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Since Democrats are the Party of Death, they aren’t wrong.

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I love the smell of conspiracy in the morning.

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For fiscal 2020, the IRS has received a two-year, $180 million chunk for business systems modernization.

Here’s what the commissioner says about it: “The US economy has achieved impressive increases in productivity through investments in information technology. The IRS, which is still dependent on systems installed in the 1960s and 1970s, has established the Business Systems Modernization Program to take advantage of new technology to revamp the way we do business. I firmly believe the program is on the path to succeed.”

Oops, that was Charles Rossotti, writing in a 2000 progress report. He promised real results starting in 2001. In intervening years, the IRS has in fact modernized many of its systems and procedures. Plus, soon after that report, the IRS made it successfully through the conversion to 4-digit date codes. The IRS would go on to spend billions, but none of the contractors could ever convert the Individual Master File, coded in assembler language, to modern code.

And socialists want the government to run the economy. Yeah, that’ll work.

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Keeping people safe is one of the essential functions of a government. It has never  been a Democrat priority as public budgets are more and more crowded with giveaways for their captive Underclass voting base.

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In the wake of George Floyd’s death and the subsequent protests/riots calling for “defunding the police,” Democrats have started targeting police unions, saying they are obstacles to accountability and reform. Do they realize that the same can be said of teachers’ unions?

If they do, they aren’t saying.

Like any other public-employee union, teachers’ and police unions are locked in a one-hand-washes-the-other relationship with the Democrat party, where they trade their block of votes for extra-sweet levels of wages and benefits, especially unfunded pension benefits that can be forward-loaded onto future generations.

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Nearly 54 scientists have resigned or been fired as a result of the ongoing investigation, which aims to spot foreign funding that could pose a national security risk as the federal government cracks down on Chinese government influence within America’s most prestigious institutions. Of those who were fired or resigned, 93% were receiving hidden funding from a Chinese institution, Science Magazine reported.

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During a live interview with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, on NBC’s Today show Monday morning, a heckler could be heard screaming at the Democratic politician, calling him a “dictator” and “hypocrite” for his coronavirus shutdown policies. It got so bad, co-host Savannah Guthrie was forced to acknowledge “this rage that people feel about businesses not being opened fast enough.”

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If Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender didn’t exist, Portlandia would have had to invent her.

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Militant bike activists are the dumbest and most loathed figures in urban civics. No group of people is as entitled, obnoxious, or clueless as a bunch of white hipsters in lycra shorts out to convince city officials that giving them more bike lanes will end wars, eliminate racism, and save the planet. There was only one possible career pathway for Bender in Minneapolis. Urban planning through politics as a DFLer.

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Minneapolis still isn’t a college campus, but it has the first student council to run a major city. Besides Bender, there’s Keith Ellison’s son, who describes himself as a “visual artist, storyteller, and political organizer”, Phillipe Cunningham, whose bio is, “progressive, Black, queer & trans”, Lisa Goodman, “activist and dog mom”, and assorted other characters who ought to be debating at the student center.

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A new Trump administration policy enabling U.S. government financing for nuclear energy projects abroad could help accelerate the use of smaller reactors, a budding technology that supporters see as a lifeline for the struggling industry.

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The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation proposed this week to reverse an Obama-era ban that prevents it from funding civil nuclear projects overseas, a development first reported by the Washington Examiner.

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This is the very definition of insurrection, for which the National Guard is the designated response.

If I lived in Seattle, I would leave as soon as possible.

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It is a truth universally acknowledge that when the government hands out ‘free’ money a lot of it will get stolen.

While there’s no exact measure of how many fraudulent claims have been made, states from Washington to Maine say they’ve seen an increase and numerous federal agencies are working to fight it.

“About 10% of (unemployment insurance) payments are improper under the best of times, and we are in the worst of times,” Scott Dahl, the inspector general for the U.S. Labor Department, told the House Subcommittee on Government Operations. Dahl estimated that at least $26 billion in benefits could be wasted, with the bulk of that going to fraudsters.

This forces unemployed workers, already reeling from the loss of a job, to fight for the benefits they need and are entitled to.

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The entire 57-member squad of the Buffalo Police Emergency Response Team resigned Friday in protest, after two of their officers were suspended without pay for pushing a 75-year-old man, according to the Investigative Post.

And so it starts.

