Spygate: Everything that is now coming out and all the disclosures of who knew ‘what-when’ points to the fact that the Obama Administration, (if not President Obama himself) politicized government agencies for purely partisan purposes. This may become the greatest scandal of our Republic… unfolding before our very eyes.
The left and deep state establishment just couldn’t deal with a real outsider shaking up the system.
Hate Speech – Newspeak: The left isn’t banning “hate speech” per se. They are banning speech they don’t like. That’s a BIG difference. Pay attention America!!!
Newsreel for This Week:
Younger generations outvoted boomers for first time in midterms
Baby Boomers and members of the silent generation, those who are older than 72, still turned out at the highest rates of any generation.
Families list health care as top financial problem
Health care costs are the top financial issue facing most American families, according to a new Gallup poll released Thursday.
How to protect yourself from the Social Security imposter scam
While the scam can be devastating, there are several steps you can take to prevent yourself, and your loved ones, from falling victim to this scam.
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On A Positive Note: Conservatives need John James to serve, again
The anti-establishment Senate Conservatives Fund has just joined the National Republican Senatorial Committee in trying to persuade John James to run for the Michigan Senate seat that’s up in 2020. James should accept.
James has already served his country. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and a former Army combat pilot. In 2018, James was defeated in his race against Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. — a throwaway race in which he performed unexpectedly well. But 2020 shouldn’t be about what James has done before, but rather what he can do now.
A man of great character, intellect, and conservative values, James can do a lot. During the 2018 campaign, James repeatedly showed a mix of humor and grace, but also a fierce commitment to advancing conservatism in America. A business owner, James believes in aspiration and hard work. And he knows that those qualities are the best possible pathways to individual prosperity and happiness. These values are crucial in their moral essence but also in their contemporary political importance. That’s where 2020 comes in.
After all, the Democratic Party is overtly moving toward socialistic ideology. Speaking the language of socialism, Democrats want to change America from that which has made it great — individual rights, free markets, economic freedom, and voluntary civil society.
Mueller Just Proved His Entire Operation Was A Lawless Political Hit Job
If there were any doubts about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s political intentions, his unprecedented press conference on Wednesday should put them all to rest. As he made abundantly clear during his doddering reading of a prepared statement that repeatedly contradicted itself, Mueller had no interest in the equal application of the rule of law. He gave the game, and his nakedly political intentions, away repeatedly throughout his statement.
“It is important that the office’s written work speak for itself,” Mueller said, referring to his office’s 448-page report. Mueller’s report was released to the public by Attorney General William Barr nearly six weeks ago. The entire report, minus limited redactions required by law, has been publicly available, pored through, and dissected. Its contents have been discussed ad nauseum in print and on television. The report has been speaking for itself since April 18, when it was released.
If it’s important for the work to speak for itself, then why did Mueller schedule a press conference in which he would speak for it weeks after it was released? The statement, given the venue in which it was provided, is self-refuting.
‘Not Exonerated’ Is Not a Standard Any Free Country Should Accept
I’m sorry to be a broken record on this, but this line from Robert Mueller infuriates me:
“If we had had confidence that the president had clearly not committed a crime we would have said so.” Mueller
— David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) May 29, 2019
That’s not how it works in America. Investigators are supposed to look for evidence that a crime was committed, and, if they don’t find enough to contend that a crime was a committed, they are supposed to say “We didn’t find enough to contend that a crime was committed.” They are not supposed to look for evidence that a crime was not committed and then say, “We couldn’t find evidence of innocence.”
I understand that Mueller was in an odd position. I understand, too, that this wasn’t a criminal trial. But I don’t think those norms are rendered any less important by those facts. By asking the executive to investigate itself, it was guaranteed — yes, guaranteed — that we’d have a fight over “obstruction of justice.” For the architect of that investigation to keep saying “We aren’t exonerating our target” is extraordinary. Innocence is the default position in this country. If a person doesn’t have enough evidence that someone committed a crime to contend that a crime was committed, he is obliged to presume his innocence. “Not exonerated” is not a standard in our system, and it shouldn’t be one in our culture, either.
Bob Mueller Runs and Hides in Eight Minutes to Avoid Having to Answer One Key Question
Robert Mueller’s eight- to nine-minute statement Wednesday morning at the DOJ was designed for one thing only: to avoid having to answer one key question in his testimony. When did you know there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia?
If the answer, as many, including Andrew C. McCarthy, are indicating, is somewhere in Fall 2017, what in the Sam Hill was Mueller doing putting the country through two years of prolonged agony? It’s not likely he did all this to prop up CNN’s faltering ratings.
Was it, just by chance, to induce obstruction from one Donald J. Trump who — like a relatively normal person but with a shorter fuse than most, justifiable in this case — would react like a stuck pig to being falsely charged for so long? That would have been essentially entrapment.
GOP congressman introduces ‘Investigate the Investigators’ bill to find out how Russia ‘witch hunt’ began
A House Republican lawmaker said Tuesday he plans to introduce a bill called the “Investigate the Investigators” Act, arguing that the Mueller probe turned up a “big, fat goose egg.”
“It was a partisan witch hunt from the beginning and we need to get to the bottom of who was behind this and how far up the chain does it go,” said Rep. Bradley Byrne, R-Ala., on “Fox & Friends.”
“What did President Obama know and when he did he know it?” he asked, referring to the decision by the FBI to launch a counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign and Russia.
Jones said the bill would “codify” the recent decision by Attorney General William Barr to appoint U.S. Attorney John Durham to examine the origins of the Russia investigation, including alleged misconduct and alleged improper government surveillance on the Trump campaign in 2016.
