Repeating Conrad Black. Trump's Appeal. Now Nordstrom. Now Gates. Trust Critical And Lacking. It's Hunter Again.

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In view of the radical reaction on the part of progressives, liberals, Democrats to the Rittenhouse verdict and the tragic car episode in Wisconsin, I felt it important to re-post the op ed by Conrad Black, a thoughtful, insightful and  articulate writer.

Has America Gone Mad? Biden’s Presidency Now Being Met With Incredulity in Europe

By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun

After three weeks in Europe and extensive discussions with dozens of well-informed and highly placed individuals from most of the principal Western European countries, including leading members of the British government, I have the unpleasant duty of reporting complete incomprehension and incredulity at what Joe Biden and his collaborators encapsulate in the peppy but misleading phrase, “We’re back.”

As one eminent elected British government official put it, “They are not back in any conventional sense of that word. We have worked closely with the Americans for many decades and we have never seen such a shambles of incompetent administration, diplomatic incoherence, and complete military ineptitude as we have seen in these nine months. We were startled by Trump, but he clearly knew what he was doing, whatever we or anyone else thought about it. This is just a disintegration of the authority of a great nation for no apparent reason.”

From the European perspective, American leadership of the West has produced excellent results and few unpleasant surprises since the United States stepped into that role under Franklin D. Roosevelt in World War II. At that time, the entire future of Western civilization rested essentially upon the shoulders of just two men, Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, and it was the epochal good fortune of all of us that they were more than equal to their great task.

The level of acuity and success of the subsequent administrations, as the competence of government of any nation must, has fluctuated. The emphasis was on continuity, though, and the containment policy elaborated in the Truman Administration was generally followed through to the great bloodless victory of the West, as the Soviet Union crumbled and international Communism as we had known it evaporated.

No one could foresee that, just 30 years after the hammer-and-sickle was hauled down over the Kremlin and Russia reverted to the European borders that it had held when it was only the Grand Duchy of Muscovy 400 years ago, the international Left would have taken over the conservation and ecology bandwagon and manipulated the leading capitalist countries into a savage assault on their own economies to reduce carbon emissions.

No one could have anticipated that some African Americans would have celebrated their emancipation and the elevation of an African American president by lionizing antiwhite extremists and producing policing policies that have facilitated a vertiginous spike in violent crime in America.

Even two years ago no one could have foreseen that the Chinese would inadvertently release a virus which the entire Western world would obligingly respond to by shutting down almost their entire economy for a year and increasing the money supply by 30% — producing an economic upheaval that will linger for a long time.

Nor is there precedent for the completely avoidable and shaming debacle of the American defection from its own alliance and helter-skelter flight from Afghanistan, leaving thousands of desperate people of many nationalities who had relied upon the United States, to fend for themselves against the new terrorist regime that seized power there (and $85 billion of U.S. military hardware along with it).

No one could have foreseen that the egregious chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley — who appears to have been stuffed into his over-decorated tunic and bears more evidences of military distinction than victorious five-star combat generals George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, and Dwight D. Eisenhower combined — would promise his Chinese analogue that he would warn him if President Trump intended to attack China, that he agreed with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that his commander-in-chief (President Trump) was insane, that he would proudly help institute “diversity, equity, and inclusion” lessons in the Armed Forces, and that he would inform a congressional committee while under oath that he had warned Biden about the dangers of his Afghan policy (warnings the president professes not to have received).

We have now also learned that despite President Trump’s hugely expensive renovation of the American military, it now has no answer to Chinese and Russian hypersonic weapons.

General Milley and the rest of his over-promoted cabal were too busy politicizing their apolitical offices and confusing the ranks with their historical revisionism to assure the comprehensive defense of the United States, consult normally with allies serving at American request in the mission in Afghanistan, or to demand a sane evacuation plan when the commander-in-chief determined to scuttle the 20-year Afghan deployment.

Various well-informed British and Europeans told me that they found a variety of utterances by Joe Biden and his spokespeople grievously inappropriate or absurd. Most upsetting were Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas’ po-faced assurance that “the border is closed” while on the other half of the split-screen people were simultaneously wading or walking into the country illegally; climate czar John Kerry importuning the Chinese government to decelerate their pell-mell commissioning of new coal-fired power plants; Secretary of State Blinken’s fatuous lamentation about the “lack of diversity” in the new Taliban government in Afghanistan; and White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s assertion that the administration “welcomed the competition” of Russia’s hypersonic nuclear-tipped missiles.

The Internet assures a widespread transmission of such howlers and the next time Messrs. Biden or Blinken lay the egg about America being “back” and trusted, the Washington Post should dedicate its entire front page to Pinocchio.

The British and Europeans have always worried about the Americans, largely out of envy and continental vanity, which produced disbelief that any other country could perform the role of the world’s leading power more effectively than Britain and the other major European countries had done.

They feared that Harry Truman was a rube, Dwight Eisenhower an aging golfer, that JFK and Clinton and Obama were too inexperienced, that LBJ knew nothing of the world, that Nixon was devious, Ford and Carter were not up to it, Reagan was a mere actor, the Bushes were too inarticulate, and that Trump was completely infeasible.

They warmed to most of those men, (except Mr. Trump, though he is recognized as uncategorizable and inexplicably formidable), but they are completely flummoxed by Mr. Biden.

For three years ending in 2019, Britain had a prime minister who professed to be enacting the wishes of the narrow public majority in favor of withdrawing from the European Union by continuing in that Union and pretending to secede: Theresa May was articulate and diligent but when the plausibility of trying to reconcile contradictory options became clear, she was advised that her support had vanished and she left the prime minister’s office as if fired from a cannon.

The thought of the most successful alliance in history being “led” for three more years by an American president whose round-the-clock gaffes are not protected in Europe as Mr. Biden is in the United States by a totalitarian social media platform cartel and terminally biased national political media is a subject of profound and general disconcertion.

Despite my substantial agreement with their concerns, I vigorously attempted to defend the American interest. The best I could do was to remind them that the United States was the most successful country in history and always worked out its problems and that even after three more years of this ramshackle defeatism, a nation as great as America could quickly be restored to its traditional confidence and solidity. I was not entirely persuasive: my knowledgeable British and European friends not only do not think America is back, they think it has gone mad

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Whether you like Trump or not the argument his attorney's are making  an appeal to the Circuit Court is serious and very important from a separation of power prospect.  

Over the years, because of wars and personality, Congress has allowed the office of the president to rise in power and probably beyond the scope our founders intended. They knew there would be competition and structured our republic so that the three branches could adjust and achieve an intended semblance of  balance.

In the past decades, Congress has sought to rebalance. Fluidity and tension will always exist between our three branches. The Democrat's hatred of Trump and continued efforts to impeach and impede his administration continues and his attorney's point out the danger of hateful haunting of the office

You decide.

Trump Urges Appeals Court to Reverse Jan. 6 Ruling

By  Mark Hale 

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers on Tuesday asked an appeals court to overturn a judge’s ruling that would allow White House records to be given to the House Jan. 6 select committee.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Thursday declined to put on hold her ruling from earlier last week allowing Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s partisan committee to obtain records from the National Archives and Records Administration.

The Hill reported that Trump’s legal team filed a brief with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and argued that Chutkan’s ruling essentially was a “rubber stamp” for the committee and would upend the balance of powers between the executive and legislative branches.

“The stakes in this case are high,” the filing reads, The Hill reported. “A decision upholding the Committees’ request to NARA would have enormous consequences, forever changing the dynamics between the political branches.

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“It is naive to assume that the fallout will be limited to President Trump or the events of January 6, 2021. Every Congress will point to some unprecedented thing about ‘this President’ to justify a request for his presidential records.

“In these hyper-partisan times, Congress will increasingly and inevitably use this new weapon to perpetually harass its political rival.”

Following Chutkan’s ruling Thursday, Trump quickly appealed and secured a temporary injunction from the D.C. circuit just a day before NARA had been scheduled to give the committee hundreds of pages of documents.

The House select committee comprised of Democrats and anti-Trump Republican Reps. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., is investigating events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol.

Trump’s lawyers have argued that the committee’s records request is too broad and the Biden administration’s refusal to honor the former president’s claim of executive privilege infringes on his constitutional rights.

Chutkan, appointed by then-President Barack Obama, ruled that Trump, as a former president, has little power to interfere in such an exchange between the sitting president and Congress.

“The legislative and executive branches believe the balance of equities and public interest are well served by the Select Committee’s inquiry,” Chutkan wrote. “The court will not second guess the two branches of government that have historically negotiated their own solutions to congressional requests for presidential documents.”

