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The underlying anxiety here is that the Army has tried and failed repeatedly to modernize its Reagan-era arsenal over the past 30 years — the problem Army Futures Command was created to fix. Armored fighting vehicle programs, above all replacements for the Bradley troop carrier, have been particularly fraught. The Future Combat Systems family of vehicles, which included a lightweight Bradley replacement, was canceled in 2009, while the Ground Combat Vehicle, a better-armored and correspondingly heavier Bradley replacement, was cancelled in 2014. The Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle is the Army’s third swing at this ball.

Maybe the Russians have something we could buy. They don’t seem to be having these problems.

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Over the years, senior Navy weapons developers have explained some of the key areas of modernization focus; these include new coating materials to make the submarines stealthier, new antennas for longer-range, more accurate undersea surveillance missions and new “quieting” engine propulsion technology, among other things.

All of these technologies, in fact, already exist in the USS South Dakota attack submarine — the most advanced submarine ever to be delivered to the Navy. The new boat, which is now operational, began as a prototype, test-bed platform to evolve these new technologies. What all of these USS South Dakota innovations also amount to is that, Hanson said, they are informing both Block V as well as current conceptual discussions now underway regarding a future generation Virginia-class submarine now only in early conceptual development – called Block VI. Block VI, according to Hanson, is not likely to begin to materialize until the mid 2020s.

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I’d likd to have the IRS investigate Chuck Schumer. As a New York Democrat politician, if his closet doesn’t have any skeletons in it, he’ll  be the first in history.

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The “Blue Bowl” is a fundraiser for the family of Sgt. Ron Helus, an officer killed in a 2018 mass shooting. But Thousand Oaks Police Chief Tim Hagel decided it wasn’t a go after learning that Republicans had been invited, Los Angeles Fox News affiliate FOX 11 reported Tuesday.

California is turning into a classic one-party totalitarian state. The sooner we get them to secede, the better.

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Explicit racism, thy name is Democrat.

Scott Johnson at Power Line does a deep dive.

Federal district court judge Allison Burroughs has upheld Harvard’s racially discriminatory admissions policy in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (embedded below). Long story short: Harvard’s discrimination is all in a good cause. Asian-Americans are only incidental victims and they aren’t treated any more poorly in the process than white students. Harvard doesn’t mean anything invidious by it.

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The principle of equal treatment was adopted as the law of the land in the great civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965, or so we foolishly thought at the time. It may even have been the law for a minute or two. Then the federal government began building the whole edifice of affirmative action and racial preferences that we live with today and that has been addressed by the Supreme Court in a number of important cases. Certainly insofar as higher education is concerned, the affirmative action regime and the treatment of students based on the color of their skin are entrenched more deeply than ever under the shibboleth of “diversity.”

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I am very familiar with transcripts of presidential phone calls since I edited and processed dozens of them when I worked for the NSC. I also know a lot about intelligence whistleblowers from my time with the CIA.

My suspicions grew this morning when I saw the declassified whistleblowing complaint. It appears to be written by a law professor and includes legal references and detailed footnotes. It also has an unusual legalistic reference on how this complaint should be classified.

From my experience, such an extremely polished whistleblowing complaint is unheard of. This document looks as if this leaker had outside help, possibly from congressional members or staff.

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Hammertech..

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The next step in the Proglodyte Puritan plan to make sure nobody anywhere has a pleasant life.

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I guess that’s why so many of their graduates make it on Wall Street and the Supreme Court.

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For the last several years, we have been covering the grade-changing scandal in Baltimore City Public Schools (BCPS). Administrators, teachers, and parents continue to come forward about the widespread fraud that allows children to graduate, even though they’ve missed school or failed classes.

The problem is not just that they aren’t learning anything, but that they’re getting the same credential as those who have, a credential that is used for employment and further education decisions.

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Good. California has been leadig the rest of the country by the nose on auto emission standards for too long. These necessarily become the de facto national standards because auto makers aren’t going to make two types of cars, one that meets California standards and one that doesn’t. (Think of why you can’t buy a non-low-flow toilet any more….)

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The United States government Tuesday sued Edward Snowden for proceeds from his new book, saying that the former National Security Agency contractor failed to submit his memoir for government review before publication.

“We will not permit individuals to enrich themselves, at the expense of the United States, without complying with their pre-publication review obligations,” Assistant Attorney General Jody Hunt said in announcing the lawsuit.

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The House Oversight and Reform Committee began an investigation Monday into Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao over whether she is using her office to benefit her family.

The way every member of the Congressional Black Caucus always does.

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Illinois Supreme Court Justices chose Anne Burke as their chief on Sept. 10. One could almost hear the gears turning on the Chicago machine, a hobbled but still functioning apparatus now in the sights of federal investigators.

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This is what happens when you depend on the government to provide your health care.

UPDATE: When Government Runs Health Care (Cal Thomas)

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In other words, self-employed Americans enjoying moderate success will enjoy a particularly swift kick in the nuts under a Warren administration.

Professor Umbrage is after your wallet. Not really news but a useful reminder.

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And I’d like to apologize to the United States for Alenxandria Occasional Cortex.

In a rightly-ordered society, such twits would neither be elected to a legislature nor feel that they had some right to speak for the entire country.

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No doubt because it did such a great job of making New York City so unaffordable.

Hey, y’all, plenty of cheap nice housing in Texas.

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I guess she things that single payer is already here.

UPDATE: She’s Crazy and Married to a Democrat

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Some good news for a change.

Former National Security adviser Michael Flynn is refusing to cooperate with the Democrat-controlled House Intelligence Committee’s demand for testimony and documents, according to Politico, citing a Monday letter by Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA).

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Thank God for those strict gun control laws, or the place would be like Texas.

Democrats: Party of Fear – Party of Hate – Party of Death

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Uh, that would seem to be their job….

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Compare the actions of the southern states versus the Federal government prior to secession.

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How triggering (pun intended).

Don’t you remember all those guys in black hoods beating people up on the streets of the Left Coast?

Oh, wait, that was AntiFa….

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Honestly, I’ve never heard of a judge telling a prosecutor “You have to prosecute this.”

This is what it’s come to — District Attorneys are now essentially Antifa themselves, and judges have to overrule their decisions that lily-white upper middle class Antifa thugs shouldn’t have their records so much as blemished.

Well, there’s justice, and there’s National Socialist Justice. Never the twain shall meet.

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Once government employees were allowed to unionize, the natural result of unions giving Democrats a solid block of votes in return form super-sweet pay and benefit deals was inevitable.

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Democrat Senator demonstrates that progressive totalitarian impulses are never far below the surface.

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Yeah — all those black guys doing the drive-bys? Republicans, obviously!

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The inadvisability of sending one’s children to a government school, especially in a Trending Blue state such as Colorado, receives yet another pointed example.

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California is turning itself into a foreign — and hostile — country.

Perhaps we just ought to let it go.

Take the wall with us, though.

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Perjury is for the little people.

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

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For years, it was conventional wisdom that the most financial challenged state in the US – whether it comes to overall debt burden, outlays, tax collections, underfunded pension and retirement obligations, or simply credit rating – was Illinois, followed closely by New Jersey.

However, at least according to New Jersey’s Senate president, conventional wisdom is wrong.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Senator Stephen Sweeney, a Democrat, said that that credit-rating companies may be underestimating the severity of the state’s financial strains by giving it the second-lowest grade after Illinois.

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More than three months after President Trump granted his attorney general unprecedented power to declassify intelligence files, key U.S. intelligence agencies are still withholding documents related to the Trump-Russia affair, say people with direct knowledge of White House discussions on the subject.

The source of the logjam: the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which Trump is in the process of shaking up after the resignations last month of its director, Dan Coats, and principal deputy, Sue Gordon. “Establishment” officials in that agency are still dragging their feet, say the sources, who spoke on condition that they not be further identified.

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Powers that were awesome when Obama used them are now somehow illegitimate when Trump has his hand on the lever.

Big-government fans are finding out that when the shoe is on the other foot it pinches rather sharply.

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In a ruling that kicks at the foundation of how America chooses presidents, a federal appeals court on Tuesday said members of the Electoral College, who cast the actual votes for president, may choose whomever they please regardless of a state’s popular vote.

The ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in Denver said Colorado was out of bounds in 2016 when it canceled the vote of a so-called faithless elector named Michael Baca. Mr. Baca, a Democrat, wrote in the name of John Kasich, a Republican who was Ohio’s governor at the time, even though Hillary Clinton carried Colorado, earning its nine electoral votes. The secretary of state replaced Mr. Baca with another elector who then voted for Mrs. Clinton.

“The text of the Constitution makes clear that states do not have the constitutional authority to interfere with presidential electors who exercise their constitutional right to vote for the president and vice president candidates of their choice,” the court majority wrote in a split ruling by a three-judge panel.

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Sounds like a case of Noticing to me.

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Sometimes it is profitable to be the kind.

The Obamas will purchase the house from Boston Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck for a discount, according to a report published by TMZ Thursday. The property contains 29 beachfront acres, 7 bedrooms, and is listed at $14,850,000.

Let’s see: The Clinton’s didn’t go back to Arkansas. The Obamas didn’t go back to Chicago.

How ya gonna keep ’em down in Flyover Country after they’ve seen D.C.?

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The group she and Ilhan Omar partnered with, Mitfah, has promoted the actual blood libel found in the antisemitic hoax “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” that Jews use the blood of Christian babies to bake their Passover bread.

And the terrorist-connected Tlaib couldn’t wait to jump into bed with them.

Hey, I’ve seen pictures of Tlaib — she has to take these opportunities when they come.

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Fresh from the same Dept. of Energy and EPA that gave us: toilets that don’t flush; light bulbs that don’t light; dishwashers that don’t wash; plant-based fuel that burns like carrots; and paper straws that dissolve in liquid…

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Cue proglodyte meltdown.

This is why it’s so important for him to focus on the judges first.

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Let the show trials begin!

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You may remember that the original report on Hillary’s emails said something like “they were almost certainly captured by a hostile foreign nation or hostile foreign nations,” but then Comey and Strzok worked that language out to say the emails “may” have been accessed by another country.

And now: Oh no big deal, her system seems to have had a virus implanted into it that sent each and every email, including the top secret classified ones, to a drop box controlled by a Chinese company.

The system had been infected so that every email was sent to this address of a Chinese company, no matter who you actually intended to send it to, or not send it to.

And she did all of this because she didn’t want to turn over any records to anyone — no watchdogs with legitimate FOIA requests, no disclosure in response to a subpoena.

She decided she didn’t want any Americans to have her emails.

But a Chinese front company? Sure, let’s roll the dice on that one.

No intent. No intent no intent no intent no intent.

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Yet another reason to leave California.

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But you knew that.

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“They’re cutting their staff. They’re cutting their hours. They’re shutting down,” says Queens Chamber of Commerce president, Thomas Grech – who reports seeing an uptick in small business closures over the past six to nine months.

Markets work, even when you don’t want them to.

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I’ll bet you didn’t know that there was such a thing has an Immigration Judges Union.

The Trump administration asked a federal panel to revoke the exclusive right of a public sector union to represent immigration judges in collective bargaining Friday.

The union, the National Association of Immigration Judges (NAIJ), has been at odds with the administration over substantive policy directives and the independence of the immigration courts.

I’m not comfortable with the idea of judges in a union, especially one with some sort of exclusive right.

Unions are for people with no market power because what they do can be done by any literate numerate person. I don’t see judges being in that demographic.

Federal law defines management officials as “any individual employed by an agency in a position the duties and responsibilities of which require or authorize the individual to formulate, determine, or influence the policies of the agency.” The Department of Justice told the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) that immigration judges qualify as management officials and therefore cannot be members of a bargaining unit.

Seems pretty cut and dried to me.

The NAIJ has publicly objected to the government’s efforts to speed deportations and otherwise streamline the immigration system.

Now that sounds like a union.

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We have Top Men working on it.

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Mike Cernovich says he’s confirmed that Wah-Queen Castro actually omitted Hispanic names from his doxxing list — which means he was targeting only white people as a race, which is illegal.