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Presidents traditionally work with senators from judicial nominees’ home state — in this case, California — to put forward judicial picks. They often seek what’s known as a “blue slip,” or an opinion from those senators.

But in a snub to California Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, the White House announced Wednesday that Trump had nominated Patrick Bumatay, Daniel Collins and Kenneth Kiyul Lee (all from the Golden State, and reportedly all members of the conservative Federalist Society) to the influential circuit. The court, with a sprawling purview representing nine Western states, has long been a thorn in the side of the Trump White House, with rulings against the travel ban and limits on funding to “sanctuary cities.”

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“I repeatedly told the White House I wanted to reach an agreement on a package of 9th Circuit nominees, but last night the White House moved forward without consulting me, picking controversial candidates from its initial list and another individual with no judicial experience who had not previously been suggested,” she said in a statement.

When you pee in the soup, don’t complain about how it tastes.

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They’ll never learn it any younger.

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But you have to bear in mind that Trump has accomplished ABSOLUTELY NOTHING during his term in office.

Just remember that.

Absolutely nothing.

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And the hits just keep on coming.

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Yeah, it’s great live-fire training against Muslim terrorists, but I think it’s time we left.

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A Real Lawyer looks at Governor Moonbat’s latest fancy.

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I should hope so.

Perverts will be perverts. Taking a government paycheck ought not to lower IQ as much as it apparently does.

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Do not try this at home.

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Landowner Edward Poitevent’s lawyers went before the U.S. Supreme Court Monday to argue against an Obama administration decision to label his land “potential backup habitat” for an endangered species of frog that hasn’t been seen there in decades.

That’s only part of the problem. Should the frogs be relocated to Poitevent’s land in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, today, they wouldn’t be able to survive.

“If you put the frog back on there today, it would die,” Poitevent told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an on-camera interview ahead of oral arguments in the case Weyerhaeuser Company v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service.

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The next time you drive past one of those road signs with a digital readout showing how fast you’re going, don’t simply assume it’s there to remind you not to speed. It may actually be capturing your license plate data.

They’d be stupid not to. This seems like a pretty obvious idea.

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The bureaucrat mind allows no exceptions.

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I don’t think they can do that.

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And the exodus from New York state will accelerate.

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Don’t send your kid to a government school.

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And why not? It’s not their money they’re buying votes with.

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If ‘climate change’ were actually a thing, then a good case could be made that the priority of the government ought to be first to deal with a general threat to everybody before problems of individuals or classes of individuals.

But it’s not. It’s the alarmist agenda of certain pseudo-scientists who have taken their particular conceits and turned them into a religious test for the Left.

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Earlier this month, a federal court invalidated California’s ban on premises advertising relating to handguns (but not other firearms), disparaging the state’s proffered justification for the law as nothing more than “mere speculation and conjecture.”

If the courts are going to disallow ‘speculation and conjecture’ to rule, what shred of the progressive agenda will survive?

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Cue handwringing by the Usual Suspects.

With this single policy Trump has my vote for as long as he wants it. The American taxpayer is not the ATM for the world’s useless people.

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As North Carolina grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, transportation officials in the state are attempting to secure the use of a U.S. government-owned vessel, the Cape Ray, to transport supplies to the port of Wilmington. With the city temporarily transformed into an island by recent flooding, the roll-on, roll-off ship—or “ro-ro” in maritime parlance—will enable trucks filled with needed goods to drive aboard.

It’s a good thing the ship is government-owned—under private ownership the Cape Ray’s provision of relief supplies would be illegal. This absurd situation is due to a nearly 100-year-old law called the Jones Act. Passed in 1920, the law mandates that ships transporting goods between two points in the United States be U.S.-owned, crewed, flagged and built. The Cape Ray, however, was built in Japan.

Even if officials sought the private sector’s help and a Jones Act-compliant ro-ro ship to transport the trucks, none are available. According to data from the U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) there are only seven ro-ro ships in the entire Jones Act fleet. The closest one to North Carolina, the Delta Mariner, isn’t even an ocean-going vessel but rather operates on the Tennessee River. The other six vessels ply routes between the West Coast and Alaska or Hawaii.

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New Voices School of Academic and Creative Arts in New York City can no longer hold auditions to determine who can attend the school due to a diversity plan passed by Mayor Bill de Blasio Thursday.

Acceptance into the school will be based on a lottery system, the New York Post reported Friday. Half the spots will be set aside for low-income, English learners and homeless students.

The bill aims to increase diversity in Brooklyn’s 15th district by forcing schools to forego academic criteria like auditions, test scores and grades. The bill affects 11 middle schools, the Post reported Thursday.

Apparently requiring actual talent is something-ism.

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Undercover agents from the conservative activist group Project Veritas filmed GAO auditor Natarajan Subramanian talking about his affiliation with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and admitting that he uses federal time to do DSA-related tasks.

“I break rules every day,” Subramanian says in the video. “At any point, I can get fired for stuff I do with DSA.”

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Of course. The definition of Democrat includes an compulsion to spend other people’s money.

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Of course they do. It’s difficult to buy vote with taxpayer money except in the form of earmarks.

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It’s so hard to get good help these days.

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Ka-ching!

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A federal judge has struck down a law banning handgun ads at gun shops as “unconstitutional on its face” and “highly paternalistic.”

California officials had argued that they intended the ban to prevent advertisements from prompting state residents with “impulsive personality traits” to buy more guns, and thereby reduce the risk of “handgun suicide and handgun crime.”

‘Trumpian Tactics’ — CNN’s Stelter Calls Out Avenatti For Daily Caller Criticism  Ooo, that’s low.

We Watch CNN’s Terrible Media Show So You Don’t Have To

The power of a named accuser: Kavanaugh’s future now hangs in the balance  At least, we hope it does….

President Trump ‘not going to survive’ testimony by Paul Manafort, former Obama ethics czar predicts  I wouldn’t bet on predictions from ‘Obama’s ethics czar’ if I were them.

We Know About Manafort What We Could Only Guess Before  Too bad it has nothing to do with Trump.

America Needs an Entirely New Foreign Policy for the Trump Age  Which Trump is in the process of crafting, but I suspect that’s not what they have in mind.

Supreme Court nominee accused of something sometime in distant past  Steve Sailer does the fisking.

Michael Moore: Trump’s An ‘Evil Genius’ Who’s All-But Guaranteed A Second Term  There you have it, from the walrus’s mouth.

Trump administration revokes visas of Palestinian mission ambassador’s family

On Jennifer Rubin’s Bizarre Critique of Brett Kavanaugh

Alyssa Milano Sends Open Letter To Trump: ‘We Won’t Let You Get Away With Threatening Our Families’  Which, of course, Trump has not done. Perhaps she needs to leave her fantasy world and join us in reality.

CNN’s “Legal Analyst:” Kavanaugh Hired a Lawyer to Defend Him Against These Accusations, So He Must be Guilty of Attempted Rape or Lying to Congress  Hiring a lawyer!  That’s conclusive proof of guilt!

Hillary Clinton claims American democracy is “in crisis” in searing critique of Donald Trump  Of course it is. She didn’t get elected; obviously democracy is at risk. (‘Searing’? ‘Whining’, perhaps….)

Kevin Williamson looks at the FDA and government cronyism.

If we had an affordable, easy-to-use device that eliminated 90 percent of the health problems associated with HIV or cervical cancer in exchange for relatively minor risks and side effects, we would consider it monstrous to withhold that product from the market. If we take seriously the idea that cigarette addiction is a disease, one that should be combatted with public-health measures, then we should consider withholding effective assistance fundamentally unethical — even if it is not effective for everyone, and even if there are some undesirable associated effects.

As a public-health tradeoff, vaping is a good deal. It is an obviously good deal.

Ah, but a good deal for whom?

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Just as Obama is due the credit for economic prosperity after he left office, Nikki Haley is responsible for wasteful government spending that was arranged  before she took office. See how that works?

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Well, duh.

At last we have somebody at the U.N. who is on the side of America. About fargin time.

Rule 1 for Success: Don’t give money to people who hate you.

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I’m sure she also has a secret plan to win the war in Vietnam, too.

Apparently Kavanaugh did something naughty in High School and that obviously precludes him from being qualified for the Supreme Court.

