Jeff Merkley Suggests Trump Is Worse Than Dictator Who Kills Own People With Anti-Aircraft Guns

Nets Lionize Liar Cohen, Chide Republicans for ‘Attacking His Credibility’

Michael Cohen testimony: Ex-lawyer ‘fears Trump will not allow peaceful transition’ if he loses in 2020

Michael Cohen: Trump told me ‘Don Jr had worst judgement in world’  Which suggests that his judgment is actually pretty good.

Ocasio-Cortez questions Michael Cohen on how Trump dodged taxes Note how they don’t even say ‘allegedly’, a courtesy they would give the worst thug off the street.

Dennis Rodman Offers To Assist Trump In North Korea Talks — Predicts Nobel Peace Prize Win  Guess he didn’t get the memo that Trump is a racist and the New Hitler.

Obsession: CNN, MSNBC Spend 428 Minutes on Cohen, 12 on NoKo Summit  It’s all about priorities.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lays groundwork for more subpoenas against Trump, attributing Cohen questioning to bartending experience

Donny Deutsch Says Trump Won’t Leave Peacefully, Capable Of Starting A Civil War  Well, thanks for the warning.

Ilhan Omar Compares Trump’s Presidential Victory To Maduro’s Scandal-Plagued Election  Except that Maduro produced socialism and Trump produced prosperity. Other than that, exactly the same!

Unhinged Behar Hijacks Segment to Rant About ‘Thug’ Trump: ‘Shameful!’

Media Unanimous: Cohen is John Dean, and This Is Watergate  Except that in Watergate there was an actual crime Other than that, exactly the same!

CNN: Trump’s Attempts at Forging a North Korean Peace/Denuclearization Pact Are… Officially, Intentionally a “Distraction” from Cohen Testimony

Trump and his family could be forced to testify after explosive Cohen hearing: ‘They will hear from the committee’  That explosive Cohen hearing sounded more like a cow fart.

Holman Jenkins.

Under Democratic leadership, the House Intelligence Committee is well on its way to becoming a Warren Commission for an alternative universe in which JFK spent a nice day in Dallas. Rep. Adam Schiff has signaled that he intends to rake through Mr. Trump’s business and bank records searching for the motive for collusion crimes that exist only in his imagination.

All this will be cheered on by backward-rationalizing pundits in the New York Times, justifying their own hysteria by portraying the routine, predictable and typically opportunistic partisan opposition faced by Mr. Trump as somehow exceptionally heroic.

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Most U.S. institutions of higher learning that received significant Chinese funding failed to report the foreign contracts in violation of the law, and many signed contracts that included secrecy provisions that prevent their terms from being known by students and the public, according to the report.

That, to me, sounds like guilty consciences.

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There is nothing new under the sun — every mistake that politicians make has been made before.

Although it would be years before I would work this out, what Mill wrote is based on a proper understanding of Say’s Law. High levels of public spending do not encourage industry. Spending does not of itself create growth and employment. You cannot make an economy prosper through expenditure but only through value adding production. Demand does not drive an economy forward, nor does demand deficiency cause recessions.

It was this most fundamental of all economic propositions that Keynes deliberately and willfully destroyed. Say’s Law has, for all practical purposes, now disappeared from economic discourse and policy. And until it returns, the ability for the economics profession to provide sound and sensible advice during recession will remain sharply constrained. But to understand what Say’s Law means one must first understand the role Say’s Law played in the Keynesian Revolution.

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If, that is, the politicians and the eco-Nazis will allow them to be built.

I’m glad to see a mention of ‘pebble bed’ reactors, if only in passing.

Michelle Malkin reports on a surprising servant of the Deep State.

Who knew Twitter would act as dutiful messenger pigeons for the oppressive anti-blasphemy police squad that sentences people to death for disparaging Islam.

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The amount of bias in ‘news coverage’ from networks like CNN and MSNBC is breathtaking. These are, as Rush Limbaugh likes to say, merely propaganda organs for the Democrat party and its supporters; Scott Adams goes so far as to say that the Democrat Party is the political arm of the media, sort of a wag-the-dog situation.

Steven Hayward of Powerline raises a hand about the India-Pakistan situation.

