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If the world and western leadership continues along their feckless road, in keeping with past history, Israel will have no option but to act in a pre-emptive manner. One caution - Glick is an avowed hawk but so am I.
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In my case I have more metal than bone. Left knee, left and right hip all titanium
In the case of liberals most have their heads located somewhere else.
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Democrats see all conservative black candidates as "Uncle Tom's" and enemies:
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Dems Go All In To Defeat Black Veteran in GOP Gubernatorial Primary
By Collin Anderson
Multibillionaire Democratic Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker and his allies are spending tens of millions of dollars to stop a black Republican veteran from challenging the incumbent in November.
In the last five weeks alone, Pritzker and the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) have dropped more than $12 million on TV ads meant to sink Republican Richard Irvin, an Army veteran who became Aurora, Ill.'s first black mayor in 2017—and to elevate his Republican primary opponent, state lawmaker Darren Bailey. Those ads attack Irvin's record as a defense attorney and call Bailey "too conservative for Illinois," an attack intended to boost him in the June GOP primary. With digital ads factored in, Democrats are on pace to spend a total of $32 million on similar spots before the primary's conclusion, ad spending data obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show.
The massive spending shows just how much Pritzker fears a general election fight against Irvin, who was raised by a single mother in Aurora's housing projects. The DGA started its anti-Irvin assault in March, just days after a Tulchin Research poll showed Pritzker trailing the Republican mayor in the state's all-important suburbs. Months later, during a May candidate forum, fellow Republican gubernatorial hopeful Paul Schimpf said it's "no secret that the Democrats recognize that Darren [Bailey] is the easiest opponent for J.B. Pritzker in the general election."
Many Illinois Republicans have criticized Pritzker's attempts to meddle in the Republican primary. In March, for example, state House Republican leader Jim Durkin called on the governor to condemn the DGA's "obvious effort to hijack the Republican primary election." Bailey, however, has welcomed the boost from his political enemies—during an April interview, the Republican said he "dig[s]" the DGA's ads, which he called "beautiful."
Neither Pritzker nor the DGA returned requests for comment. Pritzker, a multibillionaire whose family owns the Hyatt hotel chain, has contributed more than $3 million to the DGA since 2017 and sent the group $250,000 in December, campaign finance records show.
This is far from the first time Democrats have spent big to elevate their preferred candidate in a Republican gubernatorial primary, but it may be the most significant. Earlier this year, Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial nominee Josh Shapiro spent nearly $1 million on ads that called Republican state lawmaker Doug Mastriano "one of Donald Trump's biggest supporters." The ads elevated Mastriano on the right, and after the Republican defeated his primary opponents, the Pennsylvania Democratic Party called him "the most dangerous gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania history."
Still, that effort dwarfs in comparison to Democrats' campaign to sink Irvin in Illinois. Prtizker has spent roughly $3.3 million on anti-Irvin ads since Memorial Day, while the DGA has spent $9.1 million since the first week of May, according to ad buy records reviewed by the Free Beacon.
As a blue-state incumbent with an $88 million war chest, Pritzker should be a shoo-in for reelection come November. But the Democrat will have to navigate a treacherous political environment for his party, which has seen President Joe Biden rapidly lose his political standing in Illinois. Just 41 percent of the state's voters approve of Biden, while 49 percent disapprove, according to Civiqs. Biden carried Illinois by a whopping 17 points in 2020.
Irvin must emerge from a crowded primary race to face Pritzker in November. In addition to Bailey and Schimpf, the Republican mayor's prominent primary opponents include businessman Gary Rabine and venture capitalist Jesse Sullivan, who once founded a self-described "social justice" magazine. Illinois Republican voters will choose the party's gubernatorial nominee on June 28.
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Soros' district attorneys are paying him back for his support by increasing crime in cities where they serve and ignoring laws that are on the books. This modern day Rasputin knows what he is doing and is getting high returns on his evil endorsements.
I have been writing about this for years.
The attached would suggest Soros' influence and money may have peaked, at least in San Francisco. I do not believe this. Time will tell.
