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It is a very difficult issue because there are legal risks for reporting such, depriving another human of their civil liberties and can you always determine an individual is a mental threat to society? We have elected witless people who made "insane" decisions that resulted in the death of others. Biden and Afghan come to mind. Hillary and the death of an ambassador.Jimmy Carter closed Georgia's mental facilities when drugs were developed that addressed certain mental maladies. The problem is, many did not take their pills. DUH!
Let's see what happens to Sussmann and then Hillary.
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Patriot (edited.)
I wanted to provide you with an important update. I just testified before Congress for roughly NINE hours.
But the Left is furious that I rightly invoked the attorney-client and executive privilege that I have with President Trump.
Of course, the Left doesn't care about attorney-client privilege. Frankly, they don't have much regard for the rule of law.
Let's not forget that it was Biden's FBI that violated President Trump's attorney-client privilege, and there's no doubt they would do it again.
With the battle for my freedom and justice ongoing, I recorded a video for you to talk about the injustice I'm facing for successfully defending President Trump as his lawyer.
Please make a contribution to my Legal Defense Trust, the Rudy Giuliani Freedom Fund, as the Deep State tries to ruin me financially, personally, and professionally through a mountain of legal bills and lawsuits.
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Obama an insensitive, arrogant pig. The reason Obama is dangerous is because he presided over a nation that seeks to be a melting pot and he preached separatism and was a racist. This is why BLM is dangerous and why Black Lives Matter was racist and separatist. All lives matter and ethnicity has nothing to do with it.
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Children born out of wedlock, raised in a situation where economic odds are negative are more prone not to have the kind of life that fits the American dream. Perhaps a way to penalize women who indulge and reduce the situation where this occurs is to reduce their welfare checks after the first such birth and eliminate any further checks after 2 such births.
There is no reason why society should encourage these circumstances and pay the consequences nor should the children who did not ask to be born.
Everyone should be responsible and pay a price for their behaviour.
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Harvard student condemns anti-American attitudes:
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A Cabinency of Dunces
Victor Davis Hanson
The common denominator to these Biden appointees is ideological rigidity, nonchalance, and sheer incompetence.
As the nation sinks inexplicably into self-created crisis after crisis, debate rages whether Joe Biden is incompetent, mean-spirited, or an ideologue who feels the country’s mess is his success.
A second national discussion revolves around who actually is overseeing the current national catastrophe, given Joe Biden’s frequent bewilderment and cognitive challenges.
But one area of agreement is the sheer craziness of Biden’s cabinet appointments, who have translated his incoherent ideology into catastrophic governance.
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas has essentially nullified federal immigration law. Over 2 million foreign nationals have illegally crossed the southern border without audit—and without COVID vaccinations and tests during a pandemic.
Mayorkas either cannot or will not follow federal law.
But he did create a new Disinformation Governance Board. To head his new Orwellian Ministry of Truth, he appointed Nina Jankowicz—an arch disinformationist who helped peddle the Russian collusion, Steele dossier, and Alfa Bank hoaxes.
While Jankowicz’s adolescent videos and past tweets finally forced her resignation, Mayorkas promises that his board will carry on.
In the days before the recent Virginia election, grassroots parent groups challenged critical race theory taught in the schools.
In reaction and under prompts from teachers’ unions, Attorney General Merrick Garland directed both the FBI and the Justice Department to establish a special task force apparently to “investigate threats” from parents against school board members.
The FBI recently has been knee-deep in political controversies. It illegally doctored a FISA application to entrap an American citizen. Its former directors, under oath before Congress, either claimed faulty memory or admitted lying to federal investigators.
The last thing a scandal-plagued FBI needed was to go undercover at school board meetings to investigate parents worried over their childrens’ education.
We are in a fuel price spiral that is destroying the middle class.
Yet when Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was asked about plans to lower gas prices, she laughed off the idea as “hilarious.”
Later Granholm preposterously claimed, “It is not the administration policies that have affected supply and demand.”
Apparently haranguing those who finance fossil fuel production, canceling the Keystone Pipeline, suspending new federal oil and gas leases, and stopping production in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge all had nothing to do with high fuel prices.
Currently, supply chain disruptions are paralyzing the U.S. economy.
The huge Port of Los Angeles has been a mess for over a year. Since last fall dozens of cargo ships have been backed up to the horizon. Thousands of trucks are bottlenecked at the port.
During the mess, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was not at work. Instead at the height of the crisis, he took a two-month paternity leave to help out his husband and two newborn babies.
Such paternal concern is a noble thing.
But Buttigieg is supposed to ensure that life-or-death supplies reach millions of strapped Americans.
This winter, trains entering and leaving Los Angeles were routinely looted in the Old-West style of train robbing—without much of a response from Buttigieg’s transpiration bureau.
In Senate testimony Secretary of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland refused to explain why her department is slow walking federal oil and gas leases at a time Americans are paying between $5 and $6 a gallon for gas.
Haaland was unable to provide simple answers about when new leases will result in more supplies of oil and gas. Her panicked aides slid talking points to her—given that in deer-in-the-headlights fashion, she seemed incapable of providing senators with basic information about U.S. energy production on federal lands.
The United States is sending many billions of dollars worth of sophisticated weapons to Ukraine to combat Russian aggression. We rightly claim it is not a proxy war against Russia but instead an effort to help stop a brutal Russian invasion.
Why then did Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin tell the world the very opposite in a fashion that could only convince Russians that our real aim in Ukraine is to destroy Russia as a superpower?
As Austin put it publicly, “We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.”
Even if that description of the agenda is true, why broadcast it—given Russia has over 6,000 nuclear weapons and its President Vladimir Putin is increasingly erratic and paranoid?
The common denominator to these Biden appointees is ideological rigidity, nonchalance, and sheer incompetence.
They seem indifferent to the current border, inflation, energy, and crime disasters. When confronted, they are unable to answer simple questions from Congress, or they mock anyone asking for answers on behalf of the strapped American people.
We don’t know why or how such an unimpressive cadre ended up running the government, only that they are here and the American people are suffering from their presence.
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Innocents are killed every day y radical Islamists and Muslims and the world seems not to care. What's new?
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Palestinians Are Preparing to Kill Jews on Sunday; Will the World Care?
Palestinians are preparing excuses to attack Israel on Sunday, which is Jerusalem Day.
Ma’an is not affiliated with any terror organization. Yet even that news outlet is saying that there is no reasonable alternative to attacking Jews on Sunday, using rockets, terrorism, or both.
Last year’s Jerusalem Day was marked with a war between Israel and Hamas, and with Hamas rockets launched at Jerusalem — endangering the very holy places that Muslims claim are so important to them. To Palestinians, last year’s war between Israel and Hamas was a net positive, because it showed that they could still affect Israel and stop Jews from celebrating the reunification of Jerusalem.
Most Palestinians don’t look at a war that killed hundreds and that destroyed part of Gaza as a loss. To them, it was a victory, and Hamas rode a wave of popularity for months afterwards, as it took on the mantle of “defender of Al Quds and Al Aqsa.”
All the Palestinians need is an excuse to repeat their attacks on Jews this year. And they are collecting them.
The Ma’an editorial ends not with a threat, but with a virtual promise:
The statement of the Palestinian Authority and the statement of the Kingdom of Jordan to hold the occupation responsible for the upcoming religious war represents more than a warning of what will happen.
The question is not whether a new battle will take against Israel. Rather, the more accurate question is what miracle can stop the violence.
Palestinians are being primed in all of their media for war.
Israel needs to plan accordingly. And it should say, in no uncertain terms, that it will respond to any threats with the necessary force and resolve. And the Jewish state should publicize and translate these threats today, not after the violence occurs.
Elder of Ziyon is a pro-Israel blogger and activist.
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Unless Biden is hellbent on making dangerous concessions, which he seems to have had second doubts about, prospects for resuming negotiations with Iran are less than dim.
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Prospects for reviving Iran nuclear deal 'tenuous' at best - US
The United States' Iran envoy Rob Malley said on Wednesday that the chances of reviving the 2015 JCPOA are 'tenuous,' and warned Iran against any escalation.
Prospects for reaching a nuclear deal with Iran “are tenuous at best,” says Rob Malley, the Biden administration's special representative to Iran.
“If Iran maintains demands that go beyond the scope of the JCPOA, we will continue to reject them, and there will be no deal,” he said in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, referring to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the official name of the nuclear deal.
Malley’s remarks came on the heels of a report by Politico that indicated President Joe Biden had made a final decision not to delist the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from the Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, an Iranian demand that was unrelated to the 2015 nuclear agreement.
“It is not our preference, but we are fully prepared to live with and confront that reality if that is Iran’s choice,” Malley said.
“We will seek a return to the JCPOA as long as we assess that its nonproliferation benefits are worth the lifting of the sanctions we would provide, and we will submit this deal for congressional review if we were to reach it,” he added.The Iranian government’s actions threaten “the United States and our allies, including Israel,” Malley said.
“Iran continues to support terrorist groups,” he said. “It has an appalling human-rights record, the brutal response to ongoing protests being only the latest reminder. It unjustly detains foreign and dual nationals for use as political pawns.”
“The simple fact is this: As a means of constraining Iran’s nuclear program, the JCPOA was working; leaving it has not,” Malley said. “Under the JCPOA, Iran operated a tightly constrained and monitored nuclear program.
It would’ve taken Iran about a year to make enough fissile material for a bomb, which would’ve given us and our allies the ability to know what Iran was doing and the time to act should Iran make that decision.
Iran continues to support terrorist groups. It has an appalling human rights record, the brutal response to ongoing protests being only the latest reminder.
Rob Malley, the Biden administration special representative to Iran. none
"Without those constraints, Iran has been accumulating sufficient enriched uranium and made sufficient technological advances to leave the breakout time as short as a matter of weeks, which means Iran could potentially produce enough fuel for bomb before we can know it, let alone stop it."
“We have no illusion [that with or without] a nuclear deal, this Iranian government will remain a threat. As we have throughout the negotiations, we will continue to strongly push back.”
Meanwhile, the State and the Treasury departments announced new sanctions, targeting an international smuggling and money-laundering network that has “facilitated the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of oil for the IRGC Quds Force.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday said the United States “remains fully committed to imposing costs on the Iranian regime for its support to terrorist proxies that destabilize the Middle East.
“To that end, today the United States is designating an international oil-smuggling and money-laundering network, led by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force official Behnam Shahriyari and former IRGC-QF official Rostam Ghasemi, both of whom are designated persons.”
Blinken said the network is backed by senior levels of the Russian Federation government and state-run economic enterprises.
“It has facilitated the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of oil for the IRGC-QF and Hezbollah, and it spans several jurisdictions, including Iran and Russia,” he said.
“We will not hesitate to target those who provide critical support for the IRGC or Hezbollah and facilitate their access to the international financial system,” Blinken said.
Former ambassador to the US Michael Oren said: “President Biden’s decision not to delist the IRGC and to hold off renewing the JCPOA is encouraging. But the European Union and elements in the US administration remain determined to delist parts of the IRGC and to reach an even more disastrous deal. Israel must remain diligent and continue to build its case for robust diplomatic and kinetic action.”
Richard Goldberg, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said until a Plan B is being pursued, “we should assume the administration is continuing to negotiate a new and worse nuclear deal.”
“Now that the president has affirmed the IRGC is a terrorist organization,” he said, “Congress should be asking a simple question: How can you lift sanctions on the IRGC’s top financiers, including the Central Bank of Iran and the National Iranian Oil Company – key terrorism sanctions the administration has already offered to suspend?”
Dennis Ross, a distinguished fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said the deal is not dead.
“Iran will put pressure on us by ratcheting up their nuclear program, believing that may force us to concede,” he said. “And we will hope that the economic pressures in Iran, with protests over reduced subsidies on basic food stuffs, will lead the Iranians to feel they need sanctions relief.”
“The supreme leader will, of course, not want to make a concession in the current environment for fear of looking weak,” Ross said. “But so long as the administration does not see a better alternative to the JCPOA and the limits it imposes, and so long as the Iranians want sanctions relief, a deal could prove possible in a few months’ time.”
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Nothing with Biden is first except mistakes in judgement and stupid comments:
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Biden says Second Amendment 'not absolute' at police executive order signing
by Naomi Lim, White House Reporter
President Joe Biden opened his remarks announcing a police reform executive order by remembering the victims of the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting and calling on the Senate to confirm his nominee to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.
"To state the obvious: I’m sick and tired of what’s going on,” Biden said. He said the Senate could help ensure existing federal gun laws are enforced by confirming Steve Dettelbach as ATF director. Biden's previous nominee, David Chipman, was withdrawn last year amid Senate opposition.
"Enough is enough," said Vice President Kamala Harris in her introductory remarks touching on the mass shooting, reiterating Biden's comments about having "the courage" to take on "the gun lobby."
BIDEN, LIKE OBAMA, PROMISES UNITY BUT DOESN'T DELIVER
Biden said he would travel to Texas in the coming days. Earlier Wednesday, first lady Jill Biden told reporters "of course" she and her husband would fly to Uvalde, Texas, to comfort the community grieving for the 19 children and two fourth-grade teachers shot dead at Robb Elementary School.
But the president also argued the Second Amendment had limits, saying "you couldn't own a cannon" when it was ratified and that there were gun control measures that could be passed that would address the violence without infringing on constitutional rights.
"The Second Amendment's not absolute," he said.
Jill Biden also called for action earlier in the day.
"The sudden, senseless massacre in an elementary school, little children and their teachers, Eva and Irma," the first lady said, "let us pray that God cradles those broken families in the palm of his hand."
"But let us also pray to use the will and courage God gives each of us to act united with common sense to protect our children," she added.
The president previously addressed the nation late Tuesday from the Roosevelt Room in the White House. The president expressed his frustration with congressional gridlock, yet he did not propose specific reforms. He did reference his past work passing an assault weapons ban, which has since lapsed and not been renewed.
"Why are we willing to live with this carnage?" Biden asked. "Why do we keep letting this happen? Where in God’s name is our backbone to have the courage to deal with it and stand up to the lobbies?"
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He continued: "It’s time to turn this pain into action."
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| Thomas Sowell Was Right As Usual |
| featuring Thomas Sowell via Real Clear Policy A conservative U.S. Supreme Court seems likely to strike down decades old “race-conscious admissions” at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. Such a decision could bring protests, even civil unrest. Is it worth it? +++ +++ Thomas Sowell was Right As Usual By Robert Maranto A conservative U.S. Supreme Court seems likely to strike down decades old “race-conscious admissions” at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. Such a decision could bring protests, even civil unrest. Is it worth it? I’ve long supported closing K-12 racial achievement gaps and wider recruitment to increase diversity in universities. Most hiring or admissions committees have someone pushing to expand the pool to seek well qualified candidates from underrepresented groups. I was and will remain that person. Yet decades of watching higher education’s racial preferences in action have convinced me that, as usual, Thomas Sowell was right. Contrasting successfully integrated organizations like the U.S. Army, where no soldier thinks the officer bossing them around got there due to their race, higher education bureaucracies have prioritized symbolic “equity,” meaning quotas, over merit, reinforcing white privilege in the process. Real world experience says it’s time to end racial preferences and reembrace merit admissions. A half century ago, in 1972, Thomas Sowell published Black Education: Myths and Tragedies, still the best book explaining how affirmative action in higher education went horribly wrong. As Sowell documented, white admissions staff at elite universities chose to admit academically struggling “real” blacks fitting leftist stereotypes over top black scholars. Bureaucrats sidelined merit-oriented critics, particularly black critics like Cornell economics professor Sowell and assistant dean Pearl Lucas. Cornell terminated Lucas for the farcical offense of using accrued vacation time during spring break without prior notice, something literally everyone did. Academia’s dissenters still face such dangers from bureaucrats. Sowell explains the genesis of diversity bureaucracies, which eventually developed what Dion Pierre and Peter Wood term “neo-segregation” at elite schools like Yale, with separate orientations, majors, housing, even graduation ceremonies, a sort of postmodern Jim Crow which has damaged race relations. Sowell details how leftist white professors saw black students less as individuals than political symbols. One medical school dean confided that after Martin Luther