Trump’s lawyers told the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday that future presidents could be targeted by invasive congressional harassment if Chutkan’s decision were to stand.

“If the Committee’s request is upheld, there would be no limitation on the presidential records Congress could review,” they wrote in the filing, The Hill said.

“Adopting the district court’s novel rule would allow Congress to give itself the power to investigate and undermine the authority of both the Executive Branch and Judicial Branch of the federal government. This would upend any notion of separate and co-equal branches of government.

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First, it was Walgreen and now Nordstrom.  These are not random acts of stealing.  I believe they are purposeful attempts against our commercial freedoms and capitalism. 

You decide.

by Suzanne Nuyen

80 people stormed a Nordstrom in California to steal merchandise this weekend. Police have arrested three people in what they called an "organized theft" event.

AND:

In 2020 when Trump was president the media kept score on and constantly reported so-called Covid related deaths. That also was a time when vaccines were less available and the medical community knew less about treatment.  So far, in 2021 more deaths related to Covic over those in 2020 have occurred, no media box score coverage is displayed, vaccines are readily available and the health system has vast knowledge of how to respond.

I cite this to emphasize mass media bias.

Biden also benefits from Trump's warp speed effort to bring a vaccine aboard in less than a year. Most vaccines take between 5 to 12 years.  Another Trump success that is given little attention.

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It was Soros, then Zuckerbeg and now Gates. The ability to purchase elections must stop and laws that allow such manipulation must be curbed.

Report cites Bill Gates’ enormous financial influence on media

By Content created by the WND News Center 

It’s uncontested that Facebook, now Meta, chief Mark Zuckerberg handed out some $420 million to mostly leftist election officials to recruit votes from areas that favored Democrats in the 2020 presidential race.

An in-depth analysis at The Federalist found that Zuckerberg’s huge checks to Center for Technology and Civil Life and the Center for Election Innovation and Research essential bought the 2020 president election for Joe Biden.

That’s from William Doyle, a principal researcher at Caesar Rodney Election Research Institute in Irving, Texas, who explained his findings in a report at The Federalist.

Not through traditional political spending, but through a “targeted, private takeover of government election operations by nominally non-partisan – but demonstrably ideological – non-profit organizations.”

Doyle explained analysis work done by his team shows Zuckerbucks, as they have been derogatorily labeled by some, “significantly increased Joe Biden’s vote margin in key swing states.”

He said, “The 2020 election wasn’t stolen — it was likely bought by one of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful men pouring his money through legal loopholes.”

Now, a new report from The Blaze outlines how  another billionaire, Bill Gates, has also been handing out millions of dollars – to news organizations.

The report explained, “Documents obtained by Alan Macleod at a the MintPress News suggest that Bill Gates has given hundreds of millions of dollars to select media outlets across the globe. The information, Macleod stated in his report on the matter, was obtained through a review of over 30,000 individual grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s website database.”

The beneficiaries include CNN, NBC, NPR, PBS, the Atlantic and New York Public Radio.

The funding includes $24.6 million to NPR, $12.9 million to the U.K.’s Guardian, and $10.8 million to Seattle, Washington-based Cascade Public Media, which owns local station KCTS-TV, the report said.

“Other direct awards include those bestowed on the Conversation, Germany’s Der Spiegel, Education Week, NBCUniversal Media, France’s Le Monde, the BBC, CNN, the Education Post, the Financial Times, the Texas Tribune and Al-Jazeera.

What the money buys isn’t even concealed, Macleod said, explaining, “The money is generally directed towards issues close to the Gates hearts. For example, the $3.6 million CNN grant went towards ‘report[ing] on gender equality with a focus on least developed countries, producing journalism on the everyday inequalities endured by women and girls across the world.’”

He said the Texas Tribune got millions to boost “public awareness and engagement of education reform issues in Texas.”

The report said, “While the Gates Foundation fosters an air of openness about itself, there is actually precious little public information about what happens to the money from each grant, save for a short, one- or two-sentence description written by the foundation itself on the website. Only donations to press organizations themselves or projects that could be identified from the information on the Gates Foundation’s website as media campaigns were counted, meaning that thousands of grants having some media element do not appear in this list.”

MintPress itself noted that the Gates Foundation also has given nearly $63 million to “charities closely aligned with big media outlets, including nearly $53 million to BBC Media action” and such.

