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Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has written a letter to the House Ethics Committee requesting an investigation into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to tear up a copy of President Trump’s State of the Union address, arguing that “Her unseemly behavior certainly warrants censure.”

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Mitt Romney’s decision to convict President Trump on the impeachment charge of abuse of power was “motivated by bitterness and jealousy,” according to former Romney spokesman Rick Gorka, who added that President Trump has “accomplished what he [Mitt] has failed to do multiple times.”

He’s decided to fill in for John McCain.

John Hinderaker at Power Line flushes the toilet.

Impeachment must be viewed in the context of the Democrats’ effort to destroy Donald Trump that began prior to his inauguration. For more than three years, their get-Trump campaign has dominated the news. Mostly, it was the Russia hoax. The Democrats originally intended to use that as the basis for impeachment. When the Mueller report negated that plan, they switched–literally overnight–to the much weaker Ukraine theory. No matter. It was impeachment or bust, if only to continue filling up the nightly news with purported Trump “scandals.”

Now the smoke will begin to clear, and I don’t think the Democrats will like the landscape that comes into focus. Their Iowa caucuses were a laughingstock. They made fools of themselves (Nancy Pelosi, especially) during Trump’s State of the Union speech. And, most seriously, they don’t have a presidential candidate. Joe Biden is in freefall, and the party’s elders, such as they are, concede that Bernie Sanders would be a disaster. Will they turn to “Mayor Pete” Buttigieg? Will Michael Bloomberg be their savior? Or will Hillary Clinton or John Kerry come out of retirement? I think they are grasping at straws.

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Californians like to complain about high taxes, and who can blame them? California may have more millionaires and billionaires, but the tax cost of living in the Golden State has always been high. The current top 13.3% rate—which is the same on ordinary income and capital gain—dates from 2012. But with the 2018 federal tax law changes, paying 13.3% in non-deductible state taxes (after a $10,000 cap) is even more painful. The tax law is causing an exodus of high-tax state residents to no tax or lower tax states. Lower tax means just about everywhere.

If you aren’t careful, though about how you do it, you could end up leaving California and yet being asked to keep paying California taxes. There’s also the fact that California has a very broad reach into other states. In some cases, California can assess taxes no matter where you live. Should this discourage you? Not hardly, but it pays to know what you are up against in a fight. If you live in California, you probably know how aggressive California’s state tax agency can be. In fact, even if you live somewhere else, you might have heard of the Golden State’s aggressive tax rules.

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.

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Their grandchildren may actually see it approved.

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Two can play this Congressional Fishing Expedition game.

The Democrats are going to learn hat sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

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

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I assume that includes homeless people and illegal aliens,

CNN Says It’s Excluded From Lunch With Trump  Gee, I wonder why.

Impeachment Gets 77x More TV Time than Trump’s Economic Successes

Nancy Pelosi rips up copy of Trump’s State of the Union speech following divisive address – as it happened  The Guardian.

Joy Behar ‘Prays’ Trump Gets ‘Triggered’ by Dems, Goes ‘Nuts’ at State of the Union

CBS Declares Trump Winner of Dem Iowa Caucus Chaos

Joy Behar Is ‘Praying’ Trump Will ‘Go Off Script’ And Botch State Of The Union

Bloomberg Ad Bashes Trump: ‘Lies, Chaos, and Corruption’

George Soros: Zuckerberg Should Not Control Facebook, Might Help Get Trump Re-Elected  Yeah, George has a problem with that whole democracy thing.

Impeach This: Trump Surging After Winning Iowa Dem Caucus

NYT’s Maggie Haberman Says Trump Is Partially To Blame For Iowa Caucus Debacle  Just by being alive, apparently.

MSNBC Analyst: ‘Systemic Racism’ and ‘Kids in Cages’ Explain Iowa Caucus Fiasco

NeverTrump 2020 died in Iowa

Chris Matthews Compares Trump to Satan, Americans Making a ‘Deal With the Devil’

Century-Old Tuskegee Airman Snaps To Attention And Salutes [Notorious Racist] Trump, Then Smiles And Gives A Finger Gun

Seconds After Speech Ends, Brian Williams Assails ‘Dark,’ ‘Bizarre’ State of the Union

NBC RAGES at ‘Partisan’ Trump SOTU Creating ‘Poisonous’ Mood Trying to ‘Own the Libs’

CNN’s Tapper Decries Trump’s ‘Reality TV’ SOTU, Divisive ‘Red Meat’ for Base  Haters gotta hate.

CNN’s Acosta Slimes Limbaugh Award: ‘History’ of Attacks on African Americans  Uh, no, actually.

ABC: ‘Political’ Trump Honoring ‘Divisive,’ ‘Racist’ Limbaugh Undercuts Tuskegee Airmen  Although the one Tuskegee Airman present saluted Trump. Awkward, that.

“This Is Disgusting” – Furious Liberals Triggered By Rush Limbaugh’s Presidential Medal Of Freedom

MSNBC Goes Nazi: Trump’s Speech Is Like ‘Goebbels’ and ‘The Big Lie’

CNNers Belittle Trump’s SOTU Guests: Like Oprah Handing Out Cars

Van Jones Tells Democrats To ‘Wake Up,’ Says Trump Is ‘Causing Us Problems’ With The Black Vote

GMA Hypes ‘Horrified’ Democrats, Held Hostage’ by Trump’s Divisive SOTU

Scarborough Seethes: MSM Too Supportive of Trump on Strong Economy!

Whoopi Goldberg Slams Rush Limbaugh, Says Medal Of Freedom Is ‘For People Who Actually Did Stuff’  Presumably, so is the Nobel Peace Prize, yet I didn’t hear that Whoopi criticized Obama getting it without having ‘did stuff’.

What Comes Next After Impeachment And Acquittal? Re-Impeachment

Joy Behar Praises Pelosi Shredding Speech: ‘Playing Hardball’ With ‘Criminals and Fascists’

MSNBC Cheers ‘Historic’ Romney Vote to Convict: ‘Unlocking His Super Power’  Junior’s favorite Democrat.

Stephen Colbert Freaks Over SOTU: ‘Are Our Checks And Balances Broken?’

Earth Is About To Enter A 30-Year ‘Mini Ice Age’ As A ‘Solar Minimum’ Grips The Planet  Gotta love that Global Warming.

Bubbles trapped in Alaska ice are a mesmerizing, terrifying warning  National Geographic learns the click-bait/scaremonger lesson.

The Federalist: A Majority of Americans Believe OTHER People Should Make Climate Sacrifices

Climate Action Ready Universities Offer Us their Geopolitical Leadership

Greenpeace protesters block entrance to BP with solar panels and oil barrels to mark boss’s first day

All Hail Greta, The Great Carbon Hypocrite

The ‘Junk’ Scientist Is Calling Out Dems For Pushing Google To Censor ‘Climate Denial’ Videos

Global cooling after nuclear war would harm ocean life  Well, let’s hope we don’t get one, then.

Earth Is About To Enter A 30-Year “Mini Ice Age” As The Sun Hibernates, Scientist Warns  Does that mean the seas are still rising? How does that work, exactly?

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Well. There it is.

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Mitt Romney is a not a conservative, “severe” or otherwise. He’s a Business Class Liberal. Always has been. Yes, he’s very “conservative” on issues like “should the working class always have their wages reduced by constant remorseless labor arbitrage and relocating factories to China,” and “conservative’ on the question “should companies be allowed to take a business expense deduction on their taxes for the costs of moving factories to China,” but on everything else — including, especially, Obamacare, which he fathered — he’s a liberal.

Makes you wonder why he pretends to be a Republican. Of course, I wondered that about Bloomberg, too.

Hey, maybe Mitt ought to run for the Democratic Presidential nomination. He’s got the Never Trump vote.

UPDATE: ‘Mitt Romney. Not One of Us.’

UPDATE: Trump Acquitted, Romney Guilty

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Here are some pictures and video of the creepy culty Women in White sitting on their fat asses while Trump announced stuff like the lowest level of black poverty ever, or the lowest rate of black teen unemployment ever recorded.

I received a text message on my phone from a Bloomberg operative asking whether they could ‘count on me to support Mike’. I texted back that I’d first like to get an explanation for why a Republican is running for the Democrat Presidential nomination. No response as yet. Nor do I expect one. If I can find out where the Democrats are holding their primary caucuses I may track him down and ask him that in person. That would be fun.

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It’s a ritual. After the Iowa caucuses, those with a “ticket out,” and those who just want to prolong the agony, fly to New Hampshire to campaign. Elizabeth Warren, who has half a ticket out, followed this practice.

She did so by private jet. Nothing wrong with that. There are probably few, if any, direct commercial flights from anywhere in Iowa to anywhere in New Hampshire. Anyway, after an exhausting Iowa campaign and a late night of waiting for results that didn’t come, why not fly privately if you can afford to?

However, Warren supports the Green New Deal. It calls for reductions in air travel, and for working towards eliminating such travel, because of the adverse effects jets have on the environment.

Is it hypocritical to support the Green New Deal yet fly by private jet when there are more environmentally friendly, though less convenient, alternatives? Probably, to a small degree.

In any case, we know that Elizabeth Warren sees the inconsistency. She was caught trying to use an aide to shield her from cameras as she got off of her private jet in New Hampshire. At least that’s how it plainly looks to me. Check out the video below and see if you agree.

Warren seems pretty agile as she pulls a reverse Chuck Schumer by dodging the camera. She also displays quick thinking. Too quick.

The Democrat Party is turning into a classic meme of science-fiction dystopias, the privileged upper-class ruling establishment who don’t suffer under the same constraints as the remainder of the herd population. It is a popular notion on the Left that ‘Trump will lead us into a Hunger Games society!’ whereas that society resembles far more what Democrats are already putting into place.

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We’re still cleaning up the messes left by Obama and Eric Holder.

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When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped up her copy of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, she destroyed an official document, not just a printout, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Wednesday.

“It’s not some printout,” the California Democrat told Fox News’ “Fox and Friