he filed suit.  So now it’s releasing pages at the rate of about 500 per month, and many of the pages are entirely redacted.  In the documents produced this October, only 4 of the 574 pages released were NOT totally redacted.  You’d think this was classified material about our nuclear arsenal, not proposed rules for charter schools.

The Education Department says the redacted material is “exempt” but hasn’t explained why.  “Courts have said that agencies generally do not even have to justify their redactions until they file for summary judgment, Bader writes, “which occurs months or years after a FOIA lawsuit is filed.”  In other words, delay, delay, delay.  We have to hand it to heroic organizations like Judicial Watch, which stays on every lawsuit like a dog with a bone, no matter how long it takes to get the information.

“Agencies usually withhold the lion’s share of interesting communications,” says Bader, “the ones that describe what the agency is up to, under the deliberative process privilege,” which is interpreted very expansively by the courts.  “Deliberative process privilege has become the exception that devours the rule of transparency created by the FOIA.”

The whole purpose of the Freedom Of Information Act was, according to the Supreme Court, to “ensure an informed citizenry, vital to the functioning of a democratic society, needed to check against corruption and hold the government accountable to the governed.”  (I’ll pause while you laugh helplessly.)  The law in its current form, as interpreted by the courts, can’t possibly do that.

https://libertyunyielding.com/2023/10/29/biden-administration-sued-under-foia-over-rule-to-stifle-charter-schools-all-but-four-pages-redacted-in-574-page-release/

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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

Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

James 1:6


Give Cori Bush credit

It must be hard to stand out as the dumbest member of “The Squad,” but give Rep. Cori Bush credit for giving it the old, anti-Semitic Ivy League college try.

After Israel waited for weeks to give innocent Palestinians time to get out of Gaza before they came in to kill murderous Hamas terrorists, Bush sent out this tweet. Brace yourself, just reading it might make your IQ plummet:

"We can’t be silent about Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign. Babies, dead. Pregnant women, dead. Elderly, dead. Generations of families, dead. Millions of people in Gaza with nowhere to go being slaughtered. The U.S. must stop funding these atrocities against Palestinians."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/squad-member-cori-bush-accuses-israel-ethnic-cleansing-war-hamas

Wow, where to start? First, since even Hamas is claiming that 8,000 Palestinians have died, I don’t think you can say “millions” are being slaughtered. And if they have “nowhere to go,” it’s because her pals in Hamas are blocking the escape routes and forcing them to go back and be human shields. She’s right that babies, pregnant women, the elderly and entire generations of families have been slaughtered in an ethnic cleansing atrocity, but those were Israeli Jews slaughtered by her Hamas buddies. Any non-terrorist Palestinian killed by Israel isn’t being “ethnically cleansed,” but is an inadvertent casualty of a war Hamas started because Hamas is using them as - one more time for the slow learners - HUMAN SHIELDS.

I almost feel sorry for the other members of the Squad for having to come up with something to say that’s even more braindead than that. But I have full faith that they are up to the challenge.

Related: Speaking of “Squad” members, is anyone really surprised by a report that Rep. Rashida Tlaib has extensive fundraising ties to pro-Hamas activists and that she hired the founder of a pro-terror Facebook page as the chairman of her campaign finance committee?

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/10/26/report-tlaib-employed-hamas-activists-had-extensive-fundraising-ties-to-hamas-supporters-n587830


A Chicago Brawl

During a big pro-Palestinian rally in Chicago, a brawl broke out between the Hamas sympathizers and a group of Black Hebrew Israelites, with video of it going viral.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/who-are-the-black-hebrew-israelites-the-religious-group-in-the-viral-confrontation-at-the-lincoln-memorial

As satisfying as that clip might be, in case you’re wondering who the Black Hebrew Israelites are, no, they’re not Israelis. You might recall that they were the troublemakers who started taunting the Catholic students in DC and that led to Nick Sandmann being smeared and suing CNN. Flashback:

https://www.foxnews.com/us/who-are-the-black-hebrew-israelites-the-religious-group-in-the-viral-confrontation-at-the-lincoln-memorial

 


Hamas = A Terrorist Organization

A new Rasmussen poll found that 78% of US voters think Hamas should be declared a terrorist organization, and 60% believe that groups that support Hamas should be investigated by federal authorities. Sorry, they’re too busy investigating the biggest terrorist threat to America: Trump voters.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/27/exclusive-poll-60-of-voters-want-groups-who-support-hamas-investigated/

And while Biden has actually been pretty good thus far in supporting Israel, I think Trump is closer to what most Americans feel about this issue.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/10/29/trump-says-as-president-hed-deport-all-resident-aliens-who-join-pro-hamas-protests-n2165662

 

 



 

Attention, female athletes:

This is what you need to do when biological men claim to “identify” as female and demand to compete in your sports.

https://www.outkick.com/women-quit-jiu-jitsu-tournament-male-naga-transgender-policy/

The Georgia Grappling Championship, a jiu-jitsu tournament supposedly for women, surprised female competitors by not telling them that the people they’d have to fight included “trans-identifying” males who towered over them and outweighed them by 65 pounds. The women simply refused to go along with this insanity and walked out. So the podium had an all-male roster of winners.

Women’s sports defender Riley Gaines tweeted, “In the name of inclusivity and feminism, males are brutally beating up on women and being awarded for it. Think about the message this sends."

This was such an embarrassment (and rightly so) that the North American Grappling Association (NAGA) officially changed its policy. From now on “cisgender females” (a stupid term; it should just be “females”) will compete in the women’s division, and “transgender females” (i.e., biological males) will compete in the men’s division. There, was that so hard to figure out?

All female athletes should take a lesson from these women. If you’re asked to risk your health and give up your sport by being forced to compete against larger, stronger male athletes, just say “no” and walk out. News flash: the organizers can’t sell tickets and TV rights to their “women’s sports league” without women. Refuse to play along and force them, if they want to stay in business, to stop letting males cheat by stealing your trophies, titles, prizes and scholarships.

All you have to do is not care what leftist idiots call you on the Internet. Trust me, it’s not that hard. I’ve done it for years.

 


“Transparency and accountability” for Biden? FOIA is a joke

As bad as Hillary’s email scandal was --- thousands of official State Department documents kept secret on a private server --- President Biden’s looks to be potentially much worse, at least in terms of scale.

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), finally responding to a lawsuit by the nonprofit public interest law firm the Southeast Legal Foundation, said in a federal court filing in Atlanta on Monday that it has found 82,000 pages (!) of emails that Joe Biden sent or received under one of three pseudonyms he was using while serving as Vice President.  According to the filing, they will be producing “non-exempt” portions of this material on a “monthly rolling basis.”

The foundation sought these emails after JUST THE NEWS reported a year ago that Joe Biden had been using three email accounts with fake names:  Robert L. Peters, JRBWare, and Robinware456.

So, what’s in the many thousands of emails Biden wrote or received while he was VP?  We have no idea.  As John Solomon writes, “NARA has completed a search for potentially responsive documents and is currently processing those documents for the purpose of producing non-exempt portions of any responsive records on a monthly rolling basis,” the status report stated. “Given the scope of Plaintiff’s FOIA request, which seeks copies of all emails in three separate accounts over an eight-year period, the volume of potentially responsive records is necessarily large.”

We would word that a little differently:  that it’s “necessarily large” because of Biden’s attempt to hide his communications from FOIA requests in THREE SEPARATE ACCOUNTS.  In other words, don’t blame the plaintiff’s request, which he has every right under the law to make.  Blame Biden.

According to the court filing, NARA and the legal foundation are working together, “discussing ways to narrow the request for records to get copies of the emails out in a more expeditious manner.”

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2023-10/SELF-NARA-BidenPseudonymEmails.pdf

As we learned with Hillary’s email scandal, government officials’ use of private email for official government business is “discouraged under law.”  Under the Federal Records Act, officials such as then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-VP Joe Biden are required to preserve all government-related emails conducted on their private email accounts.  Hillary’s had actually been under subpoena, and yet she and her aides deleted over 22,000 more that she had deemed “personal.”  (You know, the ones about yoga classes and Chelsea’s wedding.)  It turned out that some of the material was classified, including 22 emails that were “top secret.”  It didn’t matter; then-FBI Director James Comey, unbelievably, let Hillary off the hook in his infamous speech on July 5, 2016, saving her presidential candidacy ahead of the Democratic National Convention when she had done something that would put regular people --- and certainly Donald Trump --- in the slammer.

Hillary apparently wasn’t using made-up names for herself, although it might be fun to think of some she could have used.

We don’t yet know if any of these Biden-pseudonym emails were classified, but he’s currently under investigation, or so they tell us, by Special Counsel Robert Hur for having classified documents from his time as senator and VP and keeping them, well, in a variety of non-secure places.  Were any of these places raided Mar-A-Lago style?  Don’t be silly; of course not.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/archives-locates-82000-pages-joe-biden-pseudonym-emails-possibly

As the DAILY CALLER reports, another group, Stephen Miller’s America First Legal, also received a status report from the National Archives on its own FOIA lawsuit in early October identifying nearly 20,000 emails with Hunter Biden’s company Rosemont Seneca and over 4,000 with Hunter himself.  Others were with Joe’s brother Jim and Jim’s company.  But AFL still hasn’t seen the actual documents.  I’m sure they were all about the weather.

The Southeastern Law Foundation suit is what turned up the Biden pseudonyms Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters and JRB Ware.  While he was Vice President, Biden was apparently using these names for government business, as there was one from “Robert L. Peters” setting up a meeting with Ukraine’s then-president Petro Porochenko ON HUNTER’S LAPTOP.

The House Oversight Committee wrote a letter to NARA in August demanding that they be given “unrestricted access” to the Biden pseudonym documents under the Presidential Records Act.  NARA has only partially complied so far, allowing the committee to review the Ukraine-related email and a small number of others in September.

The committee has also requested that NARA turn over records related to Hunter Biden’s rides on Air Force Two, plus the communications between Joe’s White House office and/or Hunter and Hunter’s business associates.  From the State Department, they’re asking for records surrounding Biden’s administration and the firing of Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/30/national-archives-identifies-82000-potential-records-joe-biden-fake-names/

 

EPOCH TIMES investigative reporter Mark Tapscott posted yesterday about what a joke the Freedom Of Information Act is.  He says that every day, bureaucrats at every level of government “thumb their noses” at it.  This is a law with absolutely no teeth that was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1966.

It can take years for the “responsive” records to be produced, and we have to take their word that it’s all there.  Often entire pages are obscured with black bars.  As Tapscott says, “They redact, ignore, delete, overlook, wait, misconstrue, etc. etc., whatever it takes to avoid providing the transparency and accountability the law requires.”  And why not?  There are no penalties.  Nobody’s going to jail for failing to comply.

Have you ever tried to get documents released via a FOIA request?  Tapscott links to an article detailing the bureaucratic road traveled by Hans Bader when he had to sue the Department of Education under FOIA to get thousands of pages of documents concerning proposed regulation of charter schools.  Bader, who worked in the Department of Education under Trump, submitted his request on behalf of Liberty Unyielding and the Bader Family Foundation.  He’s sued federal agencies over unfulfilled FOIA requests 13 times since 2021.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Bader_Family_Foundation

When the Department of Education did not comply or offer any response at all within the proscribed 20-day period, he filed suit.  So now it’s releasing pages at the rate of about 500 per month, and many of the pages are entirely redacted.  In the documents produced this October, only 4 of the 574 pages released were NOT totally redacted.  You’d think this was classified material about our nuclear arsenal, not proposed rules for charter schools.

The Education Department says the redacted material is “exempt” but hasn’t explained why.  “Courts have said that agencies generally do not even have to justify their redactions until they file for summary judgment, Bader writes, “which occurs months or years after a FOIA lawsuit is filed.”  In other words, delay, delay, delay.  We have to hand it to heroic organizations like Judicial Watch, which stays on every lawsuit like a dog with a bone, no matter how long it takes to get the information.

“Agencies usually withhold the lion’s share of interesting communications,” says Bader, “the ones that describe what the agency is up to, under the deliberative process privilege,” which is interpreted very expansively by the courts.  “Deliberative process privilege has become the exception that devours the rule of transparency created by the FOIA.”

