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Not like it used to be

October 13, 2023

When liberal media outlets like the New York Times want to quote the thinking of Evangelicals, they reflexively turn to Christianity Today magazine, which was founded by Billy Graham in 1956. But ask any actual Evangelical who reads it, and they’ll likely tell you that it no longer bears much resemblance to its Biblical origins and often takes a decidedly liberal stance on issues like gun control and LGBTQ activism. In an exclusive report, the Daily Wire may have found the reason for that.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/christianity-today-staff-made-extensive-campaign-donations-between-2015-and-2022-all-went-to-democrats

They discovered that between 2015 and 2022, nine top Christianity Today staffers made 73 political donations, and 100% of them went to Democrats. President and CEO Timothy Dalrymple donated to a failed Georgia Senate candidate who described herself as a “staunch LGBTQ ally” and a defender of abortion “without exception.” One news editor made eight donations to five pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ candidates, including Elizabeth Warren.  Daily Wire also found that FEC records show no donations by CT executives to Republicans since 1991.

The link has much more detail, and examples of how this internal political bias has affected the magazine’s news coverage, such as questioning the sincerity of Trump’s religious faith while praising Biden’s oddly pro-abortion Catholicism.  A Trump campaign spokeswoman replied, “I would like to know if Christianity Today is pleased with the policies of the Biden Administration, [like] advocating for birth-day abortions, erasing women, silence on Israel, and using his Department of Justice to target concerned parents, pro-life dads, and Latin Catholic Churches.”

This might finally explain why so many Christians who used to read that magazine have asked themselves, “What would Jesus do?” and arrived at the answer: “Unsubscribe.”

The internet is forever

October 13, 2023

I mentioned yesterday that the Chicago chapter of BLM tried to cover their tracks after sparking outrage by deleting a graphic celebrating the Hamas terrorists paragliding into Israel to slaughter innocent men, women and children. Well, as I said then, the Internet is forever. That graphic was captured, and here’s their disgusting initial reaction that they’re trying to hide.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/11/black-lives-matter-group-deletes-tweet-showing-support-for-hamas-black-lives-matter-group-deletes-tweet-showing-support-for-hamas/

I caught Brit Hume on Fox News yesterday, making the observation that watching the revolting cheering of the anti-Semitic carnage in Israel has been clarifying, like turning over a rock and discovering all kinds of disgusting moral equivalencies. He said we’re learning that some people we thought just had slightly unusual or “exotic” views actually have quite astonishing views.

That’s a good point, except the insane and violent extremism of the modern left wasn’t a shock to some of us, who’ve been warning about it for years.

For people who haven’t been raised right, who have been failed by the education system and don’t know what morality is, here’s a clue: There is no “moral equivalency” between terrorists who murder, torture and rape innocent people and their victims.

Related: Some of our current generation of mutton-headed liberal college students seem convinced that Israel “had it coming,” a notion that can only be born from the combination of leftist political indoctrination and refusal to teach critical thinking that’s characteristic of today’s “higher education.” Not that they’ll pay any attention to people who actually know what they’re talking about, but former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice weighed in on the ridiculous assertion that the attack was due to Israel oppressing Palestinians in Gaza and refusing to give up anything.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2023/10/11/exclusive-interview-condoleezza-rice-on-israel-hamas-iran-biden-and-more-n2629659

Here’s what she said to Townhall.com’s Guy Benson:

“[Former Israeli Prime Minister] Ariel Sharon, by the way, who was no powderpuff when it came to the defense of Israel, believed that (giving up Israeli settlements in Gaza) was the right thing to do. I don't think they wanted to govern Gaza any longer. It was in Israel's interest to get out. And they not only gave up Gaza, they gave up four settlements around Gaza at the time...That shows what the Israelis went through to actually evacuate Gaza. And you're right, what they got in return was Hamas, which continued its terrorist activities...And so, the idea that the Israelis didn't want to achieve peace -- and you're going to hear a lot of that this next week, that this is Israel's fault, that the Israelis never really tried for peace. The Israelis tried for peace...the Israelis tried everything."

I would hope that’s clear enough even for a Harvard student to understand, but then, I also mistakenly thought they could understand that mass murder was bad.

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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Catching up on the Biden finance/classified documents scandals

If the atrocities in Israel weren’t justifiably pulling all the focus on the world stage, a normal news cycle would include developments in President Biden’s classified documents investigation and the Biden family foreign business deals.  Of course, those developments continue whether or not they receive much attention in the press.  So it’s time to catch up.

Legal analyst Margot Cleveland is one who has kept her focus on the hearing room.  Most recently, she compared the statements of Delaware U.S. Attorney/Special Counsel David Weiss and DC U.S. Attorney Michael Graves.  Graves was interviewed by the House Judiciary Committee last Tuesday.  (While the full House cannot conduct business on the floor without a Speaker, the committees are continuing to do their work.)  Cleveland is trying to figure out why Hunter was not charged in Graves’ DC District Court.

Earlier this year, in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, Weiss said that Attorney General Merrick Garland had given him ultimate authority over the Hunter Biden investigation and that if the need arose, he could be made a “special attorney” under federal statute Section 515. This would allow him to charge Hunter outside of Delaware, including California and DC.

But when Graves testified before Judiciary, he said Section 515 wasn’t usually involved in the way the different offices worked together.  He said that the coordination of prosecutions between offices was more informal.  He also said that when Weiss approached him, in a 10-minute phone call,  about bringing charges in DC, he committed to providing Weiss “any and all logistical support” needed to do that.  Graves also told Congress that following their call, he tasked the “Criminal Division chief with immediately taking steps to provide the logistical support…,” which from other testimony appeared to mean reserving time for Weiss’s team before the grand jury.

This is completely at odds with what actually happened.  Weiss did not pursue charges in DC.  Yet he also spoke to Department officials about obtaining “special attorney” authority under Section 515.  Why would he have done that if it wasn’t necessary?

“Those questions should be the focus after Graves’ transcribed interview last Tuesday,” Cleveland said.  “The clarity with which Graves testified about his conversation with Weiss just cannot be squared with Weiss’s subsequent actions unless SOMETHING substantial happened --- or Weiss was misled.”

 Another possibility we would add:  Congress was misled.

Graves also told Congress that he had directed his top prosecutors to review the case to decide whether or not to partner with Weiss’s office.  He said THEY refused to partner with Weiss’s Delaware office but, according to Cleveland, “refused to explain his office’s reasoning.”  (What??)  He went on to say that even though his office had decided not to partner with Delaware, this did not alter his commitment to assist Weiss in any way he needed.  This makes no sense.

If Weiss didn’t need 515 authority to prosecute Hunter in DC, and Graves had conveyed to Weiss that he would assist Weiss in bringing charges there, why then did Weiss not file the charges there?  In Weiss’s letter to Jordan, he said he’d “had discussions with departmental offices regarding potential appointment under 28 U.S.C. 515, which would have allowed me to file charges in a district outside my own without the partnership of a local U.S. attorney.”  Why didn’t they just grant him that?

It’s possible there was some miscommunication about this between Weiss’s office and Graves’ office.  “Or,” Cleveland speculates, “someone at Main Justice, either in the deputy attorney general’s office [that’s Lisa Monaco] or in the tax division, led Weiss to believe he needed Graves to partner on the case.”  We would speculate that with the latter possibility, Cleveland is likely over the target.  Also, why would Graves defer to his top prosecutors when he’d already assured Weiss that they’d work together on the case?  Something doesn’t feel right about that.

Cleveland got the impression that it would’ve been entirely appropriate for Weiss to work informally with Graves to charge Hunter in the DC District.  “That Weiss didn’t --- and, in fact, appeared to believe he couldn’t --- suggests something else transpired or someone misled him.”

https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/10/testimony-of-d-c-u-s-attorney-who-declined-to-prosecute-hunter-biden-raises-huge-red-flag/

Julie Kelly has read through Graves’ testimony, and she has some observations as well.  Additional details she mentions:  Not only did he refuse to name his colleagues who didn’t want to take the case, he also didn’t read the underlying evidence against Hunter.  He never followed up directly with Weiss.  He said his courthouse was very busy at that time because of all the January 6 defendants they were prosecuting.  He “played dumb” when asked about potential conflict of interest (he’s a Biden appointee, so maybe he wasn’t playing.)  He tried to discredit the IRS whistleblowers without reading their testimony.  Excellent summary…

https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1711687074334593042

Here’s something else newsworthy that almost got by:  Weiss broke with ‘Justice’ Department policy to send a letter to the House Judiciary Committee in response to their letter sent directly to Merrick Garland.  In it, he made the claim that he had been granted “complete authority” over the Hunter Biden investigation, as AG Garland had testified, but, as you will see, he later shaded that statement somewhat.  (These attorneys are so crafty!)

He started his letter to Chairman Jordan unusually: “Your May 25th letter to Attorney General Garland was forwarded to me, with a request that I respond on behalf of the Department.”

The normal protocol would have been for only the Office of Legislative Affairs (OLA) to respond to congressional inquiries.  In fact, they had previously directed Weiss, in an email, not to answer them himself, and this directive is what had kept him from personally responding to questions posed to him by Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson.

As Margot Cleveland wrote, “The DOJ’s disregard of its own policy provides further proof that both Garland and Weiss intended to obfuscate the reality that Weiss never held the reins of the Hunter Biden investigation.”

It seems obvious that Weiss was enlisted to write back to Judiciary, in violation of policy, in order to verify what Garland had testified to them --- that Weiss had full authority to bring cases in other jurisdictions if he felt that was necessary.

But then the IRS whistleblowers came forward to say Weiss claimed he did NOT have ultimate authority.  Weiss penned a second, follow-up letter.

And here’s where the craftiness --- the obfuscation --- comes in:  Weiss softened the earlier claim that he had been “granted ultimate authority,” saying instead that he had “been assured” that “if necessary,” he would be granted the authority to charge Hunter in any other district.

Cleveland picks this wording apart as only someone who “thinks like a lawyer” can: “HAVING ultimate authority and being assured that you WOULD BE GIVEN ultimate authority IF necessary are clearly two different things,” yet Weiss managed to give cover for Garland with these letters.  “Now we have proof that the DOJ was behind those letters --- otherwise, Weiss would be in violation of the department’s policy.”

https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/03/exclusive-email-shows-weiss-violated-doj-policy-by-sending-letters-to-cover-for-garland/

And in more news from THE FEDERALIST, this time from Evita Duffy-Alfonso, we’ve learned that it took a whole crew of White House personnel and others to deal with the cache of Joe Biden’s classified documents at the Penn Biden Center --- and that its existence was covered up for more than a year.

This crew consisted of at least five White House employees, President Biden’s personal attorneys, a Department of Defense employee, and more.

The President’s attorneys lied when they said the materials were discovered on November 2, 2022, when the National Archives was notified.  Wrong!  The House Oversight Committee has compiled evidence showing that the timeline for this began in March 2021.

Chairman James Comer’s very enlightening (and entertaining) letter to White House Counsel Edward Siskel is here.  Don’t miss; there’s stunning information in this letter that has appeared nowhere else...

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/WH-Classified-Documents-10.11.23_Final.pdf

Considering he interviewed President Biden just a few days ago, Special Counsel Robert Hur is likely almost finished with his so-called investigation of this “other” classified documents case --- the one we never hear about --- but Comer’s committee is hard at work with the real investigation, as is evidenced by the long list of requests for documents and transcribed interviews in this letter.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/12/evidence-shows-federal-workers-and-biden-insiders-covered-up-classified-docs-for-over-a-year/

Matt Margolis at PJ MEDIA wrote about this as well…

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/10/12/white-house-cover-up-of-biden-classified-docs-scandal-worse-than-previously-thought-n1734476

Note that Trump is being mercilessly prosecuted for his possession of allegedly classified documents at Mar-A-Lago, a much more secure location than the variety of places Biden used for his multiple stashes.  Also, Biden’s documents date from his time as Vice President and U.S. Senator, when he would have had no power to declassify them, as Trump did have as President with his presidential documents.  Biden has yet to be charged.

Jonathan Turley has a new column outlining what looks particularly serious about the Biden case.  What will Hur do if he has evidence against a sitting President?

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/10/10/the-neutron-prosecutor-how-special-counsel-hur-may-prove-the-ultimate-punchline-in-washington/#more-210536

      


New indictments

Thursday, a Manhattan grand jury issued more indictments of New Jersey Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez. In addition to the previous accusations of bribery involving cash and gold bars, Menendez is accused of being an unregistered foreign agent of Egypt and accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to use his power and influence as a Senator to help Egypt’s government. Or as I’d call that, a “pyramid scheme.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrat-new-jersey-sen-bob-menendez-accused-of-acting-as-a-foreign-agent-in-superseding-indictment

Menendez denied the charges and insisted he has always been "loyal to only one country — the United States of America." After all, where else can a poor boy grow up to become a Senator, and become fabulously wealthy on a Senator’s salary?


An Open Letter to Claudine Gay,

President of Harvard

By Kenneth Allard

Dear President Gay:

As a Harvard alum, I add my voice to those troubled by your recent comments on Israel’s war against the Hamas terrorist group. Your predecessor, Dr. Larry Summers, spoke for many when he wrote, “Why can’t we give reassurance that the University stands squarely against Hamas terror to frightened students when…(other) students appear to be blaming all the violence on Israel?” I also question your exquisitely nuanced response: “We will all be well served in such a difficult moment by rhetoric that aims to illuminate and not inflame.” https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/11/president-gay-condemns-hamas/

During an exquisitely teachable moment – and with the whole world watching – you chose political correctness rather than fortitude, standing in solidarity with self-described justice warriors while real warriors were already delivering the first body-blows to Hamas. With an office located only yards from where General George Washington first commanded a nascent American Army, you might have called in the leaders of those student groups officially sympathizing with Hamas. And demanded: “What sort of education are we providing you within these walls when you cannot even distinguish latter-day Nazis from their hapless victims? Why are you even here?”

I was able to study at Harvard only because the Army selected me (a former draftee) for advanced studies before joining the West Point faculty. Combined with my early training as an ordinary soldier, those hard-won lessons served me well during my military service and subsequent career as an on-air military analyst with NBC News. But four decades later, even the atmosphere of Cambridge seems changed, tough-minded critical thinking replaced by your statements excusing the inexcusable.

Your academic career, like mine, began with degrees in political science and government. Can you see that the bedrock paradigms that arose during World War II have finally expired? Today, the land wars in Europe and the Middle East, as well as the likelihood of a naval conflict in the Pacific, are creating new realities that will fundamentally transform our future. In this defining moment for our critical institutions, what do Americans see when contemplating where their children and grandkids might receive a worthwhile education? Sadly, our educational establishment is a bureaucratic monstrosity, layered with multiple Departments of Silly Walks, slavishly dependent on government handouts and managed by consensus-builders terrified of enraging academe’s all-powerful pharisees.

But the day of reckoning is fast approaching, from Harvard to your state university counterparts, all dependent on government largesse. When financially strapped American parents finally understand that their tax dollars are essentially funding the left-wing indoctrination of their children, how long before the rebellion now sweeping the nation’s high schools also affects colleges? While President Biden might still entertain the fantasy of cancelling student debts, it is only a matter of time before profligate college presidents get their come-uppance.

In the interim, Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus of Harvard Law, has a fine idea about placing on the record the names of your Hamas-sympathizing students so that future employers can more easily avoid hiring them. While the faculty pharisees will surely have much to say about coddling those fighting oppression, I would be grateful if you would simply tell them to shut up. It’s a tough world out there and many people are already convinced that a Harvard degree is at best a mixed blessing.

To illustrate my point: While teaching at West Point, Army’s quarter-back was one of my students, a hard-working cadet from the classroom to the field. But one morning, I pulled him aside. “Rob, I didn’t graduate from West Point so Army-Navy leaves me a bit cold. But I did graduate from Harvard and you’re playing them here on Saturday. Need I say more?” The next day, Army triumphed over Harvard 44-6 and Rob later graduated with distinction!

Colonel (Ret.) Kenneth Allard is a former member of the West Point faculty, Dean of the National War College and military analyst with NBC News.

 


Here is the Fox News page for continually updated bulletins on Israel’s war against Hamas.

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

The latest developments: The number of Americans known dead in the Hamas attack has risen to 27. More than 1300 Israeli civilians have been killed and about 3200 injured. According to Palestinian sources, at least 1799 Palestinians are dead and more than 6,300 wounded in the Gaza Strip, with 44 dead and more than 700 injured on the West Bank. 

Israel is targeting drone strikes on residential houses in Gaza because Hamas is launching missiles from the roofs. The Israeli military says it’s further proof that Hamas deliberately uses civilian buildings for military purposes.

Israel issued an evacuation order to 1.1 million people living in the northern part of the Gaza Strip as a "humanitarian step in order to minimize civilian casualties" ahead of an expected ground invasion. Anyone trying to draw moral equivalencies between Israel and Hamas should just read that and stop right there.

Tens of thousands of anti-Israel protesters are in the streets across the Middle East, doing their impression of Harvard undergrads in response to Hamas’ call for Friday to be a “Day of Rage” (and how does that make it different from any other day for Hamas?) Here’s how the “Global Day of Jihad” is going in places like France, which has barred pro-Palestinian rallies and vowed to deport “trouble-makers”…

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/10/13/global-day-of-jihad-teacher-killed-others-injured-in-france-school-allahu-akbar-knife-attack/

Henry Kissinger, who as recently as 2015 was arguing for European borders to be open to Syrian and Iraqi migrants, has now had a revelation. All these pro-Hamas demonstrations in Europe have convinced him that “It was a grave mistake to let in so many people of totally different culture and religion and concepts, because it creates a pressure group inside each country that does that.” Well, don’t feel bad, Henry. I’m sure nobody could have predicted that opening your borders to Islamic radicals who refuse to assimilate would end badly.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/10/13/europe-let-in-too-many-foreigners-says-henry-kissinger/

Police around the nation are on high alert today for any violence or attempted terrorist attacks related to Hamas’ call for a Jihad Friday. This is especially true in blue cities, where there are apparently a lot of leftist terrorist sympathizers and the terrorists’ best friend, “gun-free zones.” I would remind them for their own safety that in red states and cities, every day is Second Amendment Day.

Laura Ingraham on Fox News posed a question in passing yesterday that I think is worth examining. Many people have been shocked (not me) to hear so-called “liberals,” the kind of people who cry over “microaggressions” and accuse everyone else of being “-phobes” and “-ists,” openly take the side of murderous, anti-Semitic terrorists and celebrate the slaughter of innocent Jewish men, women and children. She wondered if they really believe these things, or are they just afraid to stand up to the people who do?

That is an excellent question. I’ve long believed that much of the support we see from the left for radical Islamists who would kill them first if they ever took over here (see the baffling recent protest by “Gays for Palestine”) is rooted more in fear and hypocrisy than any real principle. It’s easy to mock and criticize Christians who worship the Prince of Peace and believe in turning the other cheek. But I’ve noticed they never criticize the religion of people who’ll behead you for drawing a picture of their spiritual leader.

At the same time, when conservatives speak of the violent threat of “radical Islam,” leftists call that “Islamophobia” and claim it’s anti-Muslim prejudice, even though peaceful Muslims are the largest group of victims of radical Islamists.

So as to whether they really believe this stuff or are just afraid to stand up to it, I think the answer is: “Both.” They started out as hypocritical cowards who were just afraid to stand up to it, but now they’ve rationalized their cowardice in their minds for so long that they can repeat the same vile, anti-Semitic garbage without the slightest self-awareness. At least now, the entire world can see what monsters they’ve become. I just hope and pray that one day, they’ll see it, too.


Scalise withdraws from Speaker race

Despite getting the support of Jim Jordan and Matt Gaetz, Rep. Steve Scalise failed to garner the 217 votes needed to become House Speaker. So he dropped out of the race, and the House is still without a Speaker. This article lists a few of the possible candidates. Unfortunately, they do not include Jesus, since I’m beginning to suspect that some Republicans won’t settle for anyone who is less than perfect.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/who-could-be-republicans-next-speaker-candidate-scalise-bowed-out

Republican Tennessee Rep. Andy Ogles is calling on the House GOP to “lock the door” and work through the weekend if that’s what it takes to select a Speaker. I’m about ready to lock all the doors from the outside and not unlock them at all until they select a Speaker.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tennessee-lawmaker-calls-on-house-gop-to-lock-the-door-and-work-through-weekend-to-elect-speaker

FYI: Here are some amendments being floated to make sure this kind of embarrassing spectacle never happens again.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-gop-launch-serious-talks-rule-upheaval-scalises-stunning-exit-from-speaker-race


COLA bump

The anxiously-awaited COLA (Cost of Living Adjustment) for Social Security in 2024 was announced yesterday. Seniors will get a bump of 3.2%, which is about $58 a month for the average Social Security recipient.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/retirement/workers-get-a-boost-too-from-social-security-s-cola-and-even-more-so-from-this-other-increase/ar-AA1i7ge7

Of course, Medicare payments will go up, too, and that’s automatically deducted from Social Security checks, so for many seniors, the raise will be closer to $48 a month. This is far less than this year’s 8.7% COLA, but the government says that’s because inflation is considerably lower.

Really? The government’s stats might say that, but are you really paying only $58 a month more for food, rent, electricity, etc. than you were a year ago? I find that hard to swallow.

In better news, there will also be a 5.2% increase in the maximum earnings subject to Social Security taxes, which will be cut off at $168,600.

Considering how few people are able to survive on Social Security, another welcome idea would be doing away entirely with income taxes on Social Security, which you have to pay if the government decides you’re earning “too much” while spending your “retirement” working to survive. Social Security payments were never taxed until the ‘80s, and they shouldn’t be now. That’s NOT income, it’s your own money that the government already taxed away from you years ago on a promise that they’d give it back when you got older. Counting it as income now is double taxation, and it should be abolished.


Red (State) Alert!

Virginia is about to have a very important off-year election next month, and Bonchie at Redstate.com is sounding the alarm that Republicans are in danger of taking another devastating loss, but the national RNC doesn’t seem to know or care.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/10/12/republicans-are-about-to-get-caught-with-their-pants-down-in-virginias-elections-n2164970


Guilty plea

An IRS contractor pleaded guilty to leaking private tax information on wealthy Americans, including Donald Trump, to the media. While it’s good to see someone at the IRS finally held accountable, sentencing won’t come until January. I think I’ll wait until then to see how seriously this Administration takes the violation of citizens’ rights when those citizens include Trump.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/10/12/irs-consultant-pleads-guilty-to-leaking-tax-return-info-including-donald-trumps-n2165005


Biden brings back Trump’s policies

According to President Biden, Donald Trump was such a terrible, awful, no good, very bad President that he must be hounded into prison, his name never mentioned and all his policies reversed. Also, because Biden’s approval ratings are so far down the toilet after nearly three years of historically massive failure, he’s trying to rescue his reelection chances by bringing back Trump’s policies.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-just-made-popular-move-thanks-trump-admin/

I have a better idea: just bring back Trump.


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Making it official

October 12, 2023

Kari Lake announced that she will run for Democrat Krysten Sinema’s Arizona Senate seat.

https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-kari-lake-announces-decision-us-senate-run

And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he’s leaving the Democratic Party (even more than Reagan, he could say, “The Party left me!”) to run as an independent, Third Party campaign for President.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-to-run-for-president-as-an-independent-end-democratic-primary-campaign/ar-AA1hVPKC

This has both sides worried, since it isn’t clear whether he would take more votes away from Biden or Trump. I suspect his effect on the race might be less than expected by the time the actual election arrives. But liberals are having meltdowns (even his own family is attacking him, their loyalties obviously being to the Party first.) They're also accusing Fox News of propping RFK Jr. up until he made this announcement, then having Sean Hannity confront him on his long history of leftwing positions, like opposing fracking and fossil fuels and supporting Obama, Kerry and Biden.

Seems to me that Hannity was just doing his job, which is to ask tough questions and make politicians explain themselves. The liberal outlets should try that with Biden sometime. 

I had RFK Jr. on my TBN show, but not to promote his candidacy. I made it clear that he’s a liberal, and we disagree on most issues, but at least he had the guts to come on my show and have a civil discussion, which is something most Democrats refuse to do, despite the standing invitation. I respect him, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to vote for him. Why is that so hard for some people to understand? I guess if you’re obsessed with nothing but maintaining political power at all costs, it’s hard to focus on nuances.

https://youtu.be/WzzmBkYLV-o?si=Ohujgz3ksPaOjCMe

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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

Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

For from him and through him and for him are all things.

To him be the glory forever! Amen.

Romans 11:36


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How did we (and Israel) not know? Part III

Today we have an update on the fate of the monster who goes by the name “Mohammed Deif,” the one-armed, one-legged, one-eyed bomb maker-turned-terrorist-leader reportedly responsible for the planning of Saturday’s grisly massacre in Israel.  He’s been one of the Israeli military’s “Most Wanted” since 1995.  We heard a tentative report earlier Wednesday that he might have been killed along with some accomplices, but it appears now that he is still out of reach.  Here’s more about him…

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20231010-mohammed-deif-the-elusive-architect-of-hamas-s-attack-on-israel

As Brian Killmeade reported on Jesse Watters’ FOX NEWS show Wednesday night, the military has caught up with some of his family members.  Retired Marine Corps. Col. Chris Douglas, whose background includes investigating the explosion in Afghanistan that killed 13 Americans, appeared on the show to discuss the current manhunt.

He said it’s challenging to find this terrorist because the population in that region obviously isn’t turning him in.  This could mean either that they uniformly support him or that they are too afraid of him to make a move.  He’ll be “very tough to find,” as he’s “just hiding among the populace.”  There’s also an extensive tunnel network, he said, but one would think Israeli intelligence would’ve had that figured out.

When Kilmeade asked Col. Douglas if our abandonment of $4 billion worth of fighting equipment in Afghanistan might be related to this, he answered, “I mean, it’s hard to say that it isn’t.”

“The Middle East is the most complicated region in the world,” he said.  “And although security wasn’t perfect in Afghanistan, it was more secure than it is now, with the Taliban in charge and all of the weaponry that we left behind and the manner in which we left.  That said, the allies and partners within the region and around the globe definitely weren’t convinced that we were the force of choice in the future for incidents such as this.”

He put that about as delicately as it can be stated.  Suggested translation:  it made us look pathetically weak around the world.  Tragically, in many circles --- Harvard University comes to mind --- Hamas is being seen as strong and heroic right now, and even justified in what they have done (as if anything could ever justify THAT).  So, what has to happen to change that twisted perception?

“Speed, surprise, and violence in action” is what they [the Israelis] need now, Col. Douglas said.  “They’ve got to respond swiftly, violently, and then, what’s gonna have to follow after that, though, is once they’ve defeated Hamas, any remaining need to be held to account.  And they need to rapidly establish some sort of assistance package to Gaza; that’s gonna be the next.  Because otherwise, it’s gonna be just this continuing problem, without providing some sort of stability.”

And what about the security of our own border?  Kilmeade brought up the 6,000-plus “alien apprehensions” of Afghanis crossing into the U.S.; the 164 from Lebanon; the 659 from Iran; the 30,000 from Turkey (and of course these are just the apprehended ones), and asked, “Should we think that all these people want to be part of the American Dream?”

With an uncomfortable chuckle, Col. Douglas said, “You’d be naive to think that.  The manner in which this happened in Israel should be a call to our elected officials, our President, to establish some sort of border security and to determine who here at home may wish us harm.”

That obviously makes too much sense for our current leadership to do.

 

………..

 

One Democrat talking point the past few days has been that “this isn’t the time to talk about the security failures.  We’ll work on that later.”  Certainly, they don’t want to dwell on a topic that brings up our own border security, but that consideration in the coming months is one huge reason why we have to determine the cause of this intelligence failure NOW and make sure it doesn’t happen here.

Bonchie at REDSTATE was right out of the gate with at least a preliminary look at how this could happen.  “Clearly, intelligence resources were involved,” he said on Sunday of the attack, “and the multitude of weaponry, including thousands of rockets, was not produced by the Palestinians.”

“At this point, anyone denying Iran’s involvement might as well proclaim that the sky is not blue,” he said.  “Iran’s own Supreme Leader came out and praised Hamas’ attack as it was occurring.  Now, we have further confirmation, including from Hezbollah, Iran’s chief anti-Israel terror militia, that Iran was directly behind planning and pulling the trigger on the invasion.”

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/10/08/confirmed-iran-planned-and-green-lit-murderous-hamas-attacks-on-israel-n2164840

He pointed out that Biden’s Iran policy saved them when their economy --- and possibly their Islamist regime --- was on the verge of collapse, with renewed oil sales and unfrozen assets that are enriching them by tens of billions of dollars.  We would add that the Biden administration has dispersed other questionable funds, more than $730 million to a UN agency that the State Department said in 2021 has assisted Hamas.  (Unbelievably, the UN doesn’t categorize Hamas as a terrorist group.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-admin-sent-730m-to-un-group-despite-calls-for-anti-jew-violence-rotten-to-the-core/ar-AA1i0g76

Hamas and Hezbollah are also reportedly rolling in cryptocurrency, and Iran funds Hamas to the tune of about $100 million a year.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/hamas-palestinian-terrorists-raised-nearly-100m-in-crypto/ 

Bonchie also noted that this approach to Iran policy dates back to Obama and that many of the players today are his holdovers.  Jake Sullivan is one of those, a chief architect of Obama’s all-important “Iran deal.”  (We were saying in those days that Obama seemed more like the president of Iran than of the United States.  His administration was all about that deal, remember?)  And recall our recent story about this official, Ariane Tabatabai, in light of what just transpired with Iran’s help.  This is a must-read now in case you didn’t see it the first time...

https://www.frontpagemag.com/chief-of-staff-of-pentagon-counterterrorism-office-served-iranian-gov/

Tabatabai, an Iranian immigrant working in the Obama administration, recommended sharing intelligence with Iran in 2016, among other suggestions (the article has startling details) for working with them --- as an ally.  In 2021, after Biden’s State Department brought her in as a senior adviser, a congressional letter suggested her security clearance be pulled because she obviously had a “relationship” with Iran.  The letter said that Tabatabai “has echoed Iranian regime talking points and has made excuses for Iran’s oppressive government.”

But that congressional letter was taken about as seriously as most other congressional letters are these days.  State Department spokesman Ned Price defended Tabatabai, saying that any security-related concerns about her were “baseless and illegitimate.”  He called expressions of these concerns “smears and slander.”  And today, Tabatabai is still in the Biden administration, with the impressive title of Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict. 

This is true even though Iran envoy Robert Malley --- now under investigation for mishandling classified documents and suspected of being part of a spy ring for Iran --- personally brought her onto his team of negotiators.  “Even in the face of serious evidence that the State Department and the Department of Defense are employing an enemy government agent, the Biden administration is not backing down,” Daniel Greenfield writes for FRONT PAGE Magazine.  “The speed with which Tabatabai...has been able to fully penetrate the highest echelons of our national defense in a little over a decade is a testament to the national security collapse within a disloyal bureaucracy.” 

https://www.frontpagemag.com/iranian-agent-in-pentagon-counterterrorism-office-accused-of-sabotaging-intel/

There are other stunning examples as well, as guest Brooke Goldstein, CEO of The Lawfare Project, laid out on Wednesday’s HANNITY.  (See full show, about 15 minutes in; the interview isn’t broken out as a clip. This requires a cable subscription; the show should be free on YouTube in a day or so.)

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6338901912112

We still don’t know exactly what contributed to this stunning security failure, both here and in Israel.  But after reading about such pro-Iranian people in our own government, it starts to seem possible that our government MIGHT have, um, “missed” an operation largely planned by Iran.  If anyone in our State Department or Pentagon had any hint of this impending vicious attack and Israel was not warned, that would make our government complicit in the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.


New Israel developments

Here is Fox News’ link to continually-updated news on the ongoing war in Israel against Hamas.

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

Some of the major developments of the past 24 hours: At least 25 Americans are among the known dead. At least 2400 people have been killed, including 1200 in Israel. They include 222 Israeli soldiers. According to Israeli news reports, around 1,500 Hamas terrorists were killed in Israel and it’s estimated that hundreds of militants are among the dead in Gaza.

Israeli airstrikes have destroyed a number of Hamas operational centers, and in one attack, they reportedly killed Muhammad Abu Shamla, a senior Hamas naval operative.

It was reported earlier that Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s planned trip to the Middle East had been postponed, but he flew to Israel on Wednesday to appear beside Prime Minister Netanyahu in a show of solidity. He tweeted, "I’m in Israel today to make one thing clear: The United States stands with Israel and its people, and we will always stand — resolutely — against terrorism.”

Breitbart.com also has a good round-up of news from Israel that covers more stories, including Israel’s shut down of water, power and fuel to Gaza. Authorities say they will not restore these basic supplies until the hostages being held are released. To those demanding they give humanitarian aid to Gaza, Israel’s energy minister said they will provide humanitarianism when they see humanitarianism from Gaza.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/10/12/blockade-no-power-or-water-for-gaza-until-all-hostages-released-says-israel/

Breitbart also reports that an ISIS flag was found on a Hamas militant who participated in the mass murders at a kibbutz in Israel, lending evidence to the claim that Hamas is part of ISIS.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/10/12/islamic-state-flag-found-on-hamas-terrorist-participating-in-kibbutz-massacre/

And one more note for the “It can’t happen here” crowd: The Federalist reminds us that last month, the DHS admitted that thanks to the ongoing open border crisis created by Joe Biden, “individuals with potential terrorism connections” are actively attempting to enter the US amid the huge throng of unvetted illegal entrants.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/10/11/dhs-admits-bidens-border-crisis-is-making-it-easier-for-terrorists-to-enter-america/


Funds for Iran

We’re getting a lot of excuses and doubletalk from the White House in response to bipartisan demands that the $6 billion in “unfrozen” Iranian funds be refrozen. We’ve been told that “not a dollar” of it has been spent yet (irrelevant: just knowing it was coming freed up Iranian money for other things, like funding terrorists.) We’re also hearing that Qatar controls it, not us. And that it can only be spent on humanitarian expenses like food and medicine (Iran already made it clear that they’ll spend it any way they want.)

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/10/11/shame-biden-wont-refreeze-irans-6-billion-n1734241

I hate to be obtuse, but I need to ask a clarification question: If the Biden White House doesn’t have control over those funds and can’t refreeze them, then what power did they ever have to force Iran to spend them only on humanitarian expenses? Or was that just a lot of hot gas? I’ll be waiting for an answer…


Speaker Scalise?

Wednesday, House Republicans voted in a secret ballot for a new Speaker. Steve Scalise won the nomination over Jim Jordan by 113-99. Next comes the floor vote, and you’d think Scalise would easily become Speaker, but hold the phone. Some who backed Jordan now say they refuse to change their votes.

https://www.westernjournal.com/jim-jordan-loses-speaker-nomination-closely-contested-vote/

With the world on fire all around us, the House needs a Speaker, and I suspect these grandstanding tactics are wearing thin with the public. Both Jordan and Scalise are good conservatives and would make fine Speakers, but Jordan lost the initial round by 14 votes. That means that to put Jordan over the top, they’d need to pick up a lot of Democrat votes for Jordan, which isn’t going to happen. They would press for a more liberal compromise candidate or a lot of unpalatable concessions. Do Republicans who back Jim Jordan really think Steve Scalise isn’t pure enough, so they’ll make a deal with the devil? Talk about letting the perfect be the enemy of the near-perfect.

I hate having to say this to fellow Republicans, but stop the gamesmanship, grow up and get on with doing your jobs!

And as Benny Johnson tweeted, take pride in knowing you’re marking an important milestone for “representation” by electing history's first House Speaker who survived an assassination attempt by an anti-Trump Bernie Sanders supporter.


Inflation is up again

The Labor Department reported Wednesday that wholesale inflation rose 2.2% in September from a year prior. Despite 18 months of interest rate hikes to reduce inflation, that’s still the highest rate of increase since April. That’s on top of a 2% hike from August to September.

https://justthenews.com/nation/economy/wholesale-inflation-rises-22-september-biggest-year-over-year-increase-april

The only scrap of positive news in this is that the government will use this week’s inflation numbers to assess next year’s cost of living adjustment for Social Security. So it might help seniors get a few bucks more per month. They’re going to need them.


Not like it used to be

When liberal media outlets like the New York Times want to quote the thinking of Evangelicals, they reflexively turn to Christianity Today magazine, which was founded by Billy Graham in 1956. But ask any actual Evangelical who reads it, and they’ll likely tell you that it no longer bears much resemblance to its Biblical origins and often takes a decidedly liberal stance on issues like gun control and LGBTQ activism. In an exclusive report, the Daily Wire may have found the reason for that.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/christianity-today-staff-made-extensive-campaign-donations-between-2015-and-2022-all-went-to-democrats

They discovered that between 2015 and 2022, nine top Christianity Today staffers made 73 political donations, and 100% of them went to Democrats. President and CEO Timothy Dalrymple donated to a failed Georgia Senate candidate who described herself as a “staunch LGBTQ ally” and a defender of abortion “without exception.” One news editor made eight donations to five pro-abortion, pro-LGBTQ candidates, including Elizabeth Warren.  Daily Wire also found that FEC records show no donations by CT executives to Republicans since 1991.

The link has much more detail, and examples of how this internal political bias has affected the magazine’s news coverage, such as questioning the sincerity of Trump’s religious faith while praising Biden’s oddly pro-abortion Catholicism.  A Trump campaign spokeswoman replied, “I would like to know if Christianity Today is pleased with the policies of the Biden Administration, [like] advocating for birth-day abortions, erasing women, silence on Israel, and using his Department of Justice to target concerned parents, pro-life dads, and Latin Catholic Churches.”

This might finally explain why so many Christians who used to read that magazine have asked themselves, “What would Jesus do?” and arrived at the answer: “Unsubscribe.”


The Internet is forever

I mentioned yesterday that the Chicago chapter of BLM tried to cover their tracks after sparking outrage by deleting a graphic celebrating the Hamas terrorists paragliding into Israel to slaughter innocent men, women and children. Well, as I said then, the Internet is forever. That graphic was captured, and here’s their disgusting initial reaction that they’re trying to hide.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/11/black-lives-matter-group-deletes-tweet-showing-support-for-hamas-black-lives-matter-group-deletes-tweet-showing-support-for-hamas/

I caught Brit Hume on Fox News yesterday, making the observation that watching the revolting cheering of the anti-Semitic carnage in Israel has been clarifying, like turning over a rock and discovering all kinds of disgusting moral equivalencies. He said we’re learning that some people we thought just had slightly unusual or “exotic” views actually have quite astonishing views.

That’s a good point, except the insane and violent extremism of the modern left wasn’t a shock to some of us, who’ve been warning about it for years.

For people who haven’t been raised right, who have been failed by the education system and don’t know what morality is, here’s a clue: There is no “moral equivalency” between terrorists who murder, torture and rape innocent people and their victims.

Related: Some of our current generation of mutton-headed liberal college students seem convinced that Israel “had it coming,” a notion that can only be born from the combination of leftist political indoctrination and refusal to teach critical thinking that’s characteristic of today’s “higher education.” Not that they’ll pay any attention to people who actually know what they’re talking about, but former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice weighed in on the ridiculous assertion that the attack was due to Israel oppressing Palestinians in Gaza and refusing to give up anything.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2023/10/11/exclusive-interview-condoleezza-rice-on-israel-hamas-iran-biden-and-more-n2629659

Here’s what she said to Townhall.com’s Guy Benson:

“[Former Israeli Prime Minister] Ariel Sharon, by the way, who was no powderpuff when it came to the defense of Israel, believed that (giving up Israeli settlements in Gaza) was the right thing to do. I don't think they wanted to govern Gaza any longer. It was in Israel's interest to get out. And they not only gave up Gaza, they gave up four settlements around Gaza at the time...That shows what the Israelis went through to actually evacuate Gaza. And you're right, what they got in return was Hamas, which continued its terrorist activities...And so, the idea that the Israelis didn't want to achieve peace -- and you're going to hear a lot of that this next week, that this is Israel's fault, that the Israelis never really tried for peace. The Israelis tried for peace...the Israelis tried everything."

I would hope that’s clear enough even for a Harvard student to understand, but then, I also mistakenly thought they could understand that mass murder was bad.


Murder suspect is identified

A suspect has been identified in the murder of Philadelphia gay leftist reporter Josh Kruger, who eerily mocked “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams for tweeting, “If Biden is elected, there’s a good chance you will be dead within the year.”

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/10/12/the-story-of-the-murdered-the-philly-journalist-who-mocked-dilbert-creator-just-got-more-interesting-n2629727

I’ll let you read the details, but it appears that Kruger didn’t merely know his alleged killer, but had a sexual relationship with him starting when he was 15 that also involved drugs and blackmail, and…well, let’s just say that Kruger’s murder may have been easier to predict than he let on.


Overboard in California

Warning: Both the subject matter and the photo illustrating this story might be offensive to some readers:

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/10/11/california-mayor-prostitutes-g-strings-free-solicit-thanks-law-signed-by-gavin-newsom/

But I think it’s important to share it because it’s such a perfect example of how leftists like the current “leaders” (more like misleaders) of California can see a law that might need a little tweak and stupidly go so far overboard that they make matters 100 times worse. (Previous example: statistics show racial disparities in arrests. Their response: Defund the police, empty the jails and stop enforcing any laws!)

It's like having a government run by hyperactive two-years-olds on a sugar high.


More Huck’s Heroes

Today’s Huck’s Heroes include a Congress member, so this is a rare occasion indeed. Before he became a first-term Republican Representative from Florida, Rep. Cory Mills was a Bronze Star recipient and a wounded veteran of the Army 82nd Airborne. When he heard that Americans were stranded in Israel with commercial flights grounded, he flew to Israel on Wednesday and helped evacuate 32 of them himself on a private plane. He says he’s going back for more and won’t stop until he becomes an impediment or just can’t get any more out.

https://www.westernjournal.com/republican-evacuates-americans-israel-flying-war-torn-zone/

And another big Huck’s Hero salute to 22-year-old Noah Nierenberg of Long Island, New York. After graduating high school, he became an Israeli citizen and served in the IDF for a year and a half. He was back in New York studying Talmud at Yeshiva University when the Hamas attack came. Days later, he was at JFK Airport, bidding his family goodbye as he cut his studies short to fly back to Israel to help the fight in any way he can.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/long-island-native-heads-to-israel-to-join-war-gets-emotional-send-off/

Noah said, “That’s the Jewish idea…God gave us the gift of Israel, and we have the ability to be part of it and protect it.” He has my prayers for his safety and success. I also pray that he will soon return safely to the US and become the new president of Harvard University.


Interesting article about the fight to ban “high-capacity magazines”

This is an interesting article on the latest legal wrangling over California’s attempt to ban so-called “high-capacity magazines,” which are actually standard for many firearms now. As this makes clear, the law will have to get all the way to the Supreme Court, which will likely throw it out as unconstitutional, but until then, Californians have to keep dealing with the consequences of their bad electoral decisions.

https://redstate.com/mdempsey/2023/10/11/9th-circuit-court-stays-lower-court-ruling-regarding-high-capacity-magazines-n2164960

What makes this especially interesting is that it’s not just about the legal arguments, but it’s written by a Marine combat veteran who, I assume unlike the liberals who wrote this law, actually knows about guns and what it’s like to be in a firefight where your life's on the line and there’s no 20/20 hindsight or pauses to stop and think things over.


Kurt Schlichter on why some leftists want to see the same kind of massacre happen in America that happened in Israel.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/10/12/leftists-want-the-same-massacre-to-happen-here-n2629629


Must-Read:

High school students’ scores on the ACT college entrance test have fallen to their lowest level in 30 years, and the media rushed to blame it on the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/10/11/act-college-admission-test-scores-drop-to-lowest-level-in-30-years-media-rushes-to-blame-covid-n2164951

As Mike Miller at Redstate.com notes, it couldn’t possibly have anything to do with schools deemphasizing “white supremacist” subjects like math, science and English to focus on LGBTQ and CRT propaganda while lowering standards and cutting advanced classes to promote “equity.”

As rough as the needless COVID school shutdowns and Zoom classes were on parents, I’d argue that they were a good thing overall. They let parents see what their kids were actually being “taught” in school, and that set off a concerned parents’ revolution.

Besides, if having to stay home from school lowers ACT scores, how come homeschooled kids get such high ACT scores?

Related: Real Clear Investigations looked into how politicians and teachers’ unions are trying to block parents from sending their kids to charter schools to get decent educations.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2023/10/11/as_families_take_to_charter_schools_cities_and_their_teacher_unions_throw_up_obstacles_984040.html


My faith has been shaken

I must admit, my faith has been shaken. I was assured by the “best and brightest” in the Biden Administration that the future of energy was windmills...

https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-offshore-wind-boondoggle

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Investors-Dump-Renewable-Energy-Funds-At-A-Record-Pace.html


The actual Columbus Day

Today is actual Columbus Day, the date when Christopher Columbus first made landfall in what is now the Bahamas in 1492. The Columbus Day celebrated on Monday was so that a lot of federal workers, many of them Democrats who badmouth Columbus, could take a day off work in his honor. I’m convinced many liberals backed creating “Indigenous Peoples Day” on Columbus Day just so they could still take a day off without admitting they owed it to Columbus.

This wouldn’t be the only hypocritical thing they do related to this subject. How many meetings and college events have you seen start with a pious acknowledgement that they are on “land stolen from Native Americans”? Now, how many of them have ever signed the deeds to that land over to the local tribe?


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It was the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War --- actually the day after, so it would fall on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath and also Simchat Torah, the day when Jews celebrate reading the Torah.  We’d just seen President Biden preside over a prisoner swap in exchange for $6 billion in freed-up money to Iran.  (And it doesn’t matter which Iranian “pocket” that money goes into; leftist media need to stop insulting our intelligence trying to split that hair.)  This was also after Biden’s 2021 delivery of nearly $400 million to the Palestinian Authority (!!), which experts have been warning would help Hamas and cause them to organize more terrorist attacks.  Tensions had reportedly been escalating.  Yet Israel was caught off guard, and so, it seems, were we.

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday, “Hamas is ISIS.”  We would go further to say that in helping Hamas, however indirectly, by telling Iran it was about to be $6 billion richer, we gave aid and comfort to our own (and Israel’s) enemy.

Now, AFTER the worst attack on Israel since the Holocaust, we know that Iran, the #1 state sponsor of terrorism, spent weeks --- months, more likely --- plotting it with Hamas.

On Monday, Biden “put a lid on the day” early and attended a barbeque that night.  He must not have been overcome with curiosity about how this huge, well-orchestrated attack could’ve happened without the knowledge of either America or Israel, the countries with arguably the best intelligence agencies in the world.  Have we perhaps been spending too much time trying to ferret out those dangerous Trump supporters, maybe at church or bingo?  How on earth could the U.S. not have known that Iran was working with Palestinian terrorists on this attack?

According to THE GUARDIAN, “it is a mystery why Israeli intelligence appears to have had no idea it was coming.”  They explained that “Israel’s surveillance of Gaza is intense.  It monitors activity, communications and daily life via state-of-the-art surveillance equipment, including drones flying over the strip.  It also relies on human intelligence via informants, many of whom are blackmailed or otherwise coerced into assisting Israel.”  Sadly, that’s the way covert operations work here, too.

“The intelligence failure is monumental,” they went on to report, “and will shake the Israeli public’s faith in their government and army’s ability to protect civilians.”  As Eli Maron, a former head of the Israeli navy, said, “All of Israel is asking itself, where is the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces], where are the police, where is the security?”

THE GUARDIAN reports that many people in Gaza just want to live their lives, free from repeated wars and conflicts.  “They resent the fears imposed on them and the fear instilled in them by Hamas rulers.”  And, “the apparent lack of knowledge of Hamas’ plot will likely be seen as a prime culprit in the chain of events that led to the deadliest attack against Israelis in decades...The ferocious attack, which likely took months of planning and involved coordination among multiple militia groups, appeared to have gone under Israel’s intelligence radar.”

Retired Israeli Gen. Amir Avivi said that without a foothold in Gaza, Israeli security forces have relied on technological means to gather intelligence, and Gaza militants have found ways to evade these.  “They’ve gone back to the Stone Age,” he said.

(Scary sidenote: while our intelligence agencies have been laser-focused on the “threat” of Trump supporters, concerned parents and traditional Catholics, they’ve assured us we have little to worry about from foreign terrorists because there are now “electronic fences,” social media surveillance and other high tech security, just like what Israel relied on in Gaza.)  

Avivi also said that Israeli security services were wrong about Hamas’ intentions:  “Israel’s security establishment has in recent years increasingly seen Hamas as an actor interested in governing, seeking to develop Gaza’s economy and improving the standard of living for Gaza’s 2.3 million people.”  He and others say the truth is that Hamas, which calls for Israel’s destruction, “still sees that aim as its priority.”  And now we’ve seen which one of those views turned out to be right.  They’re really just dirty terrorists.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/08/israel-hamas-gaza-palestinian-territories

But that still doesn’t explain how such a devastating, multifaceted attack could have been planned without the knowledge of Israeli and American intelligence.

“...The weekend’s assault, which caught Israel off guard on a major Jewish holiday, plunges [their intelligence] reputation into doubt and raises questions about the country’s readiness in the face of a weaker but determined foe,” reported the Associated Press.  “This is a major failure,” said Yaakov Amidror, former national security adviser to Netanyahu.  “This operation actually proves that the [intelligence] abilities in Gaza were no good.”

Amidror had no explanation, either, saying lessons must be learned “when the dust settles.”

Chief military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the army owes an explanation, but for now, “First we fight, then we investigate.”

 

 

As reported in THE HILL, U.S. intelligence officials refused to call this an intelligence failure.

On Sunday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken sidestepped the question.  “We will have plenty --- we will have plenty of time to --- the Israelis will have plenty of time to look into that,” he stammered.

He told FOX NEWS SUNDAY host Shannon Bream that “there will be a time and place to look back on exactly how this happened, who knew what when, but that moment is not now when we’re still in the throes of the attack, as your reporting just showed this is still ongoing.”

Wrong, Mr. Secretary of State.  This IS the time and place.  Blinken is stalling for time until he and his people can devise the story they want us to swallow, and Americans are sick of that.  It doesn’t make sense that our government wouldn’t have been able to foresee anything about this.

(Maybe our patience is just running thin and our trust is gone after January 6, now that we know our FBI had quite a bit of information on, and involvement with, activities leading up to Trump’s rally.  Benghazi comes to mind as well.  They’ve lied to us so much that their old playbook really doesn’t work any longer.)

As for the Iranians, they’ve certainly had their own spies in place.  Recall the story we ran last week from Matt Taibbi in TABLET, about Biden’s chief envoy to Iran Robert Malley being involved in a high-level Iranian spy ring busted in DC.  Sean Hannity addressed this on Monday with guests former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman and Florida Rep. Mike Waltz, who called this “an absolute intelligence failure.”

Waltz expressed concern that “actually, we WERE picking things up, and then you’ve got so many Iran sympathizers in the Biden administration that they were simply looking away.”

Ah, at last, somebody said it!

Waltz continued:  “Not only do you have Robert Malley, who was the chief negotiator for the Iran deal under Biden and Obama, essentially running a spy ring, you have the chief of staff in the Pentagon, of our Special Operations Office...read on to all kinds of departmental programs; she’s still on the job.  She still has access to all kind of classified systems, yet she was calling the Iranian foreign ministry before and after briefings to Congress about their nuclear program.”  (We assume he’s talking about Wendy Sherman, whose only defense of human rights in Iran was “saying things forcefully”…)

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/wendy-sherman-defends-us-human-rights-record-in-iran

By the way, in light of the attack on Israel, the Robert Malley story may turn out to be, in the words of California Rep. Darrell Issa, the “worst State Department scandal since Alger Hiss.”  Incredible details here, in this must-read piece…

https://nypost.com/2023/10/09/suspended-iran-special-envoy-rob-malley-under-scrutiny-for-hamas-remarks-following-israel-terror-attack/ 

Also, from the archives, here’s another must-read, about Joe Biden’s role as “Tehran’s favorite senator” thanks to his “political games.”  It’s from August 2008, just after Obama chose him as his running mate.  Here’s who is in the White House now...

https://www.aei.org/articles/bidens-blink-on-iran/

So, this intelligence failure is one more thing congressional Republicans have to look into.  “How far did this go, how much influence, how deep were these tentacles?,” Waltz asked.  “And was it really a failure of collection, or was it people turning a blind eye at the most senior levels?”

Similarly, after working for many years with Israeli intelligence, Hoffman was “shocked” by this failure.  But he did note that Israel needs to keep information about it close to the vest right now, so they don’t expose vulnerabilities.

 

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Just a few days ago, critics were expressing concern about the Army cutting its Special Ops budget, with 10 percent fewer personnel, and shifting its focus away from counterintelligence in the Middle East.  (WHAT counterintelligence?)  Rep. Waltz was one of them, saying he was “stunned and appalled.”  The idea sounds even crazier now…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/congressional-veteran-stunned-and-appalled-at-possible-special-operations-cuts/ar-AA1hL8z8

We’ll end by quoting what retired Green Beret Lt. Scott Mann said very presciently just days before the attack:  “You know, they are regenerating in Afghanistan and there is very good chance that we could see a resurgence of them.  And you can’t mass produce Special OPS after an emergency occurs; that is a Special Operations point.”  Also, “al-Qaida and ISIS have an enduring desire to strike the homeland.  They’ve proven that they can and they will.  And they now have a new unfettered safe haven in Afghanistan.  And they’re gonna make that happen.”

 

….

 RELATED READING:  For when you have time, Alex Marlow, author of the new book BREAKING BIDEN, has an unsparing explanation of why Biden bears responsibility for Hamas’ attack on Israel.  Our hope would be that editorial writers at THE NEW YORK TIMES who actually blamed Trump for this --- not kidding, and they never mentioned Obama or Biden or their Iran policy --- would read it, but of course, they won’t.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/09/alex-marlow-joe-biden-bears-responsibility-for-hamass-terror-attack-on-israelis/

 

A Huck's Heroine

October 12, 2023

Here’s a Huck’s Heroine salute to Inbal Lieberman, a 25-year-old Israeli woman who is the security coordinator of Kibbutz Nir Am. She immediately realized that the sounds she was hearing were different from “the usual rocket attacks” on the kibbutz. She ran from home to home, opened the armory and passed out guns, and placed 12 men on the kibbutz fence. When the terrorists arrived to attack, all 25 of them were killed.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/10/10/25-year-old-israeli-woman-kills-terrorists-leads-team-to-save-kibbutz-from-hamas/

This article explains why Israel has distributed 10,000 “assault rifles” to civilian security teams since the attack.

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/10/10/10000-assault-rifles-distributed-israeli-civilian-security-teams/

But it doesn’t explain why the initial victims were unarmed and unable to fight back. Many people don’t realize that Israel, despite its reputation for self-defense, has strict gun control. The horrifying numbers of victims could be ascribed to the same idea as that behind the saying of Second Amendment defenders: “When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.” They had to wait for security forces to arrive and save them. 

Those forces acted with stunning bravery, even making themselves human shields to protect civilians, but the terrorists were still able to kill hundreds of people because, unlike the residents at the kibbutz, they were unarmed.

This thought-provoking article from a gun rights website argues that this attack should put an end to all demands for more gun control, but of course, it won’t. The left will just keep saying, “It can’t happen here,” even as they open up the border and allow unvetted people from who-knows-where to come streaming in.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/the-israeli-terrorist-attacks-should-end-the-gun-control-debate-in-the-us-but-it-wont/

And by the way, the argument that “it can’t happen here” is moronic rubbish. News flash: 9/11 happened HERE.

 

Today we have an update on the fate of the monster who goes by the name “Mohammed Deif,” the one-armed, one-legged, one-eyed bomb maker-turned-terrorist-leader reportedly responsible for the planning of Saturday’s grisly massacre in Israel.  He’s been one of the Israeli military’s “Most Wanted” since 1995.  We heard a tentative report earlier Wednesday that he might have been killed along with some accomplices, but it appears now that he is still out of reach.  Here’s more about him…

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20231010-mohammed-deif-the-elusive-architect-of-hamas-s-attack-on-israel

As Brian Killmeade reported on Jesse Watters’ FOX NEWS show Wednesday night, the military has caught up with some of his family members.  Retired Marine Corps. Col. Chris Douglas, whose background includes investigating the explosion in Afghanistan that killed 13 Americans, appeared on the show to discuss the current manhunt.

He said it’s challenging to find this terrorist because the population in that region obviously isn’t turning him in.  This could mean either that they uniformly support him or that they are too afraid of him to make a move.  He’ll be “very tough to find,” as he’s “just hiding among the populace.”  There’s also an extensive tunnel network, he said, but one would think Israeli intelligence would’ve had that figured out.

When Kilmeade asked Col. Douglas if our abandonment of $4 billion worth of fighting equipment in Afghanistan might be related to this, he answered, “I mean, it’s hard to say that it isn’t.”

“The Middle East is the most complicated region in the world,” he said.  “And although security wasn’t perfect in Afghanistan, it was more secure than it is now, with the Taliban in charge and all of the weaponry that we left behind and the manner in which we left.  That said, the allies and partners within the region and around the globe definitely weren’t convinced that we were the force of choice in the future for incidents such as this.”

He put that about as delicately as it can be stated.  Suggested translation:  it made us look pathetically weak around the world.  Tragically, in many circles --- Harvard University comes to mind --- Hamas is being seen as strong and heroic right now, and even justified in what they have done (as if anything could ever justify THAT).  So, what has to happen to change that twisted perception?

“Speed, surprise, and violence in action” is what they [the Israelis] need now, Col. Douglas said.  “They’ve got to respond swiftly, violently, and then, what’s gonna have to follow after that, though, is once they’ve defeated Hamas, any remaining need to be held to account.  And they need to rapidly establish some sort of assistance package to Gaza; that’s gonna be the next.  Because otherwise, it’s gonna be just this continuing problem, without providing some sort of stability.”

And what about the security of our own border?  Kilmeade brought up the 6,000-plus “alien apprehensions” of Afghanis crossing into the U.S.; the 164 from Lebanon; the 659 from Iran; the 30,000 from Turkey (and of course these are just the apprehended ones), and asked, “Should we think that all these people want to be part of the American Dream?”

With an uncomfortable chuckle, Col. Douglas said, “You’d be naive to think that.  The manner in which this happened in Israel should be a call to our elected officials, our President, to establish some sort of border security and to determine who here at home may wish us harm.”

That obviously makes too much sense for our current leadership to do.

 

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One Democrat talking point the past few days has been that “this isn’t the time to talk about the security failures.  We’ll work on that later.”  Certainly, they don’t want to dwell on a topic that brings up our own border security, but that consideration in the coming months is one huge reason why we have to determine the cause of this intelligence failure NOW and make sure it doesn’t happen here.

Bonchie at REDSTATE was right out of the gate with at least a preliminary look at how this could happen.  “Clearly, intelligence resources were involved,” he said on Sunday of the attack, “and the multitude of weaponry, including thousands of rockets, was not produced by the Palestinians.”

“At this point, anyone denying Iran’s involvement might as well proclaim that the sky is not blue,” he said.  “Iran’s own Supreme Leader came out and praised Hamas’ attack as it was occurring.  Now, we have further confirmation, including from Hezbollah, Iran’s chief anti-Israel terror militia, that Iran was directly behind planning and pulling the trigger on the invasion.”

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/10/08/confirmed-iran-planned-and-green-lit-murderous-hamas-attacks-on-israel-n2164840

He pointed out that Biden’s Iran policy saved them when their economy --- and possibly their Islamist regime --- was on the verge of collapse, with renewed oil sales and unfrozen assets that are enriching them by tens of billions of dollars.  We would add that the Biden administration has dispersed other questionable funds, more than $730 million to a UN agency that the State Department said in 2021 has assisted Hamas.  (Unbelievably, the UN doesn’t categorize Hamas as a terrorist group.)

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/biden-admin-sent-730m-to-un-group-despite-calls-for-anti-jew-violence-rotten-to-the-core/ar-AA1i0g76

Hamas and Hezbollah are also reportedly rolling in cryptocurrency, and Iran funds Hamas to the tune of about $100 million a year.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/11/hamas-palestinian-terrorists-raised-nearly-100m-in-crypto/ 

Bonchie also noted that this approach to Iran policy dates back to Obama and that many of the players today are his holdovers.  Jake Sullivan is one of those, a chief architect of Obama’s all-important “Iran deal.”  (We were saying in those days that Obama seemed more like the president of Iran than of the United States.  His administration was all about that deal, remember?)  And recall our recent story about this official, Ariane Tabatabai, in light of what just transpired with Iran’s help.  This is a must-read now in case you didn’t see it the first time...

https://www.frontpagemag.com/chief-of-staff-of-pentagon-counterterrorism-office-served-iranian-gov/

Tabatabai, an Iranian immigrant working in the Obama administration, recommended sharing intelligence with Iran in 2016, among other suggestions (the article has startling details) for working with them --- as an ally.  In 2021, after Biden’s State Department brought her in as a senior adviser, a congressional letter suggested her security clearance be pulled because she obviously had a “relationship” with Iran.  The letter said that Tabatabai “has echoed Iranian regime talking points and has made excuses for Iran’s oppressive government.”

But that congressional letter was taken about as seriously as most other congressional letters are these days.  State Department spokesman Ned Price defended Tabatabai, saying that any security-related concerns about her were “baseless and illegitimate.”  He called expressions of these concerns “smears and slander.”  And today, Tabatabai is still in the Biden administration, with the impressive title of Chief of Staff to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict. 

This is true even though Iran envoy Robert Malley --- now under investigation for mishandling classified documents and suspected of being part of a spy ring for Iran --- personally brought her onto his team of negotiators.  “Even in the face of serious evidence that the State Department and the Department of Defense are employing an enemy government agent, the Biden administration is not backing down,” Daniel Greenfield writes for FRONT PAGE Magazine.  “The speed with which Tabatabai...has been able to fully penetrate the highest echelons of our national defense in a little over a decade is a testament to the national security collapse within a disloyal bureaucracy.” 

https://www.frontpagemag.com/iranian-agent-in-pentagon-counterterrorism-office-accused-of-sabotaging-intel/

There are other stunning examples as well, as guest Brooke Goldstein, CEO of The Lawfare Project, laid out on Wednesday’s HANNITY.  (See full show, about 15 minutes in; the interview isn’t broken out as a clip. This requires a cable subscription; the show should be free on YouTube in a day or so.)

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6338901912112

We still don’t know exactly what contributed to this stunning security failure, both here and in Israel.  But after reading about such pro-Iranian people in our own government, it starts to seem possible that our government MIGHT have, um, “missed” an operation largely planned by Iran.  If anyone in our State Department or Pentagon had any hint of this impending vicious attack and Israel was not warned, that would make our government complicit in the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust.

 

Harvard’s speech problems

October 12, 2023

Kudos to Harvard President Claudine Gay. It only took her a couple of days and two tries to arrive at the almost correct response to over 30 Harvard student groups signing a letter supporting Hamas’ murder, rape and torture of innocent Israelis as legitimate and justifiable forms of protest. 

After the university first issued a wishy-washy statement condemning vague violence and endorsing compassion, which was greeted with legitimate and justifiable fury and outrage, Gay finally stated that while the groups have a right to speak, they don’t speak for Harvard, and that the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas are “abhorrent, whatever one’s individual views of the origins of longstanding conflicts in the region.” There, was that so hard?

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/10/harvard-president-responds-to-students-groups-blaming-israel-for-hamas-attacks/

Now, as for the claim that they have a “right to speak” these abhorrent thoughts, I will throw back at her the same argument that leftist university groups have made for several years while threatening, canceling and shouting down conservative speakers: that they don’t have a right to be free of consequences for their “hate speech.” I think I can make a pretty good case that voicing support for the wholesale slaughter of Jews is more “hate speech” than calling for separate sports teams for men and women. Alan Dershowitz, who was a distinguished Harvard law professor for decades, told Sean Hannity that he’s not allowed to speak on campus in support of Israel anymore, but leftist professors who back Palestinian terrorists are allowed to speak there. Maybe that's why the students are so painfully ignorant, immoral and uninformed. 

For that reason, many people are calling for the names of the students who signed this letter to be made public, so that future employers or companies offering them internships can rescind those offers. If you can’t have someone in your company who wrote a non-PC tweet ten years ago, then why would you hire someone who openly endorses anti-Semitic genocide?

After all, in their own words: Hate speech should have consequences.

Related: Townhall.com has already started ferreting out the identities and backgrounds of some of the student leaders of these groups, and I’m not at all surprised by some of the other people and groups they’re associated with.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/john-hasson/2023/10/10/meet-the-harvard-students-supporting-hamas-invasion-of-israel-n2629626

 

Yesterday, we mentioned that THE NEW YORK TIMES had written an editorial actually blaming Trump --- it never fails --- for the weekend massacre in Gaza, and that the piece had failed even to mention Presidents Biden or Obama, or the nation of Iran.  Similarly, when Biden spoke briefly on Tuesday, he didn’t mention Iran, either.

There was not a word of condemnation for the #1 state sponsor of terrorism around the world, the state we know was helping Hamas and Hezbollah.  And when John Kirby was asked about the relative importance of this threat on Tuesday by FOX NEWS’ Martha MacCallum, he agreed with Biden’s statement that “The only existential threat humanity faces, even more frightening than a nuclear war, is global warming going above 1.5 degrees in the next 20, 10 years.”  He said Biden stands by that statement, and that “climate change IS an existential threat; it actually threatens and is capable of wiping out all human life on Earth, over time.  I mean, that’s --- I don’t know how [much] more existential you can get...”

Really??  As if that much warming were even happening (it’s not --- and 1600 climate scientists and scholars have said the climate is not an emergency:  https://www.thecollegefix.com/more-than-1600-scientists-and-other-scholars-sign-no-climate-emergency-declaration/).  In contrast, according to “Scientific Aspects of Nuclear Explosion Phenomena” by Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan, if a nuclear bomb goes off, “immediately after the explosion time, the temperature of the weapon material is several tens of million degrees and the pressures are estimated to be many million atmospheres.”  In “Physics:  Its Methods and Meanings” by Alexander Taffel, it says the explosion “reaches a temperature of millions of degrees Celsius.”

Presumably this might cause a wee bit of environmental damage.  Now there’s some global warming we all ought to be more concerned about, on a scale we can’t even comprehend.  Why, it might even be capable of wiping out all human life on Earth, over not very much time at all.  Isn’t that the very definition of an existential threat?

https://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/SimonFung.shtml

It’s time to push back against having our intelligence insulted by politicians and their henchmen, over and over again.

Biden did manage to acknowledge that Americans have been taken hostage.  (Sean Hannity reported Tuesday night that the family of one presumed hostage hadn’t received any communication at all from the White House.)  As for the Americans who are alive and haven’t been taken hostage, they’re apparently stuck for now if they want to fly out, as commercial planes are not flying in.

(Actually, there was one airline out, at least at first, but you probably didn’t hear about it because it came thanks to former President Trump. Here’s the story of a man and his wife who were able to fly to Dubai then home to DC via Emirates Airlines, due to the historic Abraham Accords normalizing relations between Israel and the UAE. He credits Trump, thanks him profusely and calls their departure “miraculous.” So that’s why you’ll never hear this story in the mainstream media.)

https://www.westernjournal.com/american-thanks-trump-bringing-wife-home-war-torn-israel

Let’s hope these Americans don’t have to stay there as long as the ones who were left in Afghanistan after our shamefully haphazard pull-out in August 2021.  As of this March, there were about 175 Americans still left behind, some of them being held captive by the Taliban.  That’s from Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s testimony before Congress…

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/23/175-americans-are-still-afghanistan-some-held-tali/

Accounts differ as to whether the $6 billion (!!!) of frozen assets Biden has promised Iran access to in return for five American hostages can be re-frozen at this time.  Apparently, it can be, though, because this move is being seriously discussed.  That money should never have been part of any hostage deal in the first place and should stay FROZEN colder than a terrorist’s heart.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/09/biden-admin-iran-defense-payment/

But let’s get back to the question of how these monsters were able to slip up on Israeli and, it seems, American intel agencies for this slaughter of Jews.  The NEW YORK POST reports that the mastermind was a man named Mohammed Deif; their headline offers some welcome unintentional humor (our favorite kind) on a day when we can really use some.  Just read the POST’s headline…

https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/who-is-mohammed-deif-palestinian-militant-behind-israel-attack/

“Palestinian militant behind Israeli attack is slippery, one-armed, one-legged former bomb maker,” it reads.  Okay, we take our laughs where we can find them.  Presumably this guy got out of bomb-making because after the first two attempts, he realized he just wasn’t very good at it.

He’s obviously better at planning.  He’s got a reputation as a “psycho” and a “cat with nine lives” because he’s survived so many assassination attempts.  We know he’s responsible for this massacre because he posted a video on Saturday announcing the start of the people’s “revolution.”

The name “Deif” means “guest” in Arabic and apparently refers to his habit of moving around a lot and staying with a variety of other operatives to avoid detection.  As the POST reports, “Deif has remained in the shadows for decades despite Israel’s best efforts to take him out at least five times in assassination attempts.”  Now this wheelchair-bound savage will be deified by Hamas, Hezbollah and their contemptible fans.

Col. Eyal Rosen of the Israeli army reserves said his “main goal is to destroy Israel.  This is one of the first steps --- this is just the beginning.”

So, apparently this guy is so slippery that Israeli intelligence hasn’t been able to find him or know what he’s up to, even with the many people, including Iranians, who must have been helping him.  One would think, though, that even if they didn’t know of his plan, they (and we) would have been extra-cautious around the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, with tensions rising and other factors that made the day significant.  We hope to bring you more about the cause of this deadly intel failure very soon, but in the meantime, let’s look at the situation in our own country and the likelihood of a similar failure.  JUST THE NEWS has done that.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/intel-missing-hamas-attack-plus-rising-number-suspected-terrorists-border-pose

Does the fact that the U.S. has 18 intelligence gathering agencies give you any peace of mind?  Me, neither.  Those agencies have been busying themselves targeting Trump supporters as dangerous domestic terrorists and didn’t pick up on the threat in Israel --- or didn’t move on that threat --- and probably don’t have a clue what thousands of potential terrorists, mostly young men, coming across our southern border are doing here.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy spoke about this on Monday, saying, “Looking at our own intelligence failures, we have to look at our border....[This year] in my own state [California], we caught two from Yemen on the terror watchlist; [also some] from China and others.  Why are they coming to America?  What do they have planned and who are they communicating with?”

The NEW YORK POST has a good summary of the large number being apprehended.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/15/160-people-on-terror-watch-list-stopped-at-us-border-in-2023/

Of course, these are just the ones we apprehended.  Do you think any terrorist working for a slippery eel like Mohammed Deif would let himself get caught?

Israel has (well, had) a border fence, but as part of their carefully plotted attack, Hamas broke it down to come through.  Here, it’s been so much easier for young men from all over the world to slip in gradually, as the Biden administration has installed handy turnstiles in areas that have any barrier at all.  Come right in!  Feel free to mix in with the people pouring in from this hemisphere, and then go wherever you like.  We won’t stop you.

The Senate Intelligence Committee released a redacted threat assessment just a few weeks ago, on September 20, warning about Hamas and Hezbollah in the context of the Iranian regime.  “Iran has growing intelligence and CI [aside:  as in “confidential informant,” such as American Robert Malley and his associates] capabilities to advance its geopolitical objectives,” it says.

No kidding.  We would add the phrase, “in large part because of this administration’s Iran policy

Personal Note

October 12, 2023

I’ve received word that Retired Col. Douglas MacGregor, a former adviser to Trump’s Secretary of Defense, gave an interview lumping me in with those who want to go to war against Iran because I allegedly said that an attack on Israel is an attack on America. I don’t know where he got that idea, but it’s incorrect. What I actually said is that an attack on US citizens should be met with strong action, and these Hamas terrorists have killed Americans and taken them hostage.

To that end, I endorse giving Israel all the support it needs to eradicate Hamas once and for all. That includes sending special forces to advise and help with rescuing American hostages, but not as part of a boots-on-the-ground fighting force, and not to invade Iran.

https://therightscoop.com/breaking-us-special-forces-have-just-landed-in-israel-to-help-with-freeing-israeli-hostages/

I also support strong action against Iran for supporting these terrorists, but I have been saying that for years. It doesn’t mean sending in the Marines or bombing Tehran.

There are all kinds of ways to take action to contain Iran, like not lifting sanctions on them, keeping the US energy independent and an exporter of fossil fuels so that Iran doesn't have lots of oil money to fund terrorists, supporting the many brave Iranian dissidents who dare to stand up against the mullahs, preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, and of course, NOT HANDING THEM $6 BILLION! In short, by doing the exact opposite of everything the Obama and Biden Administrations have done.

That doesn’t take going to war, it just takes not being an idiot.

 


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How did we (and Israel) not know?  Part II

Yesterday, we mentioned that THE NEW YORK TIMES had written an editorial actually blaming Trump --- it never fails --- for the weekend massacre in Gaza, and that the piece had failed even to mention Presidents Biden or Obama, or the nation of Iran.  Similarly, when Biden spoke briefly on Tuesday, he didn’t mention Iran, either.

There was not a word of condemnation for the #1 state sponsor of terrorism around the world, the state we know was helping Hamas and Hezbollah.  And when John Kirby was asked about the relative importance of this threat on Tuesday by FOX NEWS’ Martha MacCallum, he agreed with Biden’s statement that “The only existential threat humanity faces, even more frightening than a nuclear war, is global warming going above 1.5 degrees in the next 20, 10 years.”  He said Biden stands by that statement, and that “climate change IS an existential threat; it actually threatens and is capable of wiping out all human life on Earth, over time.  I mean, that’s --- I don’t know how [much] more existential you can get...”

Really??  As if that much warming were even happening (it’s not --- and 1600 climate scientists and scholars have said the climate is not an emergency:  https://www.thecollegefix.com/more-than-1600-scientists-and-other-scholars-sign-no-climate-emergency-declaration/).  In contrast, according to “Scientific Aspects of Nuclear Explosion Phenomena” by Samuel Glasstone and Philip J. Dolan, if a nuclear bomb goes off, “immediately after the explosion time, the temperature of the weapon material is several tens of million degrees and the pressures are estimated to be many million atmospheres.”  In “Physics:  Its Methods and Meanings” by Alexander Taffel, it says the explosion “reaches a temperature of millions of degrees Celsius.”

Presumably this might cause a wee bit of environmental damage.  Now there’s some global warming we all ought to be more concerned about, on a scale we can’t even comprehend.  Why, it might even be capable of wiping out all human life on Earth, over not very much time at all.  Isn’t that the very definition of an existential threat?

https://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/SimonFung.shtml

It’s time to push back against having our intelligence insulted by politicians and their henchmen, over and over again.

Biden did manage to acknowledge that Americans have been taken hostage.  (Sean Hannity reported Tuesday night that the family of one presumed hostage hadn’t received any communication at all from the White House.)  As for the Americans who are alive and haven’t been taken hostage, they’re apparently stuck for now if they want to fly out, as commercial planes are not flying in.

(Actually, there was one airline out, at least at first, but you probably didn’t hear about it because it came thanks to former President Trump. Here’s the story of a man and his wife who were able to fly to Dubai then home to DC via Emirates Airlines, due to the historic Abraham Accords normalizing relations between Israel and the UAE. He credits Trump, thanks him profusely and calls their departure “miraculous.” So that’s why you’ll never hear this story in the mainstream media.)

https://www.westernjournal.com/american-thanks-trump-bringing-wife-home-war-torn-israel

Let’s hope these Americans don’t have to stay there as long as the ones who were left in Afghanistan after our shamefully haphazard pull-out in August 2021.  As of this March, there were about 175 Americans still left behind, some of them being held captive by the Taliban.  That’s from Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s testimony before Congress…

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/23/175-americans-are-still-afghanistan-some-held-tali/

Accounts differ as to whether the $6 billion (!!!) of frozen assets Biden has promised Iran access to in return for five American hostages can be re-frozen at this time.  Apparently, it can be, though, because this move is being seriously discussed.  That money should never have been part of any hostage deal in the first place and should stay FROZEN colder than a terrorist’s heart.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/09/biden-admin-iran-defense-payment/

But let’s get back to the question of how these monsters were able to slip up on Israeli and, it seems, American intel agencies for this slaughter of Jews.  The NEW YORK POST reports that the mastermind was a man named Mohammed Deif; their headline offers some welcome unintentional humor (our favorite kind) on a day when we can really use some.  Just read the POST’s headline…

https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/who-is-mohammed-deif-palestinian-militant-behind-israel-attack/

“Palestinian militant behind Israeli attack is slippery, one-armed, one-legged former bomb maker,” it reads.  Okay, we take our laughs where we can find them.  Presumably this guy got out of bomb-making because after the first two attempts, he realized he just wasn’t very good at it.

He’s obviously better at planning.  He’s got a reputation as a “psycho” and a “cat with nine lives” because he’s survived so many assassination attempts.  We know he’s responsible for this massacre because he posted a video on Saturday announcing the start of the people’s “revolution.”

The name “Deif” means “guest” in Arabic and apparently refers to his habit of moving around a lot and staying with a variety of other operatives to avoid detection.  As the POST reports, “Deif has remained in the shadows for decades despite Israel’s best efforts to take him out at least five times in assassination attempts.”  Now this wheelchair-bound savage will be deified by Hamas, Hezbollah and their contemptible fans.

Col. Eyal Rosen of the Israeli army reserves said his “main goal is to destroy Israel.  This is one of the first steps --- this is just the beginning.”

So, apparently this guy is so slippery that Israeli intelligence hasn’t been able to find him or know what he’s up to, even with the many people, including Iranians, who must have been helping him.  One would think, though, that even if they didn’t know of his plan, they (and we) would have been extra-cautious around the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, with tensions rising and other factors that made the day significant.  We hope to bring you more about the cause of this deadly intel failure very soon, but in the meantime, let’s look at the situation in our own country and the likelihood of a similar failure.  JUST THE NEWS has done that.

https://justthenews.com/government/congress/intel-missing-hamas-attack-plus-rising-number-suspected-terrorists-border-pose

Does the fact that the U.S. has 18 intelligence gathering agencies give you any peace of mind?  Me, neither.  Those agencies have been busying themselves targeting Trump supporters as dangerous domestic terrorists and didn’t pick up on the threat in Israel --- or didn’t move on that threat --- and probably don’t have a clue what thousands of potential terrorists, mostly young men, coming across our southern border are doing here.

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy spoke about this on Monday, saying, “Looking at our own intelligence failures, we have to look at our border....[This year] in my own state [California], we caught two from Yemen on the terror watchlist; [also some] from China and others.  Why are they coming to America?  What do they have planned and who are they communicating with?”

The NEW YORK POST has a good summary of the large number being apprehended.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/15/160-people-on-terror-watch-list-stopped-at-us-border-in-2023/

Of course, these are just the ones we apprehended.  Do you think any terrorist working for a slippery eel like Mohammed Deif would let himself get caught?

Israel has (well, had) a border fence, but as part of their carefully plotted attack, Hamas broke it down to come through.  Here, it’s been so much easier for young men from all over the world to slip in gradually, as the Biden administration has installed handy turnstiles in areas that have any barrier at all.  Come right in!  Feel free to mix in with the people pouring in from this hemisphere, and then go wherever you like.  We won’t stop you.

The Senate Intelligence Committee released a redacted threat assessment just a few weeks ago, on September 20, warning about Hamas and Hezbollah in the context of the Iranian regime.  “Iran has growing intelligence and CI [aside:  as in “confidential informant,” such as American Robert Malley and his associates] capabilities to advance its geopolitical objectives,” it says.

No kidding.  We would add the phrase, “in large part because of this administration’s Iran policy.”


Update on the Biden financial scandal

 Of course, no matter what else is happening in the world, information about this scandal continues to drip out.  Thanks to an August 2022 Freedom Of Information Act request by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s organization America First Legal, we finally know that then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office exchanged nearly 20,000 emails with Hunter Biden’s investment firm Rosemont Seneca.  (Of course, Joe Biden knew NOTHING about his son’s business affairs.)  Details here…

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/then-vp-joe-bidens-office-exchanged-nearly-20000-emails-with-hunters-investment-firm/


Israel update

Once again, here is the link to Fox News’ continually-updated page of the latest news on the war in Israel.

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

The major developments over the past 24 hours are that the death toll has risen to at least 2100 people, including about 1200 killed in Israel. Israel is continuing its pounding of the Gaza Strip by air in preparation for a ground invasion of Hamas-controlled territory. The defense minister said he’s “eliminated every restriction” on the IDF and “we will eliminate anyone who fights us.”

President Biden said it’s been confirmed that Americans are among those who have been taken hostage by Hamas, but it’s not certain yet how many.

Another Iran-backed terrorist group, Hezbollah,1` launched an attack from the north from Lebanon, but Israel was prepared for it. There were also reports of rockets being fired at Israel from Syria, but Israeli troops reportedly destroyed the source.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/israel-responds-hezbollah-attack-lebanon-deploying-tens-thousands-northern-border

With politicians from both parties demanding that the Biden Administration refreeze that $6 billion they unfroze for Iran, White House spokespeople are spinning like drunken ballet dancers as they try to deny and deflect. Here’s a round-up of several ways in which they’ve tried to insult our intelligence, including:

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2023/10/10/reporter-lights-up-state-dept-spox-after-he-tries-blaming-trump-for-6-billion-biden-unfroze-for-iran-n2164914

Insisting that the money could only be used for “humanitarian” purposes (but it frees up $6 billion elsewhere in their budget to fund terrorism)…Claiming that there’s no direct evidence that Iran used the money to fund this attack (So it can’t be true if we don’t have video of a mullah handing a big bag of money marked “$6 billion from Biden” to a Hamas terrorist? That’s the same argument they’re using to insist there’s no direct evidence that Joe got any of Hunter’s corrupt deal money)…And when all else fails, try to blame it on Trump. I’m not kidding, and you’ll never guess why they try to claim this is Trump’s fault.

You see, Trump withheld that money from Iran and let so much of it accrue. Well, in that case, I guess they had no choice but to free it up for the world’s #1 supporter of terrorism. There was just so much of it!

 


Personal note

I’ve received word that Retired Col. Douglas MacGregor, a former adviser to Trump’s Secretary of Defense, gave an interview lumping me in with those who want to go to war against Iran because I allegedly said that an attack on Israel is an attack on America. I don’t know where he got that idea, but it’s incorrect. What I actually said is that an attack on US citizens should be met with strong action, and these Hamas terrorists have killed Americans and taken them hostage.

To that end, I endorse giving Israel all the support it needs to eradicate Hamas once and for all. That includes sending special forces to advise and help with rescuing American hostages, but not as part of a boots-on-the-ground fighting force, and not to invade Iran.

https://therightscoop.com/breaking-us-special-forces-have-just-landed-in-israel-to-help-with-freeing-israeli-hostages/

I also support strong action against Iran for supporting these terrorists, but I have been saying that for years. It doesn’t mean sending in the Marines or bombing Tehran.

There are all kinds of ways to take action to contain Iran, like not lifting sanctions on them, keeping the US energy independent and an exporter of fossil fuels so that Iran doesn't have lots of oil money to fund terrorists, supporting the many brave Iranian dissidents who dare to stand up against the mullahs, preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, and of course, NOT HANDING THEM $6 BILLION! In short, by doing the exact opposite of everything the Obama and Biden Administrations have done.

That doesn’t take going to war, it just takes not being an idiot.


A Much-Needed Lesson

Watch an Israeli mom give MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell a much-needed lesson in the difference between Israel defending its homeland and its people and vicious Hamas terrorists murdering innocent people, including children.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/10/10/msnbc-continues-to-embarrass-itself-with-biased-hamas-coverage-israeli-mom-claps-back-at-andrea-mitchell-n2164923

Former New York Times editor Bari Weiss had to perform the same basic service for Joe Scarborough and crew.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/10/a-word-from-bari-weiss.php

As Scott Johnson notes at that link, “Current events have flushed out the many Nazis in our midst.” It’s genuinely disturbing to see how many people in allegedly civilized nations, from Europe to Australia to the US, are loudly siding with the anti-Semitic, genocidal terrorists of Hamas.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/10/11/watch-free-palestine-rally-in-dearborn-michigan-cheers-hamas/

They’re even in our own Congress...

https://www.westernjournal.com/ilhan-omars-attempt-pin-war-crime-israel-gets-taken-apart-piece-piece/

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/10/10/video-rashida-tlaib-has-no-comment-when-asked-about-hamas-beheading-jewish-babies-n2164924

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/10/dem-lawmaker-colorado-hamas-rape/

Some claim to be merely expressing sympathy for the oppressed Palestinians, but many don’t even bother to hide their sick hatred anymore and are openly cheering murder, rape and brutal torture of innocent Jews, even babies and children, as if it were a justifiable form of protest.

For instance, I find it hard to believe that BLM has any credibility left to lose at this point, but if so, they burned it to the ground with their public statements that were clearly in support of brutal terrorism.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/10/black-lives-matter-organization-shows-support-for-hamas-amid-terror-attack-on-israel/

The Chicago BLM chapter deleted its tweet celebrating Hamas by showing a sick graphic of terrorists paragliding into Israel, but the Internet is forever, and we will not forget.

Related: None of the ten top celebrities on Instagram have shown support for Israel, but many of them bent over backwards to genuflect before BLM.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/10/10/none-of-ten-most-followed-celebrity-instagram-accounts-shows-support-for-israel-following-hamas-attacks-many-backed-blm/

Some commentators have also asked why we aren’t hearing a peep out of Antifa. That radical group claims to have taken its name from being “anti-fascist.” They call everyone Nazis and fascists, from Trump voters to police to people who don’t want men in girls’ bathrooms, but they say nothing about the return of actual, 1930s-style anti-Semitic thugs who want to kill Jews?