I’m guessing some of our media’s lack of interest in this current crisis is that they haven’t figured out how to blame it on Trump yet. Plus they’d have to do some actual work to report the story. Ben Rhodes was right: most journalists today are so ignorant they probably can’t find Kashmir on a map (maybe the map to the Kashmir sweater department at Bergdorf-Goodman), let alone tell you anything about the background of the conflict.

Plan B for rebel Republicans: Wound Trump so he’ll lose to a Democrat in general election

Biden Says ‘Major’ Republican Donors Want To Help His 2020 Campaign  I don’t doubt it.

Woman Arrested for Assaulting MAGA Hat-Wearing American Turns Out to be In the Country Illegally; Now Faces Deportation  Quel dommage.

Impeach Trump: Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib first congress lawmakers to sign pledge to oust president

Michael Cohen may land some serious blows on Trump  They hope they hope they hope….

Trump praises ‘friend’ Kim Jong-un – leader of nation with ‘worst human rights abusing government in the world’  And he is doing so for a reason — it gives him leverage. You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

Michael Cohen testimony: Trump’s ex-lawyer to tell Congress president is a ‘racist and conman’  And he is of course totally credible.

Michael Cohen Pours Cold Water On Collusion In Congressional Testimony, But Makes Bombshell WikiLeaks Claim

Cohen testimony on Trump: From chilling racism to Russia collusion, the devastating claims that could hasten president’s White House exit  They hope they hope they hope….

This Happened: Kermit the Frog Mocks Trump, Fox in Pro-Green New Deal Song on Colbert

ABC Touts ‘Epic’ Hearing, Likens Cohen to Watergate’s John Dean  They hope they hope they hope….

The Hate Crimes in Trump’s America Narrative  No matter what happens, Trump is to blame.

Donny Deutsch On Reporters Being Banned From Summit Dinner: ‘The President Decided At That Moment We Don’t Have A Free Press’  And we don’t. They’re in the tank for the Democrats and other socialists.

It’s Open Season for Attacks on Trump Supporters and The Media Could Not Care (or Report) Less

Donald Trump has many flaws, but he deserves credit for his surprising success on the Korean peninsula  Wait a minute! Where did that come from?

Trump has made North Korea nuclear threat worse, former White House expert says  According to a former Obama administration official — wow, that’s news.

Cohen Admits He Can’t Corroborate His Allegations Against Trump  Wow, there’s news.

ABC’s In-House Democrat Stephanopoulos Touts Michael Cohen Having the ‘Ring of Truth’  Well, he worked for the Clintons — I suspect that, compared to them, he does.

Nets Giddy Over Cohen Hearing: Impeachment ‘Test Drive,’ ‘Bullet to the Heart’  This is what Scott Adams calls ‘cognitive dissonance’.

NBC Enthuses Over Michael Cohen, the ‘Quintessential Cooperating Criminal’  It’s all they’ve got.

Elderly NJ Man Allegedly Attacked After MAGA Hat Confrontation

John Legend: ‘Moron,’ ‘A******’ Trump Is ‘Not a Good Human Being’  Remind me who John Legend is…?

Cohen testimony: Trump’s ‘possible illegal acts currently being investigated by prosecutors’  For which there is still no real evidence — the testimony of a convicted liar notwithstanding.

Media Forget About Dead Babies, Focus on Trump, ‘Political Framing’

Politico Forced To Update Story Claiming Pence Has ‘Scant’ Foreign Policy Experience  I guess ten years on the House Foreign Affairs Committee doesn’t count.

CBS Hypes ‘Extraordinary Revelations’ of a Trump ‘Criminal Conspiracy’ from Cohen Apart from that whole credibility problem, of course.

Ilhan Omar Claims Trump Has ‘Markings Of A Dictator’  I guess Hitler, Stalin, and Mao had orange hair. Or something.

Rosie O’Donnell, Chelsea Handler And Other Celebs React To Cohen Testimony  ‘Trump is evil.’

Teenage Suspect Arrested In Alleged Assault Against Elderly MAGA Hat-Wearer

The Michael Cohen hearing set the stage for impeachment  The clearest case of ‘confirmation bias’ I’ve yet seen.

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Not really news, but a useful reminder.

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Didn’t know that was illegal in Australia.

You learn something new every day….

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If, of course, chicken comfort is your highest priority.

