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The criminal case against Michael Flynn imploded Friday. First, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia provided Flynn’s legal team with documents discovered by an outside review of the Flynn prosecution — documents withheld for years. Then, Sidney Powell, the attorney who took over Flynn’s defense nearly a year ago, filed new documents in the case, revealing a secret “lawyers’ understanding” not to prosecute Flynn’s son if the retired lieutenant general pleaded guilty.

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Reading and math scores in the US have suffered ‘historic’ declines since most states implemented the Common Core curriculum standard six years ago, according to a new study from the Pioneer Institute.

Well, that worked well, didn’t it?

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It looks like Nancy Pelosi will be forced to plow through ice cream from her the forseable future after House Democrats changed their minds on Tuesday about returning to Washington next week over fears about whether it’s safe to return to the Capitol during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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We found tree trimmers in Chicago making $106,663; nurses at state corrections earning up to $277,100; junior college presidents making $491,095; university doctors earning up to $2 million; and 111 small town managers who out-earned every governor of the 50 states ($202,000).

Our interactive mapping tool allows users to quickly review the 110,000 public employees and retirees across Illinois making more than $100,000 (by ZIP code). Just click a pin and scroll down to see the results in your neighborhood rendered in the chart beneath the map.

The President of the U.S. gets $400,000 per year.

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New court documents were filed in Flynn’s case Friday containing the aforementioned exculpatory evidence, commonly referred to as Brady Material. Flynn’s attorney, Sidney Powell, announced the new filing on Twitter. She has repeatedly accused the FBI and Justice Department of hiding evidence in the case.

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Rules are for thee but not for me.

I can’t find any party affiliation listed for Mayor Ames but I’d bet significant money that she’s a Democrat.

Perhaps she was wanting to make sure her Karen haircut was in good shape.

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Reagan couldn’t have said it any better. I’m looking forward to the first video of a Phalanx CIWS shredding some Iranian gunboats.

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Michigan Governor Whitmer awarded a COVID contact tracing contract to Dem consulting firm NGP Van. I guess awarding this contract in the midst of a public health emergency in no way violates HIPPA,

John Hinderaker at Powerline has some thoughts.

Why is President Trump doing this? I assume he legitimately believes that some people arriving from foreign countries are carrying the Wuhan virus, and in the absence of easy, universal screening, we should keep them out while the alleged crisis continues. Beyond that, is he trying to make a point with liberals? Maybe he wants to illustrate how easily a purported crisis can be used to advance a political agenda. Liberals have made no secret of their desire to do this, openly touting the epidemic as an opportunity to achieve longstanding political goals. Maybe Trump wants to remind them that using an epidemic for political purposes can be a two-way street. Or maybe he just enjoys watching their heads explode, I don’t know.

I think a big part of it is just to demonstrate to proglodytes that sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. It also underlines the existence of media bias when they scream and rant about Trump doing stuff that they would coo was ‘presidential’ if Obama — or, God help us, Biden — did them.

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Here’s hoping.

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Governors are heading for a clash with their own citizens and local officials as they weigh how and when to reopen the country’s economy amid the coronavirus pandemic.

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“The Obama administration gave them a grant of $3.7 million. I’ve been hearing about that. We’ve instructed that if any grants are going to that area, we are looking at it literally about an hour ago and also early in the morning,” Trump said.

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I am not making this up.

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As Tucker presses him on what legal authority he has to overrule the Bill of Rights, Phil Murphy keeps saying “science.”

But then, it turns out he’s also unable to answer very, very basic questions about the “science” he’s citing as his authority to repeal the Constitution.

He also can’t explain what “science” says that it’s safe for people to be in close contact in a liquor store, but not in a synogogue.

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Yeah, we really want to give these incompetents more money and power.

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The Speaker of the House has not only a small ton of ice cream, we notice, but also not one, but two enormous Sub-Zeros in her mansion on Pacific Heights in San Francisco to console her, not to mention her vinyard on the banks of the Napa River, and a million-dollar condo on the Georgetown waterfront. Odd, isn’t it, how filthy rich the tribunes of the poor and leaders of the war against the rich tend to be?

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Our news media have a business model that depends on stirring up hate & discontent.

Our political class get off on ordering people around so that they can be seen to be ‘doing something’.

This is not a good combination.