I’m not surprised, nor am I surprised at any of these far-left extremists taking the side of genocidal anti-Semites. It’s long been established that the left attacks the right by falsely accusing them of what the left is actually doing. Ever since “Antifa” appeared, I’ve been pointing out that they are in reality the biggest fascist threat in America. They didn’t even try to disguise it. How much more obvious can they get about being fascists than dressing in dark clothes, hoods and masks and physically assaulting anyone who dares to voice a political opinion they disagree with?

Well, they finally found a way: not saying a word about fellow violent radicals who are trying to exterminate the Jews. As so many people are suddenly saying these days, “When someone tells you what they are, believe them.”


A Huck’s Heroine

Here’s a Huck’s Heroine salute to Inbal Lieberman, a 25-year-old Israeli woman who is the security coordinator of Kibbutz Nir Am. She immediately realized that the sounds she was hearing were different from “the usual rocket attacks” on the kibbutz. She ran from home to home, opened the armory and passed out guns, and placed 12 men on the kibbutz fence. When the terrorists arrived to attack, all 25 of them were killed.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/10/10/25-year-old-israeli-woman-kills-terrorists-leads-team-to-save-kibbutz-from-hamas/

This article explains why Israel has distributed 10,000 “assault rifles” to civilian security teams since the attack.

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/10/10/10000-assault-rifles-distributed-israeli-civilian-security-teams/

But it doesn’t explain why the initial victims were unarmed and unable to fight back. Many people don’t realize that Israel, despite its reputation for self-defense, has strict gun control. The horrifying numbers of victims could be ascribed to the same idea as that behind the saying of Second Amendment defenders: “When seconds count, the police are just minutes away.” They had to wait for security forces to arrive and save them. 

Those forces acted with stunning bravery, even making themselves human shields to protect civilians, but the terrorists were still able to kill hundreds of people because, unlike the residents at the kibbutz, they were unarmed.

This thought-provoking article from a gun rights website argues that this attack should put an end to all demands for more gun control, but of course, it won’t. The left will just keep saying, “It can’t happen here,” even as they open up the border and allow unvetted people from who-knows-where to come streaming in.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/the-israeli-terrorist-attacks-should-end-the-gun-control-debate-in-the-us-but-it-wont/

And by the way, the argument that “it can’t happen here” is moronic rubbish. News flash: 9/11 happened HERE.

 


Harvard’s speech problems

Kudos to Harvard President Claudine Gay. It only took her a couple of days and two tries to arrive at the almost correct response to over 30 Harvard student groups signing a letter supporting Hamas’ murder, rape and torture of innocent Israelis as legitimate and justifiable forms of protest. 

After the university first issued a wishy-washy statement condemning vague violence and endorsing compassion, which was greeted with legitimate and justifiable fury and outrage, Gay finally stated that while the groups have a right to speak, they don’t speak for Harvard, and that the terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Hamas are “abhorrent, whatever one’s individual views of the origins of longstanding conflicts in the region.” There, was that so hard?

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/10/harvard-president-responds-to-students-groups-blaming-israel-for-hamas-attacks/

Now, as for the claim that they have a “right to speak” these abhorrent thoughts, I will throw back at her the same argument that leftist university groups have made for several years while threatening, canceling and shouting down conservative speakers: that they don’t have a right to be free of consequences for their “hate speech.” I think I can make a pretty good case that voicing support for the wholesale slaughter of Jews is more “hate speech” than calling for separate sports teams for men and women. Alan Dershowitz, who was a distinguished Harvard law professor for decades, told Sean Hannity that he’s not allowed to speak on campus in support of Israel anymore, but leftist professors who back Palestinian terrorists are allowed to speak there. Maybe that's why the students are so painfully ignorant, immoral and uninformed. 

For that reason, many people are calling for the names of the students who signed this letter to be made public, so that future employers or companies offering them internships can rescind those offers. If you can’t have someone in your company who wrote a non-PC tweet ten years ago, then why would you hire someone who openly endorses anti-Semitic genocide?

After all, in their own words: Hate speech should have consequences.

Related: Townhall.com has already started ferreting out the identities and backgrounds of some of the student leaders of these groups, and I’m not at all surprised by some of the other people and groups they’re associated with.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/john-hasson/2023/10/10/meet-the-harvard-students-supporting-hamas-invasion-of-israel-n2629626

 


Making it official

Kari Lake announced that she will run for Democrat Krysten Sinema’s Arizona Senate seat.

https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-kari-lake-announces-decision-us-senate-run

And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he’s leaving the Democratic Party (even more than Reagan, he could say, “The Party left me!”) to run as an independent, Third Party campaign for President.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/robert-f-kennedy-jr-to-run-for-president-as-an-independent-end-democratic-primary-campaign/ar-AA1hVPKC

This has both sides worried, since it isn’t clear whether he would take more votes away from Biden or Trump. I suspect his effect on the race might be less than expected by the time the actual election arrives. But liberals are having meltdowns (even his own family is attacking him, their loyalties obviously being to the Party first.) They're also accusing Fox News of propping RFK Jr. up until he made this announcement, then having Sean Hannity confront him on his long history of leftwing positions, like opposing fracking and fossil fuels and supporting Obama, Kerry and Biden.

Seems to me that Hannity was just doing his job, which is to ask tough questions and make politicians explain themselves. The liberal outlets should try that with Biden sometime. 

I had RFK Jr. on my TBN show, but not to promote his candidacy. I made it clear that he’s a liberal, and we disagree on most issues, but at least he had the guts to come on my show and have a civil discussion, which is something most Democrats refuse to do, despite the standing invitation. I respect him, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to vote for him. Why is that so hard for some people to understand? I guess if you’re obsessed with nothing but maintaining political power at all costs, it’s hard to focus on nuances.

https://youtu.be/WzzmBkYLV-o?si=Ohujgz3ksPaOjCMe


New Santos indictments

Tuesday, the US Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York filed a 23-count indictment against Republican Rep. George Santos, adding 10 more counts to a previous indictment. The new charges include wire fraud, falsifying FEC records and aggravated identity theft.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rep-george-santos-charged-with-conspiracy-wire-fraud-and-more-in-23-count-superseding-indictment/ar-AA1i0xHs

As tempting as it might be to put this into the “two-tiered justice” story bin, the charges aren’t the kind of stuff other prosecutors have had to torture torts and strain credulity to come up with. They include actual crimes, like allegedly inflating his fundraising numbers with fabricated or stolen contributions and charging expenses on his donors’ credit cards without authorization. I’ll defend anyone’s right to the presumption of innocence, but the fact that his campaign treasurer pleaded guilty to related charges last week might make that problematic.

It's a shame that when New Yorkers finally elected a Republican, it turned out to be this guy. But on the bright side, between him and Sen. Bob Menendez, we finally know just how corrupt a Congress member has to be before someone finally arrests them.


Economy update

I don’t want to be constantly negative about the economy, so I’ll share this story from a conservative site, Breitbart Business Digest, that argues that the high jobs numbers in recent months are actually solid and not just part time jobs replacing fulltime jobs, as some commentators suggest.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/10/10/breitbart-business-digest-actually-the-september-jobs-number-was-really-strong/

Unfortunately, I also have to note that our politicians have screwed things up so badly that even good news is bad news, and strong hiring could convince the Fed to raise interest rates again to try to bring down inflation.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/10/11/bidenflation-rises-producer-prices-rising-faster-than-expected/

And before the Democrats try to give Biden credit for the good jobs numbers, I’ll repeat something I’ve been saying since Obama was in: The US economy is like an Olympic swimmer: so strong that he can stay afloat even with a concrete block tied around his neck. But giving Obama or Biden’s policies credit for that feat is like giving credit to the concrete block instead of the swimmer.


4 Million

Not that anyone else in DC is keeping count, but a report by Congressional Republicans found that from the time Biden took office in January 2021 to March 2023, roughly four million illegal migrants were allowed to cross the border, and at least 2,148,738 were released into the US. Add to that another 205,473 aliens released “through illegal categorical parole programs,” plus more than 1.7 million known “gotaways” that evaded Border Patrol entirely and escaped into the US. 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/10/gop-report-biden-welcomed-4-million-migrants-26-months/

Altogether, that’s about 4 million illegal immigrants coming in over 26 months. So New York, Chicago and LA, you’d better start building more public housing.


Good to see

It's always good to see a state pass laws to protect election integrity, even if they have to override a Democrat Governor’s veto to do it.

https://www.westernjournal.com/huge-win-election-integrity-north-carolina-republicans-override-democratic-governors-veto/

I love the Gov’s argument that by establishing bipartisan local election boards instead of boards packed with appointees from the Governor’s party, this law poses a “threat to democracy.” Once again, that’s the new definition of “Democracy,” meaning, “Anything that keeps Democrats in power.”


Update on the Biden financial scandal

Of course, no matter what else is happening in the world, information about this scandal continues to drip out.  Thanks to an August 2022 Freedom Of Information Act request by former Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s organization America First Legal, we finally know that then-Vice President Joe Biden’s office exchanged nearly 20,000 emails with Hunter Biden’s investment firm Rosemont Seneca.  (Of course, Joe Biden knew NOTHING about his son’s business affairs.)  Details here…

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/then-vp-joe-bidens-office-exchanged-nearly-20000-emails-with-hunters-investment-firm/


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Israel's 9/11

Just as we were going to press on Saturday, word came of the horrific terrorist attack/invasion of southern Israel by Hamas. Since then, the news has turned more tragic with each passing hour. Naturally, in a newsletter like this, we can’t possibly provide you with up-to-the-minute news on such a fast-breaking story. But if you will bookmark this link, it will take you to Fox News’ page of the latest stories, continually updated:

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

All we can do, aside from urging you to pray for Israel and the victims of this unconscionable terrorist assault (those who were killed, injured or taken hostage), is give you a brief recap of the major news thus far, point you to some of the most important commentary, and add some of my own.

To bring you up to speed: On Saturday, Hamas staged the biggest attack on Israel in years from the Gaza Strip, launching a barrage of thousands of rockets in an attempt to overwhelm Israels’ Iron Dome missile defense. The militants also infiltrated Israel and attacked unarmed men, women and children, even slaughtering at least 260 people who were gathered for a music festival. Depending on the source, the current death toll is reportedly between 800 and 1100, including nine Americans, with more than 2,000 wounded, and an unknown number taken hostage, which might include Americans, but that’s not yet verified at this writing. Many are calling this Israel’s 9/11, and I don’t think that’s an overstatement. Here is just one example of Hamas’ savagery, and I don’t even want to describe it here.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/10/08/woman-being-paraded-by-hamas-terrorists-identified-as-german-tourist-n2629511

Israel has declared itself to be in a state of war for the first time in 50 years, and Prime Minister Netayahu has deployed tens of thousands of troops to the Gaza Strip. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said he has ordered a “complete siege” of Gaza, cutting off water, electricity and food, adding, "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly." Netanyahu predicted that this war will be long and difficult, but military officials vowed to “kill every terrorist in Israel.”

Of course, the big question looming over this atrocity was how such a massive attack could have been planned and executed without Israeli intelligence getting a whiff of it? That question might have been answered by Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, who revealed that the attack was planned with help from Iranian security officials and greenlit by Iran at a meeting last week in Beirut. Judging from the military equipment the terrorists are using, including sophisticated drones, it’s likely Iran also helped supply the weaponry. Iran’s “Supreme Leader” even praised the barbaric attack as it was happening.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/10/08/confirmed-iran-planned-and-green-lit-murderous-hamas-attacks-on-israel-n2164840

This shouldn’t have been a surprise. Some of us have been warning of the dangers of Iran for years, even as the Obama and now Biden Administrations have done everything possible to lift sanctions, release frozen assets and claim that Iran’s leaders can somehow be bribed or schmoozed into giving up their rabid hatred of America, Israel, Jews and any non-radical Muslims who dare question them. Here’s your answer for how well that idiotic notion works out in reality. Now, imagine them with nuclear weapons.

Donald Trump saw this coming last month, when Biden unfroze $6 billion in Iranian cash to get some US hostages released (reportedly really $16 billion; the other $10 billion didn’t get as much press.)

https://www.westernjournal.com/flashback-trump-predicted-terrorist-attacks-money-provided-us/

Trump predicted it would be used to fund terrorism, but the Biden White House insisted that, oh no, it could only be used for “humanitarian” purposes. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is desperately trying to spin that, still insisting that none of that money was used for this attack, and it wasn’t US taxpayer money but “Iranian resources that Iran has accumulated from the sales of oil.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/08/blinken-no-u-s-taxpayer-dollars-were-involved-in-iran-support-of-hamas-terror-attack/

What an impressive string of irrelevant points. Who cares if the money that funded this atrocity came out of that particular Iranian bank account or another one? It came from IRAN, which is why we shouldn’t be freeing up funds, lifting sanctions and letting them build nuclear reactors. And thanks for inadvertently admitting the truth that Iran has accumulated a lot of resources from selling oil. That’s billions of dollars they wouldn’t have accumulated if Joe Biden hadn’t declared war on the US fossil fuel industry and driven up the price of oil while making other nations more dependent on sources like Iran.

And just to be abundantly clear, here’s a former State Department advisor on Iran explaining precisely why the Biden crew’s frantic spin about that $6 billion is garbage, and it actually “freed up huge reserves” that Iran could use to continue funding terrorism through groups like Hamas.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/10/08/former-state-department-advisor-blasts-biden-on-6-billion-for-iran-n2164823

There is also a claim by a high-ranking Israeli Defense Forces commander that some of the equipment left behind in Afghanistan during Biden’s botched pullout was used to attack Israel.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/10/08/weapons-left-in-afghanistan-thanks-to-bidens-botched-withdrawal-are-being-used-to-attack-israel-n2629553

If you think this Administration has the slightest idea of what it’s talking about when it comes to Iran, here’s a reminder that just eight days before the attack, Biden’s “National Security Adviser” Jake Sullivan was boasting of all their accomplishments in the Middle East and declared, “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-national-security-advisor-get-wrong-one-week-massacre-israel/

Another very disturbing aspect of this attack has been watching the attempts by people in the US and Europe to put the blame for it on Israel, Republicans, Donald Trump or anywhere other than where it belongs: on the vicious, barbaric, hate-filled Hamas terrorists who committed it.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/migrants-throughout-europe-celebrate-hamas-attacks-against-israel

I am fed up to my eyeballs with the moronic moral equivalencies and immediate calls for a cease-fire dished out by far-left, anti-Semitic “Squad” members in Congress, MSNBC commentators and other useful idiots of radical Islamic terrorists.

https://www.westernjournal.com/squad-dems-weigh-terrorists-murder-hundreds-israel/

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/07/msnbc-israel-caused-attacks-on-it-and-made-people-vote-for-hamas/

We even had an official government agency, the US Office of Palestinian Affairs, tweet out, “We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.” That was quickly deleted with the State Department saying it was not authorized and doesn’t reflect US policy, which is to unequivocally support Israel’s right to defend itself.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/10/07/us-office-of-palestinian-affairs-deletes-tweet-telling-israel-to-refrain-from-retaliating-n2629509

Good. I don’t want to hear any balloon juice from liberal bureaucrats urging Israel to show restraint and end the violence, which can be translated as “let their people be slaughtered and do nothing to stop it.” We had something like that in the 1930s and ‘40s, and Jews and all other decent people all over the world vowed, “Never again.” “Never” means “NEVER.”

The “Democratic Socialists of America” held a rally in Times Square on Sunday to cheer the Hamas attack on Israel and the slaughter of innocent civilians. So the next time some “Democratic Socialist” tries to convince you that they’re not REALLY your dad’s America-hating socialists, remember this and realize that you can call a scorpion a butterfly, but it’s still a scorpion.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/10/09/photos-democratic-socialists-of-america-cheer-palestinian-terror-in-new-york/

Here’s something that I sincerely hope will make people rethink sending their kids to an Ivy League school: 57 student groups at Harvard signed a statement holding Israel “entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” Yes, they think it’s Israel’s fault that Hamas terrorists murdered hundreds of innocent people and injured thousands more. I wonder if they’d blame Israel or Trump if some of the millions of unvetted illegal entrants allowed into the US under Biden turned out to be terrorists and attacked a music festival they were attending?

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/10/08/harvard-students-stand-with-palestinian-terrorists-after-attack-on-israel/

On that subject, look at how many people inside both the US and European nations are celebrating this barbarism and ask yourself how they got there and if they might do it, too.

https://redstate.com/tladuke/2023/10/08/attack-on-israel-is-a-stark-reminder-to-united-states-what-happens-when-evil-crosses-an-open-border-n2164821

And here’s more blinkered stupidity from Human Rights Watch, who previously slammed Israel for having too much security on the barrier between Gaza and Israel.

https://instapundit.com/610037/

But the biggest morons on the planet had to be the pro-Palestinian protesters from a group called “Queers for Palestine.” One commentator asked if they were aware that the only place in the Middle East where they could be openly gay and not be executed is Israel?

Finally, I will urge you again to pray for Israel and for the victims of this horrific attack, and end with this thought-provoking commentary from Victor Davis Hanson:

https://twitter.com/VDHanson/status/1711174923220361268

Hanson also posted this on Twitter (X)…

https://twitter.com/VDHanson/status/1710800023028641940

“Here we are 78 years after the end of the Holocaust and once again, thuggish killers dressed in black are pulling Jewish elderly, women, and children out of their homes and executing them, and then throwing their bodies into the street. But in 1945, we were fighting the SS murderers, now we are sending millions in subsidies to their modern Hamas killer squad counterparts. We the American people should demand not one more American cent to these Gestapo and SS killers.”


Hurry Up

The attack on Israel has some people calling this the worst possible time for the House to be without a Speaker. It appears that this might light a fire under Congress to hurry up and elect a new House leader.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2023/10/08/issue-of-no-speaker-n2629505


Federal judge allows ban to go into effect

A federal judge in Oklahoma allowed the new law banning so-called “gender-affirming medical care” (actually, hormones, puberty blockers and surgery that attempt to alter a child’s true gender, not “affirm” it) to go into effect. More details at the link.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-lets-oklahoma-ban-gender-treatments-minors-take-effect-2023-10-06/

As noted, there are various federal court rulings either allowing or blocking similar laws, so this will probably have to be settled by the Supreme Court. Let’s hope this isn’t one of those times when they’ll pull a new right out of thin air, like the right to disfigure children with unnecessary elective surgery because 13-year-olds always know what’s best for them. You’d think this entire argument would be settled by the physicians’ rule of “First, do no harm,” but no.  

 


More Good Court News:

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has expanded an injunction on the Biden Administration that blocked it from colluding with big tech platforms to censor free speech. 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/10/04/federal-court-broadens-injunction-against-biden-censorship-efforts/?seyid=92426

The court added CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) to the list of agencies previously blocked, including the White House, FBI, CDC and Surgeon General’s office. The court found that prior to the 2020 election, CISA actively worked to brand some political opinions as “misinformation” and try to get them censored or banned from social media in violation of the First Amendment.

A CISA spokesman responded that the agency “does not and has never censored speech or facilitated censorship.” I’d say that sounds like a big fat lie, but I don’t want them throwing me off of Facebook.

 


Not making this up...

Apparently, allowing the US to be overrun with unvetted illegal aliens, fentanyl, Mexican drug gangs and unincarcerated criminals wasn’t making life dangerous enough for the average American. So now, President Biden is going to release grizzly bears on us.

As Dave Barry says, I am not making this up…

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-urge-biden-not-release-deadly-apex-predator-near-rural-community


Hypocritical Democrats

As you all know, I love dogs. So this story makes my blood boil so much that I will have to restrain myself while relaying it.

After the Bidens' German shepherd Commander was removed from the White House for repeatedly biting staffers and Secret Service agents (it was just revealed that there were more incidents and some more severe than previously reported), Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all files related to the First Family’s dogs.

Since this is the second time this has happened (the Bidens’ previous dog Major was also removed for attacking people), Judicial Watch suspects a pattern that might have more to do with the owners than the dogs. They also claim that an unnamed source told them that Joe Biden mistreats his dogs and he has punched and kicked them.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/biden-german-shepherd-2/

Okay, that was where I had to stop writing and count slowly to 10. To me, that is such an unconscionable, beyond-the-pale thing to do that I’m going to try not to believe it until there’s more evidence. Although it is hard to believe that Joe Biden just happened to get two vicious dogs in a row by random chance. I will try to wait until this is confirmed or debunked before saying more, other than I’m glad Commander is out of the White House and that he will hopefully be placed in a loving home and the biting will cease.

But I will say this: Biden’s record is horrible on everything from energy to border security to freedom to taxes to foreign policy to the economy. Still, that might not prevent him from being reelected. But if it’s proven that he’s one of those stereotypical liberals who “weeps for the masses and kicks the dog,” then he’s toast. Americans will put up with a lot from politicians, but mistreating dogs is the ultimate deal-killer.


Pointless

New Kurt Schlichter column on why it’s pointless to feel sympathy for residents of blue cities for all the hellish pain they’re enduring when they just keep voting for more of it. I especially enjoy his description of his neighborhood, which is filled with wealthy liberals who would never tolerate the crime, filth, homelessness and lousy schools they’re fine with inflicting on inner city poor people.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/10/09/i-cannot-care-more-about-blue-cities-than-their-voters-do-n2629544

Related: For all the female voters who think only the Democrats will protect women’s rights, that might be true only if it’s your right to go to an ER. A New York Post report found that under the Democrats’ criminal-releasing, anti-police policies, felony assaults on women have jumped by 41% over the last four years.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesalgado/2023/10/07/dem-fail-nyc-felony-assaults-on-women-spike-41-in-4-years-n1733200

 


Another Newsom veto

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have decriminalized the possession and use of hallucinogenic mushrooms. He probably looked at who’s in power in California and decided that voters aren’t obeying the anti-‘shroom laws anyway.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/09/california-gov-gavin-newsom-vetoes-bill-that-would-have-decriminalized-psychedelic-mushrooms/

 


How did we (and Israel) NOT KNOW IT WAS COMING?

It was the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War --- actually the day after, so it would fall on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath and also Simchat Torah, the day when Jews celebrate reading the Torah.  We’d just seen President Biden preside over a prisoner swap in exchange for $6 billion in freed-up money to Iran.  (And it doesn’t matter which Iranian “pocket” that money goes into; leftist media need to stop insulting our intelligence trying to split that hair.)  This was also after Biden’s 2021 delivery of nearly $400 million to the Palestinian Authority (!!), which experts have been warning would help Hamas and cause them to organize more terrorist attacks.  Tensions had reportedly been escalating.  Yet Israel was caught off guard, and so, it seems, were we.

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday, “Hamas is ISIS.”  We would go further to say that in helping Hamas, however indirectly, by telling Iran it was about to be $6 billion richer, we gave aid and comfort to our own (and Israel’s) enemy.

Now, AFTER the worst attack on Israel since the Holocaust, we know that Iran, the #1 state sponsor of terrorism, spent weeks --- months, more likely --- plotting it with Hamas.

On Monday, Biden “put a lid on the day” early and attended a barbeque that night.  He must not have been overcome with curiosity about how this huge, well-orchestrated attack could’ve happened without the knowledge of either America or Israel, the countries with arguably the best intelligence agencies in the world.  Have we perhaps been spending too much time trying to ferret out those dangerous Trump supporters, maybe at church or bingo?  How on earth could the U.S. not have known that Iran was working with Palestinian terrorists on this attack?

According to THE GUARDIAN, “it is a mystery why Israeli intelligence appears to have had no idea it was coming.”  They explained that “Israel’s surveillance of Gaza is intense.  It monitors activity, communications and daily life via state-of-the-art surveillance equipment, including drones flying over the strip.  It also relies on human intelligence via informants, many of whom are blackmailed or otherwise coerced into assisting Israel.”  Sadly, that’s the way covert operations work here, too.

“The intelligence failure is monumental,” they went on to report, “and will shake the Israeli public’s faith in their government and army’s ability to protect civilians.”  As Eli Maron, a former head of the Israeli navy, said, “All of Israel is asking itself, where is the IDF [Israeli Defense Forces], where are the police, where is the security?”

THE GUARDIAN reports that many people in Gaza just want to live their lives, free from repeated wars and conflicts.  “They resent the fears imposed on them and the fear instilled in them by Hamas rulers.”  And, “the apparent lack of knowledge of Hamas’ plot will likely be seen as a prime culprit in the chain of events that led to the deadliest attack against Israelis in decades...The ferocious attack, which likely took months of planning and involved coordination among multiple militia groups, appeared to have gone under Israel’s intelligence radar.”

Retired Israeli Gen. Amir Avivi said that without a foothold in Gaza, Israeli security forces have relied on technological means to gather intelligence, and Gaza militants have found ways to evade these.  “They’ve gone back to the Stone Age,” he said.

(Scary sidenote: while our intelligence agencies have been laser-focused on the “threat” of Trump supporters, concerned parents and traditional Catholics, they’ve assured us we have little to worry about from foreign terrorists because there are now “electronic fences,” social media surveillance and other high tech security, just like what Israel relied on in Gaza.)  

Avivi also said that Israeli security services were wrong about Hamas’ intentions:  “Israel’s security establishment has in recent years increasingly seen Hamas as an actor interested in governing, seeking to develop Gaza’s economy and improving the standard of living for Gaza’s 2.3 million people.”  He and others say the truth is that Hamas, which calls for Israel’s destruction, “still sees that aim as its priority.”  And now we’ve seen which one of those views turned out to be right.  They’re really just dirty terrorists.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/08/israel-hamas-gaza-palestinian-territories

But that still doesn’t explain how such a devastating, multifaceted attack could have been planned without the knowledge of Israeli and American intelligence.

“...The weekend’s assault, which caught Israel off guard on a major Jewish holiday, plunges [their intelligence] reputation into doubt and raises questions about the country’s readiness in the face of a weaker but determined foe,” reported the Associated Press.  “This is a major failure,” said Yaakov Amidror, former national security adviser to Netanyahu.  “This operation actually proves that the [intelligence] abilities in Gaza were no good.”

Amidror had no explanation, either, saying lessons must be learned “when the dust settles.”

Chief military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said the army owes an explanation, but for now, “First we fight, then we investigate.”

 

 

As reported in THE HILL, U.S. intelligence officials refused to call this an intelligence failure.

On Sunday, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken sidestepped the question.  “We will have plenty --- we will have plenty of time to --- the Israelis will have plenty of time to look into that,” he stammered.

He told FOX NEWS SUNDAY host Shannon Bream that “there will be a time and place to look back on exactly how this happened, who knew what when, but that moment is not now when we’re still in the throes of the attack, as your reporting just showed this is still ongoing.”

Wrong, Mr. Secretary of State.  This IS the time and place.  Blinken is stalling for time until he and his people can devise the story they want us to swallow, and Americans are sick of that.  It doesn’t make sense that our government wouldn’t have been able to foresee anything about this.

(Maybe our patience is just running thin and our trust is gone after January 6, now that we know our FBI had quite a bit of information on, and involvement with, activities leading up to Trump’s rally.  Benghazi comes to mind as well.  They’ve lied to us so much that their old playbook really doesn’t work any longer.)

As for the Iranians, they’ve certainly had their own spies in place.  Recall the story we ran last week from Matt Taibbi in TABLET, about Biden’s chief envoy to Iran Robert Malley being involved in a high-level Iranian spy ring busted in DC.  Sean Hannity addressed this on Monday with guests former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman and Florida Rep. Mike Waltz, who called this “an absolute intelligence failure.”

Waltz expressed concern that “actually, we WERE picking things up, and then you’ve got so many Iran sympathizers in the Biden administration that they were simply looking away.”

Ah, at last, somebody said it!

Waltz continued:  “Not only do you have Robert Malley, who was the chief negotiator for the Iran deal under Biden and Obama, essentially running a spy ring, you have the chief of staff in the Pentagon, of our Special Operations Office...read on to all kinds of departmental programs; she’s still on the job.  She still has access to all kind of classified systems, yet she was calling the Iranian foreign ministry before and after briefings to Congress about their nuclear program.”  (We assume he’s talking about Wendy Sherman, whose only defense of human rights in Iran was “saying things forcefully”…)

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/wendy-sherman-defends-us-human-rights-record-in-iran

By the way, in light of the attack on Israel, the Robert Malley story may turn out to be, in the words of California Rep. Darrell Issa, the “worst State Department scandal since Alger Hiss.”  Incredible details here, in this must-read piece…

https://nypost.com/2023/10/09/suspended-iran-special-envoy-rob-malley-under-scrutiny-for-hamas-remarks-following-israel-terror-attack/ 

Also, from the archives, here’s another must-read, about Joe Biden’s role as “Tehran’s favorite senator” thanks to his “political games.”  It’s from August 2008, just after Obama chose him as his running mate.  Here’s who is in the White House now...

https://www.aei.org/articles/bidens-blink-on-iran/

So, this intelligence failure is one more thing congressional Republicans have to look into.  “How far did this go, how much influence, how deep were these tentacles?,” Waltz asked.  “And was it really a failure of collection, or was it people turning a blind eye at the most senior levels?”

Similarly, after working for many years with Israeli intelligence, Hoffman was “shocked” by this failure.  But he did note that Israel needs to keep information about it close to the vest right now, so they don’t expose vulnerabilities.

 

……..

 

Just a few days ago, critics were expressing concern about the Army cutting its Special Ops budget, with 10 percent fewer personnel, and shifting its focus away from counterintelligence in the Middle East.  (WHAT counterintelligence?)  Rep. Waltz was one of them, saying he was “stunned and appalled.”  The idea sounds even crazier now…

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/congressional-veteran-stunned-and-appalled-at-possible-special-operations-cuts/ar-AA1hL8z8

We’ll end by quoting what retired Green Beret Lt. Scott Mann said very presciently just days before the attack:  “You know, they are regenerating in Afghanistan and there is very good chance that we could see a resurgence of them.  And you can’t mass produce Special OPS after an emergency occurs; that is a Special Operations point.”  Also, “al-Qaida and ISIS have an enduring desire to strike the homeland.  They’ve proven that they can and they will.  And they now have a new unfettered safe haven in Afghanistan.  And they’re gonna make that happen.”

 

….

 RELATED READING:  For when you have time, Alex Marlow, author of the new book BREAKING BIDEN, has an unsparing explanation of why Biden bears responsibility for Hamas’ attack on Israel.  Our hope would be that editorial writers at THE NEW YORK TIMES who actually blamed Trump for this --- not kidding, and they never mentioned Obama or Biden or their Iran policy --- would read it, but of course, they won’t.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/09/alex-marlow-joe-biden-bears-responsibility-for-hamass-terror-attack-on-israelis/

 


President Biden interviewed in classified documents case

In news that was almost buried under the deluge of horrific stories out of Israel, President Biden was interviewed on Sunday and Monday by Special Counsel Robert Hur (remember him?) in HIS classified documents case.

Recall that Biden is alleged to have kept classified documents in his office at Penn Biden Center, at a storage warehouse in Chinatown, in his home library, in his attorney’s office in Boston, in his garage near his Corvette, and probably someplace I’m forgetting because there are so many locations.  THE NEW YORK TIMES had details on who else has been interviewed…

“Among [those interviewed] are Steve Ricchetti, a top White House aide, and Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser, people familiar with the case said.

“Prosecutors have also spoken to Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, who has been a key Biden foreign policy adviser for decades; Ron Klain, who served as White House chief of staff until earlier this year; and Michael R. Carpenter, the former managing director of the Penn Biden Center, who is currently ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.”

One would assume that with Biden being called in, the special counsel is just about to conclude the investigation.  While another special counsel, Jack Smith, is putting the screws to President Trump over his alleged possession of classified documents (that he, as President, had the authority to declassify) at his heavily-secure home with both Secret Service and armed private security protection, we’ve heard not a peep about the investigation of Biden over something similar and arguably much worse.

More to come.

 

 


More on Israel

A reminder: We can’t provide breaking news on the attack on Israel, but this link will take you to a Fox News page that continually updates with all the latest bulletins and a summary of current major headlines:

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

To recap some of the developments of the past 24 hours: Following a relentless airstrike pounding of Hamas targets in Gaza, Israel says it has reclaimed control of the Gaza border. The known death toll now stands at around 1600, including 900 Israelis and 700 Gazans. Rocket sirens went off in Tel Aviv as another barrage of rockets were fired from Gaza, but there were no reports of injuries thanks to Israel’s advanced missile defenses.

Fox News reports that IDF airstrikes reportedly killed two senior Hamas officials: Joad Abu Shmalah, the Hamas Minister of Economy in the Gaza Strip who oversaw the funding of terrorism and led a number of operations targeting Israeli civilians, and Zachariah Abu Ma'amar, a senior member of the Hamas' political bureau and head of its office for internal relations. He was a senior Hamas decision-maker and coordinator between terror groups in the Gaza Strip.

Here's a report on the hundreds of foreign nationals from around the world who were visiting Israel and were killed, taken hostage or are still missing.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/10/10/tally-rises-of-foreigners-murdered-abducted-or-reported-missing-in-hamas-terrorist-attack/

The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah is reportedly mobilizing forces on Israel’s northern border in Lebanon and Syria with the possible intention of launching a second front attack. But they will not have the benefit of surprise that Hamas had. If they want to volunteer to be obliterated by Israel, that will be the first good thing they’ve ever done for humanity.

https://www.westernjournal.com/new-force-begins-rapid-mobilization-israel-things-soon-get-much-worse/

Back in the US, Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed a planned trip to the Middle East scheduled for later this month. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. said the US sent a strong warning to Iran “not to get involved” (a bit late for that, don’t you think?)

Four Israeli-American families whose relatives were killed or taken hostage will hold a press conference later today to demand immediate action from President Biden. Hamas claimed that they have been acting within Islamic instructions by keeping hostages safe, but warned that they would begin killing Israeli hostages for every Israeli bombing of civilians’ homes without warning (if that were true, the hostages would remain safe because Israel doesn’t bomb civilians without warning, Hamas does.)

This is a developing story, and it’s such a horrifying, heartbreaking atrocity, I don’t even want to describe it. I will link to it, but I warn you, it’s extremely disturbing.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/10/10/horror-israeli-soldiers-discover-bodies-of-40-babies-some-beheaded-n2164890

Meanwhile, the cheering of murderous, anti-Semitic terrorists by spoiled Western useful idiots continues around the world. Some social media influencers are celebrating the slaughter of innocent Israelis, proving that they should not be influencing anyone.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/playboy-fires-ex-porn-star-mia-khalifa-reprehensible-comments-supporting-hamas-attack-israel

Harvard reacted to 57 student groups signing a statement blaming Israel for the carnage by putting out a stunningly mealy-mouthed letter (you can read it at the link; I don’t want to quote it and get pablum on my keyboard) which doesn’t even mention their own sadly miseducated students’ support of murderous terrorists.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/10/09/harvard-responds-to-terror-attack-in-israel-after-students-publicly-support-terrorists/

Here’s some reaction to that, including former Harvard President Larry Summers showing what the current school leaders should have said.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/10/10/former-harvard-president-larry-summers-sickened-by-student-statement-blaming-israel-for-hamas-attacks-n2164882

Shockingly, some of the moral equivalence, “blame Israel” mentality and calls for an immediate ceasefire right after Hamas murdered 900 Israelis are coming from inside the House. And I mean our House of Representatives. The sympathy for the devil from “Squad” members was too much even for some Democrats to stomach. New York Rep. Ritchie Torres, who calls himself a pro-Israel progressive, told Jewish Insider, “U.S. aid to Israel is and should be unconditional, and never more so than in this moment of critical need. Shame on anyone who glorifies as ‘resistance’ the largest single-day mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. It is reprehensible and repulsive.”

On the Republican side, Rep. Lindsay Graham was even more blunt. He told Fox News, "Hamas is a bunch of animals who deserve to be treated like animals." He added, “To the ‘Squad’: Shut the hell up. You're emboldening the enemy. You're a disgrace to the United States Congress. You're siding with terrorists over a democracy called Israel."

As shocking as these reactions are, they shouldn’t come as a surprise. In March of this year, a Gallup poll found that Democrats supported Palestinians in Gaza more than Israel by 49-38%, with 13% saying they didn’t support either side over the other. Republicans supported Israel by 78-11%. This article notes that “the 38% support for Israel was a historic low for the Democratic Party.” I couldn’t have put it better myself.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-support-palestinians-over-israel-gop-overwhelmingly-stands-us-ally-2023-poll

I will just repeat what I said to Sean Hannity last night, and to all the leftists like the Squad members who constantly claim, with zero evidence, that they’re on “the right side of history.” The Bible tells us in Numbers 24:9, “Whoever blesses Israel will be blessed, And whoever curses Israel will be cursed.”

I’ll also share with all the sick and twisted people celebrating this terrorist atrocity Proverbs 17:5: “The one who mocks the poor insults his Maker, and one who rejoices over calamity will not go unpunished.”


Some good news

Amid so much tragedy this week, I’m glad to be able to report some good news. As I mentioned on this weekend’s episode of “Huckabee” on TBN, your protests on behalf of the Romeike family were heard loud and clear.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/tennessee-family-facing-deportation-15-years-fleeing-germany-homeschool-kids-granted-1-year-reprieve

This wonderful Christian family came to America to escape persecution in Germany for the crime of homeschooling their children. Since then, they’ve been model residents in Tennessee and haven’t sought a penny of taxpayer aid. But despite all the illegal aliens pouring into our borders, the feds decided that the Romeikes were the only non-citizens worthy of deportation. They were about to be sent back to Germany to face persecution and punishment, and being separated from their children.

But after Tennessee lawmakers sent a letter to ICE protesting the action, the Romeikes have been granted a one-year stay of deportation. That’s not the permanent solution that should have been offered, but at least it buys them 12 months to fight any future attempts at deportation. And hopefully, those will be harder now that the whole nation knows about this and the feds know that any actions taken against them will not go unnoticed.

For stepping up to help the Romeike family and block this outrage, I give a Huck’s Hero salute to those Tennessee legislators and to all of you!


Will Hurd drops out of presidential race

Former CIA agent and Texas Rep. Will Hurd announced that he’s ending his GOP presidential bid. He said Monday, "It has become clear to me and my team that the time has come to suspend our campaign." Since I assume that's the first time most of you heard he was running for President, that’s probably a good call.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-cia-spy-turned-gop-congressman-drops-2024-presidential-bid-endorses-republican-rival

Hurd is a vocal anti-Trumper, and he threw his support to Nikki Haley. Considering that the most recent poll I could find that mentioned him was a Sept. 29 Morning Consult poll that had him at 0%, I don’t think that’s going to boost Haley much.


News You Can Use:

A new study of over 12 years of health data found that climbing five flights of stairs (about 50 steps) every day may reduce the risk of some types of heart disease by up to 20 percent.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/simple-activity-could-slash-heart-disease-risk-study-finds


Democrat Paranoia

I hope that all the Democrats who are launching baseless partisan prosecutions of former President Trump read this story and start feeling very paranoid.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/10/09/ken-paxton-strikes-back-seeks-criminal-charges-against-those-who-led-impeachment-effort-n2164873


Retired USAF General comes under fire for tweet

Former CIA and NSA Director and retired Air Force general Michael Hayden, who pushed the Russia collusion hoax and signed the letter falsely branding Hunter Biden’s laptop as “Russian disinformation” to influence the 2020 election, is under fire for using his Twitter account to call for the assassination of Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville. When called out, he doubled down and stood by it.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/10/former-cia-nsa-director-gen-michael-hayden-calls-for-sen-tuberville-to-be-assassinated/

So let me get this straight: THIS GUY still has a Twitter account?! And people who just said Hunter’s laptop was real were censored?


Reason #10,314 Why The Internet Was A Bad Idea:

Another naked photo of a member of the Biden family has popped up online, and this time, it wasn’t Hunter.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12610551/Joe-Biden-brother-Frank-naked-selfie-GuysWithiPhones.html


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The Wars of Yom Kippur

October 9, 2023

Our minister began the service this morning this morning by leading the congregation in an emotional prayer for “the peace of Jerusalem,” exactly as Psalm 122 mandates. “May all who love this city prosper. O Jerusalem may there be peace within your walls.” Why talk about peace after the savage surprise attack by Hamas? With exquisite cruelty, the Hamas outrage began not only on Shabbat, the Israeli Sabbath, but also on the 50th anniversary of Yom Kippur.

Inevitably, I remembered another Yom Kippur, this one in 1973 when TV was black, white, grainy and often hours or days behind events. Back then, I was a young intelligence officer, deployed close to the heavily militarized border between east and west Germany. Guard towers, minefields, and razor-wire obstacles (supposedly vetted by East German Olympians) marked the death zones. But our greatest concerns were carefully concealed in wood-lines just east of the border region: multiple armored divisions and mobile artillery (lots of it) belonging to the Group of Soviet Forces, Germany. Although their normal wartime mission was to split NATO forces and make a run for the English Channel, in October 1973, they were watching closely to see how American forces would reinforce their Israeli allies.

On that other Yom Kippur, Israel had been badly surprised when they were attacked across the Suez Canal by Egyptian forces; meanwhile, heavily reinforced Syrian armies were attacking across the Golan Heights to threaten the Jewish state from south to north. Because both Arab armies had been armed and supplied by the Soviets, Israel experienced intense electronic warfare as well as the first wide-spread use of precision-guided munitions. These Soviet-based technological advances suddenly seemed capable of offsetting the traditional Israeli advantages in sophisticated battlefield equipment and innovative leadership. Worse yet, the new technologies created logistical nightmares as both sides learned new principles of war: “What can be seen can be hit; and what can be hit can be killed” (often on the first shot). With their client-states as aggressors, the Soviets watched gleefully: How would the US Army react to our first ‘real war’ since Vietnam?

After 50 years of hindsight, I am still astounded by how effective that reaction turned out to be. US logistics were turned upside down as critical equipment meant to deter the Russians was quickly stripped, packed and shipped to Israel. Armor and artillery went by sea from Bremerhaven while ammunition and spare parts flew on giant transports taking off from every US outpost. Although President Nixon had only begun to deal with the Watergate issues that would eventually drive him from office, his leadership under fire insured that Israel would never question the US security commitment. As Israeli forces were smoothly re-equipped, the tide of battle turned as well; daring Israeli counter-attacks in the Sinai and the Golan suddenly threw back Egyptian and Syrian armies. When those counter-attacks threatened Cairo and Damascus, the Russians mobilized their airborne forces to intervene directly; but that threat was countered when the US promptly took its forces to DEFCON 3. Before the crisis finally de-escalated, US and Soviet forces in several theaters stood muzzle-to-muzzle, another Cuban Missile Crisis though never acknowledged as such.  

What does this brief historical review suggest about the current Yom Kippur War? 

  • The same Chinese symbol stands for both “crisis and “opportunity” – highlighting the synergy of time and boldness in retaliating effectively. No matter how grievous earlier provocations, Israel has long and bitter experience having its freedom of action curtailed by diplomatic second-guessing. So strike now and strike hard!
  • For now, don’t waste precious time now worrying about intelligence failures. Leave all that to future punditry on MSNBC/CNN while taking advantage of the opportunities that any crisis brings. But do not repeat the American experience by failing to purge the intelligence bureaucracy.
  • The most important priority for Israel is not a cease-fire but striking hard body-blows, first at Hamas but even more importantly at Iran, the war’s architect and engineer. Above all, destroy the uninterrupted terrorist logistics of both Hamas (south) and Hezbollah (north) even if it means seizing and holding territory.
  • Finally, both the Biden White House and the alleged Republican leadership in Congress need to pull their socks up, using support for Israel to re-build bipartisanship. The current confusion can be glimpsed as American naval forces move closer to Israel. While that deployment may delight sailors anticipating future port-calls, if the Pentagon hopes to influence regional events, then promptly re-deploy those ships to locations that more directly threaten Iran.  Why else are they there?

COL (Ret.) Ken Allard is former draftee who became a West Point professor, Dean of the National War College and NBC News military analyst.

 

The KJP Show

October 9, 2023

Karine Jean-Pierry might be a terrible White House press secretary (although to be fair, nobody should have to defend this Administration for a living), but she earns her pay by keeping us all entertained. For instance, nothing on this week’s underwhelming “return of late night comedy” was anywhere near as funny as KJP trying to convince us that Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar getting carjacked in Democrat-run Washington, DC, by three armed thugs who were undoubtedly Democrats was somehow the fault of…Republicans!

https://www.westernjournal.com/doocy-refuses-let-kjp-get-away-blaming-republicans-congressmans-carjacking/

Fox News’ Peter Doocy was the only White House reporter willing to say, in effect, “Back that truck up and run it past us again!” You can read a transcript of her explanation at the link which I won’t bother to transcribe, since it’s an incomprehensible tossed word salad worthy of Kamala Harris. But I THINK she was trying to claim that DC is overrun with crime because Republicans didn’t vote for the so-called “American Rescue Plan,” a massive spending bill that passed anyway and that, she said, provided billions of dollars “to make sure communities across the country got funding so that they can indeed hire more police officers so that they can keep their community safe.”

As noted at the link, that makes no sense whatsoever. Republican support or not, the bill passed. If DC leaders got money from it, they obviously didn’t spend it on hiring cops and jailing criminals, or the streets wouldn’t be filled with criminals. And those DC leaders are all Democrats and have been for decades. Are Republicans also to blame for the rampant crime in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, L.A. and all the other 100% Democrat-run cities? Wow, I had no idea we were so powerful!

Related: Missouri Rep. Eric Burlison told Todd Starnes that Washington, DC, has become so dangerous due to crime that some Congress members are afraid to leave and are sleeping in their Capitol offices. He said it’s so bad that Sen. Mike Lee is suggesting it might be time for Congress to take back control of the District from local leftist officials.

https://www.toddstarnes.com/crime/some-members-of-congress-sleeping-in-offices-due-to-dc-violence-rep-burlison/

I would be all for that idea if I weren’t afraid that the FBI would deal with carjackers in DC by arresting Trump voters.

“Have you observed that the Democrats have one key strategy...a system...that’s frickin’ awesome?”  This question was posed by DILBERT cartoonist and bestselling author Scott Adams on the Saturday edition of his podcast, “Coffee With Scott Adams.”

“...They make sure that [any one] of their entities or groups anywhere, whether it’s locally or international, has somebody that’s one of their loyalists in charge.  So they just make sure there’s, you know, one of their loyalists that’s trying hard for one of those jobs, and there are a lot of people in the Democrat Party toward the top who have Ivy League educations and great resumes, so it’s a whole bunch of people who can get top jobs in a lot of different places.  So they make sure THEIR people are in top jobs in the most critical places.  Such as local prosecutors, DAs.

“They’ve figured out these little ‘choke points’ where if they have Democrats in those offices, they can rule the world.”

Of course, Adams was simply reiterating something we all knew about the strategy of the Democrats --- which we would add also reveals which people should get fired first when that party is thankfully out of power.  But he was using this point as a lead-in to talk about a specific story:  President Biden’s nomination of Hampton Dellinger, one of Hunter’s old work colleagues at the law firm of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP to lead the Office of the Special Counsel (OSC), which is nominally in charge of protecting whistleblowers, not to mention investigating the Executive Branch HAHAHAHAHA.  The firm even represented Burisma Holdings, the corrupt Ukrainian energy company that paid Hunter a reported $83,000 a month to sit on their executive board.

We brought you the story of that nomination last week.  As the DAILY CALLER reports, “Dellinger and Hunter Biden overlapped at [Boies] when the younger Biden recruited the firm to represent Ukrainian energy company Burisma in spring 2014, according to emails on the younger Biden’s abandoned laptop archive.”  This is a very good summary, highly recommended if you need to get up to speed.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/04/joe-biden-nominates-hunter-bidens-former-colleague-special-counsel-office/

Anyway, Scott just laughed ruefully and said, “Is there anything else to say about that?...Somebody who worked with Hunter Biden is gonna be in charge of making sure the whistleblowers are all treated well.”

“...It’s almost --- it’s beyond ridiculous.”

“...I feel like the entire system is just this, times a million,” he went on.  It’s just putting your friends in places where they can protect your other friends.  That seems to be the entire play, and it works.”

He went on to say that as far as he knew, the Republicans had nothing like this.  And they don’t.

 

………

 

Did you know the IRS had considered pressing felony charges for Hunter’s withdrawal of almost $40,000 from daughter Maisy’s college savings plan, just as she was nearing graduation from high school, and failure to include this on his 2019 tax return?  That apparently didn’t fly with the DOJ.

Hunter apparently spent the money not on business-related expenses as claimed, but in large portion on “expenditure relating to illicit substances and adult entertainment,” according to the NEW YORK POST.  In other words, he paid his drug dealer and engaged prostitutes.  He also paid for a webcam service.  With his daughter’s college fund. This was disclosed to the House Ways and Means Committee by IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler.

According to his testimony, close to $13,000 from his daughter’s college savings that Hunter claimed as business deductions were actually personal distributions spent on drugs and hookers.

Fortunately for Hunter’s daughter, she still graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a fine arts degree.

Not pre-law?  Oh, well, judging from Hunter’s success, she might very well do better as an artist.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/irs-felony-charge-hunter-biden/2023/10/06

The very day after Hunter’s business partner Devon Archer received his first payment of $80,000 for being on the board of Burisma Holdings --- but before Hunter was voted onto the board --- Archer met with then-VP Joe Biden and Hunter at the White House.

Archer described the meeting last July when he testified before the House Oversight Committee, and emails from Hunter’s laptop (confirmed 100 percent his) and Obama White House visitor logs confirm that it took place in the West Wing on April 16, 2014.  Archer had gotten his Burisma money on April 15.

When pressed on what transpired during the White House meeting, Archer’s response is really pretty hilarious.  “I think we have video that was, like, on Twitter, but basically we were talking about his papier-mache White House project for second or third grade,” he testified.  “And then Hunter joined us for some portion, I think the formal White House portion of that.”

According to one of Hunter’s emails, Hunter and Archer had a call with Burisma and law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP two days after the White House meeting.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/05/devon-archer-joe-hunter-biden-white-house-first-payment-burisma   

A memo from IRS lead-agent-turned-whistleblower Gary Shapley alleges that officials from the FBI and DOJ were “openly mocking” congressional investigators into the Hunter Biden tax and gun-related felonies.

Shapley wrote, “The FBI is a participating agency that is forcing decisions upon IRS-CI [Criminal Investigation] even though the only viable charges are tax charges [the domain of the IRS].  The assigned AUSA [Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf does not allow dissenting opinion without verbal admonishment.”

Here’s some background on Wolf…

https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/28/lesley-wolf-us-attorney-covered-hunter-biden/

In May 2021, Shapley wrote another memo laying out potential campaign finance criminal violations and how they had been allegedly ignored by Wolf.  As you know, they’ve also accused her of holding up search warrants and tipping off Hunter’s defense team to a planned “surprise” interview, which subsequently did not take place.  Wolf is the official we really want to see deposed in light of what whistleblowers have testified.  And by the time Congress gets her there for a public hearing, they’ll have had plenty of time to get their questions ready…

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/05/fbi-doj-mock-congressional-inquiries-hunter-memo-irs

Meanwhile, Hunter’s defense team has adopted the classic “that-was-then-this-is-now” approach.  Having embraced the addiction defense for much of Hunter’s behavior, such as the tax evasion and prostitutes, they’re now trying to dispense with the gun charges by saying he had miraculously JUST GOTTEN SOBER in time to sign that federal form and buy a gun in late 2018.

The problem, as Jonathan Turley has pointed out, is that Hunter’s book discusses how his addiction continued into his father’s presidential campaign and required an intervention by his family.  Hunter said he remained an addict in 2019.

And in 2019, Hunter was also receiving huge money transfers from Chinese sources, including those two wire transfers totaling $260,000 that were sent to then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s house.  Just a few months later, in October, Hunter denied the receipt of even one cent from China.  If his attorneys wanted to say that falsehood was just the drugs talking, that will be difficult now, because if Hunter wasn’t on drugs then, it makes Hunter’s denial, in Turley’s words, “a dead-cold sober lie.”

So, was Hunter an addict or not when he bought that gun?  He can’t have it both ways, but that’s what his defense attorneys are aiming for.  (To be fair, defense attorneys often do this.)  “Sobriety is now Hunter’s final line of defense,” Turley says.  Hunter’s attorneys want the date of October 18, 2018, to be seen as Hunter’s “moment of sobriety” so that he can be seen as telling the truth about not being addicted to drugs when he filled out that form.  Yet his drug addiction has been enthusiastically used, especially in the media, to defend him against other behavior.  This is called “having your cake and eating it, too.”  Or, in Hunter’s case, “Having your coke…”

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/10/05/hunter-bidens-new-sobriety-defense-lifts-the-blackout-dates-on-addiction/#more-210295

This is when defense attorneys are lucky to be in one of those little “choke points” with a judge who lets them get away with anything.  (We don’t yet know that this will be the case.)  Hunter’s trial is likely to start sometimes in ‘24, or, as ABC NEWS put it, “while his father is campaigning for re-election.”  As if President Biden will be actively campaigning for anything.

One of Hunter’s attorneys, Richard Jones, has withdrawn from the case.  No reason given.

https://hannity.com/media-room/heading-for-the-exit-hunter-biden-lawyer-withdraws-from-federal-gun-case/

Best for last:  here’s attorney Abbe Lowell on why Hunter is facing charges: “President Trump and his MAGA allies” have forced “the Justice Department to ignore the law and deviate from its policies in cases like this one.”  You can’t make this up --- it’s Trump’s fault!

Hillary returns

October 9, 2023

I feel that I must apologize in advance for ruining your Columbus Day weekend by bringing up Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, she emerged from her voter-enforced retirement for a typically sycophantic CNN interview and said something so outrageous and (as always) lacking in self-awareness that she wormed her way back into the news, so I guess I have to tell you about it. I’ll try to make it as short as possible, and then we’ll move on to more pleasant subjects, like inflation and the Ukraine war.

Hillary started by claiming that the man who beat her for the Presidency and may be elected again next year, Donald Trump, is an “authoritarian populist” who has no credibility because he’s fighting criminal and civil charges (again with the lack of self-awareness: Trump is only facing those charges because her Party has weaponized the “justice” system to prosecute political opponents, something Trump could have done to her with real justification; but he took the high road and said that in America, we don’t do that. Of course, we do it now, thanks to her Party.)

She then went on to make the clueless comment that’s getting the most negative attention she’s received since calling half of America a “basket of deplorables.” She painted Trump’s supporters as a cult of bigots who "maybe they don't like migrants, maybe they don't like gay people, or Black people, or the woman who got the promotion at work they didn't get" (more projection: she’s the woman who didn’t get the promotion she thought she deserved.) She called them “MAGA extremists” and said, “at some point, you know, maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/hillary-clinton-floats-formal-deprogramming-trump-supporters-suggests-gop-base-bigots

Nothing says you oppose authoritarianism like claiming that half the population should be put into reeducation camps.

As for her other blatant acts of projection: if anyone’s followers are an unthinking cult who overlook nastiness, it would be hers. Trump’s campaign slogan was “Make America Great Again.” That was all about helping Americans. In their attempt to smear his supporters, leftists sneer the acronym “Maga,” but never dare say what it stands for. And do you remember Hillary’s campaign slogan? It was “I’m with Her.” Nothing about what she wanted to do to help the nation or her fellow Americans, but about others pledging eternal fealty to her – you know, like cultists do for cult leaders.

Hillary lost in 2016 for a number of reasons: her coldness and arrogance; her record of tragic failures and scandals (Benghazi), her nepotism, her habits of rule- and law-breaking and enriching herself through bribes disguised as charity donations, and more.  But what truly sealed the deal and convinced many voters to roll the dice on Trump was her inability to disguise how utterly contemptuous and out of touch she is with regular working Americans. Like many cult leaders, she thought she had a divine right to rule us all (recall that horrifying children’s book about her, “Some Girls Are Born To Lead,” which one Amazon reviewer facetiously praised as a “genuinely funny” satire of Soviet-style hagiographies.)

Hillary might think that she’s helping Biden defeat Trump, but all she’s doing is reminding Americans of why they voted for Trump and why that was the correct decision, and that all the endless anti-Trump media propaganda since shouldn't convince them otherwise.

Okay, I’m done with this unpleasant subject, except to link to this palate cleanser from the Babylon Bee…

https://babylonbee.com/news/elderly-woman-escapes-nursing-home-rants-about-deprogramming-the-populace

It didn’t take long.  Only 16 days after President Biden was sworn into office, his new ‘Justice’ Department called for a briefing from the IRS on their case against Joe’s son Hunter.

And that’s what they got, on February 5, 2021, according to email exchanges between IRS investigators-turned-whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler.  Five investigators from Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ office would be meeting with several assistant attorneys general, said Weiss’ deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf in an email to the IRS and FBI agents working the Hunter case.  (Of course you know that Wolf put major roadblocks in front of the investigators.)

Some of those attending this meeting were political appointees, and this aroused the suspicions of investigators working the case.  Lead investigator Shapley alerted the other IRS officials in the chain of command about concerns that people from Biden’s DOJ had asked to be at this meeting, especially one from the National Security Division (NSD), which had no jurisdiction.  What were these people doing there?

“We learned today that USAO [the U.S. Attorney’s Office] and DOJ Tax are briefing the new AAG on the tax case today,” Shapley’s email said.  “NSD asked for a briefing so they could understand the tax side of the case.  I don’t know what that matters to them since they are NSD...but I just wanted to give you an update that this meeting was.”

A huge question is why the National Security Division was involved at all in this case.  Recall that the NSD is the agency that created misleading warrant applications to be used in the now-discredited Crossfire Hurricane investigation of Donald Trump over a nonexistent tie to Vladimir Putin and also in the raid on Mar-A-Lago over his possession of supposedly classified documents. 

John Solomon featured former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Wednesday night’s JUST THE NEWS, NO NOISE.  Nunes said of the NSA, “This could be the first glimpse into what I have been saying for a very long time...that Team Obama have inserted [themselves] into the National Security Division of the FBI and the Department of Justice.  This is where the plumbers are.  This is where the operatives are.  This is where the people are that are doing the worst things at the Justice Department, throughout our government, this is where they live.”

He went on:  “This is what we found out during the Russia Hoax...it’s the area where they can wall off the rest of the Department of Justice and the FBI and say, ‘Oh, this is top secret.  Our nation is at risk.  Things could blow up.  People could die...if people learn about this; this is why we have to keep it so secret.  What they’ve done is, I think this place is full of a bunch of rats.  I mean, it’s what we found originally during the Russia Hoax.  I don’t think it’s changed.”

Here’s the link; Solomon gets into the subject briefly at 4:00, with Nunes coming on at 31:00.

https://justthenews.com/video/just-news-no-noise-john-solomon-and-amanda-head-october-4-2023

(Side note:  During this segment, Nunes also spoke of the ouster of Kevin McCarthy from the Speaker’s chair, calling it “a bad day.”  He said that no credible person with whom he’s spoken says it was a good day for the Republican Party; it “looks ridiculous.”  Recall that this happened because of a rule change --- requiring him to allow any member to bring a vote at any time to vacate the chair --- that McCarthy accepted in order to get enough votes.  “At the end of the day, this is a team sport,” Nunes said.  “You need 218 votes to do anything.”  He offered his realistic assessment of the situation as well as suggestions for dealing with DOJ corruption.  I digress.)

Anyway, according to the breaking report in JUST THE NEWS, also last night, the DOJ’s request for a briefing “escaped public and media notice for two years,” and is now chronologically the first example we have of the Biden DOJ getting involved in the Hunter case.  The emails are part of what Shapley and Ziegler turned over to the House Ways and Means Committee as part of their cooperation as whistleblowers.  This is one more piece of evidence that Attorney General Merrick Garland was talking through his hat when he said Biden’s ‘Justice’ Department had taken a hands-off approach to the case.  At this point, we can think of no reason why any thinking person would believe anything he says, ever again, even under oath.

The congressional testimony of Shapley and Ziegler has already revealed numerous ways the IRS investigation was interfered with by the DOJ.  They were blocked from obtaining search warrants for Joe Biden’s property and Hunter’s storage locker (and the mystery name “Political figure 1” was removed).  They were prevented from even asking about Joe Biden or his grandchildren.  They’d also wanted to do a surprise interview with Hunter Biden but were kept from doing that when the DOJ contacted Hunter’s defense team and alerted them.

Shapley testified that it was Lesley Wolf who told him and his team that “I don’t think you’re going to be able to do the interviews as planned.”  He said she told him these interviews would have to be approved by the DOJ Tax Division.     

This was apparently happening while Hunter’s attorney Chris Clarke had no trouble getting meetings with DOJ higher-ups.  Emails show him requesting the meetings with the head of the Criminal Division, the Tax Division, the Office of Legal Counsel, the Officer of the Solicitor General, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco (surprise!), and Attorney General Garland. 

In his public testimony before Congress this summer, Shapely said he was testifying because “the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office, Department of Justice Tax, and Department of Justice provided preferential treatment and unchecked conflicts of interest in an important and high-profile investigation of the President’s son, Hunter Biden.”

There’s also documentary evidence and corroborating FBI testimony that U.S. attorneys in DC and in California --- both appointed by Joe Biden --- would not let Weiss charge Hunter with tax violations in their districts.  These charges would have covered the time when Hunter was making $83,000 a month for his position on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, and when then-VP Biden was Obama’s “point man” in Ukraine.  The statutes of limitations have since run out.

Much more detail is at the link, including pdf’s of testimony and documents.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/new-biden-administration-doj-officials-requested-briefings-hunter

John Solomon, appearing Wednesday night on HANNITY, said the IRS agents’ allegations of preferential treatment have since been validated by “thousands of pages of evidence,” and elaborating on the strangeness of the DOJ’s National Security Division being involved in a meeting about Hunter’s tax case.  “I suspect Jim Jordan and others will really hone in on this new evidence.”

“...The Merrick Garland story continues to erode.  There [were] a lot of political fingerprints of the Washington Justice Department under Joe Biden in the Hunter Biden case.”

 

……………

RELATED:  Now, here’s a twist.  Biden has named his new head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel,  the primary purpose of which is to protect whistleblowers.  Hampton Dellinger is an old legal colleague of Hunter’s, from their days at Boies Schiller Flexner.   You can’t make this stuff up.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/04/biden-names-hunter-bidens-old-colleague-to-helm-office-of-the-special-counsel/

Also, here’s an update on how, leading into the ‘24 election, the government is readying for perhaps another outbreak of “domestic violent extremism” on the part of Trump supporters.  They reportedly want to “tread very carefully” while they assess the threat posed by us so as not to inflame our passions even more.  One senior intelligence official told NEWSWEEK that “Trump’s army constitutes the greatest threat of violence...politically...that’s the reality and the problem set.”  Good grief.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/newsweek-fbidonald-trump-support/2023/10/04

Israel's 9/11

October 9, 2023

Just as we were going to press on Saturday, word came of the horrific terrorist attack/invasion of southern Israel by Hamas. Since then, the news has turned more tragic with each passing hour. Naturally, in a newsletter like this, we can’t possibly provide you with up-to-the-minute news on such a fast-breaking story. But if you will bookmark this link, it will take you to Fox News’ page of the latest stories, continually updated:

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

All we can do, aside from urging you to pray for Israel and the victims of this unconscionable terrorist assault (those who were killed, injured or taken hostage), is give you a brief recap of the major news thus far, point you to some of the most important commentary, and add some of my own.

To bring you up to speed: On Saturday, Hamas staged the biggest attack on Israel in years from the Gaza Strip, launching a barrage of thousands of rockets in an attempt to overwhelm Israels’ Iron Dome missile defense. The militants also infiltrated Israel and attacked unarmed men, women and children, even slaughtering at least 260 people who were gathered for a music festival. Depending on the source, the current death toll is reportedly between 800 and 1100, including nine Americans, with more than 2,000 wounded, and an unknown number taken hostage, which might include Americans, but that’s not yet verified at this writing. Many are calling this Israel’s 9/11, and I don’t think that’s an overstatement. Here is just one example of Hamas’ savagery, and I don’t even want to describe it here.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/10/08/woman-being-paraded-by-hamas-terrorists-identified-as-german-tourist-n2629511

Israel has declared itself to be in a state of war for the first time in 50 years, and Prime Minister Netayahu has deployed tens of thousands of troops to the Gaza Strip. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said he has ordered a “complete siege” of Gaza, cutting off water, electricity and food, adding, "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly." Netanyahu predicted that this war will be long and difficult, but military officials vowed to “kill every terrorist in Israel.”

Of course, the big question looming over this atrocity was how such a massive attack could have been planned and executed without Israeli intelligence getting a whiff of it? That question might have been answered by Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, who revealed that the attack was planned with help from Iranian security officials and greenlit by Iran at a meeting last week in Beirut. Judging from the military equipment the terrorists are using, including sophisticated drones, it’s likely Iran also helped supply the weaponry. Iran’s “Supreme Leader” even praised the barbaric attack as it was happening.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/10/08/confirmed-iran-planned-and-green-lit-murderous-hamas-attacks-on-israel-n2164840

This shouldn’t have been a surprise. Some of us have been warning of the dangers of Iran for years, even as the Obama and now Biden Administrations have done everything possible to lift sanctions, release frozen assets and claim that Iran’s leaders can somehow be bribed or schmoozed into giving up their rabid hatred of America, Israel, Jews and any non-radical Muslims who dare question them. Here’s your answer for how well that idiotic notion works out in reality. Now, imagine them with nuclear weapons.

Donald Trump saw this coming last month, when Biden unfroze $6 billion in Iranian cash to get some US hostages released (reportedly really $16 billion; the other $10 billion didn’t get as much press.)

https://www.westernjournal.com/flashback-trump-predicted-terrorist-attacks-money-provided-us/

Trump predicted it would be used to fund terrorism, but the Biden White House insisted that, oh no, it could only be used for “humanitarian” purposes. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is desperately trying to spin that, still insisting that none of that money was used for this attack, and it wasn’t US taxpayer money but “Iranian resources that Iran has accumulated from the sales of oil.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/08/blinken-no-u-s-taxpayer-dollars-were-involved-in-iran-support-of-hamas-terror-attack/

What an impressive string of irrelevant points. Who cares if the money that funded this atrocity came out of that particular Iranian bank account or another one? It came from IRAN, which is why we shouldn’t be freeing up funds, lifting sanctions and letting them build nuclear reactors. And thanks for inadvertently admitting the truth that Iran has accumulated a lot of resources from selling oil. That’s billions of dollars they wouldn’t have accumulated if Joe Biden hadn’t declared war on the US fossil fuel industry and driven up the price of oil while making other nations more dependent on sources like Iran.

And just to be abundantly clear, here’s a former State Department advisor on Iran explaining precisely why the Biden crew’s frantic spin about that $6 billion is garbage, and it actually “freed up huge reserves” that Iran could use to continue funding terrorism through groups like Hamas.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2023/10/08/former-state-department-advisor-blasts-biden-on-6-billion-for-iran-n2164823

There is also a claim by a high-ranking Israeli Defense Forces commander that some of the equipment left behind in Afghanistan during Biden’s botched pullout was used to attack Israel.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/10/08/weapons-left-in-afghanistan-thanks-to-bidens-botched-withdrawal-are-being-used-to-attack-israel-n2629553

If you think this Administration has the slightest idea of what it’s talking about when it comes to Iran, here’s a reminder that just eight days before the attack, Biden’s “National Security Adviser” Jake Sullivan was boasting of all their accomplishments in the Middle East and declared, “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-national-security-advisor-get-wrong-one-week-massacre-israel/

Another very disturbing aspect of this attack has been watching the attempts by people in the US and Europe to put the blame for it on Israel, Republicans, Donald Trump or anywhere other than where it belongs: on the vicious, barbaric, hate-filled Hamas terrorists who committed it.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/migrants-throughout-europe-celebrate-hamas-attacks-against-israel

I am fed up to my eyeballs with the moronic moral equivalencies and immediate calls for a cease-fire dished out by far-left, anti-Semitic “Squad” members in Congress, MSNBC commentators and other useful idiots of radical Islamic terrorists.

https://www.westernjournal.com/squad-dems-weigh-terrorists-murder-hundreds-israel/

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/07/msnbc-israel-caused-attacks-on-it-and-made-people-vote-for-hamas/

We even had an official government agency, the US Office of Palestinian Affairs, tweet out, “We urge all sides to refrain from violence and retaliatory attacks. Terror and violence solve nothing.” That was quickly deleted with the State Department saying it was not authorized and doesn’t reflect US policy, which is to unequivocally support Israel’s right to defend itself.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2023/10/07/us-office-of-palestinian-affairs-deletes-tweet-telling-israel-to-refrain-from-retaliating-n2629509

Good. I don’t want to hear any balloon juice from liberal bureaucrats urging Israel to show restraint and end the violence, which can be translated as “let their people be slaughtered and do nothing to stop it.” We had something like that in the 1930s and ‘40s, and Jews and all other decent people all over the world vowed, “Never again.” “Never” means “NEVER.”

The “Democratic Socialists of America” held a rally in Times Square on Sunday to cheer the Hamas attack on Israel and the slaughter of innocent civilians. So the next time some “Democratic Socialist” tries to convince you that they’re not REALLY your dad’s America-hating socialists, remember this and realize that you can call a scorpion a butterfly, but it’s still a scorpion.

https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2023/10/09/photos-democratic-socialists-of-america-cheer-palestinian-terror-in-new-york/

Here’s something that I sincerely hope will make people rethink sending their kids to an Ivy League school: 57 student groups at Harvard signed a statement holding Israel “entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” Yes, they think it’s Israel’s fault that Hamas terrorists murdered hundreds of innocent people and injured thousands more. I wonder if they’d blame Israel or Trump if some of the millions of unvetted illegal entrants allowed into the US under Biden turned out to be terrorists and attacked a music festival they were attending?

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2023/10/08/harvard-students-stand-with-palestinian-terrorists-after-attack-on-israel/

On that subject, look at how many people inside both the US and European nations are celebrating this barbarism and ask yourself how they got there and if they might do it, too.

https://redstate.com/tladuke/2023/10/08/attack-on-israel-is-a-stark-reminder-to-united-states-what-happens-when-evil-crosses-an-open-border-n2164821

And here’s more blinkered stupidity from Human Rights Watch, who previously slammed Israel for having too much security on the barrier between Gaza and Israel.

https://instapundit.com/610037/

But the biggest morons on the planet had to be the pro-Palestinian protesters from a group called “Queers for Palestine.” One commentator asked if they were aware that the only place in the Middle East where they could be openly gay and not be executed is Israel?

Finally, I will urge you again to pray for Israel and for the victims of this horrific attack, and end with this thought-provoking commentary from Victor Davis Hanson:

https://twitter.com/VDHanson/status/1711174923220361268

Hanson also posted this on Twitter (X)…

https://twitter.com/VDHanson/status/1710800023028641940

“Here we are 78 years after the end of the Holocaust and once again, thuggish killers dressed in black are pulling Jewish elderly, women, and children out of their homes and executing them, and then throwing their bodies into the street. But in 1945, we were fighting the SS murderers, now we are sending millions in subsidies to their modern Hamas killer squad counterparts. We the American people should demand not one more American cent to these Gestapo and SS killers.”

 


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New claim

The media is making much of a new claim that former President Trump verbally shared classified information about US nuclear submarines with an Australian billionaire. But there seems to be less to it than meets the eye, as this story at Redstate.com explains.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/10/06/new-leak-about-trump-spilling-submarine-secrets-has-the-special-counsels-fingerprints-all-over-it-n2164744

Another aspect of it that’s not getting much attention is that these alleged conversations took place when Trump was President and had absolute authority to declassify anything he wanted. This should have nothing to do with the documents case Jack Smith is pressing. So why is it suddenly appearing now, if not for the purpose of tainting the jury pool against Trump, as if that’s even necessary in a DC court?

To me, the bigger issue is: why was this information leaked, and who on the prosecutor’s staff is going to be indicted for it? After all, I thought illegal sharing of confidential information was the most serious offense possible, and should result in multiple felony charges. I’m eagerly waiting to see those charges filed against Smith and his team for leaking evidence to the media.


Prosecutors told to look for more evidence helpful to Powell’s case

The judge in Fulton County, Georgia, DA Fanni Willis’ ridiculous RICO case issued a ruling that could be favorable for attorney Sydney Powell. She is accused of several felonies such as conspiracy to commit election fraud and conspiracy to commit computer trespass for allegedly accessing voting machines in Coffee County to see if they were tampered with. Powell denies involvement and claims that county election officials authorized the examination of the machines. You know, like people do who have nothing to hide (they’ve been indicted, too, by the way.)

Powell’s attorneys moved for the case against her to be dismissed after they dug through the 5 terabytes (!) of data dumped on them by Willis and found election board emails that discuss a “written invitation” to inspect the machines. That would be known as “exculpatory evidence,” or evidence that the defendant isn’t guilty, which prosecutors are required to share with the defense. No wonder Willis wanted to dump a mountain of data on the defense and rush to trial before they could read it all.

The judge ruled that he doesn’t have the power to dismiss the charges on those grounds. But as the Epoch Times reports (and few other outlets will), he did order the prosecutors to look for more evidence helpful to Powell’s case and warned that if it later turns out they were holding back exculpatory evidence, it could undermine their case. I’d say that if there’s evidence proving the defendant’s innocence and they hid it, it should not only obliterate their case, it should result in firings and prosecutions of the prosecutors.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/judge-to-order-prosecutors-to-look-for-more-evidence-helpful-to-sidney-powell-in-trump-georgia-case-5505008


The Wars of Yom Kippur

By Colonel Ken Allard

Our minister began the service this morning this morning by leading the congregation in an emotional prayer for “the peace of Jerusalem,” exactly as Psalm 122 mandates. “May all who love this city prosper. O Jerusalem may there be peace within your walls.” Why talk about peace after the savage surprise attack by Hamas? With exquisite cruelty, the Hamas outrage began not only on Shabbat, the Israeli Sabbath, but also on the 50th anniversary of Yom Kippur.

Inevitably, I remembered another Yom Kippur, this one in 1973 when TV was black, white, grainy and often hours or days behind events. Back then, I was a young intelligence officer, deployed close to the heavily militarized border between east and west Germany. Guard towers, minefields, and razor-wire obstacles (supposedly vetted by East German Olympians) marked the death zones. But our greatest concerns were carefully concealed in wood-lines just east of the border region: multiple armored divisions and mobile artillery (lots of it) belonging to the Group of Soviet Forces, Germany. Although their normal wartime mission was to split NATO forces and make a run for the English Channel, in October 1973, they were watching closely to see how American forces would reinforce their Israeli allies.

On that other Yom Kippur, Israel had been badly surprised when they were attacked across the Suez Canal by Egyptian forces; meanwhile, heavily reinforced Syrian armies were attacking across the Golan Heights to threaten the Jewish state from south to north. Because both Arab armies had been armed and supplied by the Soviets, Israel experienced intense electronic warfare as well as the first wide-spread use of precision-guided munitions. These Soviet-based technological advances suddenly seemed capable of offsetting the traditional Israeli advantages in sophisticated battlefield equipment and innovative leadership. Worse yet, the new technologies created logistical nightmares as both sides learned new principles of war: “What can be seen can be hit; and what can be hit can be killed” (often on the first shot). With their client-states as aggressors, the Soviets watched gleefully: How would the US Army react to our first ‘real war’ since Vietnam?

After 50 years of hindsight, I am still astounded by how effective that reaction turned out to be. US logistics were turned upside down as critical equipment meant to deter the Russians was quickly stripped, packed and shipped to Israel. Armor and artillery went by sea from Bremerhaven while ammunition and spare parts flew on giant transports taking off from every US outpost. Although President Nixon had only begun to deal with the Watergate issues that would eventually drive him from office, his leadership under fire insured that Israel would never question the US security commitment. As Israeli forces were smoothly re-equipped, the tide of battle turned as well; daring Israeli counter-attacks in the Sinai and the Golan suddenly threw back Egyptian and Syrian armies. When those counter-attacks threatened Cairo and Damascus, the Russians mobilized their airborne forces to intervene directly; but that threat was countered when the US promptly took its forces to DEFCON 3. Before the crisis finally de-escalated, US and Soviet forces in several theaters stood muzzle-to-muzzle, another Cuban Missile Crisis though never acknowledged as such.  

What does this brief historical review suggest about the current Yom Kippur War? 

  • The same Chinese symbol stands for both “crisis and “opportunity” – highlighting the synergy of time and boldness in retaliating effectively. No matter how grievous earlier provocations, Israel has long and bitter experience having its freedom of action curtailed by diplomatic second-guessing. So strike now and strike hard!

  • For now, don’t waste precious time now worrying about intelligence failures. Leave all that to future punditry on MSNBC/CNN while taking advantage of the opportunities that any crisis brings. But do not repeat the American experience by failing to purge the intelligence bureaucracy.

  • The most important priority for Israel is not a cease-fire but striking hard body-blows, first at Hamas but even more importantly at Iran, the war’s architect and engineer. Above all, destroy the uninterrupted terrorist logistics of both Hamas (south) and Hezbollah (north) even if it means seizing and holding territory.

  • Finally, both the Biden White House and the alleged Republican leadership in Congress need to pull their socks up, using support for Israel to re-build bipartisanship. The current confusion can be glimpsed as American naval forces move closer to Israel. While that deployment may delight sailors anticipating future port-calls, if the Pentagon hopes to influence regional events, then promptly re-deploy those ships to locations that more directly threaten Iran.  Why else are they there?

COL (Ret.) Ken Allard is former draftee who became a West Point professor, Dean of the National War College and NBC News military analyst.


Where is U.S. counterterrorism analyst Jade Parker?

There appears to be a mystery concerning the whereabouts of an exceedingly sharp, credentialed U.S. counterterrorism analyst who had tweeted shortly before disappearing that she thought she might have identified the RNC/DNC pipe bomber and his “network” from January 6, 2021.  According to a report in REVOLVER, she has vanished.  This is all we know so far.  Maybe she’ll see this new story and pop up out of nowhere, saying, “Hey, guys, I’m fine!  I was just working undercover!”  Maybe not.

The story at the link offers video of her and some details that are known about what she was working on, involving some very dark, fringy groups.  She had said she didn’t see January 6 as an insurrection.  Rather, she said, it was “a provocation to get people to believe --- and the people on the ground, too --- to believe they’re part of a revolution.  But also, more important than that, to get everyone else to believe there’s an impending civil war.”

FBI whistleblower Kyle Seraphin said that “there’s no reason why we should not have run this person into the ground and found out who it was.  And that person should have been charged.  The only reasonable thing I can think of is:  Somebody doesn’t want that person to be found, and the most likely reason is that person is or was a federal source for some agency at some point.”

Parker’s social media accounts have gone dark, her colleagues didn’t respond to emails, and she herself could not be reached.  Where is she, and what would she tell us about the pipe bomber, three years after the bombs were found?

https://headlineusa.com/exclusive-analyst-vanishes-after-claiming-to-identify-pipe-bomber/


Well-deserved ridicule

It was bad enough that rabid anti-Trump New York Attorney General Letitia James is prosecuting Trump for allegedly overvaluing properties that she’s wildly undervalued. But when she decided to try to turn her ludicrous undervaluations into an Internet meme, she was just asking for the well-deserved ridicule she got.

https://twitchy.com/dougp/2023/10/05/ny-ag-letitia-james-real-estate-appraisal-cred-called-into-question-for-this-mar-a-lago-meme-n2388175

In a related story, after Trump called James a “corrupt attorney general” who is prosecuting him as “a political stunt, a fundraising stunt,” James resorted to playing the victim card. She claimed she’s prosecuting him because “I will not sit idly by and allow anyone to subvert the law.” She declared his criticism of her to be “offensive” and “baseless” and “comments that unfortunately fomented violence, comments that I would describe as race-baiting, comments unfortunately that appeal to the bottom of our humanity,” and she declared, “I will not be bullied.”

https://www.breitbart.com/news/the-donald-trump-show-is-over-new-york-attorney-general/

So to recap: she’s ignoring a historic violent crime wave to try to drive a political opponent into bankruptcy, which is her way of holding everyone equally accountable under the law. For her to run for election on a promise to “get Trump,” then stretch the law like saltwater taffy to do it, is NOT bullying, but him criticizing her for doing that is. Also, it’s racist to criticize her for abusing her power. I mean, just look at how nice Trump is when he talks about white male special counsel Jack Smith.

https://www.breitbart.com/news/the-donald-trump-show-is-over-new-york-attorney-general/

Those claims are like Joe Biden’s German shepherd: not only will that dog not hunt, I hope it eventually bites her in the rear.


Terrible Story

As you all know, I love dogs. So this story makes my blood boil so much that I will have to restrain myself while relaying it.

After the Bidens' German shepherd Commander was removed from the White House for repeatedly biting staffers and Secret Service agents (it was just revealed that there were more incidents and some more severe than previously reported), Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all files related to the First Family’s dogs.

Since this is the second time this has happened (the Bidens’ previous dog Major was also removed for attacking people), Judicial Watch suspects a pattern that might have more to do with the owners than the dogs. They also claim that an unnamed source told them that Joe Biden mistreats his dogs and he has punched and kicked them.

https://www.judicialwatch.org/biden-german-shepherd-2/

Okay, that was where I had to stop writing and count slowly to 10. To me, that is such an unconscionable, beyond-the-pale thing to do that I’m going to try not to believe it until there’s more evidence. Although it is hard to believe that Joe Biden just happened to get two vicious dogs in a row by random chance. I will try to wait until this is confirmed or debunked before saying more, other than I’m glad Commander is out of the White House and that he will hopefully be placed in a loving home and the biting will cease.

But I will say this: Biden’s record is horrible on everything from energy to border security to freedom to taxes to foreign policy to the economy. Still, that might not prevent him from being reelected. But if it’s proven that he’s one of those stereotypical liberals who “weeps for the masses and kicks the dog,” then he’s toast. Americans will put up with a lot from politicians, but mistreating dogs is the ultimate deal-killer.


Code Pink demonstrators arrested

About a dozen leftwing protesters from the feminist group Code Pink were arrested for trespassing in Sen. Bernie Sanders’ office and holding up signs quoting his own previous statements expressing reservations about funding Ukraine’s defense against Russia.

https://www.westernjournal.com/bernie-sanders-office-feminists-arrested-reading-back-words-staffers/

I assume that their intrusion into this sacred citadel of “our democracy” in an attempt to distract Sanders from conducting government business will be branded “insurrection,” and the Biden DOJ will throw them into solitary until it decides what to charge them with that will put them in prison for 20 years. No?...

FYI: Code Pink pointed out that one of the protesters who was arrested was an 89-year-old woman. Normally, people might find that outrageous, but tell it to the pro-life grandmothers who are facing 11 years in federal prison for praying outside of an abortion clinic.


A Hallmark of the Left

I’ve written about this before, but one of the hallmarks of the left is that whenever one of their claims is proven false, it never goes away. They just stop making it for a while until people forget it was debunked, or a new crop of young people who don’t know any better come along, then they haul it out of mothballs and use it again. I guess they figure it’s been long enough, so suddenly, they’re once again trumpeting one of their favorite falsehoods, only this time with a fresh racial twist: instead of misleadingly claiming that women make only 92 cents on the dollar of what men make, they’re now claiming that Latina women make only 52 cents on the dollar of what white males make.

https://twitchy.com/chad-felix-greene/2023/10/05/sure-go-with-that-the-democrats-official-x-tries-pandering-again-and-fails-big-time-n2388166

This has been long debunked by studies showing that if you account for people being in the same jobs with the same education, seniority and experience levels, the so-called pay gaps virtually disappear. They would have to, because pay discrimination has been illegal for years. And logically, if employers could hire equally qualified Latina women for 52 cents on the dollar of what they paid white males, they’d hire nothing but Latina women.

It makes no sense on any level, but they assume that people who vote Democrat do a lot of “feeling” and very little thinking. At least the good news is that they’re finally saying “Latina” again so maybe they’ve given up on trying to make “Latinx” a thing. Whoever came up with that should be paid 52 cents on the dollar.


Elvis Chan should be held in contempt of Congress; when might that happen?

In an update on Elvis Chan’s no-show before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Republicans ready to charge him with contempt will have to wait until a new speaker is installed.

The subpoenaed senior agent from the San Francisco FBI office didn’t show up for the interview that had been scheduled for 10 AM.  He hadn’t been in touch, and no one knew where to find him.  As far as we know, they still don’t.

And, yes, it’s time to move on contempt charges at this point, after Chan missed one voluntary interview and two depositions for which subpoenas had been issued.  But this would take a floor vote, and since Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker and the seat is officially vacated, no business at all can be brought to the floor right now.  A vote for new Speaker might be held as early as next Wednesday; let’s hope members can come to a decision right away.

Members of the Judiciary Committee could go ahead and vote to hold him in contempt if they so choose.  If that is done, the issue will be brought to a full floor vote after they have a Speaker.

But then, there’s a likely hitch:  After the full floor vote, the case is referred to...you guessed it...the ‘Justice’ Department.  Our question:  what are Congress’ options if the DOJ ignores their referral?

According to a report in the WASHINGTON EXAMINER, the committee does have one:  suing Chan for failure to appear.  Chan has some questions to answer, notably concerning his earlier testimony, from Missouri v. Biden, about his involvement in speaking with social media companies before the 2020 election about the Hunter Biden laptop being “Russian disinformation.”  It conflicts with what was later learned about this.

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

At any rate, our understanding is that the committees are still able to continue as usual, but the full Congress is in a holding pattern --- on this and everything else --- until a new Speaker is chosen.


PLEASE, Kamala, let us in on the joke

Maybe Vice President Kamala Harris’s insane cackling is like a “tell” in poker; she can’t stop laughing when she knows what she’s saying is such an outrageous lie that nobody is buying it.  Or she truly is going insane; after all, who WOULDN’T be a candidate for a rubber room after three years of trying to speak for the current political insanity.  (Karine Jean-Pierre, you have been warned.)

Or --- the most popular explanation --- she’s using alcohol to maintain a pleasant level of inebriation during these absurd times, or perhaps has been experimenting with peyote or hallucinogenic mushrooms or some new kind of happy pills still awaiting approval by the FDA.  Actually, it’s not too far a stretch to suspect everybody at the White House is on one drug or another, not just whoever that baggie of cocaine was for.