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Wish I’d thought of that — it would have kept the crowd at my wedding down quite a bit.

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This is why I don’t use PayPal, which had a shady reputation for screwing its customers even before this.

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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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As the novelty of meal kits wears off, companies like Blue Apron and Hello Fresh are seemingly faced with a choice: pivot or die.

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And if you believe that one, they’ll tell you another one.

John Hinderaker at Powerline investigates.

For some people these days, every single thing is about race. This article in Vox, a web site for low-information young people, reads like a parody. But I am pretty sure it is serious. The topic? “The knitting community is reckoning with racism.” Personally, I didn’t even know there was a “knitting community.”

Oh, believe me, there is.

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Yeah, well, the problem is that they take their blue-state socialist thought patterns with them.

Assimilation is not just a problem on the southern border.

Trump news – LIVE: Democrats begin bid to overturn Trump’s border wall ‘national emergency’ as president travels to North Korea summit  Good luck with that. ‘Pen and phone’ for Obama is ‘pen and phone’ for Trump.

Chuck Todd: Will Democrats ‘Regret If They Don’t’ Impeach Trump?  They’ll regret it if they do.

Morning Joe Slams GOP For Hypocrisy On Trump’s Emergency Declaration, Ignores Dem Hypocrisy On The Same Issue  Hey, his job isn’t to report the news, his job is to promote the Narrative.

Woman Assaulted Man Sporting MAGA Hat. Now ICE Is Looking To Send Her Packing

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He is, as you can see, a Person of Color.

D.C. has gun control laws that are among the strictest in the nation. Glad to see that they are working so well.

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My question is whether or not it is sufficiently efficient to be practical. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

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A major schism looms over the United Methodist Church (UMC) as the denomination’s international conference grapples with whether or not to allow homosexual clergy and same-sex marriage.

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Pass the popcorn.

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It’s the usual RINOs, plus a new recruit. I don’t know who Thom Tillis is, but he’s at minimum a cuck.

A major push is needed to primary these clowns.

Thank God McCain is dead, or he and his Sancho Panza, Graham, would be in this donkey-cart with the rest.

Jonah Goldberg, National Review cuck, explains why.

So what is ‘The Old Republican Playbook’? You won’t find out from reading this article. Indeed, you won’t find out from reading anything that Goldberg has ever written. He implies that it’s calling what Democrats are doing by their proper names. That’s a ‘playbook’? No, that’s an observation. An actual playbook would be a plan for what to do about it. Goldberg, and all his fellow cucks, are all about talk, and never about action.

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This is why Republicans qualify as The Stupid Party.

ZMan peers into the dark crevices of life so that you don’t have to.

Joseph de Maistre observed that “false opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.” The best propaganda is therefore struck by the believers in the private realm and circulated by honest people, who have their desire for truth perverted into a vehicle for spreading falsehoods. This story from last fall in the Daily Mail is a great example of how propaganda spreads in a liberal democracy.

The claim, for those uninterested in reading the story, is that women are becoming less faithful in their relationships. The story is based on a book by someone calling herself Wednesday Martin. Her claim, based on her qualitative research into the subject, is that modern women are more adulterous than in the past. For those unfamiliar with Xirl science, that’s a nice way of saying she sat around local coffee shops, talking to hens about their sex lives. There is no data in the book or the story.

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The volunteer army of box wine aunties that stalks social media looking for blasphemers is another example. You’ll note that the overwhelming majority of left-wing agitators on-line are unattached females looking for attention. The propaganda machine has weaponized unattached females, turning them into enforcers of the orthodoxy. Once again, the heavy lifting is not done at the agency or propaganda. It is done in corporate boardrooms. The Soviets never had such an effective and dedicated army of spies.

The patron saint of these women in Elizabeth Warren. Just look at her — you can see that this is what she was born to do.

The Other McCain runs up against totalitarianism.

What does knitting have to do with politics? Nothing that I can think of, except that everything is political to “social justice warriors” (SJWs) who constantly patrol the Internet in search of something to be angry about.

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And then she can get ordained in the Universal Life Church. Win-win!

I’ve had girlfriends like that.

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As they do.

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This is a good read on how much totalitarian progressivism is being promoted by ostensibly ‘neutral’ tech companies.