And YOU have to pay for it all.

Enjoy.

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The Pennsylvania senate has passed a measure which would partially reopen the state by lifting the lockdown on most of the state’s businesses imposed by Gov. Tom Wolf (D), according to The Hill.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that.

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At home with only two Sub-Zero refrigerators plus a wide selection of ice-cream, servants, single malts, and heroin suppositories.

It’s a tough life being a Public Servant. (Or is it?)

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Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s handling of the COVID-19 lockdown has stood out as one of the most severe and arbitrary in the US. Michiganders are unable to purchase gardening supplies but lottery tickets are fine. They can travel to Walmart but not to their cabins in the countryside. They can paddle a canoe but can’t ride a jet ski.

Many officials and citizens have had enough. A group of county sheriffs announced Wednesday that they will not enforce some of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s lockdown orders. At the same time, thousands of Michiganders gathered at the state capitol to protest her actions in a rally they dubbed “Operation Gridlock.”

Sheriffs from four contiguous counties in the northwest corner of the lower peninsula are placing their constitutional duties above the governor’s mandates.

Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your state.

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An odd pattern has emerged in San Francisco as the city responds to the Covid-19 pandemic. The world of the well-off has become tightly restricted by public quarantine orders, and the world of the poor increasingly resembles that of Mad Max—lawless, crime-ridden, and devoid of functioning authority.

Over just a few weeks, San Francisco has instituted a policy that can be described as “decarcerate, decriminalize, and depolice.” Reducing the jail population, permitting public camping and other forms of disorder, and scaling back police presence in low-income neighborhoods have always been the favored policies of San Francisco’s progressive activists. In the past, residents and business groups could restrain the most extreme impulses of the political class. Now, with the coronavirus providing cover, city leaders have pushed forward their agenda with new vigor.

Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your city.

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Joseph Edwards Williams, 26, was arrested Monday in Tampa on charges of second-degree murder in connection with a March 20 homicide. He also faces charges of felony firearm possession, heroin possession and resisting arrest.

Hillsborough County arrest records show that Williams was released from jail on March 19 after a week in custody on charges of possession of heroin and drug paraphernalia.

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You can’t believe the government.

You can’t believe the news media.

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The Raleigh Police Department said Tuesday that protesting is “a non-essential activity,” as they attempted to disperse a crowd of protesters who gathered to demand businesses in the state be allowed to reopen.

North Carolina is one of 43 states currently under a stay at home order over the coronavirus pandemic, and protesters gathered at the state capital in Raleigh Tuesday in opposition to those restrictions. At least one person at the rally was arrested, according to local investigative reporter Jonah Kaplan, who estimated that over 100 people attended the rally in total.

Welcome to the new police state.

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Kentucky Christians who attended drive-in services on Easter — despite warnings from the governor to stay home over the coronavirus pandemic — were met by police presence and nails dumped in the road, the pastor of a Kentucky church said.

Democratic Kentucky Andy Beshear had announced that the state would enforce a stay-at-home measure by recording the license plates of any person attending Easter services. Americans in other states, such as in Nevada, Colorado, California, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, similarly gathered to observe the Christian holiday through drive-in church services.

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Never let a crisis go to waste in advancing the proglodyte agenda.

They need to hurry up because they can see their window of opportunity shrinking.

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The Trump administration’s big strike against the federal bureaucracy is quietly unfolding at the Bureau of Land Management, where its senior managers and scientific staff have been told to pack up their desks in Washington, D.C., and move to its new headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo. and other western offices. Most employees aren’t climbing aboard the wagon train.

I’d love to see Health Y Human Services relocated to Kingsport, Tennessee.

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The mayor in question is, unsurprisingly, a Democrat.

This pandemic has the one advantage that it has publicly exposed, in a way that no other event could, who among our elected officials are actually closet fascists. Somebody with more energy than me needs to make a list and bring it up during the next regularly scheduled election.

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See what your Senator is buying and selling.

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That’s what happens when Democrats run your city.

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Good. These people have to learn that the gravy train is going to stop.

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There ought to be some way to sue her over this giving of taxpayer money to criminals.

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot defended her decision to get a haircut despite urging citizens to stay at home in accordance with the state order.

I’d like to get a haircut, but all of the shops are closed.