(Scraaaaaaape that barrel….)

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‘We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.’  — Leona Helmsley

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My question is: What business is it of the mayor’s whether or not people use the library? This strikes me as a telling indicator of the proglodyte tendency to spend far too much time worrying that other people might be spending their time in bad ways, i.e. ways of which the proglodyte doesn’t approve.

The function of a mayor, I think, is to make sure that the taxpayers’ money is spent in an honest, efficient, and effective manner. We do not look to the mayor for ideas on how taxpayer money ought to be spent; that is the job of the city council, which is why the two functions are split. Certainly a mayor can have ideas on what those spending priorities ought to be, and certainly most mayoral candidates run on a ‘platform’ of some sort, but the place where that determination is made is the city council. That is their job.

One of the most ugly characteristics of Democrats is their uncontrollable impulse to stick their noses in other people’s business.

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I’m sure they’re just here for a  better life … even if they have to shoot somebody to get it.

Andy McCarthy asks the hard questions.

For precisely what federal crimes is the president of the United States under investigation by a special counsel appointed by the Justice Department?

It is intolerable that, after more than two years of digging — the 16-month Mueller probe having been preceded by the blatantly suspect labors of the Obama Justice Department and FBI — we still do not have an answer to that simple question.

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Kris Paronto was in Benghazi when Islamic extremists overran a U.S. embassy and consulate, killing four Americans. Paronto, a former U.S. Army Ranger, was working as a CIA security contractor at the time.

Paronto called Obama a “cowardly ass” and “scum” for referencing Benghazi in the speech.

“Benghazi is a conspiracy @BarackObama ?!” Paronto tweeted, “How bout we do this, let’s put your cowardly ass on the top of a roof with 6 of your buddies & shoot rpg’s & Ak47’s at you while terrorists lob 81mm mortars killing 2 of your buddies all while waiting for U.S. support that you never sent.”

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Because it is typically a government operation, and (like many government operations) it is run for the convenience of the employees rather than of the customers.

The eight-hour American workday caught on in the early 1900s, after decades of pressure from labor unions urging corporations to do away with exhausting, backbreaking schedules. Yet the American school day never adapted to match parents’ schedules: On average, U.S. students are in school for six and a half hours, five days a week—with a two-month summer break and a smattering of other vacations. We owe that structure largely to 19th-century school reformers, who, seeking a standard school year nationwide, aligned the rural school calendar—which gave students the spring and fall off for harvesting and planting—with the urban one, which dismissed students during the summers so their families could escape cities’ oppressive heat. There’s been some variation over the years: During the first half of the 20th century, for example, schools experimented with summer sessions to accommodate an influx of immigrant children. But most school districts settled into today’s schedule by the 1960s, when only about a third of adult women worked and could be counted on to watch their children when the last bell rang.

Don’t send your kid to a government school. It will turn out badly.

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As if he cared.

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Bernie Sanders has introduced legislation to tax big companies the full amount of welfare claimed by their workers because of the low-wages they receive.

Titled the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies (Stop BEZOS) Act, Mr Sanders took direct aim at companies such as Amazon and its owner Jeff Bezos. While Mr Bezos’ wealth stood at $168bn, the Vermont senator said, many of his employees were forced to use food stamps and other federal and state benefits because their wages were so low.

The same effect could be had by abolishing the welfare system, which would save every taxpayer money. But Bernie isn’t about reducing government, he’s about increasing it.

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President Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Speaker Paul Ryan have teamed up this summer to do something that hasn’t happened in two decades — write and pass department spending bills instead of lumping everything into a massive package.

The House and Senate are moving at a brisk pace to pass the appropriations bills, with the Senate leading, approving nine of 12.

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Two words: Martha Stewart.

Paul Mirengoff of Powerline wishes they had.

According to Politico, Democratic Senators on the Judiciary Committee considered staging a mass walk-out. Supposedly, they debated doing this just hours before the hearing began. They settled, instead, on a strategy of disruption.

I wish they had walked out. Then, I wouldn’t have felt compelled to watch the proceedings. I’ll never get that time back.

Charles Hurt turns over a rock.

