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Is the Biden administration more supportive of Iran or Israel?
By Jack Hellner
As long as Biden, Blinken, and Sullivan are involved, Iran seems to have nothing to worry about. As long as the Democrats’ goal is to destroy the oil, natural gas, and coal industries to pretend they can control the climate, prices will remain high.
This allows Russia and Iran to destroy their enemies. We are essentially funding both sides of the wars in the Mideast and Ukraine.
Why do our FBI agents so regularly abuse their power?
By Patricia McCarthy
Of course, Joe Biden has certainly abused his power. He has ignored the SCOTUS with regard to the “forgiveness” of student loans. He is sabotaging Israel while he pretends to support its right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists. He has spent us into an unsustainable $35 trillion in debt. He keeps giving taxpayer dollars to Iran, to Afghanistan, to Hamas, each an enemy of America. He is cognitively gone, now a mere tool of the Marxists who illegitimately abuse Biden’s power and are running the country into the ground.
America Is At A Crossroads, With The Wrong Choice Leading To Disaster
By Allan J. Feifer
You can easily see our country’s trendline is downward. Economic and social ruin are inevitable if we continue the way we are. The Biden administration is not inclined to change its policies, which hasten the decline.
If Biden is Reelected, It’s about War
By J. Robert Smith
Biden administration hamhandedness pushed Russia, China, India, and a bevy of other nations to bolster BRICS. Fawning appeasement toward a near-nuclear weapons-ready Iran makes Biden’s puppeteers appear to be what they are: weak and stupid.
The Corruption of Supreme Court Coverage
By Matt Wolfson
In 1979, Renata Adler, a New Yorker staff writer and Yale Law School graduate, wrote a negative review of The Brethren, Bob Woodward’s and Scott Armstrong’s book on the inner workings of the Supreme Court, for the front page of The New York Times Book Review. Today there is no chance that a review like Adler’s would appear in The Times because it so clearly anatomized the flaws of Supreme Court journalism — most recently evident in coverage of flags flown above homes of Justice Samuel Alito. Understanding how the attack on Alito fits into long-term journalistic malpractice involving the Court means examining the trends Adler pinpointed and tracing them to the present.
In her review, Adler honed in on the basic problems of applying investigative reporting to Supreme Court law. Unlike any other branch of government, Adler pointed out, the Court is obliged to announce the reasons for its decisions at length to the public, and its justices, appointed for life and free from outside lobbying, sometimes change their minds in deliberation. This means that “the only scoop there could possibly be about an institution [so] public …...would be a revelation of crime or corruption,” rendering “the investigative reporter’s ... obsession with ... breaking ... secrets” misguided when it comes to the justices.
In lieu of actual secrets, Adler showed, Woodward and Armstrong sold their 1979 book using the self-dramatizing “gossip” of bad literature. Mostly this took the form of unverifiable statements about one or the other justices’ moods or feelings (“furious,” delighted,” “especially upset,” “enraged,” “exceedingly upset,” “tormented,” “elated”). Or else it focused on the justices’ “characters” (that some justices thought another justice “evil or stupid,” that another justice cheated at basketball). Surveying the accumulated anecdotes that made up the book, Adler concluded that “investigative journalism, perhaps, might think again” about its approach to the Court.
But it hasn’t. Today, Woodward’s approach has become the norm, for two reasons. On the one hand, establishment journalism and its media outgrowths, funded by a handful of corporations indirectly dependent on the national government, has become, in the words of one prominent practitioner, “like any corporate culture, where [reporters] know what management wants, and no one has to tell you.” On the other, the Supreme Court has become America’s most reliable defense against national government expansion. The mismatch between the aims of justices and journalists, some of the latter of whom are also connected to government-funded law schools staffed by liberal legal scholars, could not be more stark. It has been reflected in Court coverage, where journalists have begun regularly using the gossip of bad literature to suggest “crime or corruption.”
Since 2018, Justice Kavanaugh has been accused of a high school assault that the alleged key witness refused to corroborate. He has also been accused of indecent exposure at a dorm party after another accuser spent “six days carefully assessing her memories.” Justice Thomas has been labeled a servant of wealthy Americans based on his social relationships, in spite of at least two recent major cases in which he ruled against corporate interests. Justice Gorsuch has been tarred over a property in which he owned a stake. Chief Justice Roberts has received flak over his wife’s work in the legal recruiting field based on comments from an ex-colleague let go from her firm.
This mis-coverage is supported by recent academic work featured by mainstream journalistic outlets on the role of advocacy groups like the Federalist Society in promoting conservative Supreme Court picks. The scholarship tells the public what it already logically knows: that any effort to promote a dissident legal view in Washington takes money. Its real function is to allow ethics experts to decry the justices and Democrat politicos to tie the Supreme Court to a broader “dark money scheme.” The deeper aim of the exercise is cruder still: as New Republic editor Michael Tomasky, an influence on the Biden White House, put it last year, “The Democrats Need to Destroy Clarence Thomas’s Reputation: They’ll never successfully impeach him. But so what? Make him a metaphor for every insidious thing the far right has done to this country.”
The recent attacks on Justice Alito represent recognizable continuations of this playbook. Liberal neighbors of the justice were sources for The New York Times’ Jodi Kantor, a “star” reporter known for driving highly political narratives, for a story about a politically symbolic flag the justice’s wife had put up after a dispute with a neighbor in 2021. This gossip had already been known to reporters at the Washington Post based off a tip, but they had apparently decided not to run a story on the subject because it seemed to be a private argument involving Mrs. Alito. Kantor, though, released her story front-page and top fold of The Times on May 17, around a month before the end of the Court’s term, when the biggest cases are announced. Kantor then ran a story on another flag at Alito’s vacation house, front page, bottom-fold, on May 23.
From this jumping-off point, The Times featured ethics experts tied to government-funded universities, one of whom said Alito’s flag “raises a question,” and a senior judge tied to Democrats who opined that Alito lacks “reasonable ethical instincts.” A Democrat senator drew on years of academic seeding-of-the-ground to call Justice Alito a “minion” of the Federalist Society. A Democrat representative introduced a resolution censuring the justice on the logic that it “kind of put[s] a scarlet letter on him” and, presumably, on any decisions he helps the Court reach.
Scarlet lettering is an accurate description of the agenda of the journalists covering the Court. In this process, the reported-on issue (a high school encounter, social connections, an ownership stake in a home, a spouse’s job, a flag) is less important than the political play its serves — one in which anecdotes lead to corruption allegations and condemnation of the Court. Jo Becker and Jodi Kantor at The New York Times, Jane Mayer at The New Yorker, and Stephen Engelberg at ProPublica are major pushers of this journalism. For their efforts they have been rewarded with front-page coverage and their outlets with Pulitzer prizes from journalists who live in the same small world of advisory boards and conference speaking slots, prize committees, and book receptions.
Any political attempt — say, from the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee — to question these journalists about a coordinated attack on the Court’s credibility would lead to accusations of McCarthyism. But there is another possible approach that would cast any investigation in a different light. The interconnected entanglements of these journalists are numerous and easily provable. They could be used to build a case for corporate collusion — e.g., the existence of a journalistic cartel — that could just conceivably lead to an antitrust investigation based on laws passed by Congress more than a century ago.
The Court, in the end, is dependent on democratic processes. The journalists targeting the justices should be as well.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/the_corruption_of_supreme_court_coverage.html
Karl Marx is alive and well in 2024 America
By Vince Coyner
While Marx had a vision (albeit an absurd and impossible one) with which he wanted to replace democracy and capitalism, today’s agitators are nihilists with no plan beyond destroying America. They, like Marx, are parasites who do nothing productive for society. They don’t know how the world actually works or how to build anything productive. All they know how to do is throw fists, stones, and Molotov cocktails while complaining about the society that nourishes them.
Lola is an Oregon Track State Champion
By Brian C. Joondeph
Michelle Obama can put on a sad face and plead #BringBackOurGirls in response to Islamist terror group Boko Haram. But she has been silent about American girls held hostage by trans terrorists replacing female athletes with males.
Democrats Scramble to Get Joe Biden on the Ohio Ballo
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Bending one state’s election laws doesn’t bother the defenders of democracy.
by Graham J Noble | May 29, 2024
Perhaps the scheduling of the DNC convention to a date after the Ohio ballot deadline was a mere oversight. Against a backdrop of near-constant objections by Democrats to any measures that secure and protect the integrity of US elections, however, an outside observer could be forgiven for thinking that this is one more example of the contempt they appear to hold for state-level election laws.
Trump Trial Defense Rests – Did It Make the Case?
It's all over but for the verdict.
by Liberty Nation Authors | May 29, 2024
As the defense and prosecution teams in Donald Trump’s New York City criminal trial wrapped up their closing arguments on May 28, there was little for the accused to do but sit back and await a verdict. Or that would be the case were the defendant anyone but the former president. Seemingly unshackled now that the trial – bar the verdict – is essentially over, Trump has begun relitigating the case on the campaign trail. But is such effort necessary? And did his lawyers make a persuasive enough argument that 45 can put the Big Apple in the rearview mirror?
Liberty Nation Legal Affairs Editor Scott D. Cosenza has been following all the latest from the courtroom and beyond.
Mark Angelides: Give me your overall view of the defense team’s closing arguments, Scott. Did they come across as persuasive?
Scott D. Cosenza: Trump’s lead defense attorney, Todd Blanche, went past not guilty, proclaiming to the jury, “President Trump is innocent,” and “he did not commit any crimes, and the district attorney has not met their burden of proof.” It’s a terrible burden that the defense must persuade jurors at all. That is not the legal standard but a practical one. The presumption of innocence is a right that few can rely on. Perhaps if we changed the standard from guilty or not guilty to proven or not proven, defendants would see that presumption honored.
Mark: It seems that presiding Judge Juan Merchan was not finished with his admonishments, even going so far as to call defense attorney Blanche’s statements “outrageous.” What happened there?
Scott: According to courtroom reports, Blanche told the jury that Trump could be imprisoned if they convicted him. Merchan interrupted the lawyer and said, “That was outrageous, Mr. Blanche. Someone who’s been a prosecutor as long as you have, someone who’s been an attorney as long as you have, knows that it’s highly inappropriate.” And it is. Sentencing is not part of the guilt phase of the trial.
Nevertheless, any time a sentence may be considered wildly out of bounds with the crime alleged or evidence of wrongdoing shown in court, defense attorneys are likely to try to get it in front of the jury. This is especially true in drug cases. Juries often have no idea they may be sending someone away for drug possession.
Mark: I understand that, in the normal course of things, it would be unwise to refer to potential punishments – after all, you don’t want people escaping justice because of sympathy. But the consequences in this case are for the entire nation, not just one individual. Is there a case to be made that it was entirely appropriate?
Scott: I think it makes sense to tell the jury the sentencing range when they are charged or given the case to decide.
Trial of Reasonable Doubt
Mark: Blanche used a fascinating term and one that is sure to resonate with the jury as it begins deliberations. He described Michael Cohen – Trump’s former fixer – as “the human embodiment of reasonable doubt” and labeled him “the GLOAT” as in “the Greatest Liar of All Time.” Is that kind of language as important as I think it is in persuading a jury?
Scott: Yes. It’s hard to imagine a jury convicting someone of a crime based chiefly on the testimony of one person and having that same jury believe the person is a serial liar who can’t be trusted to tell the truth. Blanche was pushing against the prosecution’s case at its weakest point. We won’t know what the jurors think of Cohen until the end of the trial, if ever, but he’s a thief and a liar poised to cash in on any Trump conviction. It can’t be stated often enough if you are the defense counsel.
Mark: This is a case that has captivated the world, presumably because, for once, every single person has skin in the game. In your opinion, as a lawyer, has it been treated with the circumspection necessary for such a historic undertaking?
Scott: I think the question is laughable. District Attorney Alvin Bragg looped in a federal charge that was never made (campaign finance law violations) to bump up misdemeanors into felonies and extend the statute of limitations on charges that even his enemies say would never have been levied against anyone not named Donald Trump.
Mark: What can we expect to happen today?
Scott: The 12-member jury will receive instructions from Judge Merchan and then begin its task of determining Trump’s guilt – or lack thereof. Their deliberations could take just hours or even weeks. There’s no way of knowing.
Mark: Many people and pundits are expecting a hung jury – as in, some jurors say guilty, others say not guilty– what does this realistically mean for Donald Trump if this is the outcome?
Scott: Legally, it means the judge will declare a mistrial. District Attorney Alvin Bragg would be able to re-file the charges and start the whole process of trying Trump all over again. However, any re-trial would be scheduled after November’s presidential election, so it wouldn’t be likely to hurt Mr. Trump at the polls. Politically, I expect a hung jury to accrue to Trump’s benefit. They charged him with a novel application of the criminal law on a tenuous prosecution theory while muzzling his criticism. Trump will make hay out of the notion that they couldn’t even win despite holding all those cards and dealing from the bottom of the deck.
https://www.libertynation.com/trump-trial-defense-rests-did-it-make-the-case/
Al Gore Explains Why I Do What I Do Here at Energy Transition Absurdities
David Blackmon
May 28, 2024
Climate alarm Pope Al Gore made an appearance on The Today Show this morning to spread his ruinous messaging to the masses. Naturally, he was fully accommodated by the show’s incurious hosts, who hit him with nothing but pre-arranged softball setup questions. I don’t watch the Today Show, so I have no idea what any of these talking heads names are - except for Al Roker, who says nothing here - but I’m sure some of you do know.
I’m sharing this with you because Gore provides a bit of a tutorial in which he unintentionally explains why I do what I do here, which I will explain below.
Watch (or read the transcript that follows):Video at link
Transcript:
Talking head: Good, good. So, with the presidential election, you know, less than seven months away, how do you think the outcome of that whatever happens will impact where we're at with climate change right now, not just here, but around the world?
Al Gore: Well, I think in some ways there's what you might call a big wheel, we are moving in the right direction, that's kind of unstoppable. But what I mean by that is if you look at all the new electricity generation installed worldwide last year, 87% of it was renewables. It's the cheapest electricity in the history of the world.
1 in 5 vehicles are electric now, and it's going to rise rapidly. Those trends are going to continue, but it's not enough. And so the outcome of these elections in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world this year really will make a difference. It's important to make the changes.
We were talking earlier about composting and all of these different getting the heat pump and changing the light bulbs. But as important as that is to change the light bulbs, it’s way more important to change the laws and the policies, because that's that's really the solution.
And unfortunately, the largest polluters are way better at capturing politicians than capturing emissions. And they have achieved a degree of control over the decisions made by governments, including in this government. But the election, unfortunately, a lot of things become polarized these days…
Talking head: Do you think there's a light at the end of the tunnel for that?
Al Gore: I do. I do because I think even those who in the past would not even want to use the word climate or the phrase global warming are now saying, oh man, I got to look at my hole cards here. You know, this thing is really getting bad and everybody sees it in their own lives now.
So we've got to get over this political barrier that the big polluters are reinforcing and like revetment, say, every single day. And they've got massive advertising campaigns to try to convince people it's not that serious and we shouldn't go so fast to try to solve it. We need to go fast. But there are.
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I have no idea what “revetment” is, but that is what Gore said there. But obviously, he’s talking about wanting to silence anyone who questions the climate alarm narrative when he says that.
The first sentence I highlighted is this: “it’s way more important to change the laws and the policies, because that's that's really the solution.”
I often am asked why I constantly talk about politics and public policy in my writings on energy. Mr. Gore just told you why: Because - and it’s unfortunate - everything about energy these days is political. People like Gore, John Kerry, John Podesta, Jennifer Granholm, Gina McCarthy, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden have made certain that’s the case.
I write and talk about the intersections between politics/public policy and energy because those intersections are always present, and I think it is vitally important for the public to understand that. Everyone needs to understand how and why the policies invoked during Democrat administrations and congresses are directly causing the dramatic increases in their utility bills and food bills and gas at the pump.
At the end, Gore emphasizes that “We need to go fast.” The reason for that is blatantly obvious: Gore and his fellow Popes in the global church of climate alarm cult know that more and more ordinary people are awakening to the scam with every passing day. Thus, it is vital for them to consolidate their desire for a global authoritarian socialist governance before that awakening gains critical mass and tosses them and their ruinous ideology aside.
This is why I do what I do - Al Gore just explained it for you.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/al-gore-explains-why-i-do-what-i?publication_id=712558&post_id=145058236&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
To the Trump supporters in NYC heckling Robert DeNiro and the Biden Campaign’s press conference
THANK YOU
You speak for tens of millions
Frustrated parents reach tipping point in Biden’s economy as they struggle to make ends meet: 'So debilitating
Three moms indicated they are ready to see change come to the White House on 'Fox & Friends First'
A panel of mothers from across the United States joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss how life has changed under the Biden administration economically as gas prices and grocery prices surge.
The kitchen table economics of American households have become a battleground for frustrated moms who find themselves struggling with the realities of the Biden administration's policies.
"It is bad. The mom-and-pop stores are closing down at an alarming rate. [It takes] two to three jobs per person just to make ends meet," Kristina Tullos, a concerned mom from Hawaii, said Tuesday on "Fox & Friends First."
Tullos was one of three moms who spoke with co-host Carley Shimkus about their financial frustrations under the current administration.
Quisha King, a business owner, podcast host and single parent, compared her life under the Trump administration to the one she currently lives, zeroing in on the struggle to cover the cost of everyday necessities.
"It's so debilitating," she said. "I am so ready to vote for a change, [to] vote for Donald Trump to get rid of Bidenomics forever.
"You get scared to even pull up your bank account because you go to the grocery store, and you spend so much on gas and regular everyday things, and your children need things," she continued. "It becomes so much of a struggle, and I'm ready for Bidenomics to be gone. I am so tired of him trying to pretend like Americans are not struggling."
Annie Frey, host of "The Annie Frey Show" and the third mom on Tuesday's panel, similarly blamed the current administration for widespread financial hardship.
"The middle class seems to be getting smaller under Bidenomics," she told Shimkus. "And I think the most insulting things to mothers and fathers out there right now… is they know that there is more month at the end of the paycheck every single month, and what we continue to hear from the current president of the United States is that he's doing it right and, if you don't believe that, then you have misunderstood, and he'll just wait for you to come to his conclusion."
Recent findings from the Federal Reserve's Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households report for 2023 show that just 64% of parents with kids under the age of 18 reported doing at least OK financially last year, the lowest level since 2015 when the survey began.
Despite outcry from working class families, President Biden insists his administration has "turned [the economy] around," telling CNN's Erin Burnett during a tense exchange in an interview earlier this month that Americans have had access to "good-paying jobs" under his tenure.
"When I started this administration, people were saying there was going to be a collapse of the economy. We have the strongest economy in the world. Let me say that again – in the world," he said, despite conceding that inflation is "really worrisome to people."
As the "Fox & Friends First" discussion circled back to Tullos, she claimed that people in the deep blue state of Hawaii are "starting to wake up,"
"Maui, for example, still [has] no money. [People are] displaced, homeless. Everybody outside is getting the taxpayers' money except us. It's so sad," she said. "And I do see more people [saying] I'm going to vote Republican… It's not working for me. It's not working for anybody. You cannot spell triumph without Trump."
https://www.foxbusiness.com/media/frustrated-parents-tipping-point-bidens-economy-struggle-debilitating
Five crazy ways President Joe Biden is ruining America's summer fun
Here are five policies from the Biden White House that take aim at your summer plans
Scott Brown
Published May 28, 2024 9:00am EDT | Updated May 28, 2024 9:20am EDT
Memorial Day brings the official start of summer, the time in the calendar when schools let out, vacations begin and families hit the road in search of adventure. It’s a joyous time, but this year the Biden administration is doing their best to throw a damper on the season. Here are five policies from the White House aimed at your summer fun.
1. Airlines
Anyone who has spent time at an airport these days is familiar with the headaches of domestic travel. Delays, cancellations, long lines, oversold flights - all are common and none are pleasant. Sensing its potency at the polls, the Biden Administration has obsessed over so-called "junk fees" — issuing a sweeping regulation through the Department of Transportation (DOT) that faced immediate legal challenges — while blocking private sector efforts to solve the problem.
When JetBlue Airways tried to acquire Spirit in an effort to increase its offerings, Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ) took them to court. Ditto with last year’s proposed partnership between JetBlue and American Airlines. The immediate result was fewer services in more cities where JetBlue was forced to suspend operations. Remember that next time direct flights are unavailable or cost an arm and a leg.
2. Gas prices
For those adventure seekers taking to the highways, the situation is not much better. The average cost for a gallon of gas is $3.60 - compared to $2.40 when Donald Trump left office, a 50 percent increase. Recognizing the political peril (noticing a pattern?), the administration is flooding the market by releasing key strategic reserves "to maximize its impact on gasoline prices."
From day one, the Biden administration has kept its foot on the throat of domestic energy producers to appease the administration’s green fringe, driving prices up. If you’re one of the lucky ones able to fill your tanks, don’t get used to it. The administration is coming for your cars, issuing sweeping tailpipe emissions standards to force consumers into the electric vehicles that the free market is rejecting.
3. Technology
Once you’re in the car and are looking for directions, don’t get too comfortable with Google Maps. Last fall, Biden’s DOJ went to court against the California-based company in a backwards lawsuit centered on Google’s popular products like Search. Its outcome is expected later this year, and could lead to less consumer choice and higher prices.
4. Food Prices
If you get hungry on the road trip, buckle up for higher prices. A Big Mac costs $7.49 these days, compared to $3.99 at the end of 2019 — an 88% increase. California recently raised its minimum wage at fast food restaurants to $20, which led to job losses and higher prices. A federal standard may not be far behind. Biden has offered little in the way of relief, instead standing with labor bosses in their effort to pass a regulation known as joint employer, a union giveaway that would cripple the franchise model altogether.
Meanwhile, Biden’s Federal Trade Commission, led by Chair Lina Khan, has blocked a proposed merger between Kroger and Albertsons that would lead to more access to groceries for more consumers.
5. Delivery
So at this point, facing all these obstacles, you could be forgiven for deciding to "staycation." Not so fast. To deflect from unending inflation rates fueled by their spending spree, the Biden administration has taken aim at some of the country’s most successful delivery companies, again involving so-called "junk fees."
The Department of Labor (DOL) has tried to undermine their business model by eroding the independent contractor model that allows companies to utilize delivery drivers to make a few extra bucks on their own schedule. Meanwhile, the FTC has taken Amazon to court in another lawsuit that could lead to the end of the popular delivery company and the fast shipping and small business ecosystem it provides.
Bidenomics has driven consumer sentiment to a six-month low, but we’ve persevered through tough times before and will again. Get out there and enjoy your summer, and remember that American innovation knows no bounds, despite the best efforts of the Biden administration.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/five-crazy-ways-president-joe-biden-ruining-americas-summer-fun
Tuesday's Energy Absurdity: The Rapacious Copper Needs of Renewable Energy, Explained
David Blackmon
May 28, 2024
Writing his X account, X user John Lee Pettimore summarizes the findings in a new study published by the International Energy Forum on copper needs for the energy transition:
A normal Honda Accord needs about 40 pounds of copper. The same battery electric Accord needs 200 pounds.
Onshore wind turbines require about 10 tons of copper, and offshore approx. 20 tons.
The world will need to mine 115% more copper than has been mined in all human history just to meet “business as usual.”
This would meet our current copper needs and support the developing world without considering the green energy transition.
Six new large mines need to come online every year by 2050 to meet global copper demand, but the problem is it takes about 20 years between discovering a new copper mineral deposit and getting a permit to build a mine.
None of this takes into consideration the upgrades to the electrical infrastructure needed to "electrify the world by 2050.”
In short electrifying the world by 2050 is a politician’s pipe dream that will never happen.
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He’s right.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/tuesdays-energy-absurdity-the-rapacious?publication_id=712558&post_id=145057661&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Princeton students attack a Memorial Day parade to demand a ‘Free Palestine’
By Andrea Widburg
Our sense that these people are just like us, only they are politically confused, is false. These people are as hostile to America as the Soviets were and the Chinese are, but Biden desperately needs their votes. They are his people.
Democrat green agenda: For whites, we save the planet; for blacks, we dangle the government goodies
By Monica Showalter
it's rich whites who talk the good game about global warming and saving the planet most who also seem to be raking in the biggest chunks of federal largesse from the Democrats' green boondoggles.
Peer review needs peer review
By W.A. Eliot
These flaws may not change the fact that peer review is better than anything else. The problem is when peer review, and/or political bias by or pressure on the journal editor, is used to control the narrative. This has become a major problem. It has made “Follow the Science” a dark joke.
How liberal women frighten the bears
By Noel S. Williams
Among the many women who claim that they’d feel safer encountering a bear in the forest than a man (because “men are scary”) is author and Guggenheim fellow Julia Phillips.
Perhaps it is not men or bears that present the most danger in the forest. Not only do women initiate domestic violence against men (we just don’t report it), but they are also going on violent rampages in forests.
Just look at these raving woods women who have completely lost all sense of equanimity. Yikes. It seems their electro-chemical imbalances are disrupting their brains’ normal neuro pathways. So disturbed are they that rather than peacefully commune with nature, perhaps engaging in a little soul-searching, meditation, and “forest bathing,” they are pounding the ground and beating their sticks to smithereens.
Unsurprisingly, they tend to have a liberal bent. Look here: even the bears don’t understand what on God’s green earth is going on with the hysterical female hominids upsetting the tranquil ambience.
Intrepid explorers Lewis and Clark were (almost) intimidated by grizzly bears, describing them as “turrible.” That’s probably how they spelled back then, but it could be a portmanteau for “terrible” and “trouble.” But they may not be as “turrible” as those screaming liberal women flailing sticks every which way. Their spoiled, untoward behavior disturbing the natural, peaceful ecosystem.
Confronted with the horrible Hobson’s choice of running across a bear or a gang of raging liberal women in the forest, I might just choose the former. Bears have simple survival imperatives derived from nature’s dictates. They may be more predictable as they just follow their instincts to protect their cubs and fulfill their basic needs. Some commonsense human behaviors can preempt a bear attack. But good luck navigating the gauntlet of those possessed women-of-the-woods who are subsumed by liberal rage.