Legacy media aren’t exempted either, with the report revealing the Gates Foundation has given as least $12 million to press and journalism associations and journalists’ groups and teaching endeavors.

The grants, the report confirms, “have an effect on our media.”

“In comparison to other tech billionaires, Gates has kept his profile as a media controller relatively low. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s purchase of The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013 was a very clear and obvious form of media influence, as was eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s creation of First Look Media, the company that owns The Intercept,” the report said. “Despite flying more under the radar, Gates and his companies have amassed considerable influence in media. We already rely on Microsoft-owned products for communication (e.g. Skype, Hotmail), social media (LinkedIn), and entertainment (Microsoft XBox). Furthermore, the hardware and software we use to communicate often comes courtesy of the 66-year-old Seattleite. How many people reading this are doing so on a Microsoft Surface or Windows phone and doing so via Windows OS? Not only that, Microsoft owns stakes in media giants such as Comcast and AT&T. And the ‘MS’ in MSNBC stands for Microsoft.”

The report concluded, “None of this means that the organizations receiving Gates’ money — media or otherwise — are irredeemably corrupt, nor that the Gates Foundation does not do any good in the world. But it does introduce a glaring conflict of interest whereby the very institutions we rely on to hold accountable one of the richest and most powerful men in the planet’s history are quietly being funded by him. This conflict of interest is one that corporate media have largely tried to ignore, while the supposedly altruistic philanthropist Gates just keeps getting richer, laughing all the way to the bank.”

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Trust is critical for government and society to function. Yes, The IRS hovers over every citizen as a threat but, in truth, Americans voluntarily pay their taxes.

As for doctors, they are forbidden to own a drug company, by their oath, and then dispense medicine to patients on which they make a profit. 

Why do I mention this?

As those who read my memos know, I am not sure climate change claims, by Greens, are scientifically accurate nor am I convinced counter scientific claims are valid.  I do know, scientists who receive government funding have a vested interest in continuing  this funding and therefore, one cannot, should not assume, uncritically, their findings are valid. 

Society has benefitted greatly from government sponsored research grants but one cannot deny this type of funding should raise questions and has the potential of increasing distrust.

The most recent revelation involves Fauci and Covid. He is  one of the highest paid bureaucrats in government and has been employed for over 40 years.

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Politicians Have Earned Your Distrust

Our leaders care more about putting ‘points on the board’ than doing what’s right.

By Andy Kessler 

Each day government bombards Americans with reasons not to trust it. It has been only 616 days since the Trump administration’s “15 Days to Slow the Spread.” From the Fauci dance—no mask, one mask, double masks—to the airport mess known as the Transportation Security Administration. If it’s OK for travelers under 12 and over 75 to keep their shoes on through airport security, then surely it’s OK for everyone. Americans aren’t stupid. Each time we’re spun or deceived or outright lied to, trust in government melts away.

Case in point: President Biden’s speech at the Port of Baltimore about the recently enacted bipartisan infrastructure plan, in which he said “this bill is going to reduce the cost of goods to consumers.” Spend more, prices go down? Not likely. A few breaths later: “I’m going to create good-paying union jobs—union . . . not $12 an hour, not $15 an hour—$45 an hour and up with good benefits.” And that will somehow reduce the cost of goods to consumers? C’mon, man. Is Sen. Joe Manchin the only one who understands the wage-price spiral? Inflation is “transitory,” we’re told. Uh-huh. Meanwhile, some Californians are pumping $5 gas.

Mr. Biden also claims the $1.75 trillion social-climate-porkfest reconciliation bill—really more than $4 trillion without accounting gimmicks—“costs zero dollars.” The administration must be using that new “equity” math I keep hearing about. A third-grader could see the deception. Any wonder why Mr. Biden has a 41% approval rating?

White House press secretary Jen Psaki declared the chaotic Afghan withdrawal the “largest airlift in U.S. history . . . so no, I would not say that is anything but a success.” That’s like saying the Titanic was a success as the largest lifeboat deployment in history.

California government becomes less trustworthy by the minute. It lifted most Covid restrictions in June based on 70% of adult Californians receiving at least one vaccine dose, meaning you could go maskless in Trader Joe’s. By August, however, health officials, blaming the Delta variant, reimposed mask mandates in California’s big cities. Then in October, the same health officials said that restrictions will be lifted when 80% are vaccinated. No problem, 80% of adults had gotten jabbed. But wait, the new target is 80% of the entire population, including children under 12, who weren’t eligible for shots. Talk about moving the goal posts.