The whole purpose of the Freedom Of Information Act was, according to the Supreme Court, to “ensure an informed citizenry, vital to the functioning of a democratic society, needed to check against corruption and hold the government accountable to the governed.”  (I’ll pause while you laugh helplessly.)  The law in its current form, as interpreted by the courts, can’t possibly do that.

https://libertyunyielding.com/2023/10/29/biden-administration-sued-under-foia-over-rule-to-stifle-charter-schools-all-but-four-pages-redacted-in-574-page-release/


Israel update

Here is today’s page of continuously-updated stories on the war in Israel from Fox News:

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/october-31-israel-hamas-war

In the latest news, IDF forces safely liberated a female Israeli soldier, 19-year-old Private Ori Megidish, who was being held hostage by Hamas. Israel’s military also announced that another 300 Hamas targets had been attacked in Gaza over the last 24 hours. A spokesman said, "We are hunting their commanders. We are attacking their infrastructure and whenever there is any potent target that is related to Hamas, we strike it. Now we do so with professionalism. Hamas is the enemy, not the civilian population." It's also reported that the Hamas commander who directed the October 7th attack has been killed in an airstrike.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a strong speech rejecting calls for a ceasefire.  He said, “Just as the US would not agree to a ceasefire after the bombing of Pearl Harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9/11, Israel will not agree to a cessation of hostilities with Hamas after the horrific attacks of 7 October. Calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism. The Bible says ‘there is a time for peace, and a time for war,’” and “This is a time for a war. A war for our common future. Today, we draw a line between the forces of civilization and the forces of barbarism.”

Netanyahu said Israel is giving Hamas just two choices: “Die or surrender.” Anyone who thinks that’s too harsh should consider that it’s one more choice than Hamas gave their victims.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/10/30/israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu-says-no-to-ceasefire-until-hamas-is-completely-and-utterly-destroyed-n2165730

Surprisingly, even Hillary Clinton agrees. To her fellow Democrats who are crying for a ceasefire, Hillary said they “don’t understand Hamas.” She said, "It would be such a gift to Hamas because they would spend whatever time there was a ceasefire in effect rebuilding their armaments, creating stronger positions to be able to fend off an eventual assault by the Israelis."

To give Hillary credit, she’s absolutely right about this. And as Nick Arama at Redstate.com points out, among those who don’t (or to be kind, didn’t) understand how Hamas exploits ceasefires was Joe Biden, who in May of 2021 bragged about negotiating a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. He promised aid to Gaza and not to let Hamas restock their weapons. And then there was another “ceasefire” in May of this year. They really worked out great, didn’t they?

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/10/30/lets-talk-about-those-calls-for-a-ceasefire-and-what-hillary-clinton-just-said-n2165709


Shani Louk

Israeli officials report that they have identified the body of Shani Louk, the young German-Israeli woman abducted at the music festival, tortured and paraded unconscious around Gaza on the back of a truck by Hamas barbarians. Her body was discovered beheaded.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/israeli-officials-identify-shani-louk-s-body-beheaded-by-sadistic-animals/ar-AA1j6IwA

As horrifying as this is, also horrifying in a different way are the efforts by some in the West to downplay and deny the brutality of these terrorists. Like the editors of the Yale Daily student newspaper, who put a “correction” on a story saying that claims that Hamas raped women and beheaded men are “unsubstantiated.” They got some blunt lessons on Twitter about what that word means, and how it doesn’t apply to acts of animalistic savagery that are live streamed online by the people committing them.

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/10/30/yale-student-newspaper-corrects-column-that-claims-hamas-raped-and-beheaded-n2389213

If these young ignoramuses would like some “substantiation” of Hamas’ brutality, the IDF has discovered some, but I will warn you in advance, this is disturbing and sickening.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/10/31/idf-have-discovered-shani-louks-body-she-was-likely-beheaded-n2630535


Banning Halloween?!?

I hope your family has a safe and fun Halloween, that is, if you aren’t afraid to put on any costume for fear it will offend somebody. It’s funny, I remember when liberals used to mock Christians for opposing Halloween parties in schools. Now, it’s liberals who are banning Halloween, like these school officials in New Jersey:

https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/scared-of-halloween-ghoulies-ghosties-and-dei-beasties

They claimed that canceling Halloween would somehow “encourage diversity, equity and inclusion.” Which is ridiculous, because dressing up as a DEI consultant makes you much scarier than a werewolf or vampire, and far more dangerous to society. They rescinded the ban after parents revolted and even the Democrat Governor slammed it, saying, “Give me a break!”

Of course, there’s always the possibility that Democrats will cancel Halloween just by making candy so expensive that nobody can afford to give it out anymore.

https://abc7chicago.com/halloween-candy-cost-prices-inflation/13955494/


Some good news

A new report by the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on government weaponization reveals that due to pressure from them, the IRS agreed to end unannounced surprise visits to taxpayers’ homes as of July 2023. The report assured Americans that the subcommittee’s “oversight revealed, and led to the swift end of, the IRS’s weaponization of unannounced field visits to harass, intimidate, and target taxpayers.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/irs-policy-allowing-surprise-visits-on-taxpayers-limited-after-judiciary-republicans-probing-report-says/ar-AA1iXyEy

Here’s why that was necessary. The report includes an account of an IRS agent showing up at the door of a Marion County, Ohio, woman and lying about why he was there. She had received no notice of any tax problems, but she let him in and he began harassing and intimidating her.  She told him to leave, and he replied, “I am an IRS agent. I can be at and go into anyone’s house at any time I want to be.” She finally called the police, and the agent filed a complaint against the police department! The IRS later admitted that the woman owed no taxes and the situation “never should have gotten this far.”

https://headlineusa.com/irs-agent-intimidates-taxpayer-says-he-can-enter-anyones-home-at-any-time/

If you know anyone who actually believes their vote doesn’t matter and there’s no difference between the two parties, tell them that the Republicans took action to rein in the abuse of power by the IRS while the Democrats want to hire 87,000 more IRS agents. Maybe that will slap some reality into them.


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Saturday, former Vice President Mike Pence announced that “after much prayer and deliberation,” he is suspending his presidential campaign. He said, “It's become clear to me this is not my time," adding, “I urge you to hold fast to what matters: faith, family, and the Constitution of the United States of America. I'm proud that our campaign stood firm on America's role as leader of the free world." He didn’t endorse any other candidate and it's an open question whether he would endorse Trump, considering the bad blood between them over the 2020 election. In his farewell, he urged the GOP to return to its conservative roots and resist the "siren song of populism," represented by Trump.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mike-pence-suspends-2024-presidential-campaign

We’ll have to agree to disagree on some of that, but I wish him well. It’s never easy to have to accept that a campaign you’ve put so much into has fallen short and it’s time to call it quits. But to be honest, I’m surprised we haven’t seen more of this already.

It might start ramping up if polls show what I suspect they might, and that’s an even bigger boost for Trump in the wake of the world starting to fall apart all around us. Usually during a crisis like the war in Israel, there’s a “rallying around” effect that boosts the incumbent President, but in Biden’s case, something is causing his approval rating to fall instead. And that something is the anti-Semitism of his fellow Democrats.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/10/bidens-freefall-continues.php

(Apparently, that even includes some Democratic Congress members beyond the “Squad,” 15 of whom voted against a resolution supporting Israel and condemning Hamas, and one of whom is willing to threaten a Jewish colleague for criticizing him over it.)

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/10/29/democratic-lawmaker-appears-to-threaten-violence-against-jewish-colleague-over-israel-resolution-vote-n2165683

In the latest Gallup poll, Biden’s approval rating since his speech on Israel has dropped four points to an all-time low of 37%. That’s largely because of fellow Democrats, whom polls show support the Palestinians to a shocking degree, particularly the young Democrats he’s been pandering to with “student loan forgiveness.”

Among Americans who aren’t angry at Biden for not sympathizing with terrorists, there’s more of a “This is your fault” feeling. They’re longing for the good old days of five years ago, when America had secure borders, a strong economy, low inflation and peace deals in the Middle East; we pumped our own oil instead of buying from our enemies; other nations feared and respected us; and we were killing terrorists instead of vice versa. More people are starting to wake up and recognize the politicized lawfare against Trump and how they’ve been lied to by the media about Trump and his supporters (turns out there really are Nazis in America, but they’re not wearing MAGA caps, they’re on Ivy League campuses.)

Those who think that Trump is a goner because of all the bad press and all the lawsuits and indictments should remember the words of a great Republican President: You can’t fool all of the people all of the time.