Attorney General Bob Barr: Barr is the right man, at the right time, to do the job most would fear even contemplating. President Trump was right, there was no Russian collusion between him or his campaign.
There apparently was Russian collusion with the Hillary campaign and even worse, it appears the Obama Administration politicized and weaponize our law enforcement agencies against a political opponent, for political purposes. From the CIA, IRA, NSA to the FBI, the deep state colluded to thwart President Trump.
We are a country based on the rule of law. Without it, we are little more than a third world dictatorship, weather by a general or one man, or the deep state than honestly thinks and believes it knows better than the people. The “swamp†is a problem and only the people can demand and insure freedom.
Attorney General Bob Barr has vowed to get to the bottom of this. The tables have turned and justice and truth will most likely be the end of the treacherous minions that threw our Constitution and liberties aside for political expediency.
So ask the Democrats in the Obama Administration, who knew what, when?
Was this “resistance†purely politically motivated and rocked the bedrock of our great Republic by tossing aside the basic principles of the rule of law?
This investigation must continue and we must get to the bottom of this. One can only hope and pray that the American people will really pay attention to what challenges this country.
This can never happen again.
NRA Standing Strong: This weekend some 70,000 Americans gathered to support the 2nd Amendment at the NRA National Convention. At the same time liberal/progressive Democrats attacked legal, law abiding gun owners and recommended all kinds of gun control/confiscation options…including those scary military-style weapons ban.
Yet according to the FBI, there were more deaths by handguns than all other kinds of firearms — and it’s not even close. In 2016, 7,105 people were killed by handguns verses 374 by rifles.
Even The New York Times notes, “It turns out that big, scary military rifles don’t kill the vast majority of the 11,000 Americans murdered with guns each year. Little handguns do.â€
Those pesky little facts that again confirms, when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns.
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The Democrats Get a Taste of Their Own Medicine
The lies, deceptions, and cover-ups of Clinton’s and Obama’s operatives will soon come to light.
It is not now clear whether the Democrats’ pathological attachment to the fantasy that they have some chance of destroying the Trump presidency legally is based on continuing hysteria and frenzy, or addiction to continued harassment of the president even as the credibility of doing so plummets, or is an attempt to forestall the investigation and exposure of the malfeasance of the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign in producing the fraud of Trump–Russian collusion. All serious observers can (and do) agree that there is no chance of removing this president from office by impeachment. It requires considerable perseverance and selectivity in canvassing the American media to elicit this fact, but the special counsel, Robert Mueller, despite his glaring anti-Trump biases and obscenely partisan group of investigators, found the president (and all other Americans) to be blameless on the charge of illegal collusion with anyone in Russia to rig the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
In the circumstances, it need hardly be emphasized that the entire Trump–Russia collusion gambit, based on the infamous Steele dossier’s pastiche of lies and defamations, was the dirtiest political trick in American history and is in the process of transmogrification into one of the greatest fiascos in the history of American political skullduggery. (One of the most rabid Trump-hating Democratic congressmen, Eric Swalwell, still professes to believe all of the Steele dossier, as if it were a catechism.) Though there is an elaborate psychopolitical effort underway to pretend otherwise, investigations already taking place by the inspector general of the Justice Department, a special counsel, and the attorney general of the United States, about to be joined by the Senate Judiciary Committee, will call upon the chief intelligence and law officers of the Obama administration, along with Hillary Clinton and members of her campaign staff, to account for their conduct. These include lies under oath to congressional committees, lies to federal officials, and misleading the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court. This is a series of dishonest statements and illegal acts that can only, at least provisionally, be seen as a coordinated campaign to influence the results of the presidential election and then to compromise the unwished-for outcome of that election. It will not be long before we hear the still familiar words, in reference to President Obama: “What did the president know and when did he know it?â€
What is occurring now is an unprecedented and almost unbelievable episode of political theatrics. The Democrats are pretending that their fraudulent attempt at what amounted to a coup d’état against the election of an administration of the other party still possesses the legitimacy to be continued and taken seriously after it has been largely unmasked by its own chosen investigators for what it was. At the same time, the machinery of dispassionate justice is already turning towards the identification and eventual punishment of the Democrats for subverting the justice and intelligence apparatus of the former administration in order to influence the results of the election of the succeeding president and vice president of the United States. It is an elemental rule of nature that the longer and the more febrile the efforts of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives and the Democratic party generally, abetted by their media echo chamber, to delay the exposure of their wrongdoing, the more complete and overwhelming the defeat and discreditation of the entire effort to destroy the Trump administration will be.
When did Mueller know there was no collusion?
Trump-Russia special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed May 17, 2017. Twenty-two months later, on March 22, 2019, Mueller sent his report to the Justice Department.
Some special counsel investigations have taken longer; it is the nature of such probes to drag on and on. But why did Mueller need nearly two years to determine whether the Trump campaign and Russia conspired or coordinated to fix the 2016 election?
He didn’t, it appears. In the wake of the release of Mueller’s report, there are indications that special counsel prosecutors mostly knew by the end of 2017, and certainly by a few months later, that the evidence would not establish that conspiracy or coordination — or collusion, to use the popular term — had taken place. Mueller clearly spent a lot of time on the other half of his report — trying to establish that Trump obstructed justice — but on the most explosive and consequential allegation of the Trump-Russia affair, the conspiracy allegation, the Mueller investigation was essentially over long before it officially ended.
John Brennan must be held accountable for his role in advancing the Russia hoax
The president has been exonerated on allegations of Russian collusion, and now, as investigators and the media pick up the pieces on the long-running hoax, more attention has turned to the major players behind the operation, including former CIA chief and current NBC “analyst†John Brennan, who played an integral role in the launch of the unprecedented surveillance operation — and the smear campaign thereafter — against the president, members of the Trump campaign, and Trump-connected individuals.
Brennan’s personal role in the Trump-Russia collusion saga dates back to at least the summer of 2016 (and perhaps even earlier) when he met with a top British intelligence chief to discuss Trump’s supposed ties to the Russians. Around the time of that meeting, and following its conclusion, American and foreign spies began to make contact with members of the Trump campaign, with some claiming to have access to Russian secrets involving the Hillary Clinton campaign. Brennan later seemed to take credit and defend the espionage operation, which again, relied on the dossier to legitimize spying on Americans.
Brennan, as CIA director, reportedly inserted the Clinton-funded-and-manufactured Steele dossier into a draft version of the highly scandalous Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) on Russian interference, which was published under the auspices of Donald Trump’s political opponents in early January 2017, just two weeks before President-elect Trump took office.
Now Let’s Hear Who Authorised Spying on the Trump Campaign
The best response to the infamous Mueller Report may have come Tuesday from Hillary Rodham Clinton.
In an interview with CNBC, the defeated presidential candidate said, “Any other person who had engaged in those acts would certainly have been indicted†for obstruction of justice.
Mrs. Clinton, it should be recalled, found herself repeatedly under investigation for things ranging from her investments in cattle futures to her use of a private email server to send and receive government documents cleared marked “confidential.†She has routinely escaped indictment, relying on a coterie of lawyers, close associates, and political figures to bail her out of trouble each time she got into it. For her to point that finger now at President Donald Trump calls to mind the old maxim about pots and kettles.
Her entry into the fray mandates a broader discussion of the Mueller Report and the events leading up to its production. As people may soon come to understand, it is not a stand-alone document. It is one-third of a three-act play, with the last portion yet to be written.
Act I was the investigation, broadly defined, and what followed into Mrs. Clinton’s emails. Act II is Mueller’s report. Act III, if it comes to be, will show how the prior acts interconnect on various levels and why they should not be considered separately.
In Going After Carter Page, Did the FBI and DOJ Abuse the FISA Process?
The DOJ inspector general is on the case, and there are signs he’ll be tough on the agencies.
Department of Justice inspector general Michael Horowitz announced in March 2018 that his office was reviewing the DOJ’s and FBI’s “compliance with legal requirements, and with applicable DOJ and FBI policies and procedures, in applications filed with the U.S. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) relating to a certain U.S. person.†In other words, he was asking whether the agencies abused their power in getting warrants to surveil (by then, former) Trump-campaign foreign-policy adviser Carter Page.
More than a year later, we still don’t know much about the course of the IG’s investigation. But that may finally be changing.
Horowitz has one of the best-caulked tubs in town: His team doesn’t leak. But that’s not the only reason info on the Horowitz investigation has been so hard to come by. In addition, his job doesn’t entail bringing revealing indictments along the way.
Robert Mueller’s shop wasn’t particularly leaky either, but long before the special counsel filed his final report, we had learned a lot about where that report was headed. We learned it from looking at who got indicted, what they were indicted for, and the many details in each indictment and descriptive “criminal information.†Those who were paying attention to the special counsel’s various prosecutions couldn’t help but notice that Paul Manafort was jailed for sundry financial improprieties and sheer tackiness (don’t forget the ostrich jacket), but not for conspiring with Russia. Similarly, when the special counsel’s office brought a raft of indictments against a group of Russian-military-intelligence hackers, missing was any knowing connection between team Trump and the accused. Indeed, so professional were the hacking operations described in Mueller’s indictment of the Russians that it is hard to imagine what the hackers could possibly have needed from the amateurs in Trump’s orbit. Such details led many to surmise that Mueller had yet to find collusion, deductions that proved correct.
No such intermediate actions have been taken by IG Horowitz, which has left us in the dark about what sort of report he is preparing. The IG is trying to establish how the counter-intelligence investigation into the Trump campaign got started. That much we know. What we haven’t had any idea about is just how tough Horowitz is willing to be with DOJ and FBI officials should he discover they abused their power.
Feds Indict Sanctuary City Judge for Helping Illegal Alien Escape Arrest
The federal government is charging a Massachusetts judge and a courtroom officer with obstruction of justice after the pair allegedly helped a twice-deported illegal alien escape out the back door while an immigration enforcement officer was kept outside the front door.
District Court Judge Shelley Richmond Joseph and Trial Court Officer Wesley MacGregor face severe penalties: “charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and obstruction of a federal proceeding – aiding and abetting provide for sentences of no greater than 20 and five years in prison, respectively; five and three years of supervised release, respectively; and a fine of $250,000,†said a press statement from the Department of Justice.
The illegal alien was arrested in March 2018 for narcotics possession. An agent from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was sent to the courthouse to arrest and deport the alien, who “had twice been deported from the United States – in 2003 and 2007, and … a federal order had been issued prohibiting the defendant from entering the U.S. until 2027,†the statement said, adding:
Pelosi and House Dems are abusing power in a desperate effort to impeach Trump
It’s obvious that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has every intention of impeaching President Trump, despite her denials. The California Democrat and resistance leader is currently running a taxpayer-funded political campaign against our duly elected president.
Pelosi is doing permanent damage to the legislative branch by directing all of her committee chairs to engage in what amounts to opposition research on a political opponent, as opposed to legitimate congressional oversight. There’s a big difference.
The House should not be an arm of the Democratic National Committee, but that’s what it has become. Instead of focusing on legislating to benefit the American people, House Democrats are desperately focused solely on investigating the president endlessly, putting partisanship over patriotism.
After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople
At a steel factory dwarfed by the adjacent Auto Club Speedway, Fernando Esparza is working toward his next promotion.
Esparza is a 46-year-old mechanic for Evolution Fresh, a subsidiary of Starbucks that makes juices and smoothies. He’s taking a class in industrial computing taught by a community college at a local manufacturing plant in the hope it will bump up his wages.
It’s a pretty safe bet. The skills being taught here are in high demand. That’s in part because so much effort has been put into encouraging high school graduates to go to college for academic degrees rather than for training in industrial and other trades that many fields like his face worker shortages.
Now California is spending $6 million on a campaign to revive the reputation of vocational education, and $200 million to improve the delivery of it.
Big Cable Under Fire For Bullying Seniors
In an age when people can binge-watch their favorite TV shows on a smartphone, it can be easy to forget that a majority of households still subscribe to cable television. While young people may be trending toward five-second Snapchat videos, the behavior of older Americans is significantly different.
Cable television is the dominant media source for seniors. A majority over the age of 65 report that cable and local television remain their top sources of news and entertainment, compared with streaming media. It’s easy to cast this as just a statistic, but for older consumers, it’s more than that. Seniors with limited mobility often rely on television as their portal to the world at large, and a way to have shared experiences with friends and family.
This means cable TV providers have a special obligation to senior citizens. Anybody would be unhappy with changes in service or price hikes but for seniors living on a fixed income, these changes are a big problem. Sudden price increases are a jolt to household budgets and the fact that cable companies often have local monopolies means seniors frequently do not have another provider to turn to if they’re being mistreated.
Moscow Lashes Out at Lithuanian Criminal Convictions of Soviet Officers
On March 27, 2019, the Vilnius Regional Court sentenced 67 former Soviet military officers, including former Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov, for committing crimes against humanity for their roles in the January 1991 the clampdown on the country’s independence drive. During the Soviet action 14 people lost their lives.
“[In January 1991] open and large-scale systematic military aggression against the civilian population was initiated and pursued in order to provoke unrest and armed conflict. The pretext of such a conflict, using [Soviet] military force, was further part of the plan to overthrow the power of the (democratically) restored Lithuania, to introduce [Soviet power] and to continue the occupation and annexation of Lithuania,†the court ruled.
All but two of the defendants were sentenced in absentia, most of them facing prison terms of four to 12 years. The court sentenced the former military chief in charge of the clampdown to 12 years in prison. All will be appealed to a higher court.
Moscow, which refused to cooperate with the three-year-long trial, called the proceedings illegal.
Mapping The Countries With The Most Oil Reserves
There’s little doubt that renewable energy sources will play a strategic role in powering the global economy of the future.
But, as Visual Capitalist’s Jeff Desjardins notes, for now, crude oil is still the undisputed heavyweight champion of the energy world.
In 2018, we consumed more oil than any prior year in history – about 99.3 million barrels per day on a global basis. This number is projected to rise again in 2019 to 100.8 million barrels per day.
Given that oil will continue to be dominant in the energy mix for the short and medium term, which countries hold the most oil reserves?
Today’s map comes from HowMuch.net and it uses data from the CIA World Factbook to resize countries based on the amount of oil reserves they hold.
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For many Americans, going online is an important way to connect with friends and family, shop, get news and search for information. Yet today, 10{ef3b36ba7c11cac64d81b79cc51b0b7cc80daf5ccfa9ea032b2ab3ebe6b0c4c9} of U.S. adults do not use the internet, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of survey data.
The size of this group has changed little over the past four years, despite ongoing government and social service programs to encourage internet adoption in underserved areas. But that 10{ef3b36ba7c11cac64d81b79cc51b0b7cc80daf5ccfa9ea032b2ab3ebe6b0c4c9} figure is substantially lower than in 2000, when the Center first began to study the social impact of technology. That year, nearly half (48{ef3b36ba7c11cac64d81b79cc51b0b7cc80daf5ccfa9ea032b2ab3ebe6b0c4c9}) of American adults did not use the internet.
Internet non-adoption is linked to a number of demographic variables, including age, educational attainment, household income and community type, the Center’s latest analysis finds.
One of the Wealthiest Self-Made Entrepreneurs Ever Believed in These 3 Things
I’ve had some of the greatest business mentors in the world, even before I could afford to hire any. That’s because when I started my first career as a TV news reporter, I would read books, watch Youtube videos, and get my hands on any self-development material I could.
Since I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan, it was only a matter of time before I read Believe!, authored in 1975 by the late Amway co-founder Richard DeVos, also from Grand Rapids.
I read an old, tattered copy when I graduated from college without realizing the impact it would have on my mindset and future as an entrepreneur. The book–and Devos’s life story–fostered three beliefs I hold dear to this day. I think all business owners should adopt them:
