Wednesday, March 13, 2024

 Let This Sink In ...

From: Tim Allen

Here are some interesting points to think about prior to the November election, especially to my friends on the fence, like moderate Democrats, Libertarians and Independents and the never Trump Republicans and those thinking of "walking away" from the Democratic party.

Women are upset at Trump's naughty words -- they also bought 80 million copies of 50 Shades of Gray.

 Not one feminist has defended Sarah Sanders. It seems women's rights only matter if those women are liberal.

No Border Walls. No voter ID laws. Did you figure it out yet? But wait... there's more ...

 Chelsea Clinton got out of college and got a job at NBC that paid $900,000 per year. Her mom flies around the country speaking out about white privilege.

And just like that, they went from being against foreign interference in our elections to allowing non-citizens to vote in our elections.

 President Trump's wall costs less than the Obamacare website. Let that sink in, America.

We are one election away from open borders, socialism, gun confiscation, and full-term abortion nationally. We are fighting evil.

 They sent more troops and armament to arrest Roger Stone than they sent to defend Benghazi.

60 years ago, Venezuela was 4th on the world economic freedom index.

 Today, they are 179th and their citizens are dying of starvation.

In only 10 years, Venezuela was destroyed by democratic socialism.

 Russia donated $0.00 to the Trump campaign. Russia donated $145,600,000 to the Clinton Foundation . But Trump was the one investigated!

Nancy Pelosi invited illegal aliens to the State of the Union. President Trump Invited victims of illegal aliens to the State of the Union. Let that sink in.

A socialist is basically a communist who doesn't have the power to take everything from their citizens at gunpoint ... Yet!

How do you walk 3000 miles across Mexico without food or support and show up at our border 100 pounds overweight and with a cellphone?

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez wants to ban cars, ban planes, give out universal income and thinks socialism works. She calls Donald Trump crazy.

Bill Clinton paid $850,000 to Paula Jones To get her to go away. I don't remember the FBI raiding his lawyer's office.

I wake up every day and I am grateful that Hillary Clinton is not the president of the United States of America.

The same media that told me Hillary Clinton had a 95% chance of winning now tells me Trump's approval ratings are low.

The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money.

Margaret Thatcher

Maxine Waters opposes voter ID laws; She thinks that they are racist. You need to have a photo ID to attend her town hall meetings .

President Trump said

"They're not after me. They're after you.  I'm just in their way."

Now, go Back & Read this Again like your Future Depends upon it, Because it Does .

Biden's deterioration should be off stage
Videos of Joe Biden not knowing where he is or saying he just met with a French president who died 25 years ago are not so funny anymore.

They're tragic. And I can't help feeling embarrassed and sorry for the president.

It angers me to see him dodder out in public almost every other day and make a mumbling and confused fool of himself.

Biden's clearly been in the early stages of dementia for several years.

It's getting worse by the week and there's no pill or treatment he can take that will ever make him better.

In the 1990s I watched my father's mental decline for years, but I never had to feel embarrassed for him because it happened entirely in private.

After my father told the country in a letter in 1994 that he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease, Nancy brought him home where he was surrounded for the rest of his life by family and friends — and no media.

She was wise enough to know when to take my father off the world stage. She didn't put him into a rest home where people might see him or take his photo.

She wanted to protect his memory. She wanted him to be remembered the way he was when he was a vital and witty world leader, not the way he was when he was sliding into mental and physical decline.

Biden's wife Jill, the rest of the Biden family and the Democrat Party people who supposedly love and care for him ought to be ashamed of themselves.

They are allowing the whole world — including the leaders of countries that do not like us — to watch the daily deterioration of our president.

Joe Biden is already on the road to Alzheimer's. Nearly 7 million Americans already have it. It's a terrible disease that has no cure.

But his wife Jill, his Democrat Party handlers and the major media who ignore or downplay it have only one thing on their mind — defeating Trump and the MAGA Republicans in the fall.

They all know Vice President Kamala Harris is a joke and even if California Gov. Gavin Newsom replaces her on the 2024 ticket, Joe Biden is the party's only hope to hang on to its power.

But the whole world knows there is no way he will make it through another four years if he's re-elected.

He faked his way through the 2020 election by hiding in his basement, but Democrats know he'll never be able to pull off that trick again, even if the help of liberal media again.

So to protect Biden from betraying how much he has declined, Democrats have made sure there are no primaries or debates he has to participate in.

They aren't even going to let him give the traditional three-minute Super Bowl interview this weekend because they're so afraid someone in the media might ask him a question about Hamas.

They just hope they can keep shoving an old man with a broken memory on stage to read words that no longer make much sense to him — and then whisking him off before he gives an embarrassing answer to any question he's asked.

You'd think Joe's wife would want him to be remembered as he was when he was a senator or the vice president. But it's too late for that.

People are going to remember him as he is now — an elderly man with a poor memory and confused mind.

My father was honest enough to write us a letter and tell us he had Alzheimer's. He knew when it was time to get off the stage.

Nancy protected my father to the end so people would remember him the way we do now, the way he was — as a great president and as a human being.

God bless Nancy. Too bad Jill didn't take a lesson from her.

Michael Reagan is the son of President Ronald Reagan, a political consultant, and the author of "The New Reagan Revolution" (St. Martin's Press).


Tuesday, March 12, 2024

 Final Count on Vacated Equipment Left in Afghanistan…Shocking!

WOW!!!

When I hear the democrats lecture us on gun control, we need to remind ourselves that Biden is the world's biggest and best arms supplier to terrorists.
You can be assured most of this can and would be used against us and our allies.

Pass it on, please!!!

Final account of USA military equipment and cash left behind in Afghanistan per GAO Report

Thanks to the Government Accountability Office, we now have a clear picture of just how much U.S. military equipment has fallen into the hands of the Taliban, with the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan. Let's have a look…

Aircraft: The Taliban now ranks #26 in the world in total military aircraft, thanks to us leaving behind

208 planes and helicopters:

110 helicopters

60 transport/cargo planes

20 light attack planes

18 intelligence/surveillance planes

Vehicles: You've probably seen the footage of the Taliban riding around in our humvees.

We left a total of 75,898 vehicles:

42,604 tactical vehicles

22,174 humvees

8,998 medium tactical vehicles

1,005 recovery vehicles

928 mine-resistant vehicles

189 armored tanks

Weapons: Get ready for this…

599,690 of our weapons are now in the hands of the Taliban:

358,530 rifles

126,295 pistols

64,363 machine guns

25,327 grenade launchers

12,692 shotguns

9,877 RPGs

2,606 howitzers

And you can throw in a couple thousand night-vision goggles, surveillance drones, and communication devices on that list as well.

Price tag:
In total, it adds up to nearly
$84 billion dollars in tax-payer-funded U.S. military equipment.


Commentary: Opposing Illegal Immigration Is Not About Race March 9, 2024 Admin  by Jeffrey Lord

Over there at the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters, managing editor Curtis Houck has published the oh-so-typical latest from the leftist swamp that is MSNBC.

The transcript of a segment from an MSNBC show is, no kidding, as follows:

Inside host and former Biden Press Secretary Jen Psaki: “[Trump] can’t run against the other and brown people and people who don’t look like him, like his supporters — his base of supporters coming across the — the border and scaring people and killing people or whatever he’s threatening out there. If you look at some of these exit polls — I mean, I live in Virginia. Immigration was the number one issue.”

ReidOut host Joy Reid: “Yes.”

Psaki: “Again, these could change in — in Virginia.”

Rachel Maddow: “Well, Virginia does have a border with West Virginia. Very contested area.”

Reid: “Build the wall!”

Psaki: “But you’re thinking like — what? When I was in New Hampshire, people were talking about the northern border as a threat because Trump has indoctrinated people with this fear of people who do not like — look like them — being a threat to them.”

Amazing.

Mere weeks after an illegal immigrant made his way to Georgia and brutally murdered University of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, there’s the MSNBC crew ridiculing the idea that illegal immigrants are a problem in America.

My old CNN colleague Jen Psaki ridiculed the notion that Virginia, where she lives, would have voters saying that immigration is the number one issue.

Apparently she has missed headlines like these:

Illegal immigrant nabbed in Virginia after abducting teen in Ohio, taking hundreds of miles from home: police

Ohio authorities are working to determine if the teenager was a victim of human trafficking

And missed this from ABC 13 News in Virginia:

‘It is so infuriating’: Reaction to illegal migrant arrested for sex crimes

This ABC story reported:

CAMPBELL COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — Virginia leaders are reacting to sex crimes committed in our community by an alleged illegal immigrant.

This comes after Renzo Montez, 32, was arrested by the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office for sex crimes with a 14-year-old girl. According to investigators, Montes was living in Campbell County, but he is a Venezuelan man, who illegally crossed into the United States.

“It is an unmitigated humanitarian disaster that is now impacting Virginians and breaks my heart,” said Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares.

Authorities said Montes was caught by border patrol in El Paso, Texas in September, but they released him.

“I think it shows every state now is becoming a border state. It is so infuriating because you realize that person should’ve never been in the country,” Miyares said.

Then there was this from Fox News:

ICE agents recapture illegal immigrant charged with rape who was released onto streets in Virginia

And this:

Potential Richmond July 4 mass shooters charged as noncitizens in possession of firearm, police say

One of the suspects in thwarted Richmond mass shooting had previously been deported

And so on … and so on … and so on. Here’s another headline, this one from Washington state, per Breitbart:

Sanctuary State Washington: Illegal Alien Charged with Killing 27-Year-Old State Trooper Christopher Gadd

In non-border states all over the country, illegals are being arrested after committing murder, rape, or other violent crimes.

And what does the MSNBC crew do? Why, play the race card of course. In Psaki’s words, this is all really about race and “those [in America] who do not like — look like them — being a threat to them.”

It’s worth recalling here that MSNBC’s fixation on race is not an unrelated one-off. Long before MSNBC was around, the American Left’s Democrat Party was founded by slave owners as the Party of Race. As readers in this space know, I have periodically written chapter and verse on the party’s two-century-plus obsession with race.

Among other things, there were the six Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery. The 20 that stood tall and proud for segregation. There was the opposition to the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution. As I have written earlier, “The 13th banned slavery. The 14th effectively overturned the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision (made by Democratic pro-slavery Supreme Court justices) by guaranteeing due process and equal protection to former slaves. The 15th gave black Americans the right to vote.”

And on and on this business of judging their fellow Americans by skin color has gone. In today’s world, it’s all about identity politics — identity politics being the son of segregation and grandson of slavery.

Now this racism is being used by MSNBC to justify illegal immigration and excuse the murder or rape of innocent Americans like Laken Riley.

A few days ago, Georgia Republican Rep. Mike Collins introduced the “Laken Riley Act,” which is but the latest attempt to correct the disgraceful — not to mention dangerous — record of the Biden administration on dealing with illegal immigration.

Without question, the American people realize they have a problem on their hands. And that problem has nothing to do with race — and everything to do with allowing the mass invasion of the U.S. southern border by completely unvetted illegals, a fair number of whom have a violent record and have zero business being in this country.

America is the one country on the planet where 100 percent of the population is descended from immigrants — legal immigrants of all races and religions.

No American of any seriousness is “anti-immigrant.” But Americans are most certainly 100 percent in favor of vetting incomers and making sure they are safe and not someone with a violent background bent on committing murder, rape, and violence of any kind.

It isn’t hard to figure out.


Except for MSNBC.

Congress should either charge Biden with his crimes or remove him from office IMMEDIATELY!!  (actually both) Isn't it considered TREASON when you give away state secrets? Punishable by "Firing Squad"?

Robert Hur admits 'forgetful' Biden read ALOUD classified files to ghost writer of his $8m book - who then tried to 'DESTROY the evidence': Special Counsel confirms president wanted to keep documents for 'pride and money'

Robert Hur admits<<Link


Friday, March 8, 2024

 









Earth's population is approximately 7.8 billion people. For most people, that's a large number, that's all.
However, if you count the world's 7.8 billion people as 100% human, these percentages become clearer.
From 100% of people:
11% are in Europe
5% is in North America
9% - in South America
15% - in Africa
60% are in Asia
49% live in villages.
51% - In cities
12% speak Chinese
5% in Spanish
5% in English
3% speak Arabic
3% in hindi
3% in bengali
3% in Portuguese
2% in Russian
2% in Japanese
62% in their own language
77% have housing
23% have nowhere to live.
21% of people eat in excess
63% can eat as much as they want
15% of the people are malnourished
The daily cost of living for 48% of people is less than $2.
87% of people have clean drinking water
13% either do not have clean drinking water or have access to a contaminated water source.
75% on the mobile phones
25% nu.
30% have internet access
70% do not have internet access
7% received higher studies
93% of people never went to college or university.
83% can read
17% of people are illiterate.
33% are Christians
22% are Muslims.
14% are Hindus
7% are Buddhists
12% - Other Religions
12% have no religious beliefs.
26% live for less than 14 years
66% have died between the ages of 15 and 64.
8% of people over 65 years of age.
If you have a place to stay, eat healthy food and drink clean water, have a mobile phone,
you can travel on the internet and you graduated from a college or university, you're in a small privileged group.
(In the category of less than 7%)
OUT OF 100% OF THE WORLD'S PEOPLE, ONLY 8% CAN LIVE TO 65 YEARS OLD.
If you are over 65 years old, be content and grateful. Seize life, seize the moment. You didn't leave this world before you turned 65, like 92% of people who have died because of health. Cherish every moment you have left!

Vadim Torgai

September 4th 2023
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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Opinion: Don’t buy into the border bill, no matter how hard Biden tries to sell it
Opinion by Nolan Rappaport, opinion contributor
 • 4h

President Joe Biden is supporting the Senate Border Act of 2024 (Border Act), which he says would “be the toughest and fairest set of reforms to secure the border we’ve ever had in our country.” 

“It would give me, as President, a new emergency authority to shut down the border when it becomes overwhelmed,” he said. “And if given that authority, I would use it the day I sign the bill into law.”

Biden invited former President Donald Trump to join him in lobbying Congress to pass the Border Act, saying, “You know and I know it’s the toughest, most efficient, most effective border security bill this country’s ever seen. So instead of playing politics with the issue, why don’t we just get together and get it done?”

I disagree. The Border Act would have little, if any, impact on the factors that attract illegal immigration to the United States: it’s too easy for migrants without a visa to get into the United States, and they are reasonably safe from deportation once they have reached the interior of the country.

The main reason I can think of for Biden to support that bill is to reduce the negative impact that the border crisis will have on him in the upcoming elections. It makes it possible for him to say that he tried to secure the border with a tough bill — and the Republicans prevented it from passing.

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Sunday, February 18, 2024

 What a bunch of F**KING HIPPOCRITES!! 

Have they forgotten HOW and WHY Epstein DIED???

Don't they remember when Epstein (supposedly) HUNG HIMSELF??

Don't they recognize PUTIN just TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS

Just like they did with EPSTEIN !







ENGORON SAID TRUMP WAS GUILTY BEFORE EVEN HEARING THE CASE It was always about how much money they could get from him...trying to break him financially

Trump Attorney Alina Habba Vows ‘Revenge’ For New York Verdict     February 18, 2024  Trending

The New York judge who hit former President Donald Trump with a massive fine in the case brought by Attorney General Letitia James just got some tough news.

Trump attorney Alina Habba vowed that “he will not get away with it” as she vowed “revenge” for the $364 million verdict.

“The question is, how does the judge get away with being far more guilty of the very thing that they said Donald Trump was guilty of?” Fox News host Sean Hannity said.

“I think the biggest message I can give the American people tonight is that he’s not going to get away with it. Letitia James is not going to get away with it. The Biden administration is not going to get away with it. There is a point, and I want to say something that I different than I normally do. We have the order now. I’m free to speak. And let me just say, as somebody who sat there in the trial, Sean, and I’m so happy you invited me on to say this. They will not get away with it. We will come at them. We will come hard, and we will literally fight until the truth comes out. There was nothing wrong. President Trump has done nothing wrong. All he has done is won a campaign. And that is scaring them because they know when he goes back in November 2024, he is going to clean house. And that is truly the problem. It’s not about Mar-a-Lago’s worth. It’s not worth 18 million. It’s worth probably 1.5 billion at the least. It is not about the worth of Trump Tower, 40 Wall Street. That’s not what this is about, Sean. You know it, and I know it,” the attorney said.

“This is the new form of election interference. This is a campaign that cannot succeed with Biden and Kamala. So what they have to do is weaponize. Da is an AGS, have Soros back them, fund them, Reid Hoffman back them, fund them and come after Trump. Everything Trump, including his children, his company employees that are working for him, doing their job. That is the desperation of our country at this moment, which is about to go into world war. This is crazy. And it is. It’s Trump derangement syndrome. That’s literally the best thing I could explain to you. And just know this, and for all those people that understand what is going on, we will win. We will fight because the facts are on our side. There are politicized judges. There are politicized DA’s and AGS. But I do not have a doubt that in the end we will succeed,” she said.

The former president also vowed to appeal when he spoke at Mar-A-Lago after the verdict.

“I will get Trump. Everybody has seen it, Letitia James. They have all seen it. Well, we will be appealing. But, more important than that, this is Russia. This is China. This is the same game, all comes out of the DOJ. It all comes out of Biden. It’s a witch-hunt against his political opponent, the likes of which our country has never seen before. You see it in third-world countries, banana republics but you don’t see it here,” the former president said.

“So I just want to say this. You build a great company. There was no fraud. The banks all got their money. 100 percent. They love Trump. They testified that Trump is great. Great customer. One of our best customers. They testified beautifully. And the judge knows that. He is just a corrupt person. And we knew that from the beginning. We knew it right from the beginning because he wouldn’t give it to the commercial division. This judge thought Mar-a-lago is worth $18 million. And it’s worth anywhere from 50 to 100 times that amount. So we realized that. He ruled against me before he even got the case. He ruled against me. He said I was guilty. He didn’t know what I was guilty of before he even got the case,” he said.

“LetLetitia James, that’s another case all together. She is a horribly corrupt attorney general and it’s all having to do with election interference. There were no victims because the banks made a lot of money. They made $100 million. And by the way, I paid approximately $300 million in taxes as the migrants come in and they take over New York, I paid over this period of years over $300 million in taxes. And they want me out. Let’s see if we can get him out. These are radical left Democrats. They’re lunatics,” 
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he said


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Saturday, February 17, 2024

I hope N Y suffers financially, immeasurably
and that the blame can be laid squarely at the feet of Letitia James and Judge Engoron

Legal Analyst Eviscerates New York Judge’s Verdict In Fraud Case
 February 17, 2024  Trending...Explain America

Fox News contributor, legal analyst and law professor Jonathan Turley took the New York Judge and the entire New York legal system to task after a verdict against former President Donald Trump and his sons that was massive.

New York Attorney General Letitia James, who campaigned on ‘getting’ Trump, sought $370 million in damages and a permanent ban on the former president doing any business in the state.

Engoron has ruled that Trump and his family must pay more than $350 million in fines to New York while also banning him from operating his business in the state for three years, Fox News reported.

“James had sought $370 million, plus 9% interest in penalties from Trump. Any awarded funds would go to the New York State Treasury unless directed elsewhere by the state comptroller,” the outlet continued.

Turley shredded the decision during his appearance on Fox News.

“Well, this court really proved Oscar Wilde’s rule that, ‘The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.’ Because the court has done everything short of ordering that Trump be thrown into a wood chipper. He’s imposed almost the maximum amount that James requested. He’s barring him from doing business in the city where he’s an iconic business figure, barring him from getting loans,” the professor said.

“The last part is particularly ironic because the banks not only said that they were not victims and did not complain about the alleged fraud, but they said that they wanted to do more business with Trump. They described him as a ‘whale’ client. So this is all being done essentially in their name as victims, even though no one lost any money,” he said.

“None of us could find a case like this. Yet, the first one, you have this fortune that is being demanded by the court to be turned over. I think there are real problems here. I think that this is going to have the same impact on some appellate judges. There have to be some limits, including Constitutional limits on the size of penalties, this is confiscatory and in my view, just excessive.

“You know, I think there’s a major appeal obviously that will come. I was hoping the court would defy its critics and show a more moderate response. To show that yes, there were assets that were undervalued and overvalued, but to impose a more reasonable fine,” he said.

“Many of us believed that there were cases of valuation problems. But those are ubiquitous in this field of real estate. This is extremely common for businesses to undervalue property, to try to lower tax costs, and to overvalue in securing loans. Often you look at the victims themselves to see if those practices produced the type of injury that warrants this rare action. And the victims are in court saying we’re not victims. We didn’t really take these numbers on their face,” he said.

“The court seems to have compounded the highest figures in most areas of how much could have been claimed and might have impacted loans or taxes and then imposed those costs.

“The New York law is an odd one. It does not require that anyone actually loses money. So [state AG Letitia] James was able to come in here with this figure, and she kept going on. Of course, that pleased a lot of people in New York. The question I think is whether at some point this shocks the conscience,” he said.

“You know, you have Bragg, who is prosecuting the president in a case that many of us view as just a raw political exercise. You have James who promised to bag this president for some undefined reason when she ran for office. And now you have this confiscatory, extreme, and abuse of penalty,” the professor said.

“At some point, New Yorkers have to wonder: Is this what we want from a legal system? It’s raw and it’s political. I am not saying that there was not a basis to impose a fine. But when you’re imposing fines larger than the budget of some countries, you really have to wonder whether you have allowed your impulse to run away with your judgment,” he said.


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Thursday, February 15, 2024

Sen Ted Cruz Shocks Reporter When Asked if Mitch McConnel Should Resign

McConnell has had a couple of strokes so I'm not too sure of his health but what I am sure of is that he has strong ties to CHINA... he married into it

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Speaker Mike Johnson Shocks Liberal Reporter With Brilliant Move On Border And Ukraine Bill.....Trending Politics


Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Republicans are tearing into Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for a Democrat-led $118 billion border security bill that was unveiled on Sunday........Speaker Mike Johnson, who deemed it to be “dead on arrival.”


The differences in Trump’s handling of the border compared to Biden’s is palpable.

Statistics from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) show that in December 2020—the final month of President Donald Trump’s presidency—the USBP allowed 17 foreign nationals to enter the country.

The USBP released 191,142 aliens into the United States in December 2023, the most recent month for which statistics are available under Biden.

Put another way, during the last month of Trump’s presidency, the USBP released 0.009 percent more aliens into the country than it did during the previous month of Biden.

That is, 11,244 more aliens were released under Biden than under Trump. That’s a flash flood, not a typical increase.

According to estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Biden administration allowed a total of 2 million foreign nationals to enter the country in fiscal year (FY) 2023.

Additionally, the CBO estimates that there were 750,000 “got-aways,” or people who crossed the border but escaped capture.

This provides a general idea of what is causing this crisis: for every three individuals who were caught crossing the border but managed to escape, there were eight—almost three times as many—who were apprehended in between ports of entry or found to be inadmissible there but were nevertheless allowed to enter the country illegally.


Monday, February 12, 2024

‘GOT THE LAW WRONG’: Expert raises red flags over Biden classified docs probe  Fox News


Feb 12, 2024   Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz on Biden’s attorney slamming Hur’s classified docs report, Rep. Comer demanding ‘unfettered access’ to Biden docs and Trump awaiting a Supreme Court verdict on eligibility for the Colorado ballot.


Thursday, February 8, 2024

NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW !.....Isn't that how they've justified going after Trump ? EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER THE LAW !! Isn't that what THEY"VE been preaching ? Well here ya go! 100% BULLSHIT !!!!!
Biden won't be charged in classified docs case; special counsel cites instances of 'poor memory'   Story by Ryan J. Reilly and Ken Dilanian and Megan Lebowitz and Michael Kosnar and Daniel Barnes and Diana Paulsen and Gary Grumbach • 2h NBC

  WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Hur has declined to prosecute President Joe Biden for his handling of classified documents but said in a report released Thursday that Biden’s practices “present serious risks to national security” and added that part of the reason he wouldn't charge Biden was that the president could portray himself as an "elderly man with a poor memory" who would be sympathetic to a jury.

“Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen,” the report said, but added that the evidence “does not establish Mr. Biden’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”

The report from Hur — who previously appointed by former President Donald Trump as one of the country's top federal prosecutors — also made clear the "material distinctions" between a theoretical case against Biden and the pending case against Trump for his handling of classified documents, noting the "serious aggravating facts" in Trump's case.

Biden said in a statement after the report became public that he was “pleased to see they reached the conclusion I believed all along they would reach — that there would be no charges brought in this case and the matter is now closed,” adding that he “cooperated completely, threw up no roadblocks, and sought no delays.”

Hur’s report included several shocking lines about Biden’s memory, which the report said “was significantly limited” during his 2023 interviews with the special counsel. Biden’s age and presentation would make it more difficult to convince a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the now-81-year-old was guilty of willfully committing a crime.

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15 statues removed for the history they represent
Story by Dina Beblawi • 22h  Espresso

15 statues removed for the history they represent©Elkin Rojas / EPA-EFE / Shutterstock
Monuments have often been removed or toppled from their locations as a symbolic protest against the values they embody.In fact, taking down statues has been part of a wider effort to reject certain historical symbols. It has also raised questions about which figures deserve to be honoured and how collective memory should be expressed.The Black Lives Matter movement, for instance, gave rise to a campaign to get rid of statues of figures symbolizing racism, especially after the 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. This has not been, however, the only time monuments have been removed or vandalized to condemn the historical events to which they are linked. Throughout history, statues have been destroyed for a variety of ideological, political, and religious reasons.



Saturday, February 3, 2024

 Pausing for a while  Having some trouble keeping up with the blog maintenance......

Thursday, February 1, 2024

Opinion | The Republicans’ Border Crisis
Opinion by Daniel Henninger • 21h The Wall Street Journal
The United States, an alleged superpower, may soon join Italy, Greece and Russia as validation of Adam Smith’s cautionary maxim: There is a great deal of ruin in a nation. The irony is that America’s slow disintegration is occurring in perhaps its most robust state, Texas, where the southern U.S. border essentially no longer exists.

In December alone, the U.S. Border Patrol reported 302,000 encounters with illegal migrants at the southwest border. Total encounters for fiscal years 2022 and 2023 were an almost incomprehensible 4.7 million.

To endure, great nations find their way to solving large problems. Migration may turn out to be the issue that swallowed America’s democratic order.

Other than Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, no one in the past year has disagreed that the “situation” at the southern border is a crisis. Until they were forced to respond by overwhelmingly unfavorable opinion polling about the border last month—even in New Hampshire’s primary—the Biden-Mayorkas see-no-problem pose was the nadir of political cynicism. But now come Donald Trump and his congressional followers, chasing the presumed political rewards of doing absolutely nothing about a serious national problem.

Oklahoma’s very conservative Republican senator, James Lankford, has spent weeks attempting to shape a compromise on illegal migration with Democrats that would permit passage as well of a supplemental bill that has funding for embattled Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. This isn’t the unto-eternity discussion of reforming Social Security. These are national-security matters that needed addressing yesterday by the people elected to prevent the U.S. from being crushed by unsolvable problems.

About a week ago, Mr. Trump told congressional Republicans via his Truth Social platform to oppose any Lankford compromise: “I do not think we should do a Border Deal, at all, unless we get EVERYTHING.” He elaborated: “A Border Deal now would be another Gift to the Radical Left Democrats. They need it politically.” Mr. Trump ended his input by offering a solution to the current border crisis: “If you want to have a really Secure Border, your ONLY HOPE is to vote for TRUMP2024.” Amid these statements, House Speaker Mike Johnsonwrote that the Lankford compromise would be “dead on arrival.”

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

THE REAL REASON THE DEMS ARE LETTING ALL THESE "IMMIGRANTS" INTO THE COUNTRY

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