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Wisconsin’s Tuesday primary election will be taking place as scheduled, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday after blocking Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ executive order to postpone the primary due to coronavirus concerns.

Well, I guess there really are limits to what ‘executive action’ can do. Color me surprised.

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Believe it or not, the word “sunscreen” appears dozens times in the CARES Act, and it’s thanks to the Treatment of Sunscreen Innovation Act being placed into the bill.

The attitude of our elected representatives, when dealing with any emergency, seems to be As Long As We’re Spending Money How About We….

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Richard Blumenthal has been attacking internet services he doesn’t understand since before he was even a US Senator. It has carried over into his job as a Senator, and was abundantly obvious in his role as a co-sponsor for FOSTA. His hatred of the internet was on clear display during a hearing over FOSTA in which he flat out said that if smaller internet companies couldn’t put in place the kind of infrastructure required to comply with FOSTA, that they should go out of business. Blumenthal’s latest ridiculous bit of legislation lose your Section 230 protections. And while Blumenthal likes to pretend that the EARN IT Act doesn’t target encryption, he also lied about FOSTA and insisted it had no impact on CDA 230 (which it directly amended).

But Blumenthal has now taken his ridiculousness up a notch. Following the (legitimately concerning) reports that the suddenly incredibly popular videoconferencing software Zoom was not actually providing end-to-end encrypted video chats (despite its marketing claims), Blumenthal decided to step in and play the hero sending an angry letter to the company, while linking to the Intercept’s original story about Zoom’s misleading claims about encryption….

There’s no pleasing some people.

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Unbelievable.

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How very white of her.

Alex aubarrok, a Real Economist, is dumbfounded.

The KN95 mask is China’s version of the N95 mask. 3M, America’s largest manufacturer of N95 masks, said in January that the masks are equivalent. But the FDA is not allowing KN95s into the country.

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Many hospitals are refusing to accept them, even as free donations, because they fear legal liability should a health care worker get ill while using a nonpermitted device…Although some hospitals flat-out reject KN95 masks at any price on advice of their lawyers, people rounding up masks to give to hospitals have found that individual doctors or nurses will often accept the donations, given the dire need.

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The package also included millions in funding for the arts and several other peculiar, even potentially suspicious areas.

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An Arlington, Virginia smoke shop owner defended a jailed employee who could face decades in prison for firing his weapon at a group of masked burglars, wounding one.

Hamzeh Abusharia, 33, was sleeping in a back room of Arlington Smoke Shop when he was awakened early Sunday morning by three masked juvenile suspects who had broken in to “steal cash and merchandise,” WJLA reported. Abusharia grabbed a gun and, according to police: “opened the door to the sales floor and discharged the weapon, striking one juvenile subject. The employee retreated to the back room but reentered the sales floor and discharged his weapon again as the subjects were attempting to flee the business.”

Abushariah reportedly faces charges of malicious wounding, violation of a protective order and reckless handling of a firearm.

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Like every transnational globalist bureaucracy. Your tax dollars at work. (Well, where do you think they get the money?)

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The KN95 mask is a Chinese alternative to the scarce N95 mask, but the FDA refuses to allow it into the country.

“We’re from the government, and we’re here to help.”

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Who can forget Governor Andrew Cuomo’s presser weeks ago where he exclaimed that he would be putting New York state prisoners to work making hand sanitizer? The goal was to produce 100,000 gallons of it every week to be distributed, for free, to schools, government agencies and other needy institutions.

Well, that doesn’t appear to actually be what’s happening. Instead, prisoners are apparently taking hand sanitizer from elsewhere and just re-packaging it and re-branding it as “NYS Clean” sanitizer, according to a new expose from Vice.

There are lies, damned lies, and Democrat politicians.

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Well, that’s what happens when Democrats run your city.

The irony is that this turned out to be spread less (initially) by The Marginalized and more by skiers, tourists, international business travelers and other versions of The Privileged.

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Of course they did. The Crust take care of their own.

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Gas in LA is $3.21; just down the street from me it’s $1.49.  Why? Taxes, taxes, and taxes.

Californians live in a Peoples Republic, and the essence of a Peoples Republic is government screwing up the economy and causing shortages, high prices, and poverty.

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The people who run the place will get paid, of course.

The Crust takes care of its own.

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Just in case you were wondering where your money will be going.

You’ll wonder where your money went
If you give it to the government.