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The Department of Justice has filed a statement of interest in a lawsuit filed by seven Michigan businesses challenging restrictions imposed by Governor Whitmer in response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. The plaintiffs are a real estate brokerage, a lawn and property maintenance company, an automotive glass exporter, an engine oil and auto parts distributor, a small jewelry store, a dental office, and an association of car washes. They brought their federal case in the Western District of Michigan.

Scott Johnson at Powerline is not happy.

Tom noted somewhere in his tweets that he hasn’t been blacklisted. I have.

MDH included me on the press briefing conference call notices and responded to my questions by email until April 27. Then they cut me off. They have refused to tell me why. They have failed to respond to any of my several inquiries. Something happened. I don’t know what it is.

It seems to have had something to do with the questions I was asking. Working on a story about my experience, however, the Washington Free Beacon’s Collin Anderson elicited a statement from MDH to the effect that they only allow “professional journalists” on the briefing. And yet I was included until April 27. Collin’s story about my experience is here. I wrote about Collin’s story here.

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Thousands of Canadians who hold American citizenship will receive stimulus checks despite not living in the United States since they were sent based on recent tax filings, which citizens living abroad still have to complete.

Seems fair to me. If you have to pay U.S. taxes even if you don’t live here, then you ought to be eligible for U.S. benefits, even if you don’t live here. You can’t have it both ways.

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You need to get 500 tons of supplies from Fairbanks, Alaska to the Arctic Ocean—a journey of about 400 miles through pure wilderness. There are no roads, very few airstrips, and the ocean is a solid sheet of ice. You’re going to have to withstand minus 68 degree temperatures. Also, nuclear armageddon is on the menu if you’re not quick about it.

You, my friend, need a LeTourneau land train.

The noise you hear is my Y-chromosome sitting up and barking like a dog.

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Shortly before wrapping up an impromptu press conference in which President Trump declared places of worship essential during the pandemic, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany delivered a scorching presentation to the White House Press Corps on Friday – after accusing them of failing to do their jobs regarding ‘Obamagate.’

“Did anyone take it upon themselves to pose any questions about Michael Flynn and unmasking to President Obama’s spokesperson?” she asked.

One journalist stammers, “but buh but Flynn’s name wasn’t mas–”

To which McEnany cut back in, continuing “So I would like to lay out a series of questions and perhaps, if I write them out in a slide format – maybe we’re visual learners and you guys will follow up with journalistic curiosity.”

The new White House Press Secretary is bringing a gun to a knife fight. Pure Trump.

Scott Johnson at Powerline rips the mask off of Minnesota.

Minneapolis boy mayor Jacob Frey is concerned that Governor Walz is enjoying all the action. He means to get in on it. Frey has now ordered face masks to be worn by those over the age of 2 inside all places of public accommodation, effective next week. Noncompliance is subject to a $1,000 fine.

Who was that unmasked man? We are about to find out. The rest of us will avoid places of public accommodation in Minneapolis and tell Mayor Frey to shove it. I could write the Star Tribune editorial that will support this imposition in my sleep tonight.

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And he was a … wait for it … Democrat. What are the odds?

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We have known for more than two years that, on the day of President Trump’s inauguration and just minutes before she left the White House for the last time, Susan Rice, then President Obama’s National Security Adviser, wrote a memo to herself about “Russia.” Specifically, she documented the fact, presumably for her later protection should the matter become public, that on January 5, 2017, President Obama had directed her to lie to her incoming counterpart, General Michael Flynn, about the Russia investigation that was then ongoing, in which General Flynn himself was, unbeknownst to him, one of the targets. This deception violated all historic norms, but it was vital if the Obama holdovers (James Comey et al.) were to be able to continue their “Russia investigation,” a bare pretext for unraveling Trump’s presidency, post-inauguration.

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Jerry Pournelle was fond of saying that the purpose of government was to hire and pay government workers, and nowhere is that more true than Blue states like California.

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Leaked phone calls between Joe Biden and former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko explicitly detail the quid-pro-quo arrangement to fire former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin – who Poroshenko admits did nothing wrong – in exchange for $1 billion in US loan guarantees (which Biden openly bragged about in January, 2018).