This doesn’t affect me at present, because I don’t use Twitter. But the trend is clear.

The problem is the proglodytes can’t every stop; they can’t ever say, okay, we can quit now, this is far enough — because without change there is no progress and so not-changing is a betrayal of the better future we all could have if we continue to change.  They can’t ever stop pushing change. Not ever.

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Today’s front-page story: 19 year-old hates job, rejects capitalism! That was indeed the big feature on the front of Monday’s New York Times: “Growing Up in U.K. and Giving Up on Capitalism.”

It’s part of the paper’s left-wing “Britain’s Big Squeeze” series against so-called austerity measures in England. The online deck of headlines signals the paper making a purposeful shove to the left: “‘Austerity, That’s What I Know’: The Making of a U.K. Millennial Socialist — Alex McIntyre, 19, was brought up in a Britain being reshaped by government cuts. He gave up on capitalism after a year in college.”

Sounds like every liberal arts major, to be honest.

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Cancer stem cells, also known as “tumour-initiating cells”, are the only cells in the tumour that can make a new tumour. New therapies that specifically target and eradicate these cancer stem cells are needed to prevent tumours growing and spreading, but for that there needs to be more clarity around the targe.

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I had no idea that so much was going on behind the scenes.

Kinda scary, when you think about it.

Kamala Harris Says The Country Needs A President Who Can Prosecute Trump  Actually, what we need is a President who can prosecute Hillary.

Larry Tribe’s cheap shot  No matter what bad thing is happening in the world, it’s all Trump’s fault.

Trump mocked for proposing 4th of July fireworks display

Trump administration to create panel to deny climate change facts almost all scientists agree on  Except that they don’t, of course, which is why it is so easy to find scientists to ‘deny’ climate change.

Spike Lee Talks 2020 Election During Acceptance Speech At Oscars: ‘Do The Right Thing’  One of these days Spike Lee will grow up, and you won’t believe what happens next….

‘Absurd’ — White House Pushes Back On Allegation Trump Kissed Staffer On The Lips  Scraaaaaaape that barrel.

Scarborough Hopes Mueller Report Is Just the Beginning of Trump Investigations

Donald Trump may have actually done something right when it comes to North Korea  And you can feel their pain….

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Aha! She’s a Toon. I always knew it.

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(Cue Twilight Zone theme….)

No doubt Trump is to blame.

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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.

(How many Americans held prisoner overseas did Obama manage to free?)

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What everyone may not know is that climate science is an industry, and the product is the global warming scare.  If the global warming scare is discredited, the huge industry will collapse.  Climate scientists used to be unimportant academics in an unimportant academic field.  The global warming scare made them into celebrities jetting around the world.  They won’t give up the glory without a fight.

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Climate science has gone off the rails. President Eisenhower nailed the problem in his 1961 farewell address. He expressed the fear that because science had become heavily dependent on federal financial support, scientists would color the science in order to increase the flow of federal money. Nothing works better for increasing the flow of federal scientific money than predicting a future disaster. If scientists predict a disaster, we have to give them more money to research methods of preventing the disaster.

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‘Bulwark’ is the new turncoat operation by Bill Kristol (who only coincidentally looks like Mussolini).

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Whoda thunkit?

The Other McCain reviews some numbers.

Did you know this? “Seventy-one percent of the 387 ‘extremist related fatalities in the United States’ from 2008 to 2017 were committed by members of far-right and white-supremacist groups, according the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.” That was published in the New York Times, which failed to do the math — i.e., 28 deaths per year, which “is less than half the annual fatality rate associated with bee and wasp stings,” as David Catron explains at The American Spectator.

Catron further explains that even this 28-per-year estimate of “extremist related fatalities” for “far-right and white-supremacist groups” is probably inflated and, while it is wrong to minimize this threat, it is also wrong to exaggerate it. There have already been 31 black people shot to death in Chicago this year, and it’s not “far-right and white-supremacist groups” who are committing those Chicago homicides.

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How about that GREAT government-provided health care! Don’t you wish we had a system like that in the U.S.?

Perhaps Congresswoman Occasional-Cortex could help — after all, she is ‘the boss’ now.

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Chinese do many strange things for ‘good luck’. This is just one of them.

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Hey, tenure doesn’t grow on trees, you know.