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Even California Tapped the Brakes on Progressives
By Erick-Woods Erickson
San Francisco has recalled its far-left George Soros funded district attorney. Chesa Boudin, whose parents were cop killers who went to jail and left him in the care of terrorist Bill Ayers, has been tossed from office. Talk about being groomed to be soft on crime, the guy turned his back on law and order and even progressive San Francisco had enough.
In Los Angeles, Rick Caruso, a billionaire Republican turned Democrat running on a law and order campaign, advanced to face progressive congresswoman Karen Bass in the general election.
California has had enough. Even Bass, who will run against Caruso and is a darling of the MSNBC crowd, has rejected defunding the police. The California electorate is tired of the far left.
This does not mean California is suddenly moderate or conservative. California is still a progressive state. But it has had enough of the excesses. The fact that California has reacted in this direction bodes poorly for Democrats in November, particularly as their loudest voices, from progressives in Congress to MSNBC, continue to clamor against funding police, deny crime waves, and push more and more nonsense.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, their fever has not broken and California’s voters rejection of the far left will be ignored. Look no further than Paul Waldman at the Washinton Post. Just before the election, he penned this column. He compared San Francisco’s crime problem to that of Fort Worth, TX, and Jacksonville, FL. His argument is that those cities, with comparable populations to San Francisco, have comparable homicide rates and Republican governance. Therefore, the media is buying the GOP’s narrative on crime about San Francisco.
What he ignores is San Francisco’s overall pattern of crime and lawlessness. Neither Jacksonville nor Fort Worth approach San Francisco’s overall problem. In neither city do stores worry about organized looting and residents dodge heroin needles on the street. Waldman, like much of the left, blames the right’s control of the mainstream press for pushing unfair narratives against the left as soft on crime.
The voters of San Franciso and California did no have the luxury of Waldman. They have to live in the third-world hell hole and saw it firsthand. They’ve had enough and threw Boudin out of office.
But the left will not be so easily persuaded. The same people who think the right controls the media think the police must be defunded and those are the loudest voices in the Democrat bubble.
November is going to be brutal for the left.
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Report: Soros Prosecutors Run Half of America’s Largest Jurisdictions
By Josh Christenson
George Soros spent more than $40 million in the past decade to elect scores of liberal prosecutors in half of America's largest jurisdictions, many of which are now roiled by crime.
The Democratic megadonor has backed 75 so-called justice reform prosecutors through direct contributions, PACs, and other third-party entities, the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund revealed in a June report. Though many had little prosecutorial experience when elected, they represent 72 million Americans in some of the nation's most populous municipalities. Ten Soros prosecutors, including Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner (D.) and Los Angeles district attorney George Gascon (D.), received $13 million in just the last four years, going on to win races where they had vastly outraised their competition—sometimes by as much as 90 percent. In each race, Soros was the single greatest donor to the campaign.
"Our study shows for the first time, Soros's funding and installation of these district attorneys is fundamentally dismantling the criminal justice system as we know it," Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund president Jason Johnson told the Washington Free Beacon.
The report discloses the power progressive criminal prosecutors wield in the American justice system—and the potential effects of that influence on crime. The FBI in 2020 reported its highest single-year increase in homicides—a 30 percent jump from the previous year. A year later, 12 cities, including Krasner's Philadelphia and Soros-backed district attorney José Garza's Austin, Texas, broke their all-time homicide records. According to the report, more than 40 percent of homicides and a third of all violent and property crimes in 2021 occurred in jurisdictions run by Soros prosecutors.
From cities like Seattle and Los Angeles, to wealthy suburbs near Washington, D.C., to provincial counties in Mississippi and Wisconsin, the prosecutors have radically overhauled bail laws and pursued lightened sentencing in an effort to reduce incarceration. Soros began his quiet effort to remake America's criminal justice system in 2014, donating $50 million to the ACLU for justice reform activism. He followed up in 2016 by funneling more than $3 million into seven local campaigns, including to Cook County district attorney Kim Foxx (D.), the controversial Chicago prosecutor known for dropping charges against Jussie Smollett, who committed a hate crime hoax.