Listening to failed politicians hijack the funerals of two such respected American heroes as John McCain and Aretha Franklin so they could smear the sitting president really tells you all you need to know about those washed-up has-beens.

It’s what they do. It’s all they do. When all you’ve got is a hammer, you hammer in the morning, the evening, all over this land.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Democrat, went on one of the Sunday shows to shred the good name of Mr. Trump’s latest nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh. (I will not say the name of the program because, honestly, I am embarrassed to have wasted precious moments of the Sabbath on such sleepy-eyed nonsense.)

Anyway, she claims to have read 148,000 documents that reveal Judge Kavanaugh to be so heinous as to be unfit for the high court.

OK, let’s say Ms. Klobuchar spent two minutes reading each document. That would be 296,000 minutes — or 205 days — reading these documents. Which is pretty remarkable considering Judge Kavanaugh was nominated 55 days ago.

There is another word for this. It is called a “lie.” And the person who utters it is known as a “liar,” even if the person she tells this “lie” to is so sleepy-eyed as to appear to be fully asleep.

Democrats lie. It’s what they do.

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Be careful what you wish for.

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A startling reality of life in Chicago is that gangs of black teenagers roam the streets randomly assaulting white people:

“It’s been a problem all summer,” a Clark Street merchant said this morning. “They’re kids. The cops have told us they aren’t gonna touch them. We can’t touch them. What can we do?”

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Central America

• In 2015, Mexico received a total of $332,311,612
• In 2015, Cuba received a total of $5,773,135
• In 2015, Dominican Republic received a total of $110,772,135
• In 2015, El Salvador received a total of $331,663,625
• In 2015, Haiti received a total of $501,740,781
• In 2015, Honduras received a total of $133,740,542
• In 2015, Nicaragua received a total of $41,175,429
• In 2015, Guatemala received a total of $137,905,792
• In 2015, Bolivia received a total of $56,613,604
• In 2015, Venezuela received a total of $9,222,146
• In 2015, Colombia received a total of $841,125,363
• In 2015 alone, Mexico received a total of $332,311,612. That would go a long way to building the wall.

Africa

• In 2015, South Africa received a total of $515,575,677
• In 2015, Zambia received a total of $672,901,484
• In 2015, Kenya received a total of $891,665,410
• In 2015, Chad received a total of $108,734,323
• In 2015, Liberia received a total of $766,059,938
• In 2015, Ghana received a total of $297,547,338
• In 2015, Egypt received a total of $1,525,466,191
• In 2015, Nigeria received a total of $592,349,645
• In 2015, Cameroon received a total of $147,447,851
• In 2015, Central African Republic received a total of $83,580,684
• In 2015, Congo received a total of $467,482,859
• In 2015, Ivory Coast received a total of $111,990,418
• In 2015, Ethiopia received a total of $808,825,584
• In 2015, Ghana received a total of $297,547,338
• In 2016, Malawi received a total of $309,263,128
• In 2015, Mali received a total of $207,014,489
• In 2015, Mozambique received a total of $338,892,986
• In 2015, Mozambique received a total of $124,777,826
• In 2015, Rwanda received a total of $246,770,599
• In 2015, Senegal received a total of $116,719,982
• In 2015, Sierra Leone received a total of $200,550,659
• In 2015, Somalia received a total of $255,105,905
• In 2015, South Sudan received a total of $838,589,050
• In 2015, Benin received a total of $113,195,610
• In 2015, Sudan received a total of $147,833,033
• In 2015, Swaziland received a total of $46,122,312
• In 2015, Tanzania received a total of $591,591,821
• In 2015, Tunisia received a total of $122,903,292
• In 2015, Uganda received a total of $591,480,559
• In 2015, Zimbabwe received a total of $190,121,244

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Threatening law enforcement personnel ought to be grounds for expulsion from Congress.

The sponges we’ve got there would never think of it, of course.

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Yeah, that whole standards thing is a real problem.

Funny, I don’t see how paying ignorant people to teach your kids gives you anything but ignorant kids. And maybe a rich teachers’ union.

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As predicted: Nobody gets fired, nobody goes to jail.

UPDATE: Here Are Horrifying Things The Media’s Not Showing You From Inside The New Mexico Terrorist Compound