 

Sen. Amy Klobuchar and others are going after Facebook, claiming its products are addictive. Maybe they are. But where is their outrage over other addictive products, especially tax-spewing government-sanctioned ones like cannabis, alcohol and gambling—aka weed, wine and what’s the line? These same social-media scolds also worry about Instagram’s effect on teens and body shaming, but until they outlaw Teen Vogue magazine and Victoria’s Secret ads, you know they aren’t serious.

Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe used a federal visa program to set up an electric-car venture, GreenTech Automotive, with Hillary Clinton’s brother, and was sued in 2017 by Chinese investors for fraud. Mr. McAuliffe was dismissed from the suit in 2018, but those visa ventures are usually sketchy. Did that disqualify him for public office? Apparently not. Education policy, not candidate character, swung the Virginia governor race.

Others are more subtle. Did you ever wonder why former media darling and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sent Covid patients back to nursing homes instead of to the Javits Center or the USNS Comfort hospital ship, which President Trump had sent? The Cuomo re-election campaign received more than $1 million from the Greater New York Hospital Association in 2018. Mr. Cuomo then increased Medicaid fees paid to nursing homes and hospitals. When the pandemic hit, the same hospital association requested that nursing homes be compelled to accept patients who had tested positive for Covid-19. Then, as deaths mounted, the Cuomo administration underreported the number.

Voting reform has caused needless boycotts, and Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred was booed in Atlanta during the World Series for moving the All-Star Game out of the city to protest Georgia’s voting reforms. Somehow Voter ID is bad, yet mail-in ballots are good for election integrity? That doesn’t even begin to make sense.

So what is the mindset of these trustbusting politicians? Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner is often listed as a businessman, but he was really a political entrepreneur. His two most successful investments, Nextel and Capital Cellular Corp., wouldn’t have existed without government bandwidth licenses. Yet now he seems to hate Big Tech. Despite heated hearings and debates about antitrust action to break up Facebook and others, few bills have been passed. “It’s frankly nothing short of pathetic,” Mr. Warner said. Based on all the bluster over Big Tech, Mr. Warner added, “it would be a fairly damning commentary on Congress” if lawmakers “didn’t put some points on the board.” Forget about what is right for the economy or for citizens, it’s simply “points on the board.” It’s all about their careers, not yours. Trust me on that.

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In the most recent presidential election, Democrats posted cartoons of Trump wheeling "grandma" off a cliff. Pelosi seems to have embraced this tactic in order to go out in a blaze of glory.

Fearing a defeat, in the upcoming mid year elections, it is evident, Pelosi is strong arming her Democrat members in passing legislation which, if successful, will alter the very nature of our republic for ever.   

There is nothing that suggests Pelosi has such  a mandate.

What I do not understand is, if Pelosi if not likely to remain in office either voluntarily or because of defeat, why would members, who disagree with her, bend/cave to submission?

The Kamikaze Democrats

Pelosi and Biden march swing-district House Members to the end of their careers.

By The Editorial Staff

The Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal dominated the weekend news, but the more significant story for the long run was House passage Friday of the multi-trillion-dollar tax, climate and entitlement spending bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi marched her majority off a cliff in 2010 with votes on ObamaCare, and now she has done it again.

The Speaker muscled the bill through on a 220-213 vote. No Republicans voted aye, and Rep. Jared Golden of Maine was the sole Democratic dissenter. Other swing-district Democrats had made a show of demanding concessions and a bill that “paid for itself,” but in the end the bill didn’t pay for itself even by the rigged rules of the Congressional Budget Office. But they still rolled over, as they always do when Mrs. Pelosi gives the order.

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The 81-year-old Mrs. Pelosi is almost certainly retiring after this Congress, and this vote is a legacy project for her. But her younger Members will have much to explain in 2022 as they defend this gargantuan, destructive and unnecessary bill.

There’s the immigration provision that would give 6.5 million or so illegal migrants who have been in the country since 2011 a 10-year right to work in the U.S. This will probably be stripped from the bill in the Senate, but House Members will be on record for legalizing millions of migrants even as the border has become a lawless mess. The political effect will be to empower GOP restrictionists.