Johnson told the Free Beacon career prosecutors are becoming a thing of the past as former tax attorneys and ACLU lawyers have ascended to top prosecutorial positions on Soros's dime.
Soros's network of justice reform groups includes more than 500 PACs, dark money groups, and nonprofits, the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund report notes. Some, such as the Drug Policy Alliance, where Soros serves as chairman, are open about their affiliation. Others, like the Tides Center, are "donor pass-through organization[s]," which launder donations from Soros's philanthropic juggernauts, including the Open Society Foundations, to subentities and political PACs.
Through a cluster of statewide public safety PACs, Soros donated more than a million dollars each to Krasner, Gascon, Foxx, and Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg (D.). He also donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Virginia prosecutors Buta Biberaj (D.) and Steve Descano (D.), both of whom have received scrutiny in office for failing to prosecute violent criminals and allowing repeat offenders to victimize others. In a New York Times op-ed last week, Descano also pledged not to prosecute illegal abortions if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade this month.
Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares (R.) told the Free Beacon the ascent of Soros prosecutors has changed criminal law in many jurisdictions overnight and made communities less safe.
"Instead of trying to change the law through elected officials, these groups are electing prosecutors who simply ignore it," Miyares said. "They've replaced DAs that follow the law with radical extremists with an agenda that makes our communities less safe and emboldens criminals."
The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund cited a Free Beacon report in March that revealed Descano's office had dropped felony charges against a man who attempted to abduct and rape a hotel maid in 2020. One year later, the same man was charged for killing two homeless men and wounding three others during a nine-day shooting spree in New York City and Washington, D.C.
The looming threat to public safety has inspired recall efforts against Descano, Biberaj, and Soros-funded Arlington County commonwealth's attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti (D.) in Virginia.
"Soros prosecutors now preside over 20 percent of Americans with the same disastrous results we have seen in Virginia—violent criminals and sexual predators roam the streets victimizing innocents," Sean Kennedy, the president of Virginians for Safe Communities, which fielded a recall effort against the prosecutors, told the Free Beacon. "As San Francisco’s Chesa Boudin faces his fate in a recall today, VSC knows that Northern Virginia’s Soros prosecutors will face the same public reckoning soon as the American people want safety first."
Other prosecutors have participated in junkets, symposiums, and even lavish retreats put on by Soros-funded entities. More than 20 Soros prosecutors, including Gascon, Baltimore state's attorney Marilyn Mosby (D.), and St. Louis circuit attorney Kim Gardner (D.), traveled with Fair and Just Prosecution, a Tides Center subentity, in 2019 to Germany and Portugal, where they learned about "drug decriminalization and harm reduction approaches." The Vera Institute of Justice, a think tank that receives some government grants, treated Mosby and Foxx the same year to an all-expenses-paid spa retreat during work days.
The Vera Institute and other think tanks funded by Soros also promote these progressive prosecutors' tactics while shielding them from bad press. New York University's Brennan Center for Justice has the PR firm BerlinRosen on retainer for district attorneys it works with, according to the report.
The Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund anticipates Soros will spend millions more to reelect Gascon and to install other candidates in Raleigh, N.C., and Alameda County and Orange County, Calif., this year.
Voters in San Francisco will have the opportunity during a recall election on Tuesday to decide the future of justice reform prosecutors. San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin (D.), another Soros prosecutor, will face voters after a little more than two years in office. Recent polls show a majority of city residents, including a Democratic member of the city's Board of Supervisors, want the radical prosecutor out.
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The Epoch Times - Truth and Tradition
The data is now in, and the soft stance on criminals, along with the “Defund the Police” initiatives and mentality has led to a huge spike in virtually all crime in most cities across the country:
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It is no secret that crime is on the rise across our Great Nation. The “Defund the Police'' movement has had dire consequences, as most people expected it would. Precincts across the country are short-staffed, and as a result, virtually all crime, including violent crime, is on the rise.
We all saw criminals destroy our cities and small businesses for an entire summer, with virtually no consequences. In fact, legacy media went as far as to call the looters, rioters, and arsonists “mostly peaceful protesters.”
A constant message is being sent to criminals: if you commit crime, there will be no consequences.
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