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New York has been by far the worst center of Wuhan virus infection in the U.S., and it seems clear that New York’s governor, Andy Cuomo, has done a terrible job. Among other things, he went out of his way to force New York’s nursing homes to accept residents who had tested positive for COVID-19, an absolutely irrational act that killed thousands, which he has since rescinded.

Nevertheless, even as his incompetence cost thousands of lives, Cuomo has adopted a pose of moral superiority, aided and abetted by the press: “If it saves just one life,” Cuomo notoriously said, damaging and, in many cases, destroying the lives of millions of New Yorkers was worth it.

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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At this point, most market participants outside California know LA County Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer as the public servant whose “miscommunication” Tuesday afternoon about a three-month extension to her county’s stay at home order was blamed for reviving anxieties about the economic reopening in the US that helped hammer stocks lower last week. The good doctor – who, as it so happens, isn’t a medical doctor, but the owner of a Ph.D in “Social Welfare” (whatever the f**k that means) – would like you to know she is truly sorry for the error, and the ensuing public furor she accidentally unleashed.

She looks like a zombie.

Will Congress Bankrupt The Mom-And-Pop Landlord With This Socialist New Bill?

‘Don’t Expect Us To Do It’: Democratic Michigan Sheriff Will Not Enforce Whitmer’s Lockdown Orders

Trump Rips ‘Radical Left’ Leadership at Tech Giants

Remember How Everybody Was Going to Die Because Georgia Ended Lockdowns?

CNN’s Toobin Rants Over ‘Outrageous’ GOP Lawsuit in Wisconsin, a ‘Failed State’

Google refuses to remove the state-sponsored app used to spy on Russian citizens

Taxpayer-Funded PBS Stations Are Airing Pro-China Propaganda

Inside the Media’s Desperate Cover-Up of ‘Obamagate’

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My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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For decades, we’ve been fed a near-daily diet of claims that public schooling is one of the most important—if not the most important—institutions in America. We’re also told that there’s not nearly enough of it, and this leads to demands for longer school hours, longer school years, and ever larger amounts of money spent on more facilities and more tech.

And then, all of sudden, with the panic over COVID-19, it was gone.

It turns out that public schooling wasn’t actually all that important after all, and that extending the lives of the over-seventy demographic takes precedence.

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Dr. Qing Wang was arrested and charged with false claims and wire fraud after knowingly omitting affiliations with a Chinese university and accepting $3 million in research funding from China while also accepting $3.6 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health, a U.S. government agency, according to the Justice Department’s statement.

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“People are showing up in San Francisco from other places and asking where their hotel room is,” Mayor Breed complained.

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An outgoing Republican lawmaker says he will buck his party to vote for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s coronavirus stimulus package, a bill that includes a slate of progressive measures.

Let’s see what cushy Crust job he winds up in.

“Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity; that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.”

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A Florida sheriff’s sergeant fired because he sat in a parked car during a 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School will get his job back along with back pay, according to a statement from the union that represents deputies.

The arbitrator dismissed the case against Brian Miller after finding that his due process rights were violated when Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony terminated him, the South Florida SunSentinel reported.

I guess the dead kids didn’t get a say.

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And every other damnfool Leftist idea she thinks she can get away with.

UPDATE: Sen. Cassidy: HEROES Act Is ‘Garbage’ to Fill a ‘Left Wing Agenda’

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You knew it had to happen.

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A lawsuit alleges San Francisco fails to clear the streets in the Tenderloin district of the feces and pervasive drug dealing and overall “deplorable” conditions.

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We’ve all seen footage of those carefully timed explosions that bring down antiquated buildings and clear the ground for new ones. A horn sounds, the detonations begin, the building shakes, suspended for a frozen moment, and then collapses in a vast cloud of dust. That, metaphorically, is what is happening to the Obama administration’s legacy.

The presidential edifice has come down in two episodes, and the dust has not yet settled from either one. The first wrecked President Obama’s most consequential policies: the Affordable Care Act and the Iran nuclear deal. The second, happening now, is crushing its reputation for integrity, for following the most basic rules for conducting free and fair elections.

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Denouncing it as “a path to disaster,” investigative correspondent Cynthia McFadden’s Monday report for NBC Nightly News called out Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for forcing nursing homes in his state to take in coronavirus-positive patients just out of the hospital. On top of that, she pointed out how he had refused to give those facilities personal protective equipment (PPE). All of this, while ABC and CBS still refused to criticize their governor and bashed President Trump.

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I guess being able to read and to count are not a requirement for Senators from Blue states.

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Took him long enough.

UPDATE: Tesla’s Musk Suing California County for Blocking Reopening

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They must be a key Democrat constituency. If they could reduce everybody outside of the Crust into such dependency, oh how happy they would be!

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The hits just keep coming. We know that Rod Rosenstein is an idiotic tool, but we had yet to see the scope memo he issued months late to authorize Robert Mueller’s work as independent counsel. The first “scope memo” was, shall we say, lacking. Now we can see the newly declassified and mostly unredacted version of the August memo Rosenstein issued to remedy the original memo’s defects. Politico’s Daniel Lippman and Kyle Cheney report on the memo in “DOJ releases Mueller’s marching orders.” They have also posted a copy of the memo online here. The Federalist’s Sean Davis addresses it in “Rosenstein Scope Memo For Mueller Peddled Steele Dossier, Logan Act Conspiracy Theories.” Andrew McCarthy comments on Twitter.

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Imagine that, when the votes are finally counted in the 2020 election, former Vice President Joe Biden squeezes out a narrow victory in the Electoral College. Then imagine that, weeks later, the nation is shocked to learn that President Donald Trump will receive a second term because a few previously unknown members of the Electoral College refused to vote for Biden.

Which is entirely consistent with the Constitution’s original intent.

But the Constitution does not mandate popular elections for members of the Electoral College. On the contrary, it provides that “each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress.” If the state legislature agrees to it, a state could potentially pick members of the Electoral College randomly by throwing darts at a phone book.

What they’re really objecting to is the chance that it might make it less Democrat.

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After all, the Crust have to have a place where their kids can learn about their White Privilege.

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This is an area that all previous Republican Presidents have sadly neglected. It will probably be the core of Trump’s legacy.

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Strapped for cash, state governments are plugging holes using unspent gift cards. Not everyone thinks it’s a good idea.

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Do you know what’s been missing from the government’s response to coronavirus?

You might think– ‘more testing kits’, or ‘honest information’.

Nope. According to at least one county in the US state of Oregon, the biggest issue right now is establishing “safe spaces” where no white people are allowed.

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Want to know how many tuberculosis cases there were in the U.S. last year? Ask the CDC. Want to know about health-care-associated infections? Ask the CDC. It knows.

But ask how many Covid-19 tests have been done, and the CDC’s doesn’t have an answer. Want a daily update on how many people are getting hospitalized for Covid-19? The CDC isn’t tracking it. Want to know if social distancing is making a difference? The CDC doesn’t know.

During this pandemic, when accurate, timely, nationwide information is the lifeblood of our response, the CDC has largely disappeared.

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Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski, who runs the department’s criminal division, said prosecutors have contacted 15 to 20 of the largest loan processors and the Small Business Administration, which oversees one relief program, as part of an effort to police the trillions of dollars in federal aid being pushed out hastily to blunt the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

The review has already turned up several red flags in the data prosecutors have examined over the past week, Benczkowski said Thursday in a telephone interview.

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

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mmigrant-rights groups asked U.S. District Court Judge Michael Simon to issue a temporary injunction against Trump’s order blocking green card applications from foreign nationals living outside the United States, with the plaintiffs attempting to tie their request to a previous decision by the judge that blocked Trump’s ban on immigrants who could not afford health care.

Simon, however, ruled that the order is not related to the previous case.

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So Mr. Clyburn’s district is dominated by two cities that are far apart and have little to do with each other: Charleston and Columbia. But it excludes Charleston and Columbia – at least the parts of those cities that are populated largely by *gasp* white people. So he basically controls very specific areas of those two cities and the entire coastal region of South Carolina. Except for the actual coast, of course, because that rather expensive real estate is populated largely by *gasp* white people. Like me, for example. I really should be in Mr. Clyburn’s district. But I’m not, because too many of my neighbors are *gasp* white.

I live in Hilton Head, which is in South Carolina’s first congressional district, which looks even more absurd that Mr. Clyburn’s district, as you can see from the map at the left. Interestingly, Mr. Clyburn’s 6^th congressional district and my 1^st congressional district are the only Democrat districts in the state, and that clearly was not an accident. Look at the maps. They worked hard to get two Democrats into congress from South Carolina – one from poor blacks and one from wealthy whites.