Younger generations outvoted Boomers for first time in midterms
Voters under the age of 54 for the first time turned out in higher numbers than baby boomers and senior citizens during the 2018 midterm elections, a generational shift likely to reshape the future of American politics in the coming years.
A new report from the Pew Research Center shows members of Generation X, the millennial generation and Generation Z accounted for 62.2 million votes in the midterms. Baby boomers and those from previous generations accounted for 60.1 million votes, the research found.
Boomers and members of the silent generation, those who are older than 72, still turned out at the highest rates of any generation. Almost two-thirds, 64 percent, of those voters cast ballots last year.
A little more than half, 53 percent, of Generation X voters — who are between the ages of 38 and 53 — turned out to vote. Just 42 percent of millennials showed up, though that number almost doubled from the 22 percent who turned out in the 2014 midterm elections.
Thirty percent of the eligible voters in Generation Z, those born after 1997, showed up to vote, Pew found.
Justice Clarence Thomas Blasts Abortion As A Tool Of Racist Eugenicists
The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld part of an Indiana law requiring aborted infants to be cremated or buried after an abortion. However, they sidestepped a larger ruling on abortion by deciding not to weigh in on whether a child can be aborted for their race, sex, or disability.
Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a concurring opinion, in which he addressed the pro-abortion movement’s well-known history with eugenics, and how the Court’s decision not to rule on the Indiana statute leaves an open question on whether eugenic abortions are protected by the Constitution.
The Indiana law in question, enacted in 2016 by former Governor Mike Pence, included a provision stating, “Indiana does not allow a fetus to be aborted solely because of the fetus’s race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or diagnosis or potential diagnosis of the fetus having Down syndrome or any other disability.”
Thomas and Breyer’s ‘Stare’ Contest
Justice Stephen Breyer lamented last week that the Supreme Court had overturned “a well-reasoned decision that has caused no serious practical problems in the four decades since we decided it.” Dissenting from Justice Clarence Thomas’s majority decision in Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt, Justice Breyer added: “Today’s decision can only cause one to wonder which cases the Court will overrule next.”
Court watchers assumed the two justices were arguing about abortion, although the case had nothing to do with that issue. But the clash over stare decisis—the doctrine that courts must respect precedent as binding—runs far deeper. It is a manifestation of the crisis of legitimacy that has split Americans into two increasingly hostile camps.
On Justice Thomas’s side is the belief that the government’s authority rests on the written Constitution. This view regards a self-governing republic—designed to protect the individual’s right to pursue his own happiness in his own way, in his family and local community—as the most just and up-to-date form of government ever imagined, even 232 years after the Constitutional Convention.
Russia is harassing U.S. jets in the Arctic as part of a Putin power play
More and more, U.S. pilots in Alaska are being awoken in the frigid early morning for what used to be a Cold War mission: scrambling stealth F-22 fighter jets from their base in Anchorage to confront 1950s-era Russian Tu-95 “Bear” bombers barreling toward U.S. shores.
Last week alone, the Russians twice conducted air sorties. In each case, the American F-22s rushed to take off to keep the Russian planes out of U.S. airspace. In such missions, the F-22s and Bear bombers eye one another warily for several minutes — or hours — from the sky, with the U.S. pilots inspecting the bombers and shadowing them as necessary, before the planes go their separate ways. Each side uses the encounters to collect intelligence, test capabilities and analyze response times for future potential conflicts.
Russia restarted these air patrols all across the globe in 2007 to practice strategic bombing missions of U.S. territory and ensure Russian flight crews were better prepared to both deter and attack the U.S. if necessary. Though there are only six to seven such missions on average per year — down from the thousands that were conducted throughout the Cold War — they are increasing, particularly in the Arctic.
Russia’s Massive Nuclear Weapons Arsenal Is A Threat
The U.S. mainstream view of Russia has changed quite a bit in the last twenty years, particularly in the last five. We have moved from the fantasy that there was no threat from Russia after the demise of the Soviet Union to a recognition of a serious Russian threat to the U.S. and its allies, including a nuclear threat in the last two years of the Obama administration and the Trump administration. However, characterizing the relationship between the U.S. and Russia as “competition” as it now appears in U.S. Government documents, does not go far enough.
Lockheed and Boeing compete; Russia threatens preemptive nuclear attack. It is unilaterally trying to create a sphere of influence in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet states in the classic 19th Century sense while building the largest nuclear arsenal in the world. There is no competition here but rather a serious threat from Russia.
Putin’s economic policies are a disaster for Russia; yet he continues to modernize and expand Russia’s military and nuclear capabilities. In January 2017, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu stated that development of the strategic nuclear force was Russia’s first priority, noting that Russia will “…continue a massive program of nuclear rearmament, deploying modern ICBMs on land and sea, [and] modernizing the strategic bomber force.” The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review report agrees stating, “In addition to modernizing ‘legacy’ Soviet nuclear systems, Russia is developing and deploying new nuclear warheads and launchers.
These efforts include multiple upgrades for every leg of the Russian nuclear triad of strategic bombers, sea-based missiles, and land-based missiles. Russia is also developing at least two new intercontinental range systems, a hypersonic glide vehicle, and a new intercontinental, nuclear-armed, nuclear-powered, undersea autonomous torpedo.” Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and National Nuclear Security Administration Director Lisa Gordon-Hagerty in April 2019 told the Senate Armed Services Committee, “Russia and China are investing massive resources into upgrading and expanding their nuclear arsenals, all at a time when they seek to challenge U.S. interests and unravel U.S. alliances around the world.”