Then there’s the $8 billion methane “fee” that is in effect a tax on natural gas production and thus on consumer energy prices. The American Gas Association estimates this could raise the average family’s natural gas bill by 17%, so this is also a violation of President Biden’s pledge not to raise taxes on anyone earning less than $400,000 a year.

Sen. Joe Manchin might strip this from the Senate bill. But Abigail Spanberger (Va.), Elissa Slotkin (Mich.), Mikie Sherrill (N.J.) and the rest are now on record as supporting higher energy prices when they are already spiking in suburban American.

The immoderate moderates also voted for a tax cut for the rich in high-tax states by raising the state-and-local tax deduction to $80,000 from $10,000. The Penn Wharton Budget Model says that the top 10% of taxpayers will get 88% of the benefit from this provision. Most of those reside in coastal states run by Democrats.

The same Democrats who campaign against inequality and for soaking the rich thus voted to give affluent taxpayers who earn up to $10 million a year a huge tax cut. The provision costs the Treasury $230 billion through 2026, after which Democrats pretend it will raise revenue. Sure it will. Mr. Golden cited this provision as the reason he voted no, and Senate Democrats may alter or nix it. But House Democrats are still on the record.

Other lowlights that may end up in Republican campaign ads include the $2.5 billion handout to trial lawyers to deduct their expenses for contingency-fee lawsuits. Don’t forget the $1.7 billion subsidy for local journalists, most of whom are left of center. Republicans will call that, not without cause, a bribe for favorable coverage.

All of this and more is part of the biggest expansion of the entitlement state since the 1960s, and maybe ever. House Democrats say the bill spends roughly $2 trillion over 10 years, but that’s because they use gimmicks such as phasing-out programs that they have no intention of phasing out. Independent analysts put it closer to $5 trillion over a decade if the programs are made permanent.

Democrats say their specific programs are popular—who doesn’t love free child care? But voters understand that nothing is free from the government, and polls are starting to show that voters think they will end up paying for it. They are right. There are only so many rich people to soak, and Democrats are cutting taxes for most of them.

Americans have also begun to link the flood of government spending to inflation, which is acting like another tax. With this bill, passed in the wake of their nationwide election drubbing this month, Democrats are underscoring that they are the inflation party.

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Mrs. Pelosi promised Democrats she wouldn’t make them vote on a bill before the Senate agreed to it, but as in 2010 she’s done that again. They’ll now have to defend provisions that couldn’t pass a Democratic Senate. No wonder Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy spoke on the House floor for eight hours. He knows the Democrats were voting to make him Speaker.

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Is our "sleepy" president "woke" enough to be on the take?

Sleepy Joe's offspring Hunter helped Commie China grab world's biggest cobalt mine from US company - and it's NYT exposing that

Hunter Biden, the inspired offspring of Empty Shelves Joe “the Democrat President” Biden”, is such a talented individual, it’s just enviable! Thus dude’s just all over the place – especially since his dirty politician daddy became Obama’s veep in 2009. Hunter talents range from drunken and drug-taki ...

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The New Blue Confederacy

by Victor Davis Hanson via American Greatness How did the New North become the Old South, and the New South the Old North? +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Let's end with a joke:

Louis had been in business for 25 years.  Finally sick of the stress, he sells his company and buys 50 acres of land in the Yukon, as far from humanity as possible.  He sees the postman once a week, and gets groceries once a month.  Otherwise it's total peace and quiet.

After six months or so of almost total isolation, someone knocks on his door.  He opens it and a huge, bearded man is standing there.

"Name's Stan, your neighbor from forty miles up the road.  Having a Christmas party Friday night.  Thought you might like to come at about 5:00.

"Great", says Louis, "after six months out here I'm ready to meet some local folks.  Thank you."

As Stan is leaving, he stops.  "Gotta warn you…. Be some drinkin!"

"Not a problem" says Louis.  "After 25 years in the business, I can drink with the best of 'em."

Again, the big man starts to leave and stops.  "More 'n' likely goin’ to be some fightin’ too”.

"Well, I get along with people, I'll be all right and, if not, I can handle myself pretty well…. I'll be there.  Thanks again."

"More'n likely be some wild sex, too."

"Now that's really not a problem" says Louis, warming to the idea.  "I've been all alone for six months!   I'll definitely be there.  By the way, what should I wear?"

"Don't much matter........ just gonna be the two of us."

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