Nature is known to soothe the soul, but what they need to calm their tormented spirits is not in the forest. Instead, for some lasting resilience against the liberal mental disease, they might reflect on Harrison Butker’s message in his commencement speech at Benedictine College recommending that the women graduates consider becoming homemakers. After all, a main reason that liberal women, in particular, are dissatisfied with their lives is their repudiation of marriage and family life. Their gender-studies (or equivalent) indoctrination that independence (none of us truly are), freedom and career engenders lasting happiness often proves to be misguided.
Pity not only them, but those who have to put up with them. Not the forest, but a shrink’s clinic may be needed to transform their state-of-nature primal rage into civic sociability. Followed by more foundational wisdom from Butker’s family-first reflections.
After therapy, perhaps they will smell the roses and hear the birds again. That’s certainly more melodic than their mentally-imbalanced, witch-like shrieks haunting the woods.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/how_liberal_women_frighten_the_bears.html
Obama-Biden Have Been Punishing Israel Since 2013
By Edward Davis
Joe Biden’s vicious betrayal of Israel has surprised and alienated some of his supporters, who thought he was a moderate Democrat.
In the most recent outrage, his administration sent condolences over the death of Iran’s President Raisi and joined the U.N. in a reverent minute of silence. In stark contrast, Biden disparaged Prime Minister Netanyahu as “a bad f------ guy and “a-hole” at a time when Israelis were traumatized and fighting for their lives.
It was predictable, considering that Biden brought back much of the foreign policy team of President Obama, whose backstabbing of the Jewish state foreshadowed Biden's hostile policies.
Early in 2013, when the U.S. was still in shock over the December 14, 2012 Newtown massacre, the newly re-elected Obama decided that one of his priorities would be to pressure Israel to release scores of convicted killers, among whose victims were children.
Although political leaders, including presidents, are expected to flip-flop occasionally, this might have been the first administration in history to flip-flop on the issue of the murder of innocents.
That same year marked two anniversaries of child slaughter that the Obama administration reacted to in chillingly conflicting ways, apparently based on the victims’ nationality and religion.
To observe the 50th anniversary of the 1963 firebombing murders of four African-American girls in Birmingham, President Obama solemnly paid tribute to the victims.
One month later, Israel marked a similar tragic milestone — the 25th anniversary of the firebombing murders of the nine-months-pregnant Rachel Weiss, a 26-year-old second-grade teacher, and her sons — Netanel, 4; Rafael, 2; and Ephraim, 21 months. Israeli soldier David Delorosa also died in a heroic attempt to save them. Israel considered imposing the death penalty for the first time since Adolf Eichmann was put to death in 1962.
Unfortunately, the Weiss brothers did not look like Obama’s own imagined sons, and unfortunately, they, their mother, and the soldier who died trying to save them were citizens of the nation Obama’s mentor Jeremiah Wright referred to as “that dirty word.” And so, using secretary of state John Kerry as his point man, Obama began pushing for the release of their killers, along with scores of other terrorists convicted of murder or attempted murder.
In early April of 2013, Kerry began his mission, only to be abruptly interrupted when, within days, Islamic terrorists struck the Boston Marathon, killing an 8-year-old boy and two adults and wounding 264 others. Kerry spoke of a “direct confrontation with evil,” vowed that the perpetrators would be brought to justice, and expressed his horror that some victims were so young: “It defies words to hear of children killed and horribly maimed on the streets of my city. It is sickening to see my home turned into a place of carnage.”
Then Kerry quickly resumed pressuring Israel, and by late April, he obtained an agreement for the mass release of prisoners with innocent blood on their hands.
Fast-forward to early August of that year, and another horrific, stranger-than-fiction coincidence that, like the timing of the Boston Marathon bombing, looked a lot like instant karma for the Obama administration. Israel was two days away from obeying the State Department’s request to free the first 26 Palestinian terrorists when the news broke that Mexico had released the drug lord convicted in the heinous slaying of a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent.
The Obama administration denounced the injustice: “We are deeply concerned by the release of Rafael Caro Quintero,” said National Security Council spokesperson Caitlin Hayden. “We remain as committed today in seeing Quintero and others involved in this crime face justice.”
So American lives have value. But what about the case of former U.S. Marine Frederick Steven Rosenfeld, a dual U.S.-Israel citizen who was stabbed to death by a terrorist in the Israeli city of Ariel? Evaluating the worth of his life by Obama standards gets us into a gray area. His worth as an American had to be weighed against his worthlessness as an Israeli. His murderer was freed, although the administration expressed concern over the release after learning that Rosenfeld was an American.
Then there’s the barely noted issue of whether Obama had the right to nullify the verdicts of the judiciary of a sovereign foreign nation, and whether Netanyahu was legally permitted to obey. Is overruling another nation’s judiciary through coercion an impeachable offense? Professor Louis Rene Beres argued that the administration was “in violation not only of international law but also the law of the United States,” and that Israel has no legal right “to free terrorists as a ‘goodwill gesture.’”
(Amazingly, at the same time the Obama team were facilitating the release of perpetrators of hate-crime murders of Jews, they zealously prosecuted and sentenced an Amish man to 15 years in prison for the “hate crime” of forcibly cutting hair. In contrast, the administration advocated the immediate release of attorney Lynne Stewart, sentenced to 10 years for assisting Islamic terror plots, after having served 3 years. The double-standard legal targeting of Christians would prove to be another Obama policy resumed under Biden.)
Far from bringing peace closer, the prisoner release further inflamed the passions of a terrorist culture whose support for serial killing always was, and remains, the chief obstacle to peace. It was predictable that the freed killers would be praised as heroes and financially rewarded, and that Obama would have no complaints.
Obama’s demands on Israel contrasted dramatically with his pledge that his administration “does not meddle in Iran’s internal affairs.” In his famous Cairo speech, he similarly assured the Muslim world that “America does not presume to know what is best for everyone.”
In no area do we tread more cautiously than in our consideration of what is best for the bereaved. It’s the reason most Americans opposed the building of a mosque at Ground Zero. The feelings of grieving families and their community rightfully trump all else, especially when it is children who are being mourned. The callous infliction of additional anguish on Israelis, who perhaps had finally found some closure when the murderers of their loved ones were convicted and imprisoned, appears to be the sole exception to the rule, and unprecedented for one ally to do to another.
Additionally, had the convicted terrorists stayed in prison, Israel would have had the option of exchanging them for hostages after October 7, if they had wished to.
That was 2013, and from there the nightmare deepened.
In 2014, Obama stopped Israel from defeating Hamas, allowing the terrorists nine years to rebuild.
In 2015, he arranged a deal that gave U.S. approval to nuclear weapons in the hands of the Iranian regime in ten years. Biden, in his role as president of the Senate, led a boycott of Netanyahu’s speech to Congress regarding the deal.
And in 2016, with Biden's help, Obama engineered the passage of a U.N. resolution classifying Jews living in parts of their homeland as outlaws. The diplomatic assault against Israel topped the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of “2016 Top Ten Worst Global Anti-Semitic/Anti-Israel Incidents” (a stunning fact that President Trump might be wise to highlight).
Obama recently began taking an active role in Biden’s campaign, and for anyone who watches their joint campaign ads, it seems clear which of them is in charge. Given another term, Biden's policy towards Israel reportedly could get even worse.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/obama_biden_have_been_punishing_israel_since_2013.html
The Plan to Convict Trump
By John Cleer
At last, we can see Alvin Bragg's underlying criminal theory: he doesn't have one. Bragg and Judge Merchan are running the real trial in the court of public opinion, not to deliver justice but to hurt Trump's presidential campaign by branding him a convicted felon during the election. They seek to do this by lying to the jury -- for example, by pretending to have a criminal theory.
The prosecution rested their case without specifying the second crime, nor giving a shred of evidence for the first: even if we took Michael Cohen's testimony at face value, ignoring that he's a serial perjurer who confessed to six different felonies on Monday morning alone, his claim that Trump himself ordered the monthly payments that were calculated from Cohen's loan reimbursement demand and deemed them “legal fees” would not constitute a crime.
That case is dead in the water on appeal, but Merchan's parallel trial, which has little to do with established law and instead runs on innuendo and vagaries, aims for a temporary conviction. In it, Cohen and David Pecker explain election law to a rigged jury while Merchan allows the prosecution to dazzle them with inadmissible evidence and irrelevant, noncriminal details couched in nefarious-sounding terms like “hush money” and “catch and kill,” all the while keeping crucial information like Cohen's SDNY charges and Brad Smith's expert testimony on actual election law from reaching the jury.
Merchan reneged on his promise to release the jury instructions by Thursday night, apparently to prevent lawyers from picking apart his instructions so jury members don't find out how preposterous they are, because they're going to read the news and talk to friends, family, and co-workers in the week Merchan gave them off.
That's why he gave them the week off.
Merchan and Bragg are attempting to fool the jurors into a guilty verdict by feeding their bias and denying them the information to make an informed decision. The second, “underlying” crime has not been named, and Merchan just told the jurors it can be whatever they want it to be and turned them loose for a week, during which they will undoubtedly hear of and read news reports charging Trump with all manner of fake crimes, any one of which they're now free to consider Trump's underlying crime.
If they convict him, Harry Litman thinks (13 min.) it will take “a few months” to move Trump's case from “bail pending appeal” to the appeals process, which would land Trump in the middle of the summer before the appeal is filed, after months of wall-to-wall media coverage drilling Trump's “Convicted Felon” status into the public's brains.
The underlying charge, then, on which the validity of the case relies, is literally anything, and Bragg's charges only exist in the mind of the juror.
In the pretend trial, which is to say, the one that's based on the law, the prosecution's arguments start to take shape if you look at things as they are. It's a scoundrels' court and an organized crime racket. The first sign of that is Merchan: if N.Y. cases are assigned randomly, as they're supposed to be, how was the same judge picked for Donald Trump, Allen Weisselberg, and Steve Bannon's trials?
It harkens back to 2017, when Judge Emmet Sullivan was assigned to General Flynn's case six months after being assigned to Blumenthal v. Trump. General Flynn was prosecuted by Robert Mueller during the Russia Hoax after taking the National Security Advisor position under Trump. He pleaded guilty and the judge accepted it, only to mysteriously recuse himself and reassign the case to Sullivan, who repeatedly postponed sentencing until the DoJ ordered the case dismissed altogether, at which point Sullivan refused to. He was as bad as Judge Merchan, and it seemed he was assigned to the case for that reason.
It just so happens that Trump's NDA Trial was also set into motion by Mueller during the Russia Hoax, who referred Michael Cohen to the SDNY, ostensibly for his dealings with Russians (which were completely made up). They raided his hotel and caught him in a perjury trap, supposedly, over a Trump Hotel project in Moscow.
But Cohen committed bank fraud and tax evasion to the tune of over $4 Million, faced 4-5 years in prison and they had him dead to rights. That's why he told the SDNY in front of Bob Costello he'd do anything to stay out of jail. The purpose, of course, as Costello said was to get him to roll on Trump, but he didn't have anything on Trump, and you won't get a plea deal if you have nothing to offer. The charges were serious, as the SDNY stressed in his case file, and Cohen was desperate to stay out of jail. Costello advised him, the SDNY wanted dirt on Trump.
So Cohen pleaded guilty to a campaign finance violation, an insignificant charge next to his others. Andrew McCarthy, the former SDNY prosecutor who wrote the book on this, doubts they would have charged it at all otherwise. He was trying to help them “Get Trump” in exchange for leniency.
In the end they declined to press charges, probably because putting Cohen on the stand themselves was too risky, and he got a three-year sentence but served most it under home arrest. He says they double-crossed him, but this looks to me like a ploy to make his testimony look sincere, not purchased by letting him stay out of jail.
Cohen's guilty plea, McCarthy stresses, does not actually mean he is guilty, as neither judge nor jury looked at his case. The plea is only admissible in court to impeach Cohen as a witness; it certainly can't be used to imply Trump's guilt in the same crime by association. But that's exactly what N.Y. did and Merchan allowed.
To convict Trump, in theory, they must prove he ordered the bookkeeping, knew the rules, and intended to defraud, and a target of the fraud was harmed; that the legal fees truly were loan reimbursements and weren't for legal matters; and that he did it to conceal unreported campaign finance payments.
Bragg hasn't done any of that and the finance charge is impossible, which voids everything. Trump met Cohen and Weisselberg in January, when the election was over and the campaign finance reports for that period weren't due yet. He could have simply repaid Cohen and reported it, which would make no difference to the election anyway, as it would be over.
Further, Cohen was his lawyer: you don't need a written retainer to establish that, nor must a lawyer be currently working to be on retainer. Cohen agreed to be Trump's personal attorney, told people he was, and sent invoices that said he was on retainer. He says he wasn't Trump's lawyer, but he perjured himself saying the same thing about Costello.
It's all a big fat lie and the DA's office knew Cohen would tell it. Mark Levin calls that, “suborning perjury.”
I'm not sure that goes far enough. Perhaps the most important thing in Costello's testimony is that he showed Cohen's record to Bragg before the indictment, which never should have been. I'd call that, evidence of RICO.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/05/the_plan_to_convict_trump.html
Bidenflation Is Destroying the Middle Class
Inflation continues to ravage the country, according to survey data.
by Andrew Moran | May 28, 2024
Yes, yes, everyone who is paying attention knows by now that things are bad – or perhaps worse than bad. The persistent inflation, also colloquially known as Bidenflation, has made the country collectively frown. Well, perhaps not everyone feels that way. If you occupy a slot in the top 1%, you are sitting pretty, thanks to rocketing house prices and soaring stock market valuations, buoyed by the Federal Reserve’s monetary easing endeavors. However, if you are a middle-class individual or a small business, good luck — because inflation is eating your lunch.
Bidenflation Comes for Small Businesses
A new survey by small business network Alignable showed that 86% of US entrepreneurs report facing the pain of rising prices. The study, conducted with more than 3,000 business owners from April to May, showed that inflation is the top issue hurting small businesses. This was followed by tax policies (79%) and regulations (76%). Just 6% report having no worries or issues.
Alignable’s findings come soon after the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) published the results of its latest Small Business Optimism Index. The long-running monthly poll highlighted that the index inched higher by 1.2 basis points, but it was the 28th consecutive month below the 50-year average. What is the cause of small business pessimism? Inflation.
“Cost pressures remain the top issue for small business owners, including historically high levels of owners raising compensation to keep and attract employees,” said Bill Dunkelberg, NFIB chief economist, in the report. “Overall, small business owners remain historically very pessimistic as they continue to navigate these challenges. Owners are dealing with a rising level of uncertainty but will continue to do what they do best – serve their customers.”
The RedBalloon-PublicSquare May Freedom Economy Index survey of 80,000 small businesses depicted owners in “survival mode.” The monthly study revealed some fascinating facts:
70% are neither hiring nor firing staff.
60% are preparing for stagflation (a blend of stagnating growth and high inflation).
49% say their companies “definitely” or “probably” will not survive another four years of President Joe Biden.
40% are delaying paying bills to manage cash flow.
“Just like families all across the nation, many small business owners are now in bill paying triage,” said Andrew Crapuchettes, RedBalloon CEO, in a statement. “All of the government reports and happy-talk from Washington DC doesn’t change that Americans continue wrestling with inflation, and a majority of small business owners now predict we’ll slip into stagflation.”
Despite the administration’s accusations of “greedflation,” the private sector is enduring broad-pressured input price pressures. Last month, the producer price index (PPI), a gauge of costs businesses pay for goods and services, rose at a higher-than-expected 0.5%. Even core wholesale prices, which exclude the volatile energy and food categories, surged 0.5%. The PPI has climbed 26% since January 2021. By comparison, the consumer price index (CPI) has advanced 20% in the same span. If it were the supply chain snafus and corporate greed that resulted in 40-year-high inflation, then wouldn’t consumer prices collapse by now?
Consumers Down in the Dumps
It is not only businesses that feel depressed by Bidenflation. Consumers are also down in the dumps.
The University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index was revised higher in May, but it still hovered around its lowest level in six months. Why? The usual suspects: inflation, labor market concerns, and frustration over high interest rates. The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index retreated in April as consumers were more pessimistic about jobs, income, and future business conditions. Gallup found that most Americans are less optimistic about the economy.
Media Outraged Over How Americans Feel
Media outlets were apoplectic over the results of a new Guardian-Harris poll, which showed more than half (56%) of respondents think the United States is in a recession. Fifty-eight percent noted that Biden is responsible for what they perceive as an economic downturn. Here are some of the headlines reporting on the survey:
NBC News: “Most Americans falsely think the U.S. is in a recession, poll shows.”
The Guardian: “Majority of Americans wrongly believe US is in recession.”
The Hill: “Nearly 3 in 5 incorrectly believe US is in economic recession.”
Indeed, the US economy is not in a recession, defined as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth. That said, it is hard to blame the public when activist reporters constantly redefine the term depending on who occupies the Oval Office. Does anyone remember the first half of 2022? The United States entered a technical recession after contracting 2% in the first quarter of 2022 and 0.6% in the second quarter. However, the establishment press did its best to convince the public that two straight quarters of negative growth was not a recession.
“While two consecutive quarters of negative growth is often considered a recession, it’s not an official definition,” reported NPR in July 2022. “Many private economists agree that the United States is not in recession — yet,” said Reuters. “Even with the economy recording a second straight quarter of negative GDP, many economists do not regard it as constituting a recession,” the Associated Press told readers. “The American economy didn’t get the memo that it’s supposed to already be in a recession,” CNN quipped.
It was understandable why the media went into defensive mode at the time. The White House published a July 2022 paper that essentially asserted Econ 101 was wrong and that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP was not a recession. Of course, the news outlets sprinted to the opposite end of the recession field and redefined it under former President Donald Trump. Former CNN personality John Harwood, for example, argued that a recession was a single quarter of enormous contraction.
Yes, But Why?
The current administration gripes that Americans are sour on the economy because of how the media are reporting the data. This is misleading. Publications and broadcast networks routinely complement reporting on weaker consumer sentiment with a nod to an expanding gross domestic product. How could the average household be so gloomy about the economy if non-residential fixed investment numbers rose 0.9% in the last quarter? It is the conceit of the anointed, a trait picked up by those living inside New York City or Washington, DC, bubbles where hardly anyone escapes to sniff fresh air, touch the grass, and realize how millions are struggling.
Is Bidenflation the chief culprit behind rampant inflation? Economists will debate this question for eternity. However, for a chief executive overseeing a turbulent climate, the president often deceives, deflects, and denies – claiming, for example, that inflation was 9% in January 2021. This could partially explain why voters overwhelmingly disapprove of the incumbent’s handling of the economy.
https://www.libertynation.com/bidenflation-is-destroying-the-middle-class/
Biden’s slobbering over George Floyd on Memorial Day weekend is a national disgrace
May 27, 2024 | Chris Donaldson |
On the weekend that Americans solemnly recognize the sacrifices of the nation’s fallen heroes, Joe Biden has a far more important figure on his mind.
The most divisive leader in the nation’s history wants Americans to be sure to honor the memory of deceased drug addict and lifelong thug George Floyd, a man whose entirely preventable death ushered in a new era of rampant crime along with state and corporate-sanctioned anti-white discrimination.
“He changed the world,” said Biden.
George Floyd should be alive. He deserved so much more.
Today, I join all those who loved him and all those touched by the civil rights movement he inspired in remembering the tragedy and injustice of his death.
He changed the world.
Now, let’s act in his memory. pic.twitter.com/uPSCkxFMRs
— President Biden (@POTUS) May 25, 2024
In a social media post, Biden credited Floyd for having not died in vain, but rather for inspiring a “civil rights movement” for perishing of natural causes while resisting arrest, NOT being murdered by railroaded ex-cop Derek Chauvin who was railroaded.
There is another word for the “civil rights movement” that erupted after the viral video of St. George’s last moments ignited a wave of violent rioting in Minneapolis and across the nation, and that word is carnage.
“George Floyd should be alive today. His murder shook the conscience of our nation and reminded us that our country has never fully lived up to its highest ideal of fair and impartial justice for all under the law,” the president said in a statement posted to the White House website. Biden is probably correct that Floyd might be alive – had he simply obeyed the orders of the police instead of resisting arrest.
“As we mark this solemn day tomorrow, we join George Floyd’s family in remembering his life and his legacy. We are vigilant of black and brown communities who all too often have borne the brunt of injustice, and we recommit ourselves to honoring George Floyd’s legacy by ensuring our Nation lives up to its founding ideal that we are all created equal and deserve to be treated equally throughout our lives,” Biden said, because there’s nothing that speaks living up to the “founding ideal” like bestowing high honors on a criminal who once held a gun to a pregnant woman’s belly.
It wasn’t a “solemn day” at all, but a day when an open invitation to the lawlessness that plagues major American cities to this day. It may be “solemn” to an old-race baiter like Biden who palled around with segregationists, but it is a day that was a pox on the nation for the forces that were permitted to be unleashed.
The summer of 2020 was one of the most disgraceful periods in American history, when criminals were allowed to burn, loot and murder while the Democratic party, many Republicans, the media, corporations, sports leagues, and every institution in the land bent the knee.
Canonizing a creep and a criminal is a disgusting thing for a sitting US president to do any time, it’s all the more vile on Memorial Day weekend.
The sooner Barack Obama’s ventriloquist dummy has been sent packing by voters the better for America which is going to need some serious healing from the damage done by the racial arsonists.
https://americanwirenews.com/slugga-bidens-slobbering-over-george-floyd-on-memorial-day-weekend-is-a-national-disgrace/
Karoline Leavitt to Newsmax: Narcissism of Biden 'Disgraceful'
By Mark Swanson | Monday, 27 May 2024 07:26 PM EDT
President Joe Biden's penchant for bringing up his late son in speeches intended to honor the lives lost and fallen heroes of other grieving Americans is "disgraceful" and a slap in the face to gold star families in this country, Karoline Leavitt told Newsmax on Monday.
Biden did it again in his Memorial Day address at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, citing the upcoming anniversary of his late son, Beau.
"It's always about Joe Biden, and it's disgraceful. He does this any time, whether he is giving a speech at West Point or giving a speech to families across this country who have lost their loved ones for one reason or another," Leavitt said on "Carl Higbie FRONTLINE." "He always brings it back to himself. It is despicable, and it is disrespectful to our gold star families across this country who are mourning today, not celebrating, the loss of their loved ones who paid the ultimate sacrifice to this great nation."
Gold star father Darin Hoover told Newsmax on Friday that he still hasn't heard from Biden in the almost three years since Hoover's son was among 13 service members killed at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan. However, Biden made sure Morehouse College grads heard about Beau in a commencement speech last week. Biden has also falsely claimed in speeches that Beau lost his life while serving in Iraq.
Hoover did, however, talk of the support he has received from former President Donald Trump, who's not even the sitting commander in chief.
"President Trump met with several gold star families last night at the Coca Cola NASCAR race, the 600 in Charlotte, North Carolina, and I can tell you personally that it is one of President Trump's greatest honors to meet with gold star families and to be a champion for our veterans and military families across this great country, and he will do that again when he is our commander in chief, and he's back at the White House," Leavitt told guest host Michael Grimm.
"And from our campaign. I would like to say our deepest respect and gratitude and love go to all those who have lost their loved ones who paid the ultimate sacrifice in defense of our freedom in this great nation," she said.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/karoline-leavitt-biden-beau-biden/2024/05/27/id/1166354/?ns_mail_uid=110c4f27-b39e-4490-8c9e-becd156886f8&ns_mail_job=DM622934_05212024&s=acs&dkt_nbr=0105040wy23g
Monday's Energy Absurdity: Pete Buttigieg Explains Biden's $7.5 Billion EV Charger Boondoggle
David Blackmon
May 27, 2024
I will make this one as quick and painless for you as possible. Sunday, on CBS’s “Face the Nation Program,” Host Margaret Brennan posed a tough question to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg: How do you explain the utter failure thus far of the Biden administration to install just “7 or 8” high-speed EV charging station in 3 years despite working with a massive $7.5 billion pot of money?
Buttigieg, who was once considered one of his party’s “rising stars,” shows why few in Washington, DC think of him in that way anymore.
Watch: Video at link
Transcript:
Brennan: The Federal Highway Department says only 7 or 8 charging stations have been built despite having a $7.5 billion investment that taxpayers made back in 2021. Why isn’t that happening more quickly?
Buttigieg: So, the President’s goal is to have half a million chargers up by the end of this decade. Now, in order to do a charger, it’s more than just plunking uh, uh, uh, a small device into the ground. There’s utility work, and this is also really a new category of federal investment. But we’ve been working with each of the 50 states, every one of them is getting formula dollars to do this work, engaging them…
Brennan: [interrupts with a mocking laugh] Just 7 or 8, though?
Buttigieg: …to get the first handful…Again, this is by 2030, 500,000 chargers, and the very first handful of chargers are already being built.
[End]
I bolded that last bit for emphasis. Think about that statement. We are already 3 years down the road, and Sec. Buttigieg is boasting about “already” having built “7 or 8” out of 500,000 planned charging stations.
Elon Musk and Tesla are able to “just plunk down” hundreds of new high speed charging stations around the world each and every day of the year with seeming ease, yet our Transportation Secretary wants us all to believe this is akin to rocket science.
In other words, he thinks you are all very stupid. And I guess his presence as the nation’s Transportation Secretary proves too damn many of us truly are.
That is all.
https://blackmon.substack.com/p/mondays-energy-absurdity-pete-buttigieg?publication_id=712558&post_id=145039867&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Report: Trump Says He'd End Anti-Israel Protests
By Charlie McCarthy | Monday, 27 May 2024 11:21 AM EDT
Former president Donald Trump told donors he would end anti-Israel protests on college campuses by expelling foreign students from the U.S., The Washington Post reported.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in November's general election, took part in a May 14 round table with donors in New York and discussed the recent on-campus demonstrations, which he said was part of a "radical revolution."
"One thing I do is, any student that protests, I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students. As soon as they hear that, they're going to behave," Trump said at the event, the Post reported.
"If you get me elected, and you should really be doing this, if you get me reelected, we're going to set that movement back 25 or 30 years."
Trump commended the New York Police Department for clearing protesters from Columbia University campus. He added that other cities needed to do the same because "it has to be stopped now."
Speaking to a group that included "98% of my Jewish friends," Trump cited pro-Israel steps taken by his administration. The achievements included moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and recognizing the Golan Heights, which Israel began occupying during the Six-Day War in 1967.
"So I did Golan Heights. You know that's worth $2 trillion, they said, that piece, if you put it in real estate terms. But it's worth more than that. It is," Trump told the donors, the Post reported.
The former president also told the donors he supports Israel's right to continue "its war on terror" against Hamas in Gaza.
Trump has said the Hamas terrorists' Oct. 7 attack on Israel would not have happened if he were president.
Less than two weeks ago, the Republican Jewish Coalition announced a commitment to raise a minimum of $5 million to help support Trump's reelection bid.
The money would be raised through donations to the grassroots group, which represents Jewish Republicans nationally, and the initiative would be coordinated through donors and from the RJC Victory Fund super PAC, the organization announced.
"When President Trump is back in the Oval Office, Israel will once again be protected, Iran will go back to being broke, terrorists will be hunted down, and the bloodshed will end," Karoline Leavitt, the campaign's national press secretary, wrote the Post in an email.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-college-campus/2024/05/27/id/1166311/?ns_mail_uid=110c4f27-b39e-4490-8c9e-becd156886f8&ns_mail_job=DM628306_05272024&s=acs&dkt_nbr=01010279gjk5
Biden Admin. Tells Allies: Back Off Iran on Nuclear Weapons
By Theodore Bunker | Monday, 27 May 2024 11:28 AM EDT
President Joe Biden's administration is privately pushing allied countries in Europe not to proceed with plans to censure Iran over its nuclear program, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The U.S. is reportedly attempting to convince Great Britain and France not to censure Iran during the next meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency member state board in June, multiple diplomats told the Journal, adding that the U.S. is pressuring several countries to abstain should a vote to censure Iran take place. U.S. officials denied the report, with one unnamed official calling the claims "totally false."
Another American official, who was not named by the Journal, said that Washington is "tightly coordinated" with its allies in Europe and said that "Any speculation about decisions is premature."
The official added, "We are increasing pressure on Iran through sanctions and international isolation."
Although Iran claims its nuclear program is solely for civilian use, it has repeatedly refused to allow the IAEA to conduct an investigation into the country's undeclared nuclear material.
"Iran's level of cooperation with the agency remains unacceptable," U.S. Ambassador to the IAEA Laura Holgate said during a board meeting in March. "The board must be prepared to take further action should Iran's cooperation not improve dramatically."
Kelsey Davenport, director for nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association, told the Journal that "The board needs to send a message to Iran that there are consequences for stonewalling. But it needs to be part of a broader strategy. The goal should be pressuring and incentivizing Iran to cooperate with the IAEA and expand their access."
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/joe-biden-iran-nuclear-program/2024/05/27/id/1166312/?ns_mail_uid=110c4f27-b39e-4490-8c9e-becd156886f8&ns_mail_job=DM628306_05272024&s=acs&dkt_nbr=01010279gjk5
Terrorists Learn Harsh Lesson That If You Rape And Murder Women, The United Nations Will Give You Your Own Country And A Billion Dollars
GAZA — Terrorists across the globe faced the bitter reality today that if they rape and murder hundreds of women, the United Nations will give them a country to operate and billions of dollars.
"Today, we have put terrorists on notice," declared Secretary General António Guterres to the United Nations General Assembly. "Let it be known that the consequences of mass rape and murder will be swift, and in the form of cash."
Terrorist organizations reeled from the shocking news, stunned by the United Nation's dramatic action. "My English not so good, let me be sure I understand," said terrorist Mohammed Deif. "We do nothing, get no money. We rape women, United Nations give us money? You are sure?" asked Deif, clearly dazed by the harsh new reality. "And you say if shoot children, we get to run country? Well, okay... if we must go rape women and shoot kids, we must. Bye-bye."
The Biden administration has thrown its full support behind the move, vowing to hunt down every single terrorist and personally give them a suitcase of cash. "We will not sit idly by as ruthless barbarians film themselves raping women and butchering children," declared Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. "We will ensure those murderous psychopaths receive their just due - a country to plan more attacks from, and the cash for more ammo and GoPro cameras. There will no more warnings, only cash."
At publishing time, billionaire terrorist leaders living in Qatar had learned the devastating news that they would be receiving millions more dollars for their role in financing mass rape.
https://babylonbee.com/news/terrorists-learn-harsh-lesson-that-if-you-rape-and-murder-women-the-united-nations-will-give-you-your-own-country-and-a-billion-dollars
New Video: J6 Wife Catches FBI Agents Covering Her Son, 4, with Laser Sights During Home Invasion
May 25, 2024 at 2:00pm
Annette Kuehne, the wife of Jan. 6 defendant Chris Kuehne, said that when the FBI raided their Kansas home in February 2021, agents had red weapon-aiming lights trained on both her and their young son.
The couple spoke with Nick Searcy, the producer of the documentary film “Capitol Punishment 2: The War on Truth,” at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The movie is the sequel to 2021’s “Capitol Punishment” and tracks the Department of Justice’s treatment of multiple defendants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion.
Chris Kuehne is a Marine Corps combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient who served on the detail that performed the 21-gun salute at Reagan’s funeral at the library in June 2004. He gave the commands for the salute, The Kansas City Star reported.
Kuehne attended the Jan. 6 protest at the Capitol but was not charged with engaging in any violence or property destruction.
He went to Washington because he wanted to make sure that people didn’t get hurt, Annette Kuehne told Searcy.
“That was it. I lost my baby.”
For three years the federal government has waged a war on truth. Now the truth fights back.
Who really died on J6 and why is the Federal Government lying about it to this day?
Who orchestrated and benefited by breaching the Capitol… pic.twitter.com/9qYo1Lil79
— The Western Journal (@WestJournalism) May 20, 2024
The DOJ said in a news release that Kuehne had sent a text to a group he was with in Washington saying he was concerned about potential clashes with antifa or Black Lives Matter demonstrators.
On Feb. 11, 2021, a little over a month after the Capitol protest, the FBI raided the Kuehnes’ Kansas home and arrested him.
“It was about 6:30-ish in the morning, and they surrounded our home with three police vehicles. So at that moment, Chris’ cellphone rang and loud and clear I heard, ‘Chris Kuehne this is the FBI, you need to come out of your house immediately,’” Annette Kuehne recounted.
“And it was freezing cold. It was like 7 degrees without the wind chill there in Kansas,” she said.
The FBI had their weapons drawn, Annette said, and when she looked down, she “saw red lights moving, and I thought, ‘Is that pointed at me?’”
“I looked down at my chest, and I realized my little 4-year-old was standing right next to me and I saw them on him too,” she said.
The agents “were yelling at Chris to turn around, and at that moment I heard them tackle him down and throw him in the snow, and I heard him scream in pain because he had just had surgery on his left wrist,” Kuehne told Searcy.
She then turned and tried to shield her son from everything that was happening.
The FBI agents quickly whisked her husband away from the location and for a while blocked Annette and her son from returning inside their home.
The next morning, Kuehne, who was pregnant at the time, was not feeling well, but attributed it to lack of sleep and stress from everything that transpired.
She went to a doctor’s appointment and began bleeding in the examining room.
The doctor told her that she needed to have surgery immediately or she would bleed to death.
The Kuehnes lost their baby.
“That’s the hardest thing because now you have a loss of life that we’re dealing with besides everything else,” Annette told Searcy.
“There hasn’t been a day that’s gone by that I haven’t thought about that day and the baby and everything else, and what would we be like today,” she said.
Chris Kuehne pleaded guilty to one count of obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder, according to a February news release from the DOJ.
He was sentenced to 75 days in prison and 24 months of supervised release, which includes 60 days of home detention. He also was required to pay $2,000 in restitution for Capitol clean-up costs.
Annette concluded, “I think that law enforcement has been weaponized, and it’s being used against the American citizen. And it’s to make a statement that ‘if you don’t like what we’re saying or we’re doing, then this is the treatment you’re going to get.’ And that’s what it feels like.”
Chris Kuehne agreed.
“I’m really concerned for this country in a lot of ways,” he told Searcy. “This country was founded on a certain set of principles. God is the centerpiece. He sits at the throne. And that’s the way this country was founded by our forefathers, and I think that we have moved so far beyond that.”
https://www.westernjournal.com/new-video-j6-wife-catches-fbi-agents-covering-son-4-laser-sights-home-invasion/
Saving our Democracy This Memorial Day
We must stop Donald Trump.” — President “Joe Biden”
James Howard Kunstler
May 27, 2024
Surely it was the right thing to do for President “Joe Biden” to remind the nation of the tragic loss of George Floyd four years ago this Memorial Day weekend. At the time, the man known as “the Black Thomas Edison” was rumored to be this close to achieving an economically viable system for producing electricity via atomic fusion using the fentanyl molecule (C22H28N2O) combined with the nuclei of alcohol (C2H6O), releasing enough energy from one gram to power a city the size of Minneapolis for a day. The math he left behind on his chalkboard spells it out:
17.6 MeV×1.60218×10?13 J/MeV?2.82×10?12 J
You see how that works? Alas, Dr. Floyd had apparently ingested a small amount of these experimental substances accidently before leaving his lab May 25, 2020, when he encountered the white supremacist police officer Derek Chauvin outside a Cup Foods convenience store in Minneapolis’s “Powderhorn” neighborhood. For reasons never understood, despite manifold judicial inquiries, the officer dragged the Great Man out of his car — where he was polishing some of the requisite algebra in his notebook — and for no reason at all placed one knee, and all his weight, on Dr. Floyd’s neck, constricting his airway and causing his death. The nation erupted in violence, and you know the rest of the story: no cheap energy for you, you nation of white supremacist asswipes!
And so it has gone since that fateful day: one darn thing after another. Luckily though — and with a little help from Mark Zuckerberg’s Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) — the vigilant “Joe Biden” presides in the White House, keeping America safe for democracy, by democracy, and of democracy. The country has never experienced so much democracy. The Brookings Institution even warns that the country might be close to a democracy overload, in which the popular will is so immense that everyone in all fifty states thinks the same morally correct thoughts all day long without giving offense or making any space unsafe or dis-including any diverse category of human (except white supremacists) from his, her, or they’s share of the nation’s limitless wealth.
“Joe Biden” has been especially effective at containing the Grand Golem of all white supremacists, Trump, from deconstructing our utopian democracy. This Trump uttered perfidious misinformation that the 2020 election was less than fair and upright. He is under indictment in Fulton County, GA, for conspiring to transmit this incorrect thinking to other white supremacists and creating an unsafe space for GA Sec’y of State Brad Raffensberger by asking him to “find” additional votes. What log was Bradraff supposed to look under, anyway (ha ha!)?
The case is being guided by Fulton County DA, the indomitable Fani Willis, at least for now, as she awaits a process known as getting the bidness from a white supremacist so-called ethics committee in the Georgia State Senate, where she has been falsely accused of mis-spending state money on vacations with erstwhile special prosecutor Nathan Wade. These trips were, of course, fact-finding efforts. One fact found is that the white supremacist cruise ship directors attempt to kill black people by luring them into all-you-can-eat buffets at sea, from which escape is impossible.
“Joe Biden” also got Attorney General Merrick Garland to appoint Lawfare paladin Jack Smith to prosecute this nefarious Trump in the most upright of all federal court districts, Washington, DC, for instigating what “Joe Biden” recently called an “erection” against our democracy. Trump, you see, told a gigantic mob of white supremacists to penetrate our nation’s capitol building so as to obstruct certification of the 2020 electoral vote and murder then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, if possible, along with all congresspersons of color. Legal experts at MSNBC, Andrew Weissmann (of the Mueller Special Counsel office), and Andy McCabe (former Deputy Director of the FBI), have already found this Trump guilty, and they know about these matters better than anybody, so the trial under Judge Tanya Chutkan may be unnecessary.
Things are not going quite so well for SC Smith in the Martin County Federal Court of Judge Aileen Cannon, where this Trump stands accused of fobbing off with classified government documents, claiming some fabricated sort of presidential privilege — unlike “Joe Biden” who got his classified docs before he was president and therefore does not have to claim any such privilege (and was understandably “forgetful” when asked about the docs by the other SC Robert Hur). In any case, AG Garland can always dispatch an FBI SWAT team to Judge Cannon’s home to spur an attitude adjustment on the bench, if required.
Hopes really rest, though, on the current case against the Grand Golem Trump in Judge Juan Marchan’s Manhattan courtroom, where the most supreme of all white supremacists stands accused of book-keeping irregularities in furtherance of federal crimes so unspeakable that they have never actually been spoken. The case, engineered by veteran DC Golem hunters Mary McCord, Norm Eisen, Lisa Monaco, and Matthew Colangelo, fronted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, goes to the jury after final arguments this week.
Judge Marchan is expected to instruct the jury to vote guilty because no other conclusion is possible. Thus, Judge Merchan will be celebrated far and wide for saving our democracy. But that’s not all. After the most excellent verdict of guilty X-23-Plus, he will have the pleasure of sentencing this Trump to life in the Rikers Island prison complex, where it will be difficult for the Grand Golem to organize any white supremacist activities and will be relegated to a diet of baloney sandwiches for the duration of his term.
The only downside for this scenario is that Trump might get elected President of the USA despite conviction, and on January 20, 2025, commence operations to put “Joe Biden” and all the others in his train of officials in jail for the rest of their natural lives. You have to wonder if they’re thinking about that this holiday weekend.
https://jameshowardkunstler.substack.com/p/saving-our-democracy-this-memorial?publication_id=2076970&post_id=145025858&isFreemail=true&r=rd9j8&triedRedirect=true
Like terrorists in the White House
By Lynne Lechter
Does anyone recall the fundamental job of the president?
Yes, it’s been blurred and bloodied to bits. But what President Biden was elected to do, and is supposed to do, is to protect America and Americans from enemies at home and abroad.
Not only has he abjectly failed at that most basic of all his duties, he has deliberately done everything in his power, both assigned and unconstitutional, to weaken America and destroy its infrastructure.
Biden’s perfidy is endless.
Let’s look at economics. Blatantly lying, he claims inflation was at 9% when he took office. Not to be bothered with or even cognizant of the facts, when Biden was inaugurated, inflation was at 1.3%! But of course, no card-carrying Democrat will give President Trump credit.
Gasoline has risen 50% since Biden took office, and food prices are yo-yoing from expensive to too expensive to purchase.
Biden’s inaugural devastating blow to America was to close oil drilling on government lands. America was energy independent when he took office. In fact, due to President Trump’s pro-American policy, America is not only energy independent, but it's also an exporter of oil.
Now, the United States is dependent on dysfunctional countries, such as Venezuela, for oil.
Also, Biden has trumpeted the ugly lie about the joys of green energy. Green energy encompasses energy-sucking metal and minerals, windsucking farms that kill birds that unwittingly fall prey to these “green energy” demons.
Just where do these proponents believe is the genesis of the energy that powers these environmentally destructive wind farms? Where, but from the fossil fuels they claim to detest!
What president who cared about his country would flip energy policy in such an anti-American manner? His policies have caused the average price of a regular gallon of gas to rise from $2.46 when he was inaugurated in January 2021 to the current average of $3.61. Moreover, with this energy policy, Biden has opened a spigot of cash that has helped fund Iran’s proxy war on Israel.
Why?
Meanwhile, sovereignty encompasses the obligation to secure your country’s borders. With upwards of 11 million illegal entries into the United States through its Southern border, facilitated by Biden’s policies, Biden has trashed not only the definition but the concept. America is being invaded by illegal aliens from countries whose goals are antithetical to America’s well-being.
Not only do these illegal entrants pose an existential physical threat to America’s well-being, but their willingness to work for lower wages directly harms the African-American and Latino communities whose members are vying for the same jobs but at a sustainable wage. Biden is deliberately hurting the very communities he professes to represent.
Why?
Existentially, many undocumented entrants pose a threat to national security. No longer is the border only assaulted by Mexicans or other South American migrants seeking work and a better life. Mostly young men are scrambling across from Turkey, China, Syria, Pakistan, Niger, Iran, Iraq, and other countries, and now, the Russian state of Chechnya. Multiple reports of these aliens lurking around military installations are surging.
Ukraine and Afghanistan are examples of Biden’s backstabbing terroristic foreign policies.
Rather than a slow, careful withdrawal from Afghanistan while ensuring our allies in the country were safe and our materiel in allied hands, Biden withdrew in the worst manner possible. One day, he just left. Allies hung to departing planes, desperate to get out. Our European allies there with us weren't even told. How many people were murdered as a result of his perfidy? Too many.
Ukraine is also in a precarious position. As has been amply documented, Biden seems to be receiving a vig from Zelensky. We know this because of Biden’s own crowing over the fact that he has had the corrupt power of dictating Ukraine’s personnel positions from his days as vice president. With kickbacks and the fact that Russia attacked Ukraine, he has been untouchable by this unholy alliance.
Which brings us to Israel. When Hamas jumped over the border from Gaza and brutally gang-raped, mutilated, burned alive, beheaded, and kidnapped Israelis and foreign nationals staying in Israel, Biden rushed to Israel's side, stating unequivocally that he stood with Israel. Until he didn’t.
Eventually thwarted by Biden, who slowed Israel’s military progress with impossible demands to protect the “innocent Gazans,” over seven-and-one-half months later, more than one hundred and twenty hostages, dead or alive, remain in the hands of the Hamas butchers.
Jew hatred has swept a good portion of the world, with many nations wishing to punish Hamas by giving it a Palestinian state. America, with taxpayer money, has built a pier on Gaza’s shore to facilitate aid to its “refugee camps,” which in every other place would be referred to as cities.
Meanwhile, President Biden is focused on being re-elected in November. Will his terrorism reign for another four years? Can America, as we have known it, survive if he does?
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/like_terrorists_in_the_white_house.html