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Jimmy Carter was a disaster in so many ways but one of the worst was establishing the Dept Of Education. It needs to be shut down. But like everything in DC. Nothing unworthy ends. It simply grows.
As someone recently said, a teacher has only an allotted time to teach Math, or English, of History. If she spends any of her time on CRT, Gender studies, proper pronouns that's that much less time he/she has to teach the subject they were hired to do. Let's stop blaming Covid and show what the real problem is.
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Newt's assessments:
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President Biden is Stronger than Republicans Think
Republicans may be right about Biden’s weaknesses in a general election, but they are clearly underestimating the President’s strength in his own party.
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Newt's World: What Next in Hunter Biden Case?
Newt discusses Hunter Biden and what we can expect next with Professor William Jacobson, Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School.
And:
Weiss Was Blocked From Bringing Charges Against Hunter Biden In DC, California
Sarah Arnold
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John Durham: the Last Honest Man in Washington
The special counsel’s report speaks for itself, whatever partisans say.
The Editorial Board
John Durham had a reputation as a straight shooter when he was asked in 2019 to examine the origins of the FBI’s Russia collusion investigation of Donald Trump. Mr. Durham had previously done highly sensitive inquiries for Democratic and Republican administrations alike. Last month he fulfilled his latest task by delivering a sober 306-page report full of useful information.
Alas, Congress isn’t into sobriety these days. On Wednesday Mr. Durham testified publicly for roughly six hours before the House Judiciary Committee about the FBI’s Trump investigation, which he found lacked “any actual evidence of collusion” when it was launched. But rather than dig into the evidence Mr. Durham uncovered, partisans on both sides were more interested in bashing him for what he didn’t do.
Florida Republican Matt Gaetz actually accused the former special counsel of being “part of the coverup.” He then likened Mr. Durham to the Washington Generals, whose role is to “show up every night, and to play the Harlem Globetrotters, and their job is to lose.” So he thinks the investigation was staged? That would be news to former FBI Director James Comey and associates such as Andrew McCabe and Peter Strzok.
But when it came to attacking the witness to distract from the substance, no one outdid the Democrats. New York’s Jerrold Nadler delivered a mini-speech. “It may be hard to remember,” he said, “but at the outset of the Durham investigation, Mr. Durham was a well respected career prosecutor with a solid reputation.”
Tennessee’s Steve Cohen was even more over the top. “I’ve tried to follow your report,” he vented. “Mr. Donald Trump Jr. would have called it a ‘nothingburger.’ You got no convictions. You got nothing. It was all set up to hurt the Mueller report, which was correct and was redacted, to hurt the Bidens and to help Trump.” Mr. Cohen added that “everybody’s reputation who gets involved with Donald Trump is damaged,” and “there’s no good dealing with him, because you will end up on the bottom of a pyre.”
Mr. Durham was perfectly cool. “My concern about my reputation is with the people who I respect and my family and my Lord,” he said, “and I’m perfectly comfortable with my reputation with them, sir.”
The idea that indictments are the measure of a special counsel is pernicious. Mr. Durham’s report is clear: The FBI rushed an investigation that lacked evidence and was tainted by a partisan bias that led to double standards regarding Mr. Trump and his 2016 rival. Mr. Durham did his duty. Wednesday’s hearing only exposed how much of Congress refuses to deal with it.
According to an FBI document seen by Sen. Chuck Grassley, a confidential human source says 17 audio recordings exist of phone calls between a foreign national and Hunter Biden and then Vice President Biden. But the FBI redacted this information, claiming it's a matter of 'life and death' for the source.
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Mike Pence is trailing former President Donald Trump by some 50 points in national polling.
It's no great revelation that the former vice president needs some major breakthroughs to be considered a serious and viable candidate for 2024.
But all is possible, and here is one approach....."
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Good man, fine governor, just too dull.
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Disgusted and quits:
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Chicago prosecutor Jason Poje quits over crime surge, leaders’ woke ‘social experiment’
By Patrick Reilly
A fed-up veteran Chicago prosecutor quit his job and has pledged to leave the state after writing a scathing letter that ripped “stupid” officials for following a “popular political agenda,” that has led to a surge in violent crime.
Jason Poje, a felony trial attorney with the Cook County State Attorney’s Office, sent the letter to 85 colleagues on Friday as he headed out the door, explaining that he was departing because of several progressive reforms that have made the city more dangerous for everyone, Fox News reported.
“The simple fact is that this State and County have set themselves on a course to disaster,” wrote Poje, who was with the office for 20 years. “And the worst part is that the agency for whom I work has backed literally every policy change that has the predictable, and predicted, outcome of more crime and more people getting hurt.”
The veteran prosecutor claimed bond reform has made the city lass safe.
“Bond reform designed to make sure no one stays in jail while their cases are pending with no safety net to handle more criminals on the streets, shorter parole periods, lower sentences for repeat offenders, the malicious and unnecessary prosecution of law enforcement officers, the overuse of diversion programs, intentionally not pursuing prosecutions for crimes lawfully on the books after being passed by our legislature and signed by a governor, all of the so-called reforms have had a direct negative impact, with consequences that will last for a generation,” he continued.
Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx Poje did not mention Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx.AP
While he never mentioned her by name, Poje had clearly had enough of Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx, who was nominated in 2016 and was re-elected in 2020.
Her office is the second-largest prosecutor’s office in the country.
“I’ve been through enough stupid State’s Attorney policies before. But this Office’s complete failure to even think for a moment before rushing into one popular political agenda after another has put my family directly in harm’s way,” he wrote.
“The unavoidable consequences are what we are witnessing in real time, an increase in crime of all kinds, businesses and families pulling up the stakes, and the bodies piling up; the whole time with a State’s Attorney who insists there is nothing to see here, and if there is, it must be someone else’s fault,” he wrote.
Poje said that the reforms have unfairly tipped the scale of justice in favor of criminals and their defense attorneys.
“When both sides vigorously defend their positions, a balance is reached between protecting rights while preserving some sort of order and safety. Once we start doing too much of the defense’s job, once we pull our punches, once we decide it’s worth risking citizens’ lives to have a little social experiment, that balance is lost,” he said.
Poje said he and his family had moved to a quiet part of the suburbs where he could safely raise his son, who is now five years old. Now, he claims his son wakes up to the sound of gunshots.
He has opted to move out of Illinois, his native state.
“I will not raise my son here,” he declared.
“I am fortunate to have the means to escape, so my entire family is leaving the State of Illinois.
“I grew up here, my family and friends are here, and yet my own employer has turned it into a place from which I am no longer proud to be, and in which my son is not safe.”
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