Of the various theories, the “drunk” hypothesis got a little boost yesterday from her latest weird descent into madness, during which she slurred her words and convulsed with more of her trademark inappropriate laughter.  Here she is in St. Louis, Missouri, speaking at a state Democratic Party event.

https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1710418806542106969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp

“Is it any wonder that Democrats wake up in cold sweats just thinking about her having to be the 2024 nominee?” asked Bonchie at REDSTATE.   “She’s so terrible that they would rather prop up a man who is clearly senile rather than give her a shot.”  (Well, for now they are; Kamala won’t be the nominee, but neither will Biden.)

In her defense, you or I might dissolve into hysterical laughter, too, if we had to try to sell the idea that “Bidenomics” is “popular.”  But then, we’d never try to sell such a monumentally absurd lie.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/10/06/people-wonder-if-kamala-harris-was-high-after-hysterical-laughing-fit-n2164771


RIP Dick Butkus

I’m sad to have to report that legendary Chicago Bears linebacker and NFL Hall of Famer Dick Butkus has died at 80. He passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home in Malibu.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/dick-butkus-hall-of-famer-legendary-bears-linebacker-dead-at-80

Butkus’ imposing size and fierce playing style earned him the nickname “The Enforcer.” Over nine seasons with the Bears from 1965 to 1973, he earned eight Pro Bowls and five first-team All-Pro selections, and he made both the 1960s and 1970s Hall of Fame teams. After a knee injury ended his playing career, he went on to become a sportscaster, actor (his most popular movie was “The Longest Yard” with Burt Reynolds) and a champion for former players. His foundation created the Dick Butkus Award for community service and the “I Play Clean” campaign against steroids in sports.

His family issued a statement saying that they and his wife Helen appreciate your prayers and support. They certainly have ours.


Democrats’ strategy of ‘little choke points’--- we see it over and over

“Have you observed that the Democrats have one key strategy...a system...that’s frickin’ awesome?”  This question was posed by DILBERT cartoonist and bestselling author Scott Adams on the Saturday edition of his podcast, “Coffee With Scott Adams.”

“...They make sure that [any one] of their entities or groups anywhere, whether it’s locally or international, has somebody that’s one of their loyalists in charge.  So they just make sure there’s, you know, one of their loyalists that’s trying hard for one of those jobs, and there are a lot of people in the Democrat Party toward the top who have Ivy League educations and great resumes, so it’s a whole bunch of people who can get top jobs in a lot of different places.  So they make sure THEIR people are in top jobs in the most critical places.  Such as local prosecutors, DAs.

“They’ve figured out these little ‘choke points’ where if they have Democrats in those offices, they can rule the world.”

Of course, Adams was simply reiterating something we all knew about the strategy of the Democrats --- which we would add also reveals which people should get fired first when that party is thankfully out of power.  But he was using this point as a lead-in to talk about a specific story:  President Biden’s nomination of Hampton Dellinger, one of Hunter’s old work colleagues at the law firm of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP to lead the Office of the Special Counsel (OSC), which is nominally in charge of protecting whistleblowers, not to mention investigating the Executive Branch HAHAHAHAHA.  The firm even represented Burisma Holdings, the corrupt Ukrainian energy company that paid Hunter a reported $83,000 a month to sit on their executive board.

We brought you the story of that nomination last week.  As the DAILY CALLER reports, “Dellinger and Hunter Biden overlapped at [Boies] when the younger Biden recruited the firm to represent Ukrainian energy company Burisma in spring 2014, according to emails on the younger Biden’s abandoned laptop archive.”  This is a very good summary, highly recommended if you need to get up to speed.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/04/joe-biden-nominates-hunter-bidens-former-colleague-special-counsel-office/

Anyway, Scott just laughed ruefully and said, “Is there anything else to say about that?...Somebody who worked with Hunter Biden is gonna be in charge of making sure the whistleblowers are all treated well.”

“...It’s almost --- it’s beyond ridiculous.”

“...I feel like the entire system is just this, times a million,” he went on.  It’s just putting your friends in places where they can protect your other friends.  That seems to be the entire play, and it works.”

He went on to say that as far as he knew, the Republicans had nothing like this.  And they don’t.

………

Did you know the IRS had considered pressing felony charges for Hunter’s withdrawal of almost $40,000 from daughter Maisy’s college savings plan, just as she was nearing graduation from high school, and failure to include this on his 2019 tax return?  That apparently didn’t fly with the DOJ.

Hunter apparently spent the money not on business-related expenses as claimed, but in large portion on “expenditure relating to illicit substances and adult entertainment,” according to the NEW YORK POST.  In other words, he paid his drug dealer and engaged prostitutes.  He also paid for a webcam service.  With his daughter’s college fund. This was disclosed to the House Ways and Means Committee by IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler.

According to his testimony, close to $13,000 from his daughter’s college savings that Hunter claimed as business deductions were actually personal distributions spent on drugs and hookers.

Fortunately for Hunter’s daughter, she still graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a fine arts degree.

Not pre-law?  Oh, well, judging from Hunter’s success, she might very well do better as an artist.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/irs-felony-charge-hunter-biden/2023/10/06

The very day after Hunter’s business partner Devon Archer received his first payment of $80,000 for being on the board of Burisma Holdings --- but before Hunter was voted onto the board --- Archer met with then-VP Joe Biden and Hunter at the White House.

Archer described the meeting last July when he testified before the House Oversight Committee, and emails from Hunter’s laptop (confirmed 100 percent his) and Obama White House visitor logs confirm that it took place in the West Wing on April 16, 2014.  Archer had gotten his Burisma money on April 15.

When pressed on what transpired during the White House meeting, Archer’s response is really pretty hilarious.  “I think we have video that was, like, on Twitter, but basically we were talking about his papier-mache White House project for second or third grade,” he testified.  “And then Hunter joined us for some portion, I think the formal White House portion of that.”

According to one of Hunter’s emails, Hunter and Archer had a call with Burisma and law firm Boies Schiller Flexner LLP two days after the White House meeting.

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/05/devon-archer-joe-hunter-biden-white-house-first-payment-burisma   

A memo from IRS lead-agent-turned-whistleblower Gary Shapley alleges that officials from the FBI and DOJ were “openly mocking” congressional investigators into the Hunter Biden tax and gun-related felonies.

Shapley wrote, “The FBI is a participating agency that is forcing decisions upon IRS-CI [Criminal Investigation] even though the only viable charges are tax charges [the domain of the IRS].  The assigned AUSA [Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf does not allow dissenting opinion without verbal admonishment.”

Here’s some background on Wolf…

https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/28/lesley-wolf-us-attorney-covered-hunter-biden/

In May 2021, Shapley wrote another memo laying out potential campaign finance criminal violations and how they had been allegedly ignored by Wolf.  As you know, they’ve also accused her of holding up search warrants and tipping off Hunter’s defense team to a planned “surprise” interview, which subsequently did not take place.  Wolf is the official we really want to see deposed in light of what whistleblowers have testified.  And by the time Congress gets her there for a public hearing, they’ll have had plenty of time to get their questions ready…

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/05/fbi-doj-mock-congressional-inquiries-hunter-memo-irs

Meanwhile, Hunter’s defense team has adopted the classic “that-was-then-this-is-now” approach.  Having embraced the addiction defense for much of Hunter’s behavior, such as the tax evasion and prostitutes, they’re now trying to dispense with the gun charges by saying he had miraculously JUST GOTTEN SOBER in time to sign that federal form and buy a gun in late 2018.

The problem, as Jonathan Turley has pointed out, is that Hunter’s book discusses how his addiction continued into his father’s presidential campaign and required an intervention by his family.  Hunter said he remained an addict in 2019.

And in 2019, Hunter was also receiving huge money transfers from Chinese sources, including those two wire transfers totaling $260,000 that were sent to then-presidential candidate Joe Biden’s house.  Just a few months later, in October, Hunter denied the receipt of even one cent from China.  If his attorneys wanted to say that falsehood was just the drugs talking, that will be difficult now, because if Hunter wasn’t on drugs then, it makes Hunter’s denial, in Turley’s words, “a dead-cold sober lie.”

So, was Hunter an addict or not when he bought that gun?  He can’t have it both ways, but that’s what his defense attorneys are aiming for.  (To be fair, defense attorneys often do this.)  “Sobriety is now Hunter’s final line of defense,” Turley says.  Hunter’s attorneys want the date of October 18, 2018, to be seen as Hunter’s “moment of sobriety” so that he can be seen as telling the truth about not being addicted to drugs when he filled out that form.  Yet his drug addiction has been enthusiastically used, especially in the media, to defend him against other behavior.  This is called “having your cake and eating it, too.”  Or, in Hunter’s case, “Having your coke…”

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/10/05/hunter-bidens-new-sobriety-defense-lifts-the-blackout-dates-on-addiction/#more-210295

This is when defense attorneys are lucky to be in one of those little “choke points” with a judge who lets them get away with anything.  (We don’t yet know that this will be the case.)  Hunter’s trial is likely to start sometimes in ‘24, or, as ABC NEWS put it, “while his father is campaigning for re-election.”  As if President Biden will be actively campaigning for anything.

One of Hunter’s attorneys, Richard Jones, has withdrawn from the case.  No reason given.

https://hannity.com/media-room/heading-for-the-exit-hunter-biden-lawyer-withdraws-from-federal-gun-case/

Best for last:  here’s attorney Abbe Lowell on why Hunter is facing charges: “President Trump and his MAGA allies” have forced “the Justice Department to ignore the law and deviate from its policies in cases like this one.”  You can’t make this up --- it’s Trump’s fault!


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Message to Readers: I wish things were different

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Unfortunately, if I summarize the stories for you, it will possibly result in my newsletter being demonetized or blocked or having our ads removed by certain Internet “gatekeepers” who have decided that their views are the only objective truths allowed to be aired in public. This is why, if you’d like to help pay my staffers so that we can keep bringing you the real stories every American needs to know, you should subscribe to the Substack version. Just click here:

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The race for Speaker

The race for House Speaker seems to have come down to only two candidates: Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise. Fox News had planned a debate for Monday, but that was canceled. In the meantime, Scalise took to Twitter and Fox News to make his case for getting the gavel.

https://redstate.com/beccalower/2023/10/06/scalise-makes-his-case-shares-the-big-reason-speaker-battle-needs-to-be-resolved-soon-n2164772

Speaking of the Speaker, there are a lot of contradictory opinions on the eight Republicans who ousted McCarthy with the unanimous votes of all the Democrats. This is a good analysis that tells you who they are and how this stand is likely to affect their political fortunes.

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2023/10/07/why-the-gang-of-8-who-helped-matt-gaetz-tank-mccarthy-are-toast-n2164767


A court victory for Donald Trump

Donald Trump finally scored a court victory in New York when an appellate judge put a halt on the civil court judge’s overreaching order to cancel his business certificates and dissolve his companies in New York. More details and Trump’s reaction here:

https://redstate.com/beccalower/2023/10/06/trump-organization-hails-appeals-court-ruling-halting-ny-judges-order-dissolving-his-companies-n2164770


Hillary returns

I feel that I must apologize in advance for ruining your Columbus Day weekend by bringing up Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, she emerged from her voter-enforced retirement for a typically sycophantic CNN interview and said something so outrageous and (as always) lacking in self-awareness that she wormed her way back into the news, so I guess I have to tell you about it. I’ll try to make it as short as possible, and then we’ll move on to more pleasant subjects, like inflation and the Ukraine war.

Hillary started by claiming that the man who beat her for the Presidency and may be elected again next year, Donald Trump, is an “authoritarian populist” who has no credibility because he’s fighting criminal and civil charges (again with the lack of self-awareness: Trump is only facing those charges because her Party has weaponized the “justice” system to prosecute political opponents, something Trump could have done to her with real justification; but he took the high road and said that in America, we don’t do that. Of course, we do it now, thanks to her Party.)

She then went on to make the clueless comment that’s getting the most negative attention she’s received since calling half of America a “basket of deplorables.” She painted Trump’s supporters as a cult of bigots who "maybe they don't like migrants, maybe they don't like gay people, or Black people, or the woman who got the promotion at work they didn't get" (more projection: she’s the woman who didn’t get the promotion she thought she deserved.) She called them “MAGA extremists” and said, “at some point, you know, maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/hillary-clinton-floats-formal-deprogramming-trump-supporters-suggests-gop-base-bigots

Nothing says you oppose authoritarianism like claiming that half the population should be put into reeducation camps.

As for her other blatant acts of projection: if anyone’s followers are an unthinking cult who overlook nastiness, it would be hers. Trump’s campaign slogan was “Make America Great Again.” That was all about helping Americans. In their attempt to smear his supporters, leftists sneer the acronym “Maga,” but never dare say what it stands for. And do you remember Hillary’s campaign slogan? It was “I’m with Her.” Nothing about what she wanted to do to help the nation or her fellow Americans, but about others pledging eternal fealty to her – you know, like cultists do for cult leaders.

Hillary lost in 2016 for a number of reasons: her coldness and arrogance; her record of tragic failures and scandals (Benghazi), her nepotism, her habits of rule- and law-breaking and enriching herself through bribes disguised as charity donations, and more.  But what truly sealed the deal and convinced many voters to roll the dice on Trump was her inability to disguise how utterly contemptuous and out of touch she is with regular working Americans. Like many cult leaders, she thought she had a divine right to rule us all (recall that horrifying children’s book about her, “Some Girls Are Born To Lead,” which one Amazon reviewer facetiously praised as a “genuinely funny” satire of Soviet-style hagiographies.)

Hillary might think that she’s helping Biden defeat Trump, but all she’s doing is reminding Americans of why they voted for Trump and why that was the correct decision, and that all the endless anti-Trump media propaganda since shouldn't convince them otherwise.

Okay, I’m done with this unpleasant subject, except to link to this palate cleanser from the Babylon Bee…

https://babylonbee.com/news/elderly-woman-escapes-nursing-home-rants-about-deprogramming-the-populace


The FBI sees new terrorist threats

Since Hillary brought up the prosecutions of Donald Trump, it should be noted that he was just the first one they targeted for lawfare. It soon expanded to his political aides, then his business associates, then his businesses, and now there’s word that the FBI plans to monitor his supporters (those “MAGA extremists”) as a terrorist threat. See, those T-shirts with Trump’s picture were right, the ones that say, “They’re really after you, I’m just standing in the way.”

Unfortunately, complaining or calling for a return to standards of political decency won’t stop the left. The only thing that will end the legal assault on conservatives is a big, choking dose of their own medicine. It should be easy to start filing the indictments and lawsuits against Democrats, considering that the Party has been accurately described as “America’s most successful criminal enterprise.” And while they might (temporarily) own the DOJ, we’ve learned from Democrats in New York and Georgia that all it takes now to interfere with a federal election and target a national figure is a partisan prosecutor in a state, county or city. And there are a lot of those under Republican control, so let’s start seeing some indictments and lawsuits.

Revolver.com even has a few suggestions to get the ball rolling. I’m especially eager to see action taken against America’s most lucrative hate group, the SPLC, whose own staffer described them as a “con” that was ripping off donors. This article also lays out the case for prosecuting the SPLC for harassment, discrimination and witness tampering in a federal trial. Let’s get those subpoenas flying!

https://revolver.news/2023/10/the-definitive-maga-legal-counter-offensive-strike-back-against-regime-political-prosecution-spree/


Guaranteed income in San Francisco

In San Francisco, which businesses and taxpayers are fleeing to escape the out-of-control crime and where the police department is operating at two-thirds staffing because nobody wants to be a cop there, the leftist city leaders have come up with a brilliant new plan for spending their budget: hand out free guaranteed incomes to illegal immigrants, black and “Latinx” transgender people, and jail inmates.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/10/06/liberal-city-plans-to-hand-out-guaranteed-incomes-to-transgenders-illegal-immigrants-n2629474


A Climaximo fail

The public’s patience with childish stunts by climate activists is gone, and if the authorities won’t stop this nonsense, the people will. A climate protest group called Climaximo learned that the hard way when nine of their members sat down across a busy highway to block rush hour traffic in Lisbon, Portugal. I guess the intention was to draw attention to the “crisis” of CO2 emissions by creating a giant, pollution-spewing traffic jam (hey, I never said thinking was their strong suit.)

The commuters were having none of it. They got out of their cars, dragged the protesters off the highway while bawling them out, threw their banner over an overpass and sped on. It made for a hilarious must-see video.

https://www.westernjournal.com/climate-change-activists-try-stunt-one-countrys-busiest-streets-doesnt-end/

They’re lucky Lisbon drivers are so polite and actually removed them from the highway before diving through. I’m pretty sure there are places in America where drivers would just assume that “Climaximo” was Portuguese for “speed bumps.”


Texas vs California

If you want to know why nobody outside liberal bubbles watches late night shows anymore, consider this example of how out of touch with reality they are. After months away due to the writers’ strike, and desperate to draw audiences back, NBC touted Seth Meyers’ return with a promo featuring this divisive leftist “joke”:

“Texas will start teaching gun safety in schools. Next up: math!”

Get it? Texans are dumb, gun-toting yahoos who can’t do math. What a knee-slapper! (And I guess they thought that was his best joke, since it was in the promo.) Way to convince everyone in Texas and all gun owners not to watch.

Oh, and for the record: it’s the leftist leaders of California who are doing away with advanced math classes in the name of “equity” (it’s not fair that some students are better at math, so nobody’s allowed to learn more than anyone else.) Texas is promoting “equity” by expanding advanced math classes so students of all races and backgrounds who are good at math will be able to take them.

https://www.joannejacobs.com/post/texas-tracks-for-equity-i-didn-t-know-honors-existed

Maybe the liberal late night hosts need to give up their outdated anti-red state prejudices and learn why so many tech firms are leaving California for Texas.


Here’s the kind of news that someone like me, who travels on airplanes several times a week, really loves to hear…

https://www.westernjournal.com/major-airlines-reportedly-duped-delta-united-others-searching-jet-engines-built-questionable-parts/


Elvis Chan should be held in contempt of Congress; when might that happen?

In an update on Elvis Chan’s no-show before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Republicans ready to charge him with contempt will have to wait until a new speaker is installed.

The subpoenaed senior agent from the San Francisco FBI office didn’t show up for the interview that had been scheduled for 10 AM.  He hadn’t been in touch, and no one knew where to find him.  As far as we know, they still don’t.

And, yes, it’s time to move on contempt charges at this point, after Chan missed one voluntary interview and two depositions for which subpoenas had been issued.  But this would take a floor vote, and since Kevin McCarthy was ousted as Speaker and the seat is officially vacated, no business at all can be brought to the floor right now.  A vote for new Speaker might be held as early as next Wednesday; let’s hope members can come to a decision right away.

Members of the Judiciary Committee could go ahead and vote to hold him in contempt if they so choose.  If that is done, the issue will be brought to a full floor vote after they have a Speaker.

But then, there’s a likely hitch:  After the full floor vote, the case is referred to...you guessed it...the ‘Justice’ Department.  Our question:  what are Congress’ options if the DOJ ignores their referral?

According to a report in the WASHINGTON EXAMINER, the committee does have one:  suing Chan for failure to appear.  Chan has some questions to answer, notably concerning his earlier testimony, from Missouri v. Biden, about his involvement in speaking with social media companies before the 2020 election about the Hunter Biden laptop being “Russian disinformation.”  It conflicts with what was later learned about this.

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

At any rate, our understanding is that the committees are still able to continue as usual, but the full Congress is in a holding pattern --- on this and everything else --- until a new Speaker is chosen.


A Big Salute

A big salute to Candace Owens, whose fed-up response to a college student whining about being triggered by her views on transgender entitlement channeled all the frustration of both a black female conservative on campus and an eight-months-pregnant mom into a perfect and much-needed hard slap of reality.

https://www.westernjournal.com/candace-owens-torches-transgender-activist-pregnant/


The financial ruin of Mike Lindell

I’m very sorry to see this story about the financial ruin of Mike Lindell, founder of MyPillow, due to the lawfare waged against him, and the media attacks and retaliation by retailers because he questioned the integrity of the 2020 election, just as tens of millions of Americans did.

https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2023/10/06/weve-lost-everything-mypillow-ceo-mike-lindell-says-election-fraud-lawsuits-have-ruined-him-n2164743

His life story is truly inspirational, and his company was one of the great American success stories, one that created a lot of jobs for Americans. When he came on my TV show, I’d never seen the audience have such a huge reaction for any celebrity. More of them wanted photos with him than if we’d had Tom Cruise there. Whether you agree with his view of the election or not, I believe his heart was in the right place, and he only cared about protecting the integrity of America’s elections. For that, he’s been attacked from all sides and his business severely damaged. I hope he finds a way out of this, and that you’ll say a prayer for him. And if you need some new pillows, sheets, towels, etc., you know where to get them.


Good News, Bad News:

PJ Media reports that a recent Gallup Poll found Republicans holding significant leads over Democrats on a number of issues, the most important being who is most trusted to handle the economy. Republicans lead by 53-39%.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/10/06/if-this-happens-its-all-over-for-biden-and-the-democrats-in-2024-n1732806

The bad news: A report by Fox Business warns that a growing amount of data suggests that things could get even worse for the Democrats (and all of us) next year, with the potential for a gigantic economic crisis similar to the crash that started the Great Depression. I’m sure the Democrats will do everything they know how to do to head it off, which amounts to prosecuting us for using someone’s non-preferred pronouns.


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One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: "Do not be afraid; keep on speaking, do not be silent."

Acts, 18:9


Message to Readers: I wish things were different

I wrote last month about an investigation into all the liberal groups that fund and feed “information” to the A.P., and how that helps to explain why so many “news stories” on subjects like “climate change” read like activist group press releases. From those stories, you’d think there is no other viewpoint other than turned-up-to-11 hysteria. 

Unfortunately, if I summarize the stories for you, it will possibly result in my newsletter being demonetized or blocked or having our ads removed by certain Internet “gatekeepers” who have decided that their views are the only objective truths allowed to be aired in public. This is why, if you’d like to help pay my staffers so that we can keep bringing you the real stories every American needs to know, you should subscribe to the Substack version. Just click here:

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I email daily and my politics newsletters usually take 10-15 minutes to read. I cover the news of the day and the liberal media. I write about the upcoming elections and dive deep on the Biden scandals. I will also share my opinion of the Trump indictments. I don’t think you will regret supporting a reporting of the facts, not the liberal bias the mainstream media gives you these days!

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Suing Disney

Actress Julia Ormond is suing Disney and mega talent agency CAA, claiming they knew that now-imprisoned rapist and former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein had a history of sexual assaults on women. She claims Weinstein sexually assaulted her, and when she told CAA, they warned her not to say anything or she would lose professional opportunities, then pushed her to a less experienced agent. She also claims that Disney retaliated for her accusing Weinstein by canceling her development deal with Miramax. This killed her Hollywood career, and she’s mostly worked in Europe since.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/10/05/legends-of-the-fall-star-julia-ormond-sues-disney-caa-over-alleged-harvey-weinstein-sexual-assault/

Her lawsuit claims that “There’s no way that Harvey did this without people knowing. If people knew, they were either too afraid to step up, or they allowed the profit that they were making from their relationship with him to justify a cover-up.”

I wish her all good luck with her lawsuit, and I hope you’ll remember this if you ever accidentally turn on a Hollywood awards show again and see some pompous liberal celebrity lecturing red state Republicans on how we don’t respect women’s rights or fail to live up to Hollywood's high moral standards.


UK Shock and outrage

Shock and outrage erupted in the UK after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said a lot of things that are obviously true, but you’re not supposed to say them out loud. Like, “We shouldn’t get bullied into believing that people can be any sex they want to be. They can’t – a man is a man and a woman is a woman. That’s just common sense.” And “It shouldn’t be controversial for parents to know what their children are being taught in school about relationships.” And “Patients should know when hospitals are talking about men or women.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/10/04/rishi-sunak-conservative-party-conference-speech/

I don’t know how long he’s going to last as Prime Minister, but right now, I’m going to invest in British companies that make fainting couches.


Biden cancels more student debt

Despite various lawsuits and court rulings affirming that President Biden not have the power to “cancel” student loan debt (i.e., transfer it from his constituents who willingly borrowed it onto the backs of taxpayers who did not), he just keeps finding loopholes to do it anyway.

The Biden White House announced Wednesday that it’s “cancelling” another $9 billion in student loan debt, which when added to what he’s already stuck the rest of us with totals $127 billion.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-announces-9-billion-taxpayer-funded-student-debt-cancellation/

That link has the full story, and some of the people receiving relief have a decent case, like those with permanent disabilities or who were cheated out of tuition by their schools. But none of this addresses the real problem, and that is that virtually every university is cheating students by charging outrageous tuition and fees far beyond the rate of even Biden’s inflation.

I’d like to see some reforms to help people who are staggering under the weight of student loan debt they can never repay, even if they were foolish to take it on in the first place (hint: don’t take out a $300,000 loan to get a degree that will earn you $40,000 a year.) But the other half of the problem is that universities realize that as long as government keeps covering the costs, the sky’s the limit for tuition. They charge ridiculous fees to cover paying for top name professors who seldom teach a class, facilities that resemble vacation resorts, and hundreds of overpaid administrators who do jobs like censoring conservative speech and whom the schools would be far better off without.

Between the colleges pumping up their rates, and the government giving out loans that can’t be repaid and forgiving them, they’ve created an endless cycle of tuition inflation. At some point, hopefully soon, it will crash; maybe after students realize that the socialist indoctrination they’re getting isn’t worth the money they’re being charged and won’t land them a decent job. When students finally get over the idea that they need an elite school degree to succeed and instead start getting real, affordable educations from trade schools, community and state colleges, and online classes, this vicious cycle will end.

FYI: All the classes taught at MIT are on YouTube now for free: https://www.youtube.com/@mitocw

Related: The least surprising news of the day…

https://nypost.com/2023/10/04/new-york-city-private-schools-owned-by-chinese-communist-party-boss/


More totally unsurprising news:

World Aquatics has scrapped plans for a new “open” swimming race category that would allow “transgender” athletes to compete against each other. It seems that absolutely nobody signed up. I guess it’s just no fun if you have to actually compete on a level playing field instead of stealing trophies from the girls.

https://twitchy.com/laura-w/2023/10/04/swimming-world-cup-scraps-plan-for-open-races-due-to-lack-of-participants-n2388129


Funniest Story of the Day!

The Grace Hopper Celebration, a leftist employment conference which bills itself as the “largest networking opportunity for women and ‘non-binary’ in technology,” was shocked and outraged after a group of “cisgender” men grabbed a lot of the discounted academic tickets, jammed the presentation booths, and took up a lot of the job interview slots. They reportedly claimed they “identified” as female or non-binary.

https://redstate.com/streiff/2023/10/04/men-punk-a-leftist-women-only-tech-employment-conference-by-registering-as-non-binary-n2164675

The head of the organizing group put out a message, saying, “We tried to create a safe space, and this week we saw the outside world creep in. This makes me angry, and it makes me sad, but mostly it makes me want to fight.”

Wait, is she threatening self-proclaimed trans and non-binary people? Who is she to deny their personal truths and misgender them?! Haven’t we all learned from people like her that if you say you’re female or “non-binary,” you ARE, and it’s an act of hate and violence to question that?

I’d say these folks were “hoisted by their own petards,” but I don’t want to misgender them by assuming they have petards.

By the way, this story shows how hard it is for the satirists at The Babylon Bee to stay ahead of how crazy the real world has become.

https://babylonbee.com/news/genius-frugal-family-poses-as-illegal-immigrants-to-get-free-hotel-oom-in-nyc



Elvis Chan’s latest subpoena:  “Elvis...has...left the building!” AGAIN!

A couple of weeks ago, Margot Cleveland wrote an article listing questions that Congress should ask Elvis Chan when he came in for a subpoenaed interview that was scheduled to take place on September 21.  Chan had previously been asked to appear voluntarily to face questions about his role in suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 election, but that meeting had, as the mainstream media like to say, “fallen through.”

Cleveland’s article was written on September 20, when it was thought (ha!) that Chan might actually show up, considering the fact that he’d been subpoenaed this time.  In her words, “...[Chan] is first in line to untangling the truth about how the government interfered in the 2020 election by running an info op to convince voters that Hunter Biden’s laptop was Russian disinformation.  Given Chan’s testimony in the civil lawsuit brought by Missouri and Louisiana and several individual plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden, as well as since-uncovered documents from Facebook, the importance of questioning Chan cannot be overstated.”

According to Chan’s deposition in the Missouri v. Biden case, he was one of the “primary” FBI agents who communicated with social media companies about so-called “disinformation.”  Specifically, “during the 2020 election cycle, Chan [head of the San Francisco field office] coordinated meetings between the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force (FITF) and at least seven of the major tech giants, including Meta/Facebook, Twitter, Google/YouTube, Yahoo!/Verizon Media, and Microsoft/LinkedIn,” with meetings occurring weekly as the election neared.”

Chan had testified that the FBI had discussed with top officials at these various tech companies the likelihood of a potential “hack-and-leak” operation taking place before the 2020 election.  This would purportedly have been something similar to the so-called Russian “hack-and-leak” --- note that there has NEVER been any actual evidence of a hack --- of the Democratic National Committee hack and WikiLeaks release of internal DNC emails.  (It seems that they followed one made-up “hack-and-leak story with another.  Funny how they use the same well-worn pages of their playbook over and over.)

As Cleveland described in detail, Chan also identified specific agents involved in these discussions.  He claimed not to recall, however, whether anyone within the FBI suggested that he personally raise the possibility with tech giants of something like this happening.  These words, said under oath, would come back to haunt him and are likely the reason why he’s dodging subpoenas now.

Even back then, the FBI had already known for almost a year that Hunter’s laptop was the real deal, that he had abandoned it at John Paul Mac Isaac’s computer store, and that the material on it was genuine.  They even HAD CONFISCATED IT from Mac Isaac.  And, according to the sworn testimony of IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley before the House Ways and Means Committee, they had verified the laptop’s authenticity by matching it to Biden’s iCloud ID in November 2019.  So they were lying to the social media companies.

We know from Chan’s testimony in Missouri v. Biden that he had served as supervisor for the team that investigated the so-called DNC hack until the San Francisco office handed it off to FBI headquarters.  (Wouldn’t it be nice to question him further about THAT.)  And just as there was no evidence of that DNC hack --- it may very well have been an inside job; hope we find out --- there also was no specific intelligence suggesting there were any plans for a Hunter laptop-type scenario.  But the warning about this coming “Russian disinformation” was disseminated anyway, thanks to the protective eye of our ever-watchful FBI, “prompting Twitter and Facebook to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story following the NEW YORK POST’s story breaking.”

Details about this that Chan did not include in his deposition were included by one of the other agents involved.  It was Section Chief Laura Dehmlow’s testimony before the House that revealed what happened when somebody from Twitter asked if the Hunter laptop story was real.  As we’ve reported, an analyst in the FBI Criminal Investigative Division managed to say “Yes, it was,” but then an FBI attorney broke in on the conversation to say, “No further comment.”  That became the go-to reply by FBI officials when they were asked about this later.

Chan claimed in his testimony that he was not aware of other inquiries from social media companies about the Hunter laptop.  But House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan said last month that his committee had received internal Facebook documents that contradict that testimony.  A number of questions need to be resolved.

In Cleveland’s words, “Knowing who knew the laptop story was accurate but still fed the hack-and-leak hysteria will point to the players responsible for interfering in the 2020 election by silencing the truthful reporting of the Hunter Biden laptop story.”

As it happened, of course, Elvis Chan never showed up for his September 21 testimony.  (The next day, this newsletter summed up his failure to appear in “Elvis...has...left the building!”)  Here’s the link to Cleveland’s piece from the day before his no-show, when getting some answers from him seemed at least a possibility.

https://thefederalist.com/2023/09/20/what-congress-should-ask-the-fbi-agent-involved-in-censoring-hunter-biden-laptop-story/

So why is this important today?  Well, after failing to show up for his first subpoenaed testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Chan was rescheduled to come in Thursday of this week.  And once again, he didn’t show.  According to the DAILY CALLER, Chan was “nowhere to be found.”  Elvis has left the building, AGAIN.

Russel Dye, a spokesperson for the committee, said, “Everything is on the table for Mr. Chan, including contempt.”

In deciding not to show up, Chan had to choose between two possible outcomes:  contempt if he didn’t show up, perjury if he did.  If they want to charge him with contempt, they’ve got to find him first.

https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1688553339624042496

If he appeared before the committee, Chan would have to try to resolve his testimony in Biden v. Missouri with those internal Facebook documents that suggest he lied under oath about conversations he had with them about the laptop before the election.  And, really, there seems to be no way to do that.

If Jim Jordan is going to become Speaker of the House --- and let’s keep our fingers crossed --- one of the best parting gifts he could offer as he leaves the Judiciary Committee would be to hold no-shows like Elvis Chan in contempt when they defy a subpoena.  If you or I defied a subpoena and failed to appear, we’d hear that jail door clang shut in no time.  We KNOW that any Trump official would, no matter how solid his reason for not testifying. Chan has now skipped out on three interviews, two of them subpoenaed.  Republicans are going to have to get tough about this if they want to get to the bottom of corruption within the FBI and DOJ.  This avoidance reaction shows we’re over the target.  Republicans finally have subpoena power, but what good is it if it isn’t enforced?

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/05/fbi-agent-lying-hunter-biden-laptop-dodges-testimony

RELATED:  You know that wealthy Hollywood entertainment lawyer Kevin Morris, known affectionately (or not) as Hunter’s “sugar brother,” resolved Hunter’s massive tax bill and also paid a reported $20,000 a month in rent for Hunter’s Malibu beach house.  In an update, Morris is continuing to pay a significant portion of Hunter’s mounting legal bills, which have exceeded $10 million since 2018 and are growing at about $1 million each month.  And now that his “sweetheart” deal isn’t happening, he’s facing a trial.  A very expensive trial.

But a source close to Hunter told the DAILY CALLER that it’s Morris who is encouraging Hunter to fight, especially against the ongoing investigations by House Republicans.  It was Morris who advised Hunter to hire big-time DC attorney Abbe Lowell, and that takes some serious bacon.  But he presumably is getting some fabulous paintings in return...

https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/04/hollywood-attorney-hunter-biden-helping-legal-bills

 


President Trump endorses Jim Jordan for Speaker

The latest news in the race for a new House Speaker is that this morning, Donald Trump endorsed Jim Jordan. That’s good news for Jordan but bad news for those who were hoping Trump would get the job, if for no other reason than to see him standing over Nancy Pelosi with a gavel in his hand.

https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-breaks-silence-lawmaker-won-complete-total-endorsement-speaker-role/

I’m sure Rep. Jordan would make a great Speaker, and that was confirmed for me when I heard that the panel on “The View” is going berserk over the idea. Sunny Hostin railed that Jordan is a “terrorist” and a “chaos agent” (this is even better than Trump’s endorsement!), and she claimed that when he appeared on “The View,” “He immediately was screaming and yelling and terrorized me and the other experts on the panel.”

https://twitchy.com/brettt/2023/10/05/sunny-hostin-recalls-when-jim-jordan-terrorized-the-panel-of-the-view-n2388181

First of all, I find that very hard to believe. If he raised his voice at all, it was probably just to be heard over all the simultaneous shrieking by the hosts. Secondly, I think the fact that she called the panel on “The View” “experts” tells us that we can pretty much disregard anything else she said.

Finally, if you need any further reason to support Jim Jordan beyond Trump endorsing him and “The View” condemning him, this should seal the deal: Liz Cheney warned that if Jordan becomes Speaker, it will spell the end of the Constitution because…uh, something about January 6th, of course.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/10/05/liz-cheney-jumps-into-the-speaker-fight-to-deliver-a-desperate-warning-n2164730

 


Another Biden flip-flop

The Biden White House, stung by the bipartisan disapproval of their open-borders invasion of America, did a surprise 180 this week. First, they re-started construction on the border wall Biden originally wanted destroyed; and now, they’ve actually announced plans to restart deportations of illegal migrants from Venezuela.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-continues-immigration-reversal-big-deportation-announcement/

Does anyone else think it’s odd that of all the people they’ve let into the US, the only ones they’re deporting are a German homeschooling Christian family and people who left Venezuela because they hate socialism?


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Despite various lawsuits and court rulings affirming that President Biden not have the power to “cancel” student loan debt (i.e., transfer it from his constituents who willingly borrowed it onto the backs of taxpayers who did not), he just keeps finding loopholes to do it anyway.

The Biden White House announced Wednesday that it’s “cancelling” another $9 billion in student loan debt, which when added to what he’s already stuck the rest of us with totals $127 billion.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-announces-9-billion-taxpayer-funded-student-debt-cancellation/

That link has the full story, and some of the people receiving relief have a decent case, like those with permanent disabilities or who were cheated out of tuition by their schools. But none of this addresses the real problem, and that is that virtually every university is cheating students by charging outrageous tuition and fees far beyond the rate of even Biden’s inflation.

I’d like to see some reforms to help people who are staggering under the weight of student loan debt they can never repay, even if they were foolish to take it on in the first place (hint: don’t take out a $300,000 loan to get a degree that will earn you $40,000 a year.) But the other half of the problem is that universities realize that as long as government keeps covering the costs, the sky’s the limit for tuition. They charge ridiculous fees to cover paying for top name professors who seldom teach a class, facilities that resemble vacation resorts, and hundreds of overpaid administrators who do jobs like censoring conservative speech and whom the schools would be far better off without.

Between the colleges pumping up their rates, and the government giving out loans that can’t be repaid and forgiving them, they’ve created an endless cycle of tuition inflation. At some point, hopefully soon, it will crash; maybe after students realize that the socialist indoctrination they’re getting isn’t worth the money they’re being charged and won’t land them a decent job. When students finally get over the idea that they need an elite school degree to succeed and instead start getting real, affordable educations from trade schools, community and state colleges, and online classes, this vicious cycle will end.

FYI: All the classes taught at MIT are on YouTube now for free: https://www.youtube.com/@mitocw

Related: The least surprising news of the day…

https://nypost.com/2023/10/04/new-york-city-private-schools-owned-by-chinese-communist-party-boss/

I wrote last month about an investigation into all the liberal groups that fund and feed “information” to the A.P., and how that helps to explain why so many “news stories” on subjects like “climate change” read like activist group press releases. From those stories, you’d think there is no other viewpoint other than turned-up-to-11 hysteria. 

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I wrote recently about an investigation into all the liberal groups that fund and feed “information” to the A.P., and how that helps to explain why so many “news stories” on subjects like “climate change” read like activist group press releases. From those stories, you’d think there is no other viewpoint other than turned-up-to-11 hysteria. But that’s not at all true, as this story shows.

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A contest for Speaker

Rep. Jim Jordan already announced that he will run for House Speaker, and now, Rep. Steve Scalise has also joined the race, despite his recent health issues.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/04/rep-steve-scalise-announces-run-speaker-enters-as-top-contender/

Some Republicans are even calling for Donald Trump to take up the Speaker’s gavel, and he signaled that he would be willing to do it temporarily. I’d love to see that. He’d only have to do it for about five minutes to make all the Democrats’ heads explode.

I have a feeling the 100% of Democrats who backed Matt Gaetz and seven other Republicans in removing Kevin McCarthy as Speaker may be wishing they’d stayed out of this. In fact, they’re already learning that sabotage comes with a price, as Speaker tempore Patrick McHenry gave Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Democrat Whip Steny Hoyer one day to vacate their prized private offices.

https://www.westernjournal.com/mccarthy-getting-revenge-democrats-helped-boot-speakership/

I’m delighted to report that, according to GOP Rep. Garret Graves, Pelosi’s office will be going to…Kevin McCarthy. Graves said, “Look, the deal is that the office that Pelosi is in right now is the office of the preceding speaker. Speaker Pelosi and other Democrats determined that they wanted a new…Speaker, and [that makes the new preceding Speaker] Kevin McCarthy. So, he’s getting the office.”

Pelosi whined that this was “a sharp departure from tradition,” claiming she gave ex-Speaker Dennis Hastert “a significantly larger suite of offices for as long as he wished” when she took over.  Yes, but Hastert didn’t join an “insurrection” against Pelosi, and we know how much she hates those. Also, I don’t need a scolding about sharp departures from tradition from a woman who twice impeached a President with no evidence and who set up an “investigating” committee that didn’t allow cross examination or the other side to call witnesses. Enjoy your new broom closet, Nancy.

(The only way to make this funnier is to add the Babylon Bee’s take):

https://babylonbee.com/news/crew-moving-pelosi-out-of-office-crushed-to-death-by-empty-wine-bottles

Punchbowl News founder Jake Sherman said his sources claim the GOP plans more slapbacks at the Democrats, and rightly so. I hope they’re all as amusing and well-deserved as this one.

By the way, one of the first orders of business for whoever is the next Speaker should be to axe that dumb agreement to let just one member call for a vote to fire the Speaker. As Sean Hannity so aptly put it, that’s like letting one football player call for firing the team's quarterback, and then letting members of their rival team vote on it.

As for that accusation by the eight Republicans who voted against McCarthy that he was “working for the Democrats,” it didn’t stop them from letting him help fund their election campaigns.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2023/10/04/mccarthy-super-pac-spent-millions-supporting-the-eight-republicans-who-voted-to-oust-him-n2629357 


A new government shutdown threat

Both Democrat Sen. Cory Booker…

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/05/booker-well-do-whatever-we-have-to-to-ensure-ukraine-funding-remains-including-shutdown/

…and Democrat Sen. Michael Bennett warned that they’ll reject any stopgap funding bill that doesn’t include money for Ukraine and they will "definitely" shut down the government over this.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/05/dem-sen-bennet-ill-definitely-shut-down-government-if-we-dont-have-ukraine-money/

So if the government shuts down, it will be the Republicans’ fault for not giving the Democrats what they demanded or else they’d shut down the government?

No wonder Taylor Swift is a big Democrat. They’ve adopted “Look What You Made Me Do” as their new theme song.  

 


The Border: The Border: We Told You So!

Biden DHS Secretary Alejandro “Y’all Come!” Mayorkas has finally hit on a brilliant plan for dealing with the border: he wants to build a wall. Why didn’t someone think of that before?!

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/04/mayorkas-sets-plan-build-more-border-wall/

Biden once vowed not to build “one more foot” of border wall. But don’t worry: this isn’t one of those ineffective, racist walls that keeps illegal entrants out. It’s just meant to stop them from coming in through the random gaps and instead come in through official entry points so they can be registered and immediately released into the US.

My question: How much would it cost to build a thick, high wall around Alejandro Mayorkas? I’m willing to make the first donation.


Appeal filed

Former President Trump isn’t waiting for the judge in his New York civil trial for fraud to hand out his inevitable punishments: his attorneys have already filed an appeal with New York’s second-highest court. Here’s a report on that which reveals that even CNN admitted that the judge's valuations of Trump properties are way off and based on criteria that's seldom used in real estate transactions…

https://thelibertydaily.com/trump-appeals-new-york-judges-fraud-ruling/

And if you enjoy reading legalese, here’s the entire text of the appeal.

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24007861/trump-appeal-452564_2022_people_of_the_state_of_v_people_of_the_state_of_notice_of_appeal_1552.pdf


Well, here’s a twist in the Sen. Bob Menendez scandal that nobody saw come roaring up the road…

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/04/bob-menendez-wife-struck-killed-pedestrian-2018/


From Our “Two Can Play That Game” File:

Hunter Biden filed a lawsuit against Rudy Giuliani for somehow invading his privacy by publishing information from the laptop he forfeited by leaving it behind at a repair shop – all while still not admitting it’s his. Now, Guiliani has announced that he's suing Joe Biden for a far more solid reason: during one of the 2020 presidential debates, Biden falsely called Giuliani a “Russian operative.” Guiliani said that is a lie, and it’s cost him millions of dollars in lost clients and consulting business. He will file suit in New Hampshire and seek damages.

https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/10/04/rudy-giuliani-is-suing-joe-biden/

Guiliani said, “Joe Biden has spent his life telling lies,” and he referred to Biden as a “pathological liar.” I guess he’s not worried about Biden suing him for defamation for saying that.

 


The KJP show

Karine Jean-Pierry might be a terrible White House press secretary (although to be fair, nobody should have to defend this Administration for a living), but she earns her pay by keeping us all entertained. For instance, nothing on this week’s underwhelming “return of late night comedy” was anywhere near as funny as KJP trying to convince us that Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar getting carjacked in Democrat-run Washington, DC, by three armed thugs who were undoubtedly Democrats was somehow the fault of…Republicans!

https://www.westernjournal.com/doocy-refuses-let-kjp-get-away-blaming-republicans-congressmans-carjacking/

Fox News’ Peter Doocy was the only White House reporter willing to say, in effect, “Back that truck up and run it past us again!” You can read a transcript of her explanation at the link which I won’t bother to transcribe, since it’s an incomprehensible tossed word salad worthy of Kamala Harris. But I THINK she was trying to claim that DC is overrun with crime because Republicans didn’t vote for the so-called “American Rescue Plan,” a massive spending bill that passed anyway and that, she said, provided billions of dollars “to make sure communities across the country got funding so that they can indeed hire more police officers so that they can keep their community safe.”

As noted at the link, that makes no sense whatsoever. Republican support or not, the bill passed. If DC leaders got money from it, they obviously didn’t spend it on hiring cops and jailing criminals, or the streets wouldn’t be filled with criminals. And those DC leaders are all Democrats and have been for decades. Are Republicans also to blame for the rampant crime in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, L.A. and all the other 100% Democrat-run cities? Wow, I had no idea we were so powerful!

Related: Missouri Rep. Eric Burlison told Todd Starnes that Washington, DC, has become so dangerous due to crime that some Congress members are afraid to leave and are sleeping in their Capitol offices. He said it’s so bad that Sen. Mike Lee is suggesting it might be time for Congress to take back control of the District from local leftist officials.

https://www.toddstarnes.com/crime/some-members-of-congress-sleeping-in-offices-due-to-dc-violence-rep-burlison/

I would be all for that idea if I weren’t afraid that the FBI would deal with carjackers in DC by arresting Trump voters.


Two-week-old Biden DOJ demanded IRS briefing on Hunter tax case

It didn’t take long.  Only 16 days after President Biden was sworn into office, his new ‘Justice’ Department called for a briefing from the IRS on their case against Joe’s son Hunter.

And that’s what they got, on February 5, 2021, according to email exchanges between IRS investigators-turned-whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler.  Five investigators from Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ office would be meeting with several assistant attorneys general, said Weiss’ deputy Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf in an email to the IRS and FBI agents working the Hunter case.  (Of course you know that Wolf put major roadblocks in front of the investigators.)

Some of those attending this meeting were political appointees, and this aroused the suspicions of investigators working the case.  Lead investigator Shapley alerted the other IRS officials in the chain of command about concerns that people from Biden’s DOJ had asked to be at this meeting, especially one from the National Security Division (NSD), which had no jurisdiction.  What were these people doing there?

“We learned today that USAO [the U.S. Attorney’s Office] and DOJ Tax are briefing the new AAG on the tax case today,” Shapley’s email said.  “NSD asked for a briefing so they could understand the tax side of the case.  I don’t know what that matters to them since they are NSD...but I just wanted to give you an update that this meeting was.”

A huge question is why the National Security Division was involved at all in this case.  Recall that the NSD is the agency that created misleading warrant applications to be used in the now-discredited Crossfire Hurricane investigation of Donald Trump over a nonexistent tie to Vladimir Putin and also in the raid on Mar-A-Lago over his possession of supposedly classified documents. 

John Solomon featured former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Wednesday night’s JUST THE NEWS, NO NOISE.  Nunes said of the NSA, “This could be the first glimpse into what I have been saying for a very long time...that Team Obama have inserted [themselves] into the National Security Division of the FBI and the Department of Justice.  This is where the plumbers are.  This is where the operatives are.  This is where the people are that are doing the worst things at the Justice Department, throughout our government, this is where they live.”

He went on:  “This is what we found out during the Russia Hoax...it’s the area where they can wall off the rest of the Department of Justice and the FBI and say, ‘Oh, this is top secret.  Our nation is at risk.  Things could blow up.  People could die...if people learn about this; this is why we have to keep it so secret.  What they’ve done is, I think this place is full of a bunch of rats.  I mean, it’s what we found originally during the Russia Hoax.  I don’t think it’s changed.”

Here’s the link; Solomon gets into the subject briefly at 4:00, with Nunes coming on at 31:00.

https://justthenews.com/video/just-news-no-noise-john-solomon-and-amanda-head-october-4-2023

(Side note:  During this segment, Nunes also spoke of the ouster of Kevin McCarthy from the Speaker’s chair, calling it “a bad day.”  He said that no credible person with whom he’s spoken says it was a good day for the Republican Party; it “looks ridiculous.”  Recall that this happened because of a rule change --- requiring him to allow any member to bring a vote at any time to vacate the chair --- that McCarthy accepted in order to get enough votes.  “At the end of the day, this is a team sport,” Nunes said.  “You need 218 votes to do anything.”  He offered his realistic assessment of the situation as well as suggestions for dealing with DOJ corruption.  I digress.)

Anyway, according to the breaking report in JUST THE NEWS, also last night, the DOJ’s request for a briefing “escaped public and media notice for two years,” and is now chronologically the first example we have of the Biden DOJ getting involved in the Hunter case.  The emails are part of what Shapley and Ziegler turned over to the House Ways and Means Committee as part of their cooperation as whistleblowers.  This is one more piece of evidence that Attorney General Merrick Garland was talking through his hat when he said Biden’s ‘Justice’ Department had taken a hands-off approach to the case.  At this point, we can think of no reason why any thinking person would believe anything he says, ever again, even under oath.

The congressional testimony of Shapley and Ziegler has already revealed numerous ways the IRS investigation was interfered with by the DOJ.  They were blocked from obtaining search warrants for Joe Biden’s property and Hunter’s storage locker (and the mystery name “Political figure 1” was removed).  They were prevented from even asking about Joe Biden or his grandchildren.  They’d also wanted to do a surprise interview with Hunter Biden but were kept from doing that when the DOJ contacted Hunter’s defense team and alerted them.

Shapley testified that it was Lesley Wolf who told him and his team that “I don’t think you’re going to be able to do the interviews as planned.”  He said she told him these interviews would have to be approved by the DOJ Tax Division.     

This was apparently happening while Hunter’s attorney Chris Clarke had no trouble getting meetings with DOJ higher-ups.  Emails show him requesting the meetings with the head of the Criminal Division, the Tax Division, the Office of Legal Counsel, the Officer of the Solicitor General, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco (surprise!), and Attorney General Garland. 

In his public testimony before Congress this summer, Shapely said he was testifying because “the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office, Department of Justice Tax, and Department of Justice provided preferential treatment and unchecked conflicts of interest in an important and high-profile investigation of the President’s son, Hunter Biden.”

There’s also documentary evidence and corroborating FBI testimony that U.S. attorneys in DC and in California --- both appointed by Joe Biden --- would not let Weiss charge Hunter with tax violations in their districts.  These charges would have covered the time when Hunter was making $83,000 a month for his position on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, and when then-VP Biden was Obama’s “point man” in Ukraine.  The statutes of limitations have since run out.

Much more detail is at the link, including pdf’s of testimony and documents.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/new-biden-administration-doj-officials-requested-briefings-hunter

John Solomon, appearing Wednesday night on HANNITY, said the IRS agents’ allegations of preferential treatment have since been validated by “thousands of pages of evidence,” and elaborating on the strangeness of the DOJ’s National Security Division being involved in a meeting about Hunter’s tax case.  “I suspect Jim Jordan and others will really hone in on this new evidence.”

“...The Merrick Garland story continues to erode.  There [were] a lot of political fingerprints of the Washington Justice Department under Joe Biden in the Hunter Biden case.”

 

……………

RELATED:  Now, here’s a twist.  Biden has named his new head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel,  the primary purpose of which is to protect whistleblowers.  Hampton Dellinger is an old legal colleague of Hunter’s, from their days at Boies Schiller Flexner.   You can’t make this stuff up.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/04/biden-names-hunter-bidens-old-colleague-to-helm-office-of-the-special-counsel/

Also, here’s an update on how, leading into the ‘24 election, the government is readying for perhaps another outbreak of “domestic violent extremism” on the part of Trump supporters.  They reportedly want to “tread very carefully” while they assess the threat posed by us so as not to inflame our passions even more.  One senior intelligence official told NEWSWEEK that “Trump’s army constitutes the greatest threat of violence...politically...that’s the reality and the problem set.”  Good grief.

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/newsweek-fbidonald-trump-support/2023/10/04


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Kevin McCarthy is voted out

Well, did anyone else predict on Monday that by Wednesday, we’d have no House Speaker and all the important things that were finally getting done, like the investigations and the impeachment inquiry, would be on hold while Republicans scrambled to find a leader? And all the Democrats had to do to throw the GOP into chaos was to vote in lockstep (as their party always does) with eight renegade Republicans to remove Kevin McCarthy, the first time in history that a Speaker has been voted out.

I had hoped that after the recent hubbub over dress codes, public groping and pulling the fire alarm that Congress was done with juvenile behavior for a while, but no such luck. As Greg Gutfeld put it, the Republicans didn’t shoot themselves in the foot, they shot themselves in the head. This move was the very definition of betting the entire House on a roll of the dice.

McCarthy said he’s not interested in running again, so who will replace him? Jim Jordan announced this morning that he'll run. Word is that Steve Scalise might also be interested, but he’s fighting cancer, and it’s a job that comes with constant criticism and threat of expulsion by a tiny handful of Republicans plus all the Democrats who will happily keep voting with them to maintain chaos and disunity while claiming it proves that the GOP can’t govern.

The interim Speaker will be Rep. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, whose first act was to order Nancy Pelosi to vacate her private Capitol office. Sounds like he’s planning to run for the fulltime job.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nancy-pelosi-evicted-private-office-capitol-interim-house-speaker

Gaetz claims he had Donald Trump's blessing to challenge McCarthy, but at this writing, Trump hasn't confirmed that. This is a good opinion piece on whether Gaetz was right or wrong by Fox News’ Liz Peek. She is fair in giving him his due that he has some important points about curtailing federal spending, but this wasn’t the way to accomplish it. It was like cleaning off your desktop with a hand grenade.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/kevin-mccarthys-speaker-finished-matt-gaetz-villain-hero

Joe Cunningham at Redstate.com compared Gaetz, quite aptly, to the old story about the dog that chased cars until he caught one, then didn’t know what to do with it. He also includes an important reminder that there was an interim budget resolution plan that would have funded the government through November that included an 8% non-defense spending cut, border security and no money for Ukraine. Most Republicans backed it, but Gaetz rallied opposition to kill it. Then he attacked McCarthy because its substitute didn't have the things that were in the bill he killed.

https://redstate.com/joesquire/2023/10/04/what-happens-when-the-dog-catches-the-car-n2164661

I know that by criticizing Matt Gaetz (for whom I held fundraisers), I’m letting myself in for accusations that I am a “RINO” or don’t appreciate the importance of standing up for principle. Yeah, I do. I also know that politics isn’t the art of demanding everything you want, it’s the art of getting as much of what you want as you possibly can. The guy who designed the Titanic stood on principle when he went down with the ship. Do you want to join him?

I didn’t agree with everything Kevin McCarthy did, but he appeared to me to be doing a pretty good job of getting as much as he could, considering he was dealing with a tiny majority, a loud, rebellious faction in his own party, and the Senate and the White House both in the hands of radical left Democrats. (For the record, McCarthy seems to think Gaetz had more personal motivations.)

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/10/04/mccarthy-spills-why-he-thinks-matt-gaetz-ousted-him-as-house-speaker-n2629315

And news flash to the Republicans who ousted McCarthy: no matter who replaces him, the same conditions will prevail. Whoever is the next Speaker will still have to deal with the Democrats. By publicly tearing apart your own party and badmouthing its leaders, you’re only making it harder to maintain even that tiny House majority in 2024, much less win back the Senate and White House.

And did it never occur to them that as they were ousting McCarthy for working with Democrats, they only succeeded because ALL the Democrats gleefully backed their efforts, while none of their fellow Republicans did? Does that make Matt Gaetz a “RINO?”

When I first ran for President, I was attacked and called ridiculous names like “RINO” and even “socialist” (I would hope everyone has learned better by now) because as Governor, I compromised at times with Democrats. I had to because at the time, they had a lock on power in Arkansas. I could have stubbornly refused to work with them, and accomplished nothing except spraining my arm patting myself on the back for my principles. Instead, I negotiated with them and eventually got the vast majority of my conservative agenda enacted. When people saw how well it worked, they wanted more of it. Now, Arkansas is a solid red state. That’s how you build political power, not by taking your ball and going home.

Now, all we can do is wait and pray that a good candidate is willing to take on a literally thankless job, and that voters aren’t paying too much attention to all this.

Speaking of that, here’s a short list of just a few of the Democrat problems that were pushed out of the news by Republicans attacking Republicans.

https://twitter.com/cbomar_3/status/1709326626448634137


A gag order on Trump

The judge in Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial in New York did what many liberals have dreamed of: he put the first gag order on Trump. Actually, he put it on all defendants, but it was obviously aimed at Trump. Trump had posted one of his famously pugnacious social media posts showing a photo of Judge Arthur Engoron’s female law clerk standing next to Sen. Chuck Schumer. He identified her by name and called her “Schumer’s girlfriend” and branded it “disgraceful.”

https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-civil-fraud-trial-enters-second-day-business-empire-hangs-balance-2023-10-03/

The judge said personal attacks and doxing of his staffers are "unacceptable, inappropriate and will not be tolerated under any circumstances" and threatened “serious sanctions.” He didn’t make it clear what those might be, but under the law, they could include a contempt of court charge that carries fines and up to 30 days in jail. Trump deleted the post.


Attention, please!

Today at 2:20 pm EST, FEMA will hold a nationwide emergency alert test. Alarms will sound on all our radios, TVs, and wireless devices and cell phones, even if they’re silenced. Do not panic: this is ONLY a test!


Hoping to see a lot more of this:

Former New York City bodega clerk Jose Alba, who was arrested and spent six days in Rikers Island jail after stabbing an attacker to death in self-defense, is suing DA Alvin Bragg and the NYPD for racial discrimination. Alba was facing prosecution for second degree murder for defending his life before public outrage forced Bragg to back down.

https://www.westernjournal.com/bodega-clerk-forced-defend-life-face-murder-charges-sues-woke-da/

Alba’s attorney said Bragg’s “racial equity” policies mean that he’s prosecuting some people because of their race while releasing others over and over because of their race, and “We can’t keep pitting ourselves against each other based on race.”

I wish him the best of luck with this case, and I hope he wins compensation that’s painful enough to force Bragg to redefine “racial equity” the way it should be defined: everyone is treated equally, regardless of race.


Good news

Trump got some good news from the Supreme Court, which rejected without comment an appeal of a failed attempt to have him barred from the 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment’s ban on insurrectionists. There are still a couple of others of these frivolous suits floating around, but let’s hope they crash and burn the same way.  If you’re going to try to “save democracy” by banning the people from voting for whoever they want, the least you can do before banning someone for insurrection is prove that he ever actually committed insurrection.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/10/02/supreme-court-says-no-to-considering-effort-to-use-14th-amendment-to-disqualify-trump-n2164597


Doh!

The Good News: A state Governor called out the National Guard to help deal with her state being overrun with illegal immigrants.

The Bad News: It’s New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who is deploying thousands of National Guard members to help illegal immigrants fill out paperwork to get housing and obtain work status to take American jobs. The Democrats: Friends of working Americans!

https://www.westernjournal.com/liberal-governor-deploys-national-guard-help-illegals-fill-paperwork-housing-jobs-give-want/


Will they ever learn?

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

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


More on Hunter’s guilty plea; why Biden won’t be the nominee

Yesterday morning, just as our deadline was about to hit, the story broke about Hunter Biden pleading not guilty in a Delaware federal courtroom to three gun-related criminal charges, all involving his drug use and lying about it as both a gun buyer and owner in 2018.  His “sweetheart” deal obviously kaput --- even though Biden’s attorneys had tried to maintain it was in force --- Hunter has put himself in his attorneys’ hands and will apparently now go to trial.

Rumor has it that Hunter wanted the trial moved to New York and to get the case assigned to a particularly fair-minded, nonpartisan and objective judge named Engoron.  Kidding.

Cameras showing Hunter emerging from the courtroom revealed him styled differently, most noticeably with an almost-shaved head.  Our first thought was that his shorn hair, however unflattering, would go well with a prison uniform.  (As we saw later, the NEW YORK POST news writers had thought of this, too, calling it a “jailhouse-style buzz cut.”)  But Judge Jeanine Pirro, appearing on Tuesday’s THE FIVE, offered another idea:  Since hair offers a forensic record of someone’s drug use, shaving his head would, in effect, destroy the evidence of how recently drugs were in his system.  The NY POST reports that he “cleared his drug test shortly after arriving at the courthouse” but was not clear about whether or not hair is tested at that time.

By now you know the three felony charges Hunter is facing.  With a guilty verdict, they could bring as much as a 25-year prison sentence, if it were you or me, but in his case, it won’t.  He could also be fined as much as $750,000, but surely, he could sell enough of his fine paintings to cover that.  He could sell them to that connoisseur of art, Kevin Morris, who has already shown his discerning eye by becoming a buyer.  Why not shell out for a few more of these works?  After all, it’s impossible to have too many of such exceptional pieces.

Hunter’s pretrial release conditions were announced today and they are that he:

--- cannot possess a gun.  (If he has one, better ditch it in a trash can, quick.)

--- cannot use alcohol or drugs.  (Keep that head shaved, just in case!)

--- cannot change his address or phone number.  (All international money transfers must go to the same California address.)

--- must submit to random drug testing or enter a drug rehab facility if requested.  (He no doubt knows all the best ones.)

--- must share in writing any plans for international travel.  (Hunter gets to travel internationally??)

--- cannot break any other federal laws.  (A MAGA Republican breaks ten laws before breakfast and is prosecuted for all of them.)

He also must seek active employment.  His only skills are schmoozing and selling influence, but in DC, that can take you far.  Too bad he’s living in California, but that’s where his probation officer will be.

“I think the protective dam around Hunter Biden is starting to break,” said Kellyanne Conway to Sean Hannity on Tuesday’s HANNITY show.  It’s obvious now that “the Big Guy” was very involved and that he has lied repeatedly to the country about this.  “…People see all this about the Bidens unfolding; they know what they see, but they wonder what they can’t see.  They can’t peek around the corners [to see] what’s being hidden, what’s being covered up.  In the case of Hunter Biden and his father, the apple is still affixed to the tree.  They’re one and the same.  And we’re just learning about this.”

Of course, these charges are, in Hannity’s words, “low-hanging fruit.”  This tree is dense with fruit.

Our ‘Justice’ Department wouldn’t even go after the easy pickin’s.  On the contrary, they seem to have done everything possible to avoid investigating Hunter, even allowing statutes of limitations to expire, and to help him evade more serious charges of money laundering, illegal foreign lobbying and even sex trafficking, for which the Republican-led House committees have found evidence.

According to the NEW YORK POST, Hunter’s DC attorney Abbe Lowell has said that Hunter Biden “was not in business with his father” and that any discussions in the presence of Hunter’s business associates were “small talk.”  Two things about that:

1.  The nature of the talk doesn’t matter at all if Hunter was selling access.

2.  Again, Hunter’s defenders are moving the goal posts when they say the Biden’s weren’t “in business” together.  You’re too smart to fall for this, yet they keep using the same talking point.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/03/hunter-biden-to-appear-in-court-on-federal-gun-charges/

For this and other reasons (Biden’s cognitive feebleness and his low polling due to the chaos affecting people’s lives), we’ve said for a long time that NO WAY will Biden be the nominee in ‘24.  And it won’t be his decision not to run; somebody is going to have to “get the hook,” as in the old vaudeville days, to get him off the stage.  This is becoming painfully obvious; Duke at REDSTATE admits that when he read a recent left-of-center piece suggesting that Joe would be deciding this himself, he “could not stop laughing.”

As Duke explains, “The skittishness that Democrats have is not that Joe Biden is 80 or because of his quote-unquote modest polling numbers; it’s that he’s failing on almost every level as President of the United States.”

“...He was an idiot from day one.  He’s never been particularly smart, he has lied about his academic records.  His making up things and plagiarism are things of legend.”

Biden continued to lie (or maybe he really believes these lies --- who knows at this point?) in an interview on 60 MINUTES this past weekend.  The fact that 60 MINUTES did not help him by editing out those parts we know aren’t true is, he said, “further proof to me that the green light has been given to send Joe to the nearest ice cream shop for early retirement.”

https://redstate.com/tladuke/2023/10/02/there-are-people-who-believe-that-the-decision-for-joe-biden-to-be-on-the-ticket-is-up-to-him-n2164575

RELATED READING:  Alex Marlow’s new book, “BREAKING BIDEN:  Exposing the Hidden Forces and Secret Money Machine Behind Joe Biden, his family, and his administration,” has just arrived at our door, and it looks interesting.  If an investigative reporter as good as Peter Schweizer praises it to the skies, that tells us it’s a must-read.

In Schweizer’s words, “BREAKING BIDEN is essential reading if you want to know the hard truths about the presidency and the American power structure itself.”  Count us in.

Marlow’s introduction helps explain why we say Biden will definitely not be the nominee in ‘24: “...It’s not his policies failing, or his absolute lack of accountability, that have led to historically low poll numbers; it’s the commonly held presumption that something more insidious lies under the surface.”  In other words, there’s just something WRONG.  Something rotten in Delaware.

And Marlow offers this warning: “Joe Biden didn’t merely [help] create the system [that is to say, THE SWAMP] over fifty years; he is the system incarnate.  To understand him is to understand America’s present and our recent past.  And unless there’s a course correction, he is a window into our future.”  Of course, whoever the Democrats pick as his replacement for the ‘24 race will be a dweller in that same swamp.  Looks like an important book.

ALSO RELATED: Derek Hunter of Townhall.com has a new article called “The President Who Wasn’t There.” It recounts some of Joe Biden’s many, many obvious and self-serving lies over the years, but worse, it also looks at the great lengths to which the media has gone to ignore, spin or explain them away (Trump is a LIAR; Joe Biden is a “storyteller,” he just “embellishes narratives to weave a political identity;” why, his lies “aren’t the kind that matter,” they’re the kind your grandfather tells.)

https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2023/10/03/the-president-who-wasnt-there-n2629203

Yes, how well I remember sitting on my grandpa’s knee as he swore to me that he never profited from my father’s shady business deals with China. Oh, wait: that never happened!


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BREAKING: Hunter Biden pleads not guilty to gun crimes

Okay, first son Hunter Biden is known to have been a serious crackhead when he went to buy a Colt Cobra revolver in October 2018, and he allegedly made false statements on an official federal form, maintaining that he was not addicted to drugs.  He was indicted on September 14 on two counts of making false statements and one count of gun possession while he was a known drug user.  Seems pretty cut-and-dried.

A conviction on these charges could bring a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison, which any person ever seen wearing a MAGA hat would probably receive.

But in breaking news Tuesday morning, Hunter pleaded not guilty to these gun-related crimes.  Hunter's lawyers are going to fight the charges, apparently not trying to argue that Hunter didn't do it --- that would be a tough sell --- but that the law itself violates the Second Amendment.  So here's your dose of irony for the day:  Hotshot Democrat DC attorneys using Second Amendment rights in defending the son of a President who would dearly love to clamp down on law-abiding gun owners.  Discuss.

Hunter Biden Pleads Not Guilty To Federal Gun Charges


Emails uncover Iranian spy network within the U.S. government

Haven’t we all wondered over the years why both the Biden and Obama administrations have taken actions that were much more beneficial to Iran than to the United States?  Investigative reporter Lee Smith, writing in TABLET, explains at least part of the mechanism behind this:

“The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails,” which were “published last week after being extensively verified over a period of several months” by independent news source IRAN INTERNATIONAL and by veteran WALL STREET JOURNAL correspondent Jay Solomon.

We learn from these emails that the Iranian regime used a pool of Iranian academics who had pledged their personal loyalty to that regime.  They would meet in foreign countries to “receive instructions” from top regime officials.  These operatives, Smith reports, played on their Iranian heritage and Western academic positions to influence U.S. policy towards Iran.  Malley reportedly supported the efforts of the members of this circle, both inside and outside of government.

And, yes, Malley served as the U.S. government’s chief interlocutor (defined as “one who is involved in conversation”) with Iran for both the Biden and Obama administrations.  It’s all starting to become clearer.

This circle of operatives was, as described in one email from one Iranian official to one of Iran’s lead nuclear negotiators, “a core group of 6-10 second-generation Iranians who have established affiliation with the leading international think-tanks and academic institutions, mainly in Europe and the U.S.”

For when you have time, this article offers much more detail about how our State Department was infiltrated by these operatives.  One Malley protege, Ariane Tabatabai, even briefed members of Congress on the Foreign Relations, Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, and apparently it was all in service to Iran.  Correspondence shows that she “was an active participant in a covert Iranian influence campaign designed to shape U.S. policy in order to serve the interests of the Iran regime,” taking her guidance from “top Iranian officials.”

Peter Theroux, a veteran Mideast analyst who is now retired from the CIA after 25 years of service and receiving the Career Intelligence Medal, said, “I know what a spy network looks like.”  He recognizes this correspondence as “the way recruited assets speak to their handling officers.”

The State Department predictably “rejects the characterization” of this as a spy ring.  “Rob Malley remains on leave and we have no further comment due to privacy considerations,” they said.  “The Biden-Harris administration appointed Ariane Tabatabai to serve various roles in the U.S. government because of her expertise on nuclear and other foreign policy issues.”  But according to Theroux, it seems likely that the Biden administration was well aware of her alleged covert activities on behalf of the Iranian regime.  They way he describes the process for a top-level security clearance, they hardly could not have been.  “Contacts with any foreign government raise more red flags than a Bernie Sanders honeymoon,” he said.  (And that’s saying a lot!)

He went on: “Contacts with senior officials from enemy governments, classified as non-frat governments like Russia, China, Cuba, as well as Iran, are in a different category altogether, what would normally be totally disqualifying.”

Not disqualifying for the Obama and Biden administrations, though.  We hate to keep linking to stories that are going to make you very angry, but let’s face it, more and more stories these days are going to do that.  They just are.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/iran-spy-ring-robert-malley-lee-smith


Evidence shows FBI planted document used to prosecute Proud Boys

The theme for today seems to be covert operations.  It won’t surprise you to know --- in fact, you may already know, if you follow THE GATEWAY PUNDIT’s January 6 reporting --- that the “1776 Returns” document used to convict four Proud Boys, including Enrique Tarrio, who was found guilty of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years, was actually written by a government official and sent to Tarrio immediately before the January 6 rally. There’s no evidence that he even saw it.

Proud Boys attorney Roger Roots has filed a blockbuster brief alleging that this was done “to frame or implicate Tarrio in a government-created scheme to storm buildings around the Capitol.”  He accuses the government of “either entrapment or outrageous government contact, or both.”

The person who apparently wrote the “1776 Returns” document is identified as Samuel Armes, described as “a former State Department and Special Operations official” who was also interviewed by Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 Kangaroo Kommittee.

Armes’ document got to Tarrio by way of a “love interest” named Erika Flores, who told the committee that she’d passed it on at Armes’ request.  Armes later disputed that in his own testimony, saying Flores asked to see it and he shared it with her on a Google drive, never imagining it would become part of January 6.  He also told the committee that he’d been groomed to join the CIA and FBI before his stint at the State Department and special operations and participated in ‘war gaming’ scenarios, such as that contained in the “1776” pages.  (Funny, I don’t remember any of this coming out in the public hearings.)

Jurors in the Proud Boys case did hear about the document but not its origins.  They were left by Judge Timothy Kelly --- who knew of the document’s actual history from pre-trial hearings --- to believe that it was a plan created by Tarrio or one of the other defendants, when it was actually supplied by a government operative.  In the words of attorney Roots, “This means that the most damning document in this trial was authored by the intelligence community --- someone “groomed” by the FBI itself.”

It’s a travesty, just one more piece of the puzzle implicating the FBI.  Much more detail here…

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/now-there-is-evidence-fbi-planned-january-6/

RELATED READING:  The DOJ has been caught in another false statement about Ray Epps.  Why did Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Gordon say Epps left the Capitol area far sooner than he actually did?

Why Did DOJ--and Ray Epps--Lie About Ray Epps? (declassified.live)


On Sunday, Maria Bartiromo of FOX NEWS’ SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES hosted bestselling author Alex Marlow, who has written a new Biden book, “BREAKING BIDEN:  Exposing the Hidden Forces and Secret Money Machine Behind Joe Biden, His Family, and His Administration.”  It’s in bookstores as of Monday.

The interview offers a taste of what he has covered, including deeper family ties to the Bank of China and to Ukraine.  And whatever happened to Hunter’s company Rosemont Realty?  Marlow says it was sold to an entity that was referred to by Xi Jianping as the “Dragon Head” because of its strategic importance.  He alleges that even though Hunter was “paid off for it,” he “also retains a stake in this company,” and we have no idea how much it is.  That’s just one of what he says are many stones unturned.

“That’s why we need to pursue impeachment,” he told Maria, “because the executive branch is trying to obfuscate and trying not to answer questions, trying not to turn over documentation, communications and bank records.”

As for Hunter’s art, one of the buyers is actually Hunter’s lawyer and “sugar brother” Kevin Morris, the same guy who paid his huge tax bill and also his reported $20,000/month rent on a Malibu beach house.  (Hunter really has gotten by with a little help from his friends.)  Other buyers are largely unknown.

But the truly stunning story is that Hunter’s and Devon Archer’s company BHR, controlled by the Bank of China, purchased a $1.7 billion stake in Sinopec in 2014.  In 2022, Sinopec acquired some of America’s strategic petroleum reserve when it was released by President Biden.  Marlow describes Sinopec as “the trading arm of China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation.”  It was a bad idea for President Biden to deplete our strategic oil reserve, which is supposed to be kept in RESERVE in case of national emergency, but at least we can take comfort in the knowledge that Hunter Biden had a stake in a company that benefited.

“There is no reason for Chinese to get U.S. [strategic] oil,” Marlow said, “aside from to benefit the commercial interest of the Biden family.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/10/01/breitbarts-marlow-biden-business-deals-limitless-and-they-are-ongoing/


We are saddened to have to report that Republican state Sen. Doug Larsen of North Dakota, his wife Amy and their two young children have died in a plane crash in Utah. It was a small private plane piloted by the Senator, and the family were the only ones on board.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/utah-plane-crash-leaves-north-dakota-state-senator-wife-2-sons-dead-heartbreaking-loss

The crash is still under investigation. All of us here offer our deepest condolences and prayers for their families, and I hope you will join me in doing so.


A witch hunt

Having attended the first day of the civil fraud trial against him in New York instead of campaigning (which I suspect was the real purpose of the charges), former President Trump is also attending day two. He said he wasn’t required to attend, “but I want to watch this witch hunt myself.”

This trial is going to be so convoluted that I won’t attempt to recap every twist and turn. Fox News has a continually updated page with trial news, so I suggest you click here and check back regularly to keep up.

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

I’ll just comment on the major points. First of all, as ridiculous as this trial seems, it could be devastating for Trump if he can’t get it overturned on appeal. The judge has already found him guilty of wildly overvaluing his properties to lenders, even though Trump has argued, with plenty of justification, that his properties are actually worth far more than Attorney General Letitia James claims they are. Also, all the contracts had disclaimers on them about the subjective evaluations, and the lenders had a duty to do their own valuations. Even in cases where they thought Trump had overvalued the properties, they gave him the loans anyway because they knew he would pay them off with interest, and he did.

But the judge already ruled that the fact that nobody was defrauded is somehow not relevant to finding Trump guilty of fraud. The punishment he’s assessed, requiring Trump to liquidate his assets and give up doing business in New York, has been described as a “corporate death sentence.” Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy, no Trump fan, writes about the Kafkaesque insanity of this trial and explains how, despite the fact that James launched a case that no other prosecutor would touch, the crazy way in which this New York law punishes business people for common practices that aren’t illegal means Trump could suffer a huge loss and have a hard time getting it reversed.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/with-trump-already-found-guilty-his-new-york-fraud-trial-begins/

Tucker Carlson also described this case aptly as “a grotesque parody of the system our ancestors created.”

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/10/02/tucker-trumps-fraud-trial-in-ny-is-a-grotesque-parody-of-the-system-our-ancestors-created-n2164609

Trump’s spokesman denied "news" reports that his attorneys forgot to request a jury trial, saying, "The Attorney General filed this case under a consumer protection statute that denies the right to a jury. There was never an option to choose a jury trial. It is unfortunate that a jury won't be able to hear how absurd the merits of this case are and conclude no wrongdoing ever happened.”

His attorney Alina Habba added, “It has never been used in this way for a reason, because this judge who oversaw the special proceeding has given them everything they wanted, effectively for years. They wanted to keep it in this division as opposed to the commercial division where we would have had a normal judge. So no, everyone, I didn't forget to check a box."

Trump did get some good news out of the trial when the judge finally made a rational ruling that he would dismiss charges James wanted to bring that are beyond the statute of limitations, which would nix about 80% of the remaining charges.

On a more human level, though, I think that James may have overplayed the Democrats’ hand with her repulsive, naked partisanship. Video taken before the trial began revealed the judge mugging for the camera as if he didn’t take this seriously, while James stared daggers at Trump, showing all the world her undisguised personal hatred and bile, and the real motivations for his prosecution. No surprise, considering she ran for election on a promise to “get Trump,” and she’s ignored real criminals while abusing the powers of her office ever since to find something, anything, to charge Trump with.

Even Trump haters who believe he must’ve done something criminal have to be looking at this trial – a kangaroo court that gives kangaroos a bad name, a judge ignoring evidence and handing out death penalties like the Queen of Hearts in “Alice in Wonderland,” and a prosecutor so warped by personal animosity toward Trump that she can’t even hide it – and shuddering at the thought that this is what our criminal “justice” system has been reduced to.


Good news

Trump got some good news from the Supreme Court, which rejected without comment an appeal of a failed attempt to have him barred from the 2024 ballot under the 14th Amendment’s ban on insurrectionists. There are still a couple of others of these frivolous suits floating around, but let’s hope they crash and burn the same way.  If you’re going to try to “save democracy” by banning the people from voting for whoever they want, the least you can do before banning someone for insurrection is prove that he ever actually committed insurrection.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/10/02/supreme-court-says-no-to-considering-effort-to-use-14th-amendment-to-disqualify-trump-n2164597


A DC carjacking is making the news

I’m relieved to report that Texas Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar was unharmed after being carjacked by three armed men in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington, DC. The robbers took his car, and police are investigating. He’s the second Congressional Democrat to become a crime victim in DC this year, after Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig had to fight off an attacker in an elevator in February.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/texas-congressman-henry-cuellar-carjacked-in-washington-dc/ar-AA1hBv5Z

While Rep. Cuellar and I don’t agree on much, I appreciate that so-called “progressives” attack him for being pro-border security and as the only remaining pro-life Democrat in the House. I’m sorry he had to be a victim of the sadly typical blue city crime wave. But it shows that in cities run by leftists, nobody is safe.

And I hope that getting mugged by reality will make him rethink his past support for defunding the police and other idiotic pro-criminal Democrat “justice reform” ideas.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/10/03/defund-the-police-democrat-congressman-carjacked-at-gunpoint-in-d-c-n1731810


A new talking point for Newsom

California Gov. Gavin Newsom can finally take credit for convincing someone to move to California instead of moving out. It’s his new Senate appointee, who apparently had to quickly and surreptitiously move there from Maryland.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/10/02/laphonza-butler-removes-maryland-residence-newsom-appointment-california-senator/


Serious question

There’s an old saying, “Is the Pope Catholic?” That used to describe something obviously true, but a lot of Catholics are starting to ask it seriously about Pope Francis. He’s recently been voicing support for a range of leftwing social issues, from climate change to same-sex marriage, even when they directly contradict the Bible and church teachings. Catholics are starting to notice and speak up about it.

For instance, a new Pew Research poll found that “shockingly few US Catholics” support the Pope’s radical stance on the “climate crisis,” with his calls to end fossil fuels, “fracking for oil and gas extraction, unchecked mega-mining projects, and intensive animal farming.” (FYI: do you know what requires extremely dirty and destructive mega-mining projects? Obtaining minerals for electric car batteries, which also need fossil fuel-fired power plants to charge them.) Pew found that only 44% of US Catholics believe the Earth is warming “mostly due to human activity.” 29% believe it’s warming due to natural processes, while 13% say there’s no solid evidence that it’s warming at all. This is definitely a field in which there’s not much support for the doctrine of Papal infallibility.

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/09/29/liberals-aghast-shockingly-few-u-s-catholics-support-pope-francis-on-climate-change/

FYI, since you probably won’t see it anywhere else, that linked story includes information about the World Climate Declaration, issued in August and signed by over 1600 climate experts, including two Nobel Prize winners. It states that computer climate models have proven completely unreliable (which proves that we are far from understanding climate change), CO2 is not a pollutant, climate change has not increased natural disasters, and we’re still in a natural warming cycle following the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850. I’m sure President Biden disagrees, and he might actually remember 1850.

Other high church officials have also been baffled by some of the Pope’s recent blurring of church and politics. So much so that five concerned Cardinals sent a set of questions known as “dubia” to the Pope seeking clarification of his stances on issues such as same-sex marriage, female priests and “the claim that we should reinterpret divine revelation according to the cultural and anthropological changes in vogue.” That could sum up a lot of recent questionable statements from the Pope.

This link has the questions and the Pope’s answers, but I warn you that they don’t exactly clear up the issues. Maybe they should’ve asked him, “Is the Pope Catholic?”

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255539/read-pope-francis-response-to-the-dubia-presented-to-him-by-5-cardinals


Here’s some good news out of the courts for a change:

A federal court ruled against the ACLU and the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, finding that it is constitutional for South Carolina to continue working with faith-based foster care organizations to help children find homes.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/federal-court-rules-aclu-lets-south-carolina-continue-working-faith-based-foster-care-agencies

That’s right, these two organizations have nothing better to do with their time and their donors’ money than to file lawsuits seeking to prevent people of faith from helping orphaned children find loving homes. Something to think about the next time the ACLU asks for money to defend our precious civil liberties. This case reminds me of Eddie Murphy’s joke about the man who shot the Pope: “I really wanted to go to Hell, and I didn’t want to have to wait in no line.”


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A Witch Hunt

October 3, 2023

Having attended the first day of the civil fraud trial against him in New York instead of campaigning (which I suspect was the real purpose of the charges), former President Trump is also attending day two. He said he wasn’t required to attend, “but I want to watch this witch hunt myself.”

This trial is going to be so convoluted that I won’t attempt to recap every twist and turn. Fox News has a continually updated page with trial news, so I suggest you click here and check back regularly to keep up.

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

I’ll just comment on the major points. First of all, as ridiculous as this trial seems, it could be devastating for Trump if he can’t get it overturned on appeal. The judge has already found him guilty of wildly overvaluing his properties to lenders, even though Trump has argued, with plenty of justification, that his properties are actually worth far more than Attorney General Letitia James claims they are. Also, all the contracts had disclaimers on them about the subjective evaluations, and the lenders had a duty to do their own valuations. Even in cases where they thought Trump had overvalued the properties, they gave him the loans anyway because they knew he would pay them off with interest, and he did.

But the judge already ruled that the fact that nobody was defrauded is somehow not relevant to finding Trump guilty of fraud. The punishment he’s assessed, requiring Trump to liquidate his assets and give up doing business in New York, has been described as a “corporate death sentence.” Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy, no Trump fan, writes about the Kafkaesque insanity of this trial and explains how, despite the fact that James launched a case that no other prosecutor would touch, the crazy way in which this New York law punishes business people for common practices that aren’t illegal means Trump could suffer a huge loss and have a hard time getting it reversed.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/10/with-trump-already-found-guilty-his-new-york-fraud-trial-begins/

Tucker Carlson also described this case aptly as “a grotesque parody of the system our ancestors created.”

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/10/02/tucker-trumps-fraud-trial-in-ny-is-a-grotesque-parody-of-the-system-our-ancestors-created-n2164609

Trump’s spokesman denied "news" reports that his attorneys forgot to request a jury trial, saying, "The Attorney General filed this case under a consumer protection statute that denies the right to a jury. There was never an option to choose a jury trial. It is unfortunate that a jury won't be able to hear how absurd the merits of this case are and conclude no wrongdoing ever happened.”

His attorney Alina Habba added, “It has never been used in this way for a reason, because this judge who oversaw the special proceeding has given them everything they wanted, effectively for years. They wanted to keep it in this division as opposed to the commercial division where we would have had a normal judge. So no, everyone, I didn't forget to check a box."

Trump did get some good news out of the trial when the judge finally made a rational ruling that he would dismiss charges James wanted to bring that are beyond the statute of limitations, which would nix about 80% of the remaining charges.

On a more human level, though, I think that James may have overplayed the Democrats’ hand with her repulsive, naked partisanship. Video taken before the trial began revealed the judge mugging for the camera as if he didn’t take this seriously, while James stared daggers at Trump, showing all the world her undisguised personal hatred and bile, and the real motivations for his prosecution. No surprise, considering she ran for election on a promise to “get Trump,” and she’s ignored real criminals while abusing the powers of her office ever since to find something, anything, to charge Trump with.

Even Trump haters who believe he must’ve done something criminal have to be looking at this trial – a kangaroo court that gives kangaroos a bad name, a judge ignoring evidence and handing out death penalties like the Queen of Hearts in “Alice in Wonderland,” and a prosecutor so warped by personal animosity toward Trump that she can’t even hide it – and shuddering at the thought that this is what our criminal “justice” system has been reduced to.

The theme for today seems to be covert operations.  It won’t surprise you to know --- in fact, you may already know, if you follow THE GATEWAY PUNDIT’s January 6 reporting --- that the “1776 Returns” document used to convict four Proud Boys, including Enrique Tarrio, who was found guilty of seditious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years, was actually written by a government official and sent to Tarrio immediately before the January 6 rally. There’s no evidence that he even saw it.

Proud Boys attorney Roger Roots has filed a blockbuster brief alleging that this was done “to frame or implicate Tarrio in a government-created scheme to storm buildings around the Capitol.”  He accuses the government of “either entrapment or outrageous government contact, or both.”

The person who apparently wrote the “1776 Returns” document is identified as Samuel Armes, described as “a former State Department and Special Operations official” who was also interviewed by Nancy Pelosi’s January 6 Kangaroo Kommittee.

Armes’ document got to Tarrio by way of a “love interest” named Erika Flores, who told the committee that she’d passed it on at Armes’ request.  Armes later disputed that in his own testimony, saying Flores asked to see it and he shared it with her on a Google drive, never imagining it would become part of January 6.  He also told the committee that he’d been groomed to join the CIA and FBI before his stint at the State Department and special operations and participated in ‘war gaming’ scenarios, such as that contained in the “1776” pages.  (Funny, I don’t remember any of this coming out in the public hearings.)

Jurors in the Proud Boys case did hear about the document but not its origins.  They were left by Judge Timothy Kelly --- who knew of the document’s actual history from pre-trial hearings --- to believe that it was a plan created by Tarrio or one of the other defendants, when it was actually supplied by a government operative.  In the words of attorney Roots, “This means that the most damning document in this trial was authored by the intelligence community --- someone “groomed” by the FBI itself.”

It’s a travesty, just one more piece of the puzzle implicating the FBI.  Much more detail here…

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/now-there-is-evidence-fbi-planned-january-6/

RELATED READING:  The DOJ has been caught in another false statement about Ray Epps.  Why did Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Gordon say Epps left the Capitol area far sooner than he actually did?

Why Did DOJ--and Ray Epps--Lie About Ray Epps? (declassified.live)

Serious question

October 3, 2023

There’s an old saying, “Is the Pope Catholic?” That used to describe something obviously true, but a lot of Catholics are starting to ask it seriously about Pope Francis. He’s recently been voicing support for a range of leftwing social issues, from climate change to same-sex marriage, even when they directly contradict the Bible and church teachings. Catholics are starting to notice and speak up about it.

For instance, a new Pew Research poll found that “shockingly few US Catholics” support the Pope’s radical stance on the “climate crisis,” with his calls to end fossil fuels, “fracking for oil and gas extraction, unchecked mega-mining projects, and intensive animal farming.” (FYI: do you know what requires extremely dirty and destructive mega-mining projects? Obtaining minerals for electric car batteries, which also need fossil fuel-fired power plants to charge them.) Pew found that only 44% of US Catholics believe the Earth is warming “mostly due to human activity.” 29% believe it’s warming due to natural processes, while 13% say there’s no solid evidence that it’s warming at all. This is definitely a field in which there’s not much support for the doctrine of Papal infallibility.

https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2023/09/29/liberals-aghast-shockingly-few-u-s-catholics-support-pope-francis-on-climate-change/

FYI, since you probably won’t see it anywhere else, that linked story includes information about the World Climate Declaration, issued in August and signed by over 1600 climate experts, including two Nobel Prize winners. It states that computer climate models have proven completely unreliable (which proves that we are far from understanding climate change), CO2 is not a pollutant, climate change has not increased natural disasters, and we’re still in a natural warming cycle following the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850. I’m sure President Biden disagrees, and he might actually remember 1850.

Other high church officials have also been baffled by some of the Pope’s recent blurring of church and politics. So much so that five concerned Cardinals sent a set of questions known as “dubia” to the Pope seeking clarification of his stances on issues such as same-sex marriage, female priests and “the claim that we should reinterpret divine revelation according to the cultural and anthropological changes in vogue.” That could sum up a lot of recent questionable statements from the Pope.

This link has the questions and the Pope’s answers, but I warn you that they don’t exactly clear up the issues. Maybe they should’ve asked him, “Is the Pope Catholic?”

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/255539/read-pope-francis-response-to-the-dubia-presented-to-him-by-5-cardinals

Haven’t we all wondered over the years why both the Biden and Obama administrations have taken actions that were much more beneficial to Iran than to the United States?  Investigative reporter Lee Smith, writing in TABLET, explains at least part of the mechanism behind this:

“The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails,” which were “published last week after being extensively verified over a period of several months” by independent news source IRAN INTERNATIONAL and by veteran WALL STREET JOURNAL correspondent Jay Solomon.

We learn from these emails that the Iranian regime used a pool of Iranian academics who had pledged their personal loyalty to that regime.  They would meet in foreign countries to “receive instructions” from top regime officials.  These operatives, Smith reports, played on their Iranian heritage and Western academic positions to influence U.S. policy towards Iran.  Malley reportedly supported the efforts of the members of this circle, both inside and outside of government.

And, yes, Malley served as the U.S. government’s chief interlocutor (defined as “one who is involved in conversation”) with Iran for both the Biden and Obama administrations.  It’s all starting to become clearer.

This circle of operatives was, as described in one email from one Iranian official to one of Iran’s lead nuclear negotiators, “a core group of 6-10 second-generation Iranians who have established affiliation with the leading international think-tanks and academic institutions, mainly in Europe and the U.S.”

For when you have time, this article offers much more detail about how our State Department was infiltrated by these operatives.  One Malley protege, Ariane Tabatabai, even briefed members of Congress on the Foreign Relations, Armed Services and Intelligence Committees, and apparently it was all in service to Iran.  Correspondence shows that she “was an active participant in a covert Iranian influence campaign designed to shape U.S. policy in order to serve the interests of the Iran regime,” taking her guidance from “top Iranian officials.”

Peter Theroux, a veteran Mideast analyst who is now retired from the CIA after 25 years of service and receiving the Career Intelligence Medal, said, “I know what a spy network looks like.”  He recognizes this correspondence as “the way recruited assets speak to their handling officers.”

The State Department predictably “rejects the characterization” of this as a spy ring.  “Rob Malley remains on leave and we have no further comment due to privacy considerations,” they said.  “The Biden-Harris administration appointed Ariane Tabatabai to serve various roles in the U.S. government because of her expertise on nuclear and other foreign policy issues.”  But according to Theroux, it seems likely that the Biden administration was well aware of her alleged covert activities on behalf of the Iranian regime.  They way he describes the process for a top-level security clearance, they hardly could not have been.  “Contacts with any foreign government raise more red flags than a Bernie Sanders honeymoon,” he said.  (And that’s saying a lot!)

He went on: “Contacts with senior officials from enemy governments, classified as non-frat governments like Russia, China, Cuba, as well as Iran, are in a different category altogether, what would normally be totally disqualifying.”

Not disqualifying for the Obama and Biden administrations, though.  We hate to keep linking to stories that are going to make you very angry, but let’s face it, more and more stories these days are going to do that.  They just are.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/iran-spy-ring-robert-malley-lee-smith

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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Mike Huckabee


DAILY BIBLE VERSE

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Romans, 12:2


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Today’s Huckabee Video Link

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Newsom chooses Laphonza Butler

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

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

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

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

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

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


Spending deal reached

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


A new White House ban

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

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

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


Trump trial starts today

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Why?

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

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

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

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


Another angle on the first Biden impeachment inquiry hearing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RELATED READING ON IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY:

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

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


And today’s Award for Utter Shamelessness goes to…

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


Crazy talk

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

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


Disney has learned nothing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Not working

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

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

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

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


Feel-Good Story of the Day:

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RELATED READING ON IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Spending deal reached

October 2, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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RIP Dianne Feinstein

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

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

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

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


“Delusional”

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

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


Latest example of naked partisanship

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Bipartisan Agreement

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

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

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

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

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


Equal Justice: Merrick Garland style

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

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

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


Our Shorts National Nightmare Is Over!

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

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

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


Consumer Alert!

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

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


Warning:

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

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


Reality Bites:

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

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

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


Congratulations

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

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

http://www.lauraainsworth.com


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RELATED READING:

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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The second GOP primary debate

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fox News has reactions from prominent conservatives…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This is the Daily Caller’s take…

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

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

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


Trump in Michigan

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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


Brooks Robinson RIP

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

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

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

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

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

Our condolences to his family, friends and many fans.


Philadelphians, you voted for this

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

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

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

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


Evidence released supporting whistleblower testimony in Hunter case

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


A Secret Program

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

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

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


#11

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

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

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


Besieged by Pirates

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

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

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

Someone should tell that to the pirates.


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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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Tonight: A GOP Presidential Debate

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

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


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

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

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


Don’t worry, we are keeping UKRAINE afloat…

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

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


New 2024 poll reveals the elephant in the room

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Unbelievable

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

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

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

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

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


Seriously, Dude?

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


Google would censor this post if they could…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


Green Fantasy News:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


RIP David McCallum

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See the full press release here:

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

Don’t say we didn’t warn you.

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


Judge rules against President Trump

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Menendez update

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great report; recommended highly...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More here, plus video of the FBI raids…

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

 

 


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Another nuisance lawsuit

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

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

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


Debate Info

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

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


Don’t Mess With Texas:

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

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


Exciting new fuel breakthrough

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


Lesson not learned

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Celebrity Hypocrisy News Round-up

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

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

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

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

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

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


Best wishes

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

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


Menendez update: 5 Key Points

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

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

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


Fake News Alert:

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

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


James O’Keefe shows that the police state is here

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

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

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

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

More here, plus video of the FBI raids…

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great report; recommended highly...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More details here…

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

 


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Menendez press conference

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

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

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

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

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


Unprecedented move

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Backing away

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

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

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


Fact-Check Fails 

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

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

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

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


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

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


Nothing but the facts for Rev. Al

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

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

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

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


Life In A Blue City:

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

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


A tentative deal is reached

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

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


Inside the mind of AOC...scary place

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

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


Idea

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

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


Fake News Alert:

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More details here…

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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


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The Poverty Rate increases

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

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

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

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

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

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


Missing fighter is found

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

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

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

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

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


Unprecedented Trump gains, cause Biden White House to panic

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

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

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


Fighting back

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


A Democrat DA sues a Democrat-led city government

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

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

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

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

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


Roger Whittaker RIP

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

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

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

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


Ophelia warning

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

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


Senator Bob Menendez is indicted

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

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

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

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

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

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


When Borders Fall

By Colonel Ken Allard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


“Elvis...has...left the building!”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Elvis...has...left the country!”

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

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

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

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


Insanity

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

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

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

 


The Russell Brand Story

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I won't quote the letter that Rumble sent back to her because I want you to go to that link above and read it in its entirety. It might be the best American response to a British tyrant since the Declaration of Independence.


A Joke

“Homeland Security” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced that 472,000 Venezuelans who are in the US illegally will be granted temporary protected status and work authorization. This is in addition to 242,700 Venezuelans who are already benefiting from TPS. That makes a total of about three-quarters of a million illegal aliens from one country alone who are now immune from deportation and allowed to compete with Americans for jobs.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-administration-gives-protected-status-472000-illegal-immigrants/

In the worst impression of a tough immigration enforcer in history, Mayorkas added that it is “critical that Venezuelans understand that those who have arrived here after July 31, 2023, are not eligible for such protection, and instead will be removed when they are found to not have a legal basis to stay.”

Reminds me of the old joke about drawing a line in the sand, and warning that if anyone steps over it, you’ll draw another line. The Border Patrol doesn’t find it funny: they’re bracing for a fresh onslaught of illegal entrants from Venezuela, anticipating that if they get into the US, the rule will just be expanded next year to include them. It’s amazing how Venezuelan illegal immigrants understand this Administration so much better than the American media companies that cover it every day.

And if you think that story is bad, it’s just the tip of the iceberg…

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2023/09/21/report-joe-bidens-dhs-plans-photo-id-cards-for-illegal-aliens-freed-into-u-s/

Related: Brian Kilmeade of Fox News has a perfect description of Biden Press Secretary Katrine Jean-Pierre’s claims about Biden’s border security policies: “The most worthless series of sentences I could imagine.”

https://www.westernjournal.com/brian-kilmeade-calls-kjp-response-border-worthless-series-sentences-imagine/


Struck down

A federal court in Louisiana struck down the Biden Administration’s attempt to put last-minute restrictions on an offshore oil and gas lease.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-handed-major-legal-defeat-attempt-restrict-oil-gas-drilling-gulf-of-mexico

The judge found that not only would the restrictions cause substantial costs to the oil companies, but he slammed the Biden Administration for attempting to "provide scientific justification to a political reassessment of offshore drilling." He also ruled that the Administration's process looked "more like a weaponization of the Endangered Species Act than the collaborative, reasoned approach prescribed by the applicable laws and regulations."

The Biden Administration claimed it was following the law when it was really just playing politics? Why, it’s unprecedented!


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When Borders Fall

September 22, 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Chan failed to appear for his scheduled hearing on September 15, the House Judiciary Committee immediately fired off a subpoena compelling him to testify before the committee next month.  Jordan went public with some of what the committee already knew, such as the fact that Chan and Laura Dehmlow, section chief of the Foreign Influence Task Force, met with Facebook reps on October 14, 2020, which happened to be the SAME DAY Miranda Devine’s Hunter Biden laptop story appeared in the NEW YORK POST.  (What are the odds?)  Dehmlow and other FBI agents also spoke with Twitter executives by phone.

Dehmlow has been deposed, and she testified that when someone at Twitter asked if the laptop was authentic, one of the FBI agents on the call confirmed that it was, but another agent jumped in to cut him off and say, “no further comment.”  And from then on, the FBI’s standard answer was “no comment,” even though they’d known for about a year that it was real.

In his Missouri v. Biden testimony, Chan answered “no” when asked if he knew about any other communications between Facebook and the FBI regarding the laptop story.  But this contradicts an internal Facebook document that shows Chan took part in a follow-up phone call the very next day.  “COMPLETELY FALSE,” Jordan wrote on Twitter of his testimony.

The Judiciary Committee has been trying to interview Chan and other agents since this Congress convened in January 2021, when they sent a letter to the FBI instructing them to make these individuals available for interviews.  They got no response.  They wrote another letter in November 2022 and got no response, and another in January 2023 and got no response.  The FBI claims they didn’t know about their request until March of 2023.  In case there’s anyone left who still believes anything the FBI says, the committee has copies of the letters they sent.

https://amgreatness.com/2023/09/21/house-judiciary-committee-subpoenas-fbi-agent-elvis-chan-to-appear-for-deposition-after-months-of-fbi-stonewalling

The AMERICAN GREATNESS story explains in more detail how the meeting with Chan “fell apart.”  Witnesses who don’t already have personal counsel are allowed to appear before the Judiciary Committee with agency counsel to avoid the financial burden of hiring a lawyer.  But according to agency protocol, the witness may appear with either personal counsel OR agency counsel --- not both.

Chan had his own personal counsel to be inside the hearing room with him.  The FBI knew about the protocol for two weeks before Chan’s hearing but said nothing.  Then, “65 hours before the scheduled deposition,” the FBI demanded that an exception be made so Chan could appear with both personal and agency attorneys in the room.  (Obviously, they wanted their own attorneys in the room and Chan wasn’t going to give up his.)  They were back and forth on this for two days, and less than 90 minutes before the deposition was to begin, the FBI and DOJ tried to force the Committee’s hand and enter the hearing room with their own attorneys but the Committee would not allow it.  As for Chan, he did not show up.

So, with his deposition coming up next month, where is Elvis Chan now?

“Elvis...has...left the country!”

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/21/jim-jordan-second-subpoena-elvis-chan-fbi/

 

 

RELATED READING:  And now, a third IRS official says the ‘Justice’ Department blocked U.S. Attorney David Weiss’s authority to charge Hunter Biden in his tax/finance case.  This new whistleblower has come forward by name:  IRS Director of Field Operations Michael Batdorf.  He went to the House Ways and Means Committee on September 12.

Details and a link to the transcript of his interview are here…

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/irs-official-doj-hunter-biden/2023/09/21/id/1135432

 


BY MIKE HUCKABEE

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Supreme Court News

The Supreme Court will be hearing several major cases in its next term, and the Epoch Times has a good round-up of these cases and the ramifications of them.

https://lists.youmaker.com/links/EmFrwzUR7L/Jlid8tcrj/5qig4S4J3Yz/w43kOIPsvy

They include a gun rights case; a case challenging a Trump-era tax passed by the GOP Congress (see, I hit my own side when they deserve it) that taxes Americans on potential investment income they never even received; and the one I’ll be watching most closely, a challenge to the power of unelected regulators.

It’s an attempt to kill the Chevron Doctrine, a previous court ruling that judges should give deference to federal regulators’ interpretation of a law if Congress didn’t specifically say anything forbidding it. I think it’s asking far too much of Congress members to expect them to be psychic enough to think of all the creative ways that today’s unelected bureaucrats can invent to twist, pervert and exploit laws to increase their own power and trample on citizens' rights. As long as unelected bureaucrats are allowed to create regulations with the force of law and interpret and enforce them without the express consent of Congress, government of the people, by the people and for the people no longer exists.


More on Ray Epps

The mysterious story of Ray Epps took another baffling turn Tuesday when, more than two years after the January 6th Capitol riot, he was charged with a single misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct. This despite the feds throwing not just the book but the entire bookmobile at everyone else who even walked near the Capitol that day. For instance, a Proud Boys leader who wasn’t even in DC at the time got 22 years in federal prison, longer than the average murder sentence.

Yet Epps, who is on video seemingly inciting protesters to enter the Capitol has never been arrested up until this tiny tap on the wrist. He’s also adamantly denied being an undercover fed plant sent to provoke the riot. But if not, why did he get the kid glove treatment when everyone else got the boxing glove treatment? If the DOJ thinks this latest charge will make the suspicions go away, all it’s done is inflame them even more.

Victoria Taft at PJ Media has more on this story, along with a recap of the long, strange tale of Ray Epps.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/victoria-taft/2023/09/19/well-well-well-look-at-the-conspiracy-theory-the-j6-cat-finally-dragged-in-why-now-n1728211


Congressman, you might want to be more careful…

I’m going to resist the urge to do the obvious jokes about a leak being discovered on a baby-changing table, and just suggest that Rep. Matt Gaetz be more careful about where he leaves draft resolutions demanding the removal of Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker.

https://thelibertydaily.com/heck-leak-motion-vacate-found-baby-changing-station/


Interesting

As you know, I don’t put much stock in horse race polls taken long before the first actual votes are cast. But this latest GOP primary poll from Fox News is interesting, not so much for the candidate standings (those can change on a dime), but for its definition of and polling findings on the differences between so-called “populism” and so-called “conservativism” and the relative voter support for each.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-power-rankings-2024-gop-presidential-frontrunner-challengers-second-place-candidates

I don’t agree exactly with the definitions, and I think that too many people these days are using “populism” as a negative term to try to dismiss what I would call “the will of the people.” For instance, I don’t think there’s anything “traditionally conservative” about continuing to drain our own Treasury and military resources to support an endless war in Ukraine. Or thinking that we just need to tinker around the edges to reform thoroughly corrupted agencies like the FBI.

When you look at the levels of support for what this poll defines as “populism” vs. “conservatism,” it’s obvious which one is preferred by most people. I’ll bet if you asked the same questions of Independents and even Democrats, you might get pretty similar results. That’s why the political elites have to demonize the word “populism”: because they can’t admit that what they really want is to keep governing against the will of the people.


Finally…

Three years ago, in the wake of the George Floyd/BLM riots, Seattle allowed radical protesters to take over a portion of downtown and evict the police. After rampant lawlessness, several murders and a threat by President Trump to send in federal troops, they finally cleared that out, but the city council overrode a mayoral veto and slashed the police budget by 50%. That was followed by more rampant crime, violence, open drug dealing and fentanyl deaths. I know what you’re thinking: “Who could’ve predicted this?!”

Finally, voters elected a Republican city attorney. Now, in another sign of how massively “progressive” policies fail and how truly fed up citizens are with them, the Seattle city council just voted by a two-thirds majority to allow the city attorney to once again start prosecuting drug possession and dealing.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/20/seattle-to-prosecute-drug-possession-3-years-after-defund-the-police-and-chaz/

I guess I should congratulate Seattle for at least coming out of its insane embrace of leftism faster than other blue cities. I wonder how many more decades of Democrat rule will keep destroying cities like Chicago, New York and Baltimore before the citizens finally wise up and stop committing the voting equivalent of hitting themselves in the head with a hammer and wondering why their headache keeps getting worse?


Pushing the narrative

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is the latest Biden Administration official to push the new gaslighting narrative that the economy is doing great, but Americans are just too gloomy-minded to see it. It seems that you are suffering from a “disconnect with reality.” Yes, you…YOU…are the ones who are disconnected from reality. Not the people who want to reelect Joe Biden, whose brilliant leadership has made everything FANTASTIC!

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/09/20/yellen-peoples-view-of-economy-has-disconnect-with-how-economys-doing-people-positive-about-personal-finances/

Just FYI: Last Friday, the national debt rose above $33 trillion for the first time in history. It topped $32 trillion for the first time in June, meaning that under Biden, we’re now adding a trillion dollars in debt every three months. At a time when federal revenues are down, spending is out of control, with Biden and Congress spending over $527 billion in August alone.


A warning for Maine voters:

An organization with the innocuous-sounding name The National Trust for Local News has purchased about two dozen local newspapers in Maine prior to the upcoming elections. This article reveals how the funding behind that is connected to an organization owned by socialist billionaire George Soros.

https://www.westernjournal.com/george-soros-getting-claws-wrapped-around-local-media-swing-state/

It also has some chilling information about much money Soros has pumped into media organizations from NPR on down and into journalism schools to train a whole new generation of leftwing propagandists, and how many people they reach around the word who think they’re actually hearing news.


True crime stories…

The Washington Airport police confirmed that a search of “non-binary” former Biden Administration official Sam Brinton’s home turned up women’s clothing stolen from a Tanzanian designer whose bags disappeared from the airport. They’ve now been returned to her. The case is still under investigation. The story at the link lists the felony theft charges Brinton faced, only to have judges decide twice that “jail wasn’t necessary.” At least the designer has filed a civil suit against them, so let’s hope he’ll face some consequences. (WARNING!) This story includes photos of Sam Brinton in drag, so have your eye bleach handy.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/police-find-female-designers-stolen-clothes-ex-biden-official-sam-brintons-home

Also, a salute to the commenters on this story who pointed out that it’s impossible to be “non-binary,” not only because of basic biology, but when you declare yourself to be “non-binary,” you’re implying that everyone else who isn’t is binary, and now it’s a binary system again.

Related: It apparently was necessary to sentence former Indiana Republican Congress member Stephen Buyer to 22 months in prison for twice profiting through insider trading. The judge rejected a request by prosecutors to make him pay $1.4 million in legal fees due to the fact that his family has been wiped out financially by having to defend himself in court.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-lonng-serving-house-republican-sentenced-22-months-prison-insider-trading

The US Attorney who prosecuted Buyer said, “No insider trader is above the law, and we will continue to bring those who undermine the fairness and integrity of our markets to justice." To which I reply, “Good! Now do Nancy Pelosi.”


Sharing

It’s said that one picture is worth a thousand words. Since those words about New Jersey Democrat Gov. Phil Murphy’s anti-parent school sex ed mandates would be unprintable in this newsletter, I’ll just share an editorial cartoon that depicted it so well, it’s gone viral and is spreading as uncontrollably as a California wildfire.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/cartoon-lampooning-phil-murphys-school-agenda-draws-ecstatic-response-republican-county-chair


Who is running the country?

If you really think Joe Biden is running his Administration and not his staff full of far-left activists, then just imagine an elderly man who can’t seem to stay awake past noon having the energy to, all within three days, create a national office of gun control…

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2023/09/19/joe-biden-to-announce-executive-level-gun-control-office/

…Circumvent Congress by creating a New Deal-style “American Climate Corps”…

https://www.breitbart.com/news/biden-is-using-executive-power-to-create-a-new-deal-style-american-climate-corps/

…And shut down all oil, gas and mining activity on thousands of acres of New Mexico land for the next 50 years...

https://dailycaller.com/2023/09/19/biden-administration-oil-gas-mining-new-mexico-thousands-acres/

Do you really think all those were Joe’s doing? He can’t even work up the energy to face New York Mayor Eric Adams to discuss the illegal immigrant crisis that was created when he reversed all of Trump’s border security policies on Day One.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/eric-adams-slams-biden-not-meeting-ignoring-migrant-crisis-nyc-visit-everybody-knows-where-i-am

One question: He does know that “he” did that, right?


Wise move

A salute to the leaders of Brookhaven, New York, who say they will gladly take the monuments to Washington, Jefferson and Columbus that the woke leftists running New York City are removing. Showing a wisdom sadly lacking in the Big Rotten Apple’s leaders, Brookhaven’s town supervisor said, "We look at their accomplishments, what they did for their time and how they contributed to the long arc of history. And we would welcome having those statues."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/long-island-town-take-statues-washington-jefferson-columbus-rejected-woke-nyc-officials

Incidentally, do you recall how Donald Trump was tarred as a racist for saying he would not remove Confederate monuments because if you gave into that, the same radicals would next demand that we remove statues of Washington and Jefferson and other Founders for not living up to their contemporary woke standards? Maybe it’s time to build a monument to all the things that Trump turned out to be right about.

 


Hollywood

As the Hollywood writers and actors strike drags on, union leaders have invented a new tactic: they’re accusing the producers of preventing the writers from promoting diversity and inclusion. They claim the writers are just “bursting” with “worldview-changing stories” about LGBT characters and scenarios that they’re being prevented from inflicting on…sorry, sharing with the public.  

https://redstate.com/brandon_morse/2023/09/20/sag-aftra-strike-stopping-artists-from-making-worldview-changing-lgbt-stories-complains-union-n2164044

Oh, no! You mean the strike is preventing them from annoying and boring us with more woke propaganda and identity politics in place of entertainment? That sounds like a good reason to pray the strike never ends. Also, if they’re “bursting with stories,” how come we’ve seen almost no movies or TV shows with original stories in about 10 years?


Poor Merrick Garland;  what else could it be but cognitive decline?

If you watched Wednesday’s House Oversight Committee hearings and the testimony of Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland, you must have realized with horror that President Biden is not the only one in a position of high leadership who is cognitively challenged.

Biden increasingly shows signs of dementia, as all can see, and then we have Sen. John Fetterman, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, due to the unfortunate ravages of age and health, but maybe there’s something in the water in DC, too, perhaps some brain-eating protozoa.  Garland is only 70 --- young in DC --- but his brain is apparently disappearing, too.  Why, he can’t seem to recall ANYTHING.

And he seems to be suffering from delusions.  He actually said under oath, “Our job is not to take orders from the President, from Congress, or from anyone else about who or what to criminally investigate.”  To say that truthfully, he must have forgotten that prosecutors from the Special Counsel’s Office visited the White House on a number of occasions, both before and after indicting President Trump.  (If we heard about this, he surely must have.)  As even THE NEW YORK TIMES reported, Biden made it clear he wanted Garland to act like a prosecutor and arrest Trump.

Another delusion was apparent when he said this:

"Our job is to uphold the rule of the law. That means we apply the same laws to everyone. There is not one set of laws for the powerful and another for the powerless, one for the rich and another for the poor, one for Democrats, and another for Republicans; or different rules depending upon one’s race, or ethnicity or religion."

Anyone whose brain is not impaired can see that this statement is completely absurd, wildly at odds with reality.  He denied any politicization of the DOJ at all, which anyone of normal cognitive function knows is impossible with Obama proxy Lisa Monaco serving as the AG’s top assistant.

Still, the memory loss was the most striking revelation.  When asked by Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson if he’d had contact with anyone at FBI headquarters about the Hunter Biden investigation, he stammered (after a long, uncomfortable pause), “I--I don’t recollect the answer to that question.”  And then, from the dim recesses of his brain, “But the FBI works for the Justice Department.”

When asked again, “You don’t recollect whether you talked to anybody at FBI headquarters about an investigation involving the President’s son,” Garland said, “I don’t believe that I did.”

Naturally, anyone with normal cognitive function would be able to remember clearly whether or not he’d had “contact” with his subordinates on a felony case involving the son of the President.  The fact that he couldn’t remember should be a red flag, suggesting that his loved ones should seek medical attention for him right away.  Perhaps there’s some cutting-edge drug that could help with blood flow to the brain.  (It doesn’t seem to be helping on Biden, but...)

There’s one other possible explanation:  Garland’s brain functions normally and he was lying his head off.  But surely it’s not that!  Why, our ‘Justice’ Department is the heart and soul of what America stands for.  The United States Attorney General couldn’t possibly be that dishonest.  No, it must be dementia.

Garland also inappropriately smiled and chuckled when confronted with serious accusations of inaction on the case.  I’m not a physician, but I’ve read that inappropriate displays of emotion can be a sign of dementia.

As Jesse Watters pointed out Wednesday evening, “The attorney general puts everybody under investigation, and then refuses to answer any questions because there’s an ongoing investigation.”  I would think that if the poor man could better organize his thoughts, he wouldn’t have mindlessly opened cases on everyone and could now speak more freely to the committee.  Surely that would’ve been his intention.

The investigation into Hunter’s taxes has been going on for five years.  The attorney general can’t seem to remember anything from this entire period.  So, both short-term and long-term memory appear to have been affected.  So sad.

The poor fellow couldn’t handle the most basic questions that someone in his position should know.  When asked how many FBI confidential informants entered the Capitol on January 6, he was unable to answer.  Sadly, he’s not the only official in DC whose brain perhaps has been affected by something in the water...

https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/fbi-lost-count-of-number-of-informants-at-capitol-on-jan-6-ex-official/

When confronted with that leaked memo from the Richmond, Virginia, field office about “radical traditionalist Catholics” and asked if he thought traditional Catholics were violent extremists, Garland couldn’t answer, expressing uncertainty about the meaning of the word “traditional.”

He suddenly became extremely indignant, changing the focus of the question with his strong emotional reaction.  “The idea that someone of my family background [Jewish] would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous, so absurd!”  He did go on to say that both he and FBI Director Wray were “appalled” by the memo.  But he did not reply to the question on whether or not they are extremists.  Of course, all the Democrats in Washington have forgotten what a real extremist is, thinking it’s everyone who wears a Trump hat and/or an American flag pin, further strengthening our “something in the water” theory.

Garland does have one clear memory, but it’s nonsensical.  He said under oath that he couldn’t talk about internal department deliberations “because I promised the Senate I wouldn’t.” 

As if all this weren’t enough, I’m reminded that Garland appointed David Weiss as special counsel when Weiss was already handling the case as U.S. attorney and supposedly had had free reign to conduct an independent investigation.  This duplication of effort is symptomatic of memory loss consistent with dementia and/or infection with brain-eating protozoa from drinking water from the Potomac River.

Hey, this would even explain why the statute of limitations for Hunter’s 2014-2015 tax returns was allowed to expire.  They just forgot!

Anyway, that would be my diagnosis because, gosh, what else could it be?

 

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https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/09/20/how-garland-answered-and-didnt-answer-questions-on-hunter-biden-the-capitol-riot-targeting-catholics/

https://www.foxnews.com/media/social-media-skewers-ag-garland-says-doj-applies-same-laws-everyone-straight-up-liar

Rudy Giuliani told NEWSMAX that the attorney general has “dishonored” the DOJ and made some solid points about both him and Weiss…

https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/rudy-giuliani-merrick-garland-david-weiss/2023/09/20

Also, don’t miss House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio, on HANNITY last night.  No cognitive impairment there!

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6337528157112

 

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RELATED:  Yesterday, we told you about Homeland Security’s new ‘working group’ to address threats both foreign and domestic (mostly domestic, as we all know), called the “Experts Group” and including former CIA Director John Brennan and former National Director of Intelligence James Clapper, two major perpetrators of the Russia Hoax who actively worked to frame Trump as a Russian asset.  They’re experts, all right, but not in the areas they should be.  Former senior adviser to the Senate Judiciary Committee Garrett Ventry and investigative reporter/author Lee Smith (one of our favorite sources) appeared with Jesse Watters last night to discuss it.

We’ve discussed most of this same information but if you missed the segment, you might want to see it when the full Jesse Watters show is posted.  An additional point made by Lee Smith is that “John Brennan was Barack Obama’s intelligence guy.”  This is from the beginning, from before Obama went to the White House.  Smith reads this as an endorsement and a signal to Washington elites from Barack Obama, as in, “Don’t worry, Joe, we’ve got your back.”  We see it as getting the chess pieces on the board for whoever turns out to be the candidate, and that person might be someone with VERY close ties to Obama.

Smith sees Biden as Obama’s “avatar.”  Of course, that works for another term only if Biden is electable.  With his mental decline and his poll numbers, Biden can’t be on the ticket unless his running mate is the one Obama’s really backing for next President.

The NEW YORK POST had a scathing editorial on this “Experts Group”…

https://nypost.com/2023/09/20/spies-who-lie-will-fit-in-great-with-team-bidens-dhss-serial-liars/


Rupert Murdoch to step down

Rupert Murdoch, 92, announced Thursday morning that he’s stepping down as Chair of Fox Corporation and Executive Chairman of News Corp in November, with his son Lachlan becoming chair of both companies. Most media outlets described this as “retirement,” but the senior Murdoch said he’s transitioning to Chairman Emeritus at Fox and News. He said, "For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change.”

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rupert-murdoch-announces-transition-new-role-chairman-emeritus-fox-news-corp

Many conservatives are worried that with Lachlan taking over the CEO reins, Fox News will move more to the left. But Rupert Murdoch said the battle over freedom of speech and freedom of thought has never been more intense, and his family remains firmly committed to that cause. That linked story reports that he criticized both contemptuous elites and the media in "cahoots" with them for pushing narratives rather than seeking the truth and said, “In my new role, I can guarantee you that I will be involved every day in the contest of ideas." He added, “We have every reason to be optimistic about the coming years - I certainly am, and plan to be here to participate in them." 

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Yesterday, we told you that yet another FBI informant with information about the Biden family business had been “shut down” by the FBI, in October 2020, just prior to the election.  “Follow-the-money” author Peter Schweizer had determined that this information came from retired FBI Special Agent Tim Thibault, in testimony before the House Oversight Committee last week.

(Just a thought:  Schweizer wrote the bestseller CLINTON CASH, and we wonder if he might want to call his next one BIDEN BUCKS.  You’re welcome!)

According to Schweizer, Thibault told the committee that his main contribution to the Hunter probe was “to shut down the use of a confidential source whom he discovered was actually a right-wing author whose information he feared would taint the legitimacy of the investigation.”

Recall that Thibault resigned from the FBI in the wake of allegations that he helped shield Hunter Biden from criminal investigations.  Here’s that story from July of last year.  Kind of fun to look back at it now, in light of what we’ve since learned.  Read the letter it includes from Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley to AG Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray.  In it, Grassley says Thibault “allegedly ordered the matter [the Hunter investigation] closed without providing a valid reason as required by FBI guidelines…it’s alleged that FBI officials, including ASAC Thibault, subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future.”

Somebody wanted it “disappeared.”

https://nypost.com/2022/07/26/fbi-doj-accused-of-downplaying-hunter-biden-dirt/

As it turns out, the FBI’s additional confidential human source, the one Thibault got “shut down,” apparently was...(drum roll)...Peter Schweizer (cymbal crash)!  He didn’t name Schweizer in last week’s testimony but did to THE NEW YORK TIMES back in May.

It all started when the the Public Corruption Unit of the FBI contacted Schweizer’s organization, a non-profit called the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) for information the GAI had gathered on Hunter Biden’s business dealings for Schweizer’s books SECRET EMPIRES and PROFILES IN CORRUPTION.  The GAI had pieced together the story of Hunter’s involvement in the Ukrainian energy company Burisma and the CCP-connected firm CEFC.  All the information they had was already in the public record, nothing from sketchy sources.

Schweizer isn’t buying that the reason Thibault shut him down as a source was because he was “concerned about the integrity” of the FBI investigation.  “Nobody has ever challenged any of the facts that we discovered and wrote about,” he said.

Schweizer is co-host of the podcast DRILL DOWN, and we’ve included a link to his latest episode, in which he discusses this, starting at about 10:45.  You’ll see that Thibault, in his fiery opening statement, testified that the allegations of political interference were “baseless,” but in the next breath told them his main job in the investigation was to shut down a confidential human source because the fact that he was a right-wing author might taint the investigation!  (The FBI has done enough to taint this investigation, all by themselves.)

Schweizer calls this Thibault’s “shoot the messenger” tactic, reminding us that Thibault is the FBI agent who originally interviewed former Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski in the fall of 2020, but DID NOT SHARE THAT INTERVIEW WITH ANYONE, such as the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware.  And Bobulinski was no “far-right” anything --- he was not a political figure at all.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/19/peter-schweizer-schools-ex-fbi-agent-who-shielded-bidens/

Also, there are more fishy numbers that tie Joe himself with the Biden businesses.  The U.K. DAILY MAIL reported last year that there was a discrepancy between income Joe Biden reported to the IRS in 2017 and 2018 and what he declared on the financial disclosure form he had to complete when he entered the 2020 presidential race.  Tax returns showed $12.6 million; the financial disclosure form showed $7.4 million.

How to explain this $5.2 million discrepancy?  (Coincidentally, $5 million is the amount of the bribe Burisma founder Mykolo Zlochevsky is said to have claimed to have paid to each of two Bidens.)  Schweizer theorizes that by 2019, Biden was getting a lot of scrutiny over Hunter’s foreign deals, “and he just wanted some of that money to disappear.”

Here’s a little trip down memory lane.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10728521/Financial-records-reveal-Joe-Biden-5-2million-unexplained-income.html

Isn’t it amazing how this news has been out there for a year, sometimes two or three years, and you and I know it but most of America still has no clue?  At least that’s finally starting to change.  Now that the mainstream media have dutifully played their assigned role in hiding it, they’re dutifully playing their assigned role in slowly letting it out.

In impeachment inquiry news --- and remember, it’s an impeachment INQUIRY into allegations of corruption by the President, not an actual impeachment --- the House will hold its first impeachment inquiry hearing next Thursday.  This is the evidence-gathering stage.  The House Oversight Committee, chaired by Kentucky Rep. James Comer, will likely subpoena bank records for Hunter and James Biden, the President’s brother, to continue in their quest to “follow the money.”  That’s what he told Sean Hannity last night.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6337457342112

Comer also will seek additional transcribed interviews with Hunter business partners, particularly Eric Schwerin and Rob Walker.  But this first day of hearings isn’t likely to tread new ground, according to sources for FOX NEWS.  It will review the existing evidence --- there’s a lot, and those who say differently are deliberately lying or in deep denial --- and “explain the status of the inquiry.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-hold-first-biden-impeachment-inquiry-hearing-thursday

 

RELATED:  Finally, here’s a story worthy of the BABYLON BEE.  Did you know Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has put together a team of experts, called the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group, to provide “unique perspectives on the federal government’s intelligence enterprise” to DHS’s [Intelligence and Analysis] and the Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator?  The group will meet periodically to analyze threats posed by both “foreign nation-state adversaries” and “domestic violent extremists.”  Like those violent, racist “MAGA Republicans” I’ve heard so much about?

This is so important to our national security that he’s put former CIA Director John Brennan and former National Director of Intelligence James Clapper on it.  Myorkas has succeeded in one thing:  insulting OUR intelligence.

So, aren’t you glad they’re on the job?  Although, as BREITBART reports, “It is unclear how Brennan will advise the Department of Homeland Security, given that President Trump revoked his security clearance in 2018, in reaction to Brennan’s increasingly unhinged political attacks on the President.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/19/mayorkas-names-russia-hoaxers-laptop-deniers-brennan-clapper-to-intelligence-experts-panel/

These are the same intelligence “experts” who falsely tried to discredit the NEW YORK POST’s Hunter Biden laptop story, so the POST has plenty to say about their appointment...

https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/mayorkas-taps-spies-who-lied-for-new-intelligence-experts-group/

 

FURTHER READING:  Tristan Leavitt, head of the Empower Whistleblower Center, has expressed fresh concerns that the Biden White House is applying pressure to the ‘Justice’ Department to prosecute IRS special-agents-turned-whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler.  As you know, the White House sent a memo to news media imploring them to attack efforts to investigate the Bidens.  But there’s much more; here’s John Solomon’s take...

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/tuewhite-house-actions-raise-alarm-about-possible-political

Reality hits California

September 20, 2023

The big problem with all liberal plans is that sooner or later, they have to leave the fantasy worlds of the liberal media or the Ivy League faculty lounge and be tested in the harsh lab of reality, and that’s when they melt down like a cake left in the rain. For instance, we were all going to be driving electric cars – until enough people bought them and described their experiences, and now they’re gathering dust on car lots. Well, here are a couple more examples, courtesy of (naturally) California:

California legislators passed State Bill 2098, or the “Medical Misinformation Law,” that barred doctors from spreading “misinformation” or “disinformation” about COVID-19. What it did in reality was attempt to repeal both the First Amendment and the scientific method by punishing doctors for questioning official government narratives, as if having medical bureaucrats declare something true made it both objectively correct and legally unquestionable. It went into effect on January 1st, was blocked by a federal judge one month later in response to a lawsuit, and has just been quietly repealed by the Assembly before the Courts could toss it out as the unconstitutional garbage that it clearly is.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/california-repeals-medical-misinformation-law-punish-doctors/

Also last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law repealing the ban on state employees traveling to states that “discriminate” against the LGBTQ+ community. Since they passed it in 2017, they'd added more than half of US states to the list, as those evil, intolerant haters passed such unconscionable and un-California-like laws as banning men from going into women’s bathrooms. As you might imagine, this virtue-signaling became rather inconvenient, particularly with Newsom himself making so many politically-motivated visits to red states.

Newsom said he hopes the repeal "helps California’s message of acceptance, equality and hope reach the places where it is most needed."  Which begs the question, if LGBTQ people are treated so badly in red states and so well in California, why aren’t they all moving there? So few people are doing that these days that you’d think the rest of America had a travel ban on going to California.  

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-gov-gavin-newsom-signs-bill-ending-travel-ban-red-states

…And a new California gun control bill banning ads for firearms that “reasonably appear to be attractive to minors” was struck down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for being so broadly written that it infringes on both the First and Second Amendments. The court’s ruling is a must-read, particularly for reality-denying leftist legislators:

“California cannot straitjacket the First Amendment by, on the one hand, allowing minors to possess and use firearms and then, on the other hand, banning truthful advertisements about that lawful use of firearms. There is no evidence in the record that a minor in California has ever unlawfully bought a gun, let alone because of an ad. Nor has the state produced any evidence that truthful ads about lawful uses of guns—like an ad about hunting rifles in Junior Sports Magazines’ Junior Shooters—encourage illegal or violent gun use among minors. Simply put, California cannot lean on gossamers of speculation to weave an evidence-free narrative that its law curbing the First Amendment ‘significantly’ decreases unlawful gun use among minors. The First Amendment demands more than good intentions and wishful thinking to warrant the government’s muzzling of speech.”

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2023/09/13/ninth-circuit-grants-injunction-against-california-law-targeting-gun-marketing-n74805

But has California learned anything from having to backtrack from so many fuzzy-headed, unconstitutional laws passed to appease a small minority at the expense of the rights of the majority? I’ll let you read this and decide that…

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/09/10/californias-coming-inquisition-targeting-anti-trans-parents/

Related: San Francisco also banned travel to red states. But the city has become such a crime-ridden basket case under leftist rule that they’re now desperate to find people who are willing to join the city’s beleaguered police department. And guess where they’re looking for recruits: in Texas! Good luck with that!

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/09/18/the-bay-area-is-still-struggling-to-recover-from-defund-the-police-now-theyre-hoping-texas-can-help-n578984

“This case seems to be almost like a tantrum that Abbe Lowell’s having...”

That’s the observation of former federal prosecutor Jonathan Fahey, in an interview Monday night with FOX NEWS’ Trace Gallagher, speaking of Hunter Biden’s lead attorney suing the IRS and the former agents who came forward with their concerns about his case. The whistleblowers “did everything under the law in revealing this information,” Fahey said. The suit, he said, is apparently not about their testimony but what they’ve said since going to the House Ways and Means Committee.

(As you know, they went to Ways and Means in the first place because they were dealing with someone’s personal tax records, and this committee, behind closed doors, was the only place they could legally divulge that. The committee then had the authority to allow a public hearing before the Oversight Committee.)

“...I don’t really see the merits of this lawsuit,” he said, “and I’m not really seeing the point of the lawsuit, either, as far as the big picture for his client, how it benefits him.”

In his original plea deal, which was scrapped --- no matter what Abbe Lowell says --- Hunter was originally charged with misdemeanors for crimes that normally would be considered felonies. According to Fahey, the judge in California could come back and charge him with felony tax offenses, if he is so inclined (I wouldn’t hold my breath), along with felony gun crimes. “So, really, things are going in a bad direction for Hunter…this current legal strategy doesn’t seem to be helping him that much, from what I’m seeing.”

That’s in line with a report from the WASHINGTON POST that David Weiss may soon file a new indictment against Hunter on tax charges in a California federal court. ABC NEWS got specific about this --- WAPO, ABC...see, the memo really has gone out! --- saying Hunter will likely face charges of failure to pay taxes after allegations made by IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler about money from Burisma channeled through a Chinese firm run by the Biden family business.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/18/report-david-weiss-may-soon-charge-hunter-biden-california-tax-crimes/

Fahey predicted Hunter won’t go to trial on the gun charges, and that his attorneys would try to work out a deal and “keep the option open” of appealing on a constitutional issue with those. He also predicted no jail time, surprise!

Mark Lytle, the attorney for former IRS lead investigator Gary Shapley, had weighed in earlier in the day, saying, “Congress wrote the law so that whistleblowers could come forward in a protected manner and shine the light on government misconduct. And that’s what happened here. And as a result, the ‘sweetheart’ plea deal was revealed...and the judge rejected it. And they’re mad about that, and they’re coming after the whistleblowers.”

Oh, they’re mad, of course, but going on the offensive in a blind fury is also their legal strategy. Very deliberate.

The lawsuit itself is extremely tenuous. It alleges that Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler sought to “publicly smear” Hunter Biden by releasing information about his taxes to congressional investigators. This, his attorneys say, adds up to a violation of his “privacy rights.”

(Aside: I thought that with the release of President Trump’s tax returns under the Biden administration, the idea of financial privacy was a thing of the past! Why, it must be back again.)

In suing the IRS, Hunter is, in effect, suing his father’s administration, claiming that IRS agents “targeted and sought to embarrass” him. His attorneys also allege that the whistleblowers released information that Congress had not yet released. That includes allegations of his failure to pay $2.2 million in taxes --- hey, we already knew about that; it’s the bill his “sugar brother” Kevin Morris paid --- and possible tax fraud over claiming expenses for prostitutes and sex clubs on his returns.

They told about the prostitutes and sex clubs?? Why, Hunter’s squeaky-clean reputation is RUINED!!

Attorney Lytle released a statement: “Neither IRS SSA Gary Shapley nor his attorneys have ever released any confidential tax information except through whistleblower disclosures authorized by statute. Once Congress released that testimony, like every American citizen, he has a right to discuss that information.” He called the lawsuit “just another frivolous smear by Biden family attorneys trying to turn people’s attention away from Hunter Biden’s own legal problems and intimidate any current and future whistleblowers.” I don’t think the IRS is losing any sleep over it.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/18/whistleblower-lawyer-slams-hunter-bidens-lawsuit-charging-invasion-of-privacy-n2163980

By the way, did you know that there was another FBI informant in the Biden case who was “shut down” before the 2020 election? Retired Special Agent Timothy Thibault, a 25-year employee who was second in command at the Washington field office, testified before the House Judiciary Committee last week, and said he’d been told by the lead agent in the Hunter tax case to shut down their confidential human source (CHS).

Thibault wasn’t identified in the transcript, but investigative reporter Peter Schweizer believes he has identified him based on previous comments he’s made and other clues. More on this will undoubtedly be coming out soon; in the meantime, here’s what we know…

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/09/18/another-fbi-informant-in-biden-case-was-shut-down-before-2020-election-n1727870

House Oversight Committee Chair Jim Jordan no doubt has many questions for Special Counsel David Weiss on his handling of the Hunter case, and Weiss is now scheduled to testify before the committee on October 11. Jordan is also calling for documents relating to whistleblowers Shapley and Ziegler. His full list of demands is here...

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2023/09/18/jim-jordan-continues-to-crack-down-on-investigation-into-hunter-biden-n2628600

Allen West has a great editorial on the “Hunter Biden Hustle,” going through the reasons why it’s just not gonna play with the American people and pointing out the ironies of “Mr. Gun Control” having a son who’s guilty of three felony gun charges. You’ll enjoy this… 

https://townhall.com/columnists/allenwest/2023/09/18/the-hypocrisy-of-the-hunter-biden-hustle-n2628558

Well, let’s move on to see how this scandal is currently affecting the Big Guy. The mainstream media are pretending he’s doing great --- that, cognitively, he’s superior to Trump (I am not kidding). “Which begs the question,” David Strom said, “if they [Democrats] know the MSM will lie on something so obvious, why do they believe these shills on anything else?”

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/09/18/ayfkm-joe-biden-much-more-coherent-than-trump-n578829

Poll-wise, Biden is cratering. According to a new survey from Harvard-CAPS-Harris, Biden is trailing Trump. But even worse, he’s also trailing Nikki Haley and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott. You might say he’s got three strikes against him.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/09/18/new-poll-reveals-devastating-news-for-president-biden-great-news-for-republican-candidates-n2163967

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has a theory for how the election is going to go, and we think he must have been reading the Huckabee newsletter. He predicts the Democrats will push Biden aside, and who else will parachute in at the last minute to “save” the party and take the nomination but...Michelle Obama. She’ll be portrayed as “the adult in the room.” (One of my writers has only been saying this for the past three years, only she used the term “healer.”) Cruz talks about the various scenarios that might replace Biden with Michelle --- as we did years ago --- in this podcast…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6wWH4vh24Q

Bonchie at REDSTATE doesn’t think it would be all that easy for the Democrats to accomplish this, though, because of other candidates, such as Kamala, who won’t cooperate and will cause a floor fight. Perhaps he’s underestimating the power of the Obamas. He’s always heard Michelle hated being in the White House. Perhaps he’s underestimating the amount of time she could spend “vacationing.” He thinks Biden will still be the candidate, that Democrats “will have to ride or die with Joe Biden.”

Perhaps he’s forgotten: They’re Democrats. They don’t intend to lose. But here’s what he says...

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/18/ted-cruz-has-a-very-interesting-theory-on-who-will-replace-joe-biden-in-2024-n2163966

Duke, also at REDSTATE, doesn’t see Biden getting to the finish line. He talks about Cruz’s prediction as well, and relates a story about Biden’s biographer Franklin Foer saying it “wouldn’t be a total shock” to him if Biden gave up running again, “much earlier than August of next year.”

https://redstate.com/tladuke/2023/09/18/someone-who-knows-biden-well-says-it-would-not-be-a-total-shock-if-he-dropped-out-of-2024-race-n2163981

 

When AOC and other Democrats were booed and shouted down by fellow New Yorkers furious over their city being inundated with illegal aliens thanks to Biden’s open border, she dismissed that as just “conservatives” pretending to be angry New Yorkers. But when thousands of reality-denying protesters jammed New York streets with a “March to End Fossil Fuels” for “New York Climate Week,” well, those people we should take seriously.

https://www.westernjournal.com/radical-ignore-aoc-sends-aggressive-demand-biden-climate-march/

Warning that Biden is not acting fast enough to ban oil and gas, AOC urged the crowd to make their protests ““too big and too radical to ignore.” She shouted, “We need urgency on this issue right now, right now.  And the way we create urgency on the issue of climate is that we have people all across the world in the streets…demanding a cessation of what is killing us. We demand change! It will happen now!” She was accompanied by a number of leftist Hollywood celebrities, including Ethan Hawke, Edward Norton and Kevin Bacon.

Question: How did all those people get into New York City and home again? We know the celebrities came from Hollywood, and that’s an awfully long walk or bike ride. I don’t believe they drove all across the country in electric cars because that would be nuts. Even if they did, EVs don’t reduce pollution; they create even more environmental destruction in their production than regular cars, and charging them just outsources the burning of fossil fuels to power plants that are out of sight, so I guess they don’t count.

Unsurprisingly, the DC Communist Party (speaking of things that really have killed a lot of people) hailed the protest to end fossil fuels, boasting that the crowd was over 75,000 people. Unless all of them walked, biked or skated there and back, they can go pound sand.

 


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Protection please

Saturday in Los Angeles, a man carrying loaded pistols and ammunition and impersonating a US Marshal was arrested at a public event for Democratic Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/armed-man-impersonating-law-enforcment-arrested-rfk-jr-campaign-event-los-angeles

You’d think that would convince the Biden Administration to stop denying RFK Jr. Secret Service protection, considering that both his father and uncle were assassinated and now, they’ve arrested someone for trying to approach him with a loaded gun. Kennedy said he’s still “entertaining a hope” that he will be granted protection, after being the first Presidential candidate in history for whom the White House denied a request for protection. The White House's excuse was that protection is never provided until much later in the campaign year, but that’s not true: Obama got it much earlier.

On the other hand, considering that a new Rasmussen poll found that a third of voters would be open to supporting a third-party candidate in 2024 rather than reelect Biden, RFK Jr. should be grateful Biden hasn’t given him 24/7 armed security by indicting and jailing him. Yet.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/stunning-38-would-vote-third-party-in-trump-biden-election


Everything is peaches and cream…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom went on CNN Monday to test-drive the Democrats’ 2024 Biden reelection narrative: Joe’s actually doing a fantastic job, it’s just that Americans have been so “traumatized” over the past five or six years that we’re in Debby Downer mode and simply can’t see how peachy everything is.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/09/18/newsom-biden-is-doing-well-but-weve-been-polarized-and-traumatized-over-last-five-six-years/

I wonder how the Democrats’ anti-fossil fuel wing is going to react to them trying to gaslight half the country. I also wonder if they really think Americans are dumb enough to believe that just because they're working three jobs to pay for groceries, rent and gas, they should congratulate Joe Biden for creating full employment.


Reality

The big problem with all liberal plans is that sooner or later, they have to leave the fantasy worlds of the liberal media or the Ivy League faculty lounge and be tested in the harsh lab of reality, and that’s when they melt down like a cake left in the rain. For instance, we were all going to be driving electric cars – until enough people bought them and described their experiences, and now they’re gathering dust on car lots. Well, here are a couple more examples, courtesy of (naturally) California:

California legislators passed State Bill 2098, or the “Medical Misinformation Law,” that barred doctors from spreading “misinformation” or “disinformation” about COVID-19. What it did in reality was attempt to repeal both the First Amendment and the scientific method by punishing doctors for questioning official government narratives, as if having medical bureaucrats declare something true made it both objectively correct and legally unquestionable. It went into effect on January 1st, was blocked by a federal judge one month later in response to a lawsuit, and has just been quietly repealed by the Assembly before the Courts could toss it out as the unconstitutional garbage that it clearly is.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/california-repeals-medical-misinformation-law-punish-doctors/

Also last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law repealing the ban on state employees traveling to states that “discriminate” against the LGBTQ+ community. Since they passed it in 2017, they'd added more than half of US states to the list, as those evil, intolerant haters passed such unconscionable and un-California-like laws as banning men from going into women’s bathrooms. As you might imagine, this virtue-signaling became rather inconvenient, particularly with Newsom himself making so many politically-motivated visits to red states.

Newsom said he hopes the repeal "helps California’s message of acceptance, equality and hope reach the places where it is most needed."  Which begs the question, if LGBTQ people are treated so badly in red states and so well in California, why aren’t they all moving there? So few people are doing that these days that you’d think the rest of America had a travel ban on going to California.  

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-gov-gavin-newsom-signs-bill-ending-travel-ban-red-states

…And a new California gun control bill banning ads for firearms that “reasonably appear to be attractive to minors” was struck down by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for being so broadly written that it infringes on both the First and Second Amendments. The court’s ruling is a must-read, particularly for reality-denying leftist legislators:

“California cannot straitjacket the First Amendment by, on the one hand, allowing minors to possess and use firearms and then, on the other hand, banning truthful advertisements about that lawful use of firearms. There is no evidence in the record that a minor in California has ever unlawfully bought a gun, let alone because of an ad. Nor has the state produced any evidence that truthful ads about lawful uses of guns—like an ad about hunting rifles in Junior Sports Magazines’ Junior Shooters—encourage illegal or violent gun use among minors. Simply put, California cannot lean on gossamers of speculation to weave an evidence-free narrative that its law curbing the First Amendment ‘significantly’ decreases unlawful gun use among minors. The First Amendment demands more than good intentions and wishful thinking to warrant the government’s muzzling of speech.”

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2023/09/13/ninth-circuit-grants-injunction-against-california-law-targeting-gun-marketing-n74805

But has California learned anything from having to backtrack from so many fuzzy-headed, unconstitutional laws passed to appease a small minority at the expense of the rights of the majority? I’ll let you read this and decide that…

https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/09/10/californias-coming-inquisition-targeting-anti-trans-parents/

Related: San Francisco also banned travel to red states. But the city has become such a crime-ridden basket case under leftist rule that they’re now desperate to find people who are willing to join the city’s beleaguered police department. And guess where they’re looking for recruits: in Texas! Good luck with that!

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/09/18/the-bay-area-is-still-struggling-to-recover-from-defund-the-police-now-theyre-hoping-texas-can-help-n578984


Message to Illinois Democrats: Give yourselves a hand!

Illinois Democrats decided that it wasn’t fair that violent criminals were running amok in Chicago. So they just became the first state to do away with cash bail, so that violent criminals can now run amok statewide.

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2023/09/18/criminals-will-run-wild-illinois-becomes-first-state-to-abolish-cash-bail-as-fears-mount/


Accusations

I’ve noticed that suddenly, we’re hearing accusations of sexual misconduct against a number of prominent conservatives and even moderates who are known for standing up against the radical left. Some are attacks on personal behavior or alleged private conduct which would not only be ignored but defended and even celebrated if the target were on the left (if you don’t believe me, look at the full-throated defense of the Virginia Democratic Congressional candidate who sold porn videos of herself and her husband on the Internet.) And some stories, sadly, involve accusations of possibly criminal misconduct.

Comedian/podcaster Russell Brand was suddenly struck with multiple accusations of sexual assault, including rape, from a decade or so ago, which he denies. He admitted going through a period of addiction and promiscuity, but insists all his sexual conduct was consensual. Nevertheless, he was immediately dumped by his agent and publisher, his comedy tour was canceled and YouTube demonetized his popular channel. All this based on anonymous allegations with no charges even being filed (at least not yet), much less a conviction. Some of his fans believe this may be motivated by his recent prominence as a critic of government narratives on COVID and other hot button issues. Whether it is or not, there’s no question that it’s a prime example of our modern culture of “guilty until proven innocent.”

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/09/19/canceled-youtube-stops-russell-brand-from-monetizing-videos/

And speaking of oddly coincidental accusations, Tim Ballard, the inspiration for “Sound of Freedom,” the movie about fighting child sex trafficking that Hollywood and the media couldn’t kill, has suddenly been accused of sexual misconduct involving seven women. Ballard, who was considering a Senate run in Utah, said, “It’s not true, nothing you hear is true.” The report came from Vice, a leftwing site with a reputation for bad biased reporting, and cites “an anonymous letter” that repeats the allegations.

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/09/18/sound-of-freedom-inspiration-tim-ballard-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-in-vice-news-report/

While I hope these accusations are all false, I don’t know, but I do find the sudden flurry of them and their anonymous origins to be awfully coincidental. I can’t make a defense of these accused people because I have no idea what really happened. But I will once again make the same lonely, unpopular stand that I made when both Brett Kavanaugh on the right and Andrew Cuomo on the left were accused of sexual misconduct. That is to defend their right to due process and to remind everyone that in America – in fact, anywhere where people believe in justice and fairness – everyone is entitled to the presumption of innocence until they are proven guilty, and not the other way around.

As for some of the other stories that don’t involve criminality but are just ugly whispering campaigns, I’d remind everyone that people who spread nasty gossip about others are really telling you more about themselves than about those they gossip about.

Related: Lauren Boebert’s estranged husband issued a statement strongly defending her and taking responsibility for the collapse of their marriage and for putting her under the tremendous strain of a devastating divorce.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/rep-lauren-boeberts-estranged-husband-blames-himself-for-divorce/


How can we take AOC and her friends seriously?!?

When AOC and other Democrats were booed and shouted down by fellow New Yorkers furious over their city being inundated with illegal aliens thanks to Biden’s open border, she dismissed that as just “conservatives” pretending to be angry New Yorkers. But when thousands of reality-denying protesters jammed New York streets with a “March to End Fossil Fuels” for “New York Climate Week,” well, those people we should take seriously.

https://www.westernjournal.com/radical-ignore-aoc-sends-aggressive-demand-biden-climate-march/

Warning that Biden is not acting fast enough to ban oil and gas, AOC urged the crowd to make their protests ““too big and too radical to ignore.” She shouted, “We need urgency on this issue right now, right now.  And the way we create urgency on the issue of climate is that we have people all across the world in the streets…demanding a cessation of what is killing us. We demand change! It will happen now!” She was accompanied by a number of leftist Hollywood celebrities, including Ethan Hawke, Edward Norton and Kevin Bacon.

Question: How did all those people get into New York City and home again? We know the celebrities came from Hollywood, and that’s an awfully long walk or bike ride. I don’t believe they drove all across the country in electric cars because that would be nuts. Even if they did, EVs don’t reduce pollution; they create even more environmental destruction in their production than regular cars, and charging them just outsources the burning of fossil fuels to power plants that are out of sight, so I guess they don’t count.

Unsurprisingly, the DC Communist Party (speaking of things that really have killed a lot of people) hailed the protest to end fossil fuels, boasting that the crowd was over 75,000 people. Unless all of them walked, biked or skated there and back, they can go pound sand.


Big Business

This story not only reports that Colombia’s leftist president plans to send another 1 million migrants to the US in 2024 from Colombia alone, but it also has a good description of how Joe Biden and his DHS head Alejandro Majorkas are facilitating the cartels’ incredibly lucrative new industry of smuggling migrants to the border so they can enter the US illegally.

https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2023/09/19/new-york-times-south-american-cartel-send-1-million-global-migrants-2024/

And how big a business has the transport of illegal entrants to the US become? The buses couldn’t hold enough of them, so now they’re coming by the trainload.

https://www.breitbart.com/border/2023/05/06/150-migrants-found-on-one-texas-freight-train-near-border/


Senate update

Chuck Schumer’s decision not to enforce the unofficial Senate dress code (unspoken: most likely because John Fetterman refuses to dress like an adult and keeps showing up in hoodies and basketball shorts) is not going over well with colleagues. Maine Sen. Susan Collins slammed it, saying it “debases the institution,” and joked that she might come to work in a bikini. She quickly made it clear that she wouldn’t, but said that under the new rules, she could. Let’s pray this doesn’t spread to the House, at least while Nancy Pelosi is still in office.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/susan-collins-jokes-she-will-wear-a-bikini-to-the-senate-while-slamming-dress-code-changes/ar-AA1gUwRW

Meanwhile, Fetterman continues to prove that he is unfit for the Senate, both sartorially and cognitively.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/19/john-fetterman-accuses-greene-of-running-on-dingaling-in-embarrassing-msnbc-interview-n2163985

I don’t hold it against Fetterman that he isn’t showing the proper respect for the Senate, since I don’t know if he’s capable of that. I do hold it against Schumer for enabling it. And I hold it against the entire Democratic Party apparatus of Pennsylvania who didn’t care about Fetterman’s health or even his life after he suffered a debilitating stroke. They just kept pushing him because nothing was more important than keeping that seat, even if the stress killed him, or best-case scenario that I can see, he was mentally unable to be a functioning representative for the people of Pennsylvania. All that mattered to them was keeping someone with a D by his name in a seat of power.

So if Fetterman is simply unable to show respect for the United States Senate, then he is at least representing the attitude of his Party perfectly.


Ominous Warning Sign:

In a special election for a state House seat in New Hampshire Tuesday, the Democrat won a landslide victory in a district that the Republican Governor won by 22 points. Bonchie at Redstate.com warns that the GOP needs to make changes and pick better candidates or it may be heading for another drubbing in 2024. See if you agree with his assessment, and if not, how would you explain this lopsided loss in a heavily-Republican district?

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/20/republicans-got-blasted-in-new-hampshires-special-election-because-zero-lesson-have-been-learned-n2164042


FBI shot down yet another informant who had too much on “Biden Bucks”

Yesterday, we told you that yet another FBI informant with information about the Biden family business had been “shut down” by the FBI, in October 2020, just prior to the election.  “Follow-the-money” author Peter Schweizer had determined that this information came from retired FBI Special Agent Tim Thibault, in testimony before the House Oversight Committee last week.

(Just a thought:  Schweizer wrote the bestseller CLINTON CASH, and we wonder if he might want to call his next one BIDEN BUCKS.  You’re welcome!)

According to Schweizer, Thibault told the committee that his main contribution to the Hunter probe was “to shut down the use of a confidential source whom he discovered was actually a right-wing author whose information he feared would taint the legitimacy of the investigation.”

Recall that Thibault resigned from the FBI in the wake of allegations that he helped shield Hunter Biden from criminal investigations.  Here’s that story from July of last year.  Kind of fun to look back at it now, in light of what we’ve since learned.  Read the letter it includes from Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley to AG Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray.  In it, Grassley says Thibault “allegedly ordered the matter [the Hunter investigation] closed without providing a valid reason as required by FBI guidelines…it’s alleged that FBI officials, including ASAC Thibault, subsequently attempted to improperly mark the matter in FBI systems so that it could not be opened in the future.”

Somebody wanted it “disappeared.”

https://nypost.com/2022/07/26/fbi-doj-accused-of-downplaying-hunter-biden-dirt/

As it turns out, the FBI’s additional confidential human source, the one Thibault got “shut down,” apparently was...(drum roll)...Peter Schweizer (cymbal crash)!  He didn’t name Schweizer in last week’s testimony but did to THE NEW YORK TIMES back in May.

It all started when the the Public Corruption Unit of the FBI contacted Schweizer’s organization, a non-profit called the Government Accountability Institute (GAI) for information the GAI had gathered on Hunter Biden’s business dealings for Schweizer’s books SECRET EMPIRES and PROFILES IN CORRUPTION.  The GAI had pieced together the story of Hunter’s involvement in the Ukrainian energy company Burisma and the CCP-connected firm CEFC.  All the information they had was already in the public record, nothing from sketchy sources.

Schweizer isn’t buying that the reason Thibault shut him down as a source was because he was “concerned about the integrity” of the FBI investigation.  “Nobody has ever challenged any of the facts that we discovered and wrote about,” he said.

Schweizer is co-host of the podcast DRILL DOWN, and we’ve included a link to his latest episode, in which he discusses this, starting at about 10:45.  You’ll see that Thibault, in his fiery opening statement, testified that the allegations of political interference were “baseless,” but in the next breath told them his main job in the investigation was to shut down a confidential human source because the fact that he was a right-wing author might taint the investigation!  (The FBI has done enough to taint this investigation, all by themselves.)

Schweizer calls this Thibault’s “shoot the messenger” tactic, reminding us that Thibault is the FBI agent who originally interviewed former Hunter business partner Tony Bobulinski in the fall of 2020, but DID NOT SHARE THAT INTERVIEW WITH ANYONE, such as the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware.  And Bobulinski was no “far-right” anything --- he was not a political figure at all.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/19/peter-schweizer-schools-ex-fbi-agent-who-shielded-bidens/

Also, there are more fishy numbers that tie Joe himself with the Biden businesses.  The U.K. DAILY MAIL reported last year that there was a discrepancy between income Joe Biden reported to the IRS in 2017 and 2018 and what he declared on the financial disclosure form he had to complete when he entered the 2020 presidential race.  Tax returns showed $12.6 million; the financial disclosure form showed $7.4 million.

How to explain this $5.2 million discrepancy?  (Coincidentally, $5 million is the amount of the bribe Burisma founder Mykolo Zlochevsky is said to have claimed to have paid to each of two Bidens.)  Schweizer theorizes that by 2019, Biden was getting a lot of scrutiny over Hunter’s foreign deals, “and he just wanted some of that money to disappear.”

Here’s a little trip down memory lane.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10728521/Financial-records-reveal-Joe-Biden-5-2million-unexplained-income.html

Isn’t it amazing how this news has been out there for a year, sometimes two or three years, and you and I know it but most of America still has no clue?  At least that’s finally starting to change.  Now that the mainstream media have dutifully played their assigned role in hiding it, they’re dutifully playing their assigned role in slowly letting it out.

In impeachment inquiry news --- and remember, it’s an impeachment INQUIRY into allegations of corruption by the President, not an actual impeachment --- the House will hold its first impeachment inquiry hearing next Thursday.  This is the evidence-gathering stage.  The House Oversight Committee, chaired by Kentucky Rep. James Comer, will likely subpoena bank records for Hunter and James Biden, the President’s brother, to continue in their quest to “follow the money.”  That’s what he told Sean Hannity last night.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6337457342112

Comer also will seek additional transcribed interviews with Hunter business partners, particularly Eric Schwerin and Rob Walker.  But this first day of hearings isn’t likely to tread new ground, according to sources for FOX NEWS.  It will review the existing evidence --- there’s a lot, and those who say differently are deliberately lying or in deep denial --- and “explain the status of the inquiry.”

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-hold-first-biden-impeachment-inquiry-hearing-thursday

 

RELATED:  Finally, here’s a story worthy of the BABYLON BEE.  Did you know Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has put together a team of experts, called the Homeland Intelligence Experts Group, to provide “unique perspectives on the federal government’s intelligence enterprise” to DHS’s [Intelligence and Analysis] and the Office of the Counterterrorism Coordinator?  The group will meet periodically to analyze threats posed by both “foreign nation-state adversaries” and “domestic violent extremists.”  Like those violent, racist “MAGA Republicans” I’ve heard so much about?

This is so important to our national security that he’s put former CIA Director John Brennan and former National Director of Intelligence James Clapper on it.  Myorkas has succeeded in one thing:  insulting OUR intelligence.

So, aren’t you glad they’re on the job?  Although, as BREITBART reports, “It is unclear how Brennan will advise the Department of Homeland Security, given that President Trump revoked his security clearance in 2018, in reaction to Brennan’s increasingly unhinged political attacks on the President.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/19/mayorkas-names-russia-hoaxers-laptop-deniers-brennan-clapper-to-intelligence-experts-panel/

These are the same intelligence “experts” who falsely tried to discredit the NEW YORK POST’s Hunter Biden laptop story, so the POST has plenty to say about their appointment...

https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/mayorkas-taps-spies-who-lied-for-new-intelligence-experts-group/

 

FURTHER READING:  Tristan Leavitt, head of the Empower Whistleblower Center, has expressed fresh concerns that the Biden White House is applying pressure to the ‘Justice’ Department to prosecute IRS special-agents-turned-whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler.  As you know, the White House sent a memo to news media imploring them to attack efforts to investigate the Bidens.  But there’s much more; here’s John Solomon’s take...

https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/tuewhite-house-actions-raise-alarm-about-possible-political


Pro tip

We’ll have more on this tomorrow, but as we were “going to press,” the House questioning of alleged Attorney General Merrick Garland was just starting. You can watch the video feed at the link, or wait until tomorrow and we’ll tell you what he said without you having to inflict his inevitable denials and evasions on yourself.

https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2023/09/20/watch-live-garland-testifies-at-house-judiciary-hearing-on-oversight-of-the-us-department-of-justice-n2164046

 

A disturbing video

Last weekend, a disturbing video hit the news, taken by two Las Vegas teenagers in a stolen Hyundai Elantra laughing as they deliberately struck and killed a bicyclist just for fun. The victim was 64-year-old retired police chief Andreas Probst. Police thought it was a hit-and-run accident until they saw the video, which was obtained by a high school resource officer.  Both teenagers have been arrested and will be charged with murder.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/second-las-vegas-juvenile-suspect-arrested-hit-run-death-retired-police-chief-police

And as this article explains, in Nevada, any teenager charged with murder is automatically tried as an adult.

https://www.westernjournal.com/age-wont-save-teen-captured-driving-stolen-car-laughing-hit-cyclist/

The video was so horrifying that it sparked debate about the teenagers’ motivations and how they could have become so amoral and depraved as to think of running over a stranger with a car as a joke. Probst’s daughter said her father was robbed of his life by “two individuals who did not believe lives of others matter," and said she doesn’t believe racism or her father’s police background played a role. She attributed his killing to social media and "decayed family values," and urged people to “please do not politicize his death or use it for culture wars.” 

While I certainly respect her opinion and offer her my deepest condolences and prayers, I don’t see how it’s possible to separate this heinous act from the culture wars. It used to be so rare for someone to reach that age with zero respect for the the sanctity of human life that we had a clinical term for it: sociopath. While social media has definitely amplified the problem by allowing the worst impulses of human behavior to be reinforced by others and protected by distance and anonymity, there are many other negative factors at work as well, from movies and video games that depict gory violence as repercussion-free entertainment to banning God and Christian morality from schools to a political culture that regards killing children in the womb as the only “right” worth protecting.

When we see stories like this now, they’re still shocking but sadly, no longer surprising. If we were setting out to deliberately raise a generation of sociopaths, I don’t know what we’d be doing any differently.

 

 


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A gag order on Donald Trump?!?

Special Counsel Jack Smith is trying to get the judge in his bogus election interference case to put a gag order on Donald Trump to keep him from talking about it. If you had any doubt that these charges are all about election interference, imagine lodging unprecedented indictments against your chief political opponent during an election season, then threatening to jail him if he defends himself.

Dick Morris believes this is all about the left’s desperate attempts to find a way to jail Trump. Law Professor Jonathan Turley goes into more legal detail, but also makes the great point that Smith’s insincere nine-word description of what he wants as “a narrowly tailored order that imposes modest, permissible restrictions” should be added to Ronald Reagan’s nine most terrifying words in the English language: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”

https://jonathanturley.org/2023/09/17/gagging-donald-trump-why-smiths-narrowly-tailored-motion-is-a-neither-narrow-nor-wise/


Brutally hilarious

Here’s the article I’m sure many of you have been waiting for (and shame on you): Kurt Schlichter’s farewell tribute to retiring Senator Mitt Romney. Brutally hilarious.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/09/18/that-miserable-bag-of-goo-mitt-romney-slinks-away-humiliated-n2628520


No surprise

Watch VP Kamala Harris tell a university crowd that the government should enforce “equal outcomes,” not equal opportunity. Why am I not surprised that Kamala Harris doesn’t believe in advancement based on merit?

https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/watch-kamala-harris-says-government-must-enforce-equal-outcomes/


Pray with me for Rep. Wexton and her family

Virginia Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton announced that she will not be running for reelection after being diagnosed with a rare and incurable neurological disease known as Progressive Supra-nuclear Palsy. She described it as being like “Parkinson’s on steroids.” Wexton said she’s always believed in honesty, so she has to concede that “there’s no getting better,” and “I’m going to die, which isn’t fair.” But after struggling for a long time, “I’ll be able to relax and enjoy the time I have left and the time I have left in Congress.” I hope you will join me in sending prayers and good wishes to her and her family.

https://www.westernjournal.com/going-die-dem-congresswoman-announces-retirement-diagnosed-rare-disorder/


Bye-bye Senate dress code

Chuck Schumer has decided to no longer enforce the Senate dress code. No reason was given for this, but everyone knows what it is: Sen. John Fetterman (D-Slobsylvania) seems incapable of dressing himself like a professional adult.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/09/18/why-the-senates-dress-code-rules-are-changing-n2628540

GOP strategist Andrew Clark put it well, tweeting, “I’m all for more casual dress codes in general but to not enforce **any dress code** on the floor of the **United States Senate** because one guy wants to hear a hoodie and basketball shorts is just crass.”


A thought I had…

I’m thinking of sending President Biden a T-shirt that reads, “I gave Iran $6 billion and all I got was a broken promise to spend it on humanitarian stuff and a refusal to let the UN inspect Iranian nuclear sites.” Or if that’s too long to fit, I’ll just send Jill Biden an “I’m with stupid” T-shirt.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/09/17/iran-thanks-us-for-6-billion-gift-by-blocking-un-inspectors-from-nuclear-sites-n2163936


A ridiculous nuisance lawsuit

Despite all the talk about electric cars, here’s the surest sign that oil companies still have plenty of money. California’s leftist politicians have launched a ridiculous nuisance lawsuit against them, blaming them for the “climate emergency” and demanding billions to fund their pet eco projects. It’s like an alcoholic suing a brewery for making him a drunk.

https://www.westernjournal.com/california-files-major-lawsuit-top-oil-companies/

Since all these alleged problems (including wildfires caused by decades of leftist government mismanagement of forests and waterways) are entirely the fault of oil companies for unconscionably selling gasoline to Californians, the solution is obvious: the oil companies should show repentance by immediately cutting off all sales of oil and gas inside California. Let the politicians explain to stranded Californians why this is really for their own good because they’re saving the planet.


Biden team moves to protect the incompetent

The Biden White House must be really afraid that Donald Trump will become President again because Biden is already moving to institute a new rule to make it harder to get rid of entrenched, incompetent and biased federal bureaucrats. He wants our border gates welded open and the drain on the swamp welded shut.

https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-hatches-plan-keep-swamp-place-thwart-potential-trump-re-election-purgebiden-hatches-plan-keep-swamp-place-thwart-potential-trump-re-election-purge/

I confess, I nearly spit my coffee on my keyboard laughing at the Biden official who claimed they have to defend this system of being unable to remove Deep State termites and incompetents because it’s a “system that has been in place for 140 years to ensure we have a dedicated nonpartisan civil service.”

And anyone who dares suggest that they might not be nonpartisan had better brace for being silenced on social media and having the FBI raid their homes at dawn.


“Grade-grubbing”

Here’s a new term to add to your vocabulary: “grade-grubbing.” Turns out it’s the shockingly common practice by today’s high school and college students of begging or threatening their instructors to give them higher grades than they earned.

https://redstate.com/alexparker/2023/09/18/participation-trophy-students-demand-good-grades-n2163938

Here’s the most frightening sentence in the story: “…In a study of undergraduate students preparing for careers in medicine, ‘over a quarter of the respondents self-reported engaging in grade-focused interactions.'" I don’t know about you, but I don’t want doctors who only passed biology by begging not to be flunked or by threatening to reveal that they slept with the professor.


Nothing To See Here!!

In Bridgeport, Connecticut, where the incumbent mayor eked out a narrow, come-from-behind victory of 251 votes over a Democratic primary challenger, surveillance video has surfaced of a local Democratic official and supporter of the mayor apparently stuffing stacks of absentee ballots into a drop box. If so, that's illegal: only the voter or an immediate relative of an absentee voter can cast those ballots, which usually means only one ballot. The challenger calls this an “undeniable act of voter suppression and a huge civil rights violation” and is demanding an investigation.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/connecticut-democrat-primary-election-scandal-police-launch-investigation/

Meanwhile, the Bridgeport police say they are investigating the actions in the video, but also investigating how the video was obtained and released to the public, and if there was a breach in the security video management system. Yes, that’s obviously the biggest concern here: the public wasn’t authorized to see the proof of election chicanery. Better track down the person who exposed it. There’s your real criminal!


Hunter’s attorneys suing the IRS: legal strategy or tantrum?

“This case seems to be almost like a tantrum that Abbe Lowell’s having...”

That’s the observation of former federal prosecutor Jonathan Fahey, in an interview Monday night with FOX NEWS’ Trace Gallagher, speaking of Hunter Biden’s lead attorney suing the IRS and the former agents who came forward with their concerns about his case. The whistleblowers “did everything under the law in revealing this information,” Fahey said. The suit, he said, is apparently not about their testimony but what they’ve said since going to the House Ways and Means Committee.

(As you know, they went to Ways and Means in the first place because they were dealing with someone’s personal tax records, and this committee, behind closed doors, was the only place they could legally divulge that. The committee then had the authority to allow a public hearing before the Oversight Committee.)

“...I don’t really see the merits of this lawsuit,” he said, “and I’m not really seeing the point of the lawsuit, either, as far as the big picture for his client, how it benefits him.”

In his original plea deal, which was scrapped --- no matter what Abbe Lowell says --- Hunter was originally charged with misdemeanors for crimes that normally would be considered felonies. According to Fahey, the judge in California could come back and charge him with felony tax offenses, if he is so inclined (I wouldn’t hold my breath), along with felony gun crimes. “So, really, things are going in a bad direction for Hunter…this current legal strategy doesn’t seem to be helping him that much, from what I’m seeing.”

That’s in line with a report from the WASHINGTON POST that David Weiss may soon file a new indictment against Hunter on tax charges in a California federal court. ABC NEWS got specific about this --- WAPO, ABC...see, the memo really has gone out! --- saying Hunter will likely face charges of failure to pay taxes after allegations made by IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler about money from Burisma channeled through a Chinese firm run by the Biden family business.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/09/18/report-david-weiss-may-soon-charge-hunter-biden-california-tax-crimes/

Fahey predicted Hunter won’t go to trial on the gun charges, and that his attorneys would try to work out a deal and “keep the option open” of appealing on a constitutional issue with those. He also predicted no jail time, surprise!

Mark Lytle, the attorney for former IRS lead investigator Gary Shapley, had weighed in earlier in the day, saying, “Congress wrote the law so that whistleblowers could come forward in a protected manner and shine the light on government misconduct. And that’s what happened here. And as a result, the ‘sweetheart’ plea deal was revealed...and the judge rejected it. And they’re mad about that, and they’re coming after the whistleblowers.”

Oh, they’re mad, of course, but going on the offensive in a blind fury is also their legal strategy. Very deliberate.

The lawsuit itself is extremely tenuous. It alleges that Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler sought to “publicly smear” Hunter Biden by releasing information about his taxes to congressional investigators. This, his attorneys say, adds up to a violation of his “privacy rights.”

(Aside: I thought that with the release of President Trump’s tax returns under the Biden administration, the idea of financial privacy was a thing of the past! Why, it must be back again.)

In suing the IRS, Hunter is, in effect, suing his father’s administration, claiming that IRS agents “targeted and sought to embarrass” him. His attorneys also allege that the whistleblowers released information that Congress had not yet released. That includes allegations of his failure to pay $2.2 million in taxes --- hey, we already knew about that; it’s the bill his “sugar brother” Kevin Morris paid --- and possible tax fraud over claiming expenses for prostitutes and sex clubs on his returns.

They told about the prostitutes and sex clubs?? Why, Hunter’s squeaky-clean reputation is RUINED!!

Attorney Lytle released a statement: “Neither IRS SSA Gary Shapley nor his attorneys have ever released any confidential tax information except through whistleblower disclosures authorized by statute. Once Congress released that testimony, like every American citizen, he has a right to discuss that information.” He called the lawsuit “just another frivolous smear by Biden family attorneys trying to turn people’s attention away from Hunter Biden’s own legal problems and intimidate any current and future whistleblowers.” I don’t think the IRS is losing any sleep over it.

https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/09/18/whistleblower-lawyer-slams-hunter-bidens-lawsuit-charging-invasion-of-privacy-n2163980

By the way, did you know that there was another FBI informant in the Biden case who was “shut down” before the 2020 election? Retired Special Agent Timothy Thibault, a 25-year employee who was second in command at the Washington field office, testified before the House Judiciary Committee last week, and said he’d been told by the lead agent in the Hunter tax case to shut down their confidential human source (CHS).

Thibault wasn’t identified in the transcript, but investigative reporter Peter Schweizer believes he has identified him based on previous comments he’s made and other clues. More on this will undoubtedly be coming out soon; in the meantime, here’s what we know…

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/09/18/another-fbi-informant-in-biden-case-was-shut-down-before-2020-election-n1727870

House Oversight Committee Chair Jim Jordan no doubt has many questions for Special Counsel David Weiss on his handling of the Hunter case, and Weiss is now scheduled to testify before the committee on October 11. Jordan is also calling for documents relating to whistleblowers Shapley and Ziegler. His full list of demands is here...

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2023/09/18/jim-jordan-continues-to-crack-down-on-investigation-into-hunter-biden-n2628600

Allen West has a great editorial on the “Hunter Biden Hustle,” going through the reasons why it’s just not gonna play with the American people and pointing out the ironies of “Mr. Gun Control” having a son who’s guilty of three felony gun charges. You’ll enjoy this… 

https://townhall.com/columnists/allenwest/2023/09/18/the-hypocrisy-of-the-hunter-biden-hustle-n2628558

Well, let’s move on to see how this scandal is currently affecting the Big Guy. The mainstream media are pretending he’s doing great --- that, cognitively, he’s superior to Trump (I am not kidding). “Which begs the question,” David Strom said, “if they [Democrats] know the MSM will lie on something so obvious, why do they believe these shills on anything else?”

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/09/18/ayfkm-joe-biden-much-more-coherent-than-trump-n578829

Poll-wise, Biden is cratering. According to a new survey from Harvard-CAPS-Harris, Biden is trailing Trump. But even worse, he’s also trailing Nikki Haley and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott. You might say he’s got three strikes against him.

https://redstate.com/jeffc/2023/09/18/new-poll-reveals-devastating-news-for-president-biden-great-news-for-republican-candidates-n2163967

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has a theory for how the election is going to go, and we think he must have been reading the Huckabee newsletter. He predicts the Democrats will push Biden aside, and who else will parachute in at the last minute to “save” the party and take the nomination but...Michelle Obama. She’ll be portrayed as “the adult in the room.” (One of my writers has only been saying this for the past three years, only she used the term “healer.”) Cruz talks about the various scenarios that might replace Biden with Michelle --- as we did years ago --- in this podcast…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6wWH4vh24Q

Bonchie at REDSTATE doesn’t think it would be all that easy for the Democrats to accomplish this, though, because of other candidates, such as Kamala, who won’t cooperate and will cause a floor fight. Perhaps he’s underestimating the power of the Obamas. He’s always heard Michelle hated being in the White House. Perhaps he’s underestimating the amount of time she could spend “vacationing.” He thinks Biden will still be the candidate, that Democrats “will have to ride or die with Joe Biden.”

Perhaps he’s forgotten: They’re Democrats. They don’t intend to lose. But here’s what he says...