King’s assassination, his white faculty proposed admitting unqualified blacks to promote equity. Sowell objected that these white professors would never “send their children to be operated on by those ‘doctors’ that they maneuver through medical school,” so “why should my children be operated on by such doctors?” The dean agreed, saying “I held them off, this year. How many more years they can be stopped from doing this is another story.” Sadly, in the half-century since, universities have often sacrificed academics on the altar of equity, disproportionately harming blacks. As Sowell observed, elite academic work moves fast. Whatever their race, students admitted under lower standards struggle to keep up, often dropping out or switching to easy majors. Many would have succeeded at other institutions, so race preferences create black failure, reinforcing negative stereotypes. This may explain why, as law professor Gail Heriot writes in “A Dubious Expediency,” historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) produce 40% of black scientists despite serving just 20% of black college students. Likewise, in Mismatch, Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor document how after a public referendum forced University of California campuses to curtail racial preferences, black four-year graduation rates rose over 70% once universities stopped admitting less prepared students to fill racial quotas. Ironically, race-based admissions at schools like Harvard solidify white privilege, decimating Asian Americans by 40-50% while leaving white enrollments nearly intact. As the National Association of Scholars documented in its recent Amicus Curiae brief in the Harvard and North Carolina cases, Harvard admissions staff systematically lowered the “personality” ratings of Asian applicants they had never met, actions fitting textbook definitions of prejudice. This amounts to an institutional hate crime against Asian Americans. Americans of all races oppose such bigotry. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that while more than nine in ten want high school grades to influence college admissions and more than eight in ten want standardized testing to play a role, “nearly three-quarters of Americans or more say gender, race or ethnicity, or whether a relative attended the school should not factor into admissions decisions.” Even in liberal states, voters agree. Despite near unanimous media and corporate support and outspending the opposition 15-1, a 2020 referendum to return formal racial preferences to California public universities lost 57-43%. Prior referenda on race based preferences in states like Washington met similar fates. Fifty years of prejudiced, politically unpopular, constitutionally suspect bureaucratic practices are enough. We now know that Thomas Sowell had it right back in 1972. It is time for the Supreme Court to rule that legally, in the words of late Justice Antonin Scalia, “we are just one race here. It is American.” Robert Maranto is the 21st Century Chair in Leadership in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas and has done considerable research on closing achievement gaps. Related Topics: education, Thomas Sowell, education policy, race, racial preferences, achievement gap, higher education, Supreme Court, SCOTUS, diversity, diversity equity and inclusion++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Today (May 26,) I put together a lunch with friends and we discussed a variety of topics. One of the attendees inquired about whether recessions have an impact on culture. I believe America's culture has been changing notwithstanding any impact from recessions but I have no doubt business downturns do impact culture and their length and severity most certainly. The decline in American culture assuredly was significantly impacted by events in the'60's and Woodstock was a defining moment. The intrusion by and dependency on government probably has done more to alter American culture than most recessions. To be an American was generally associated with being rugged, compassionate, patriotic, charitable, religious, independent of mind and law abiding etc. We are no longer as patriotic, religious, independent of mind and law abiding. We are more despondent, less optimistic, feel more intimidated, less sure of our collective future and less religious and patriotic. Urban males have become more domesticated as technology has eliminated many of the necessary roles they once played as providers. Males seem more confused about their role in modern society. Women have usurped many of the roles exclusive to males as a consequence of being liberated but have paid a very high price as the "nuclear" family has exploded. Probably social media technology has done more to alter our culture than anything else since the automobile gave youth a high degree of personal freedom and independence. I do believe we are at a tipping point and the mid-year elections will be crucial in determining whether we can recapture so much of what we have lost. I further believe it is important the current Democrat Party's embrace of radicalism must be broken if America is to regain a sounder footing so we can re-embrace some of the eternal verities that made us a once proud and great nation. Time will tell. It always does. ++++++++++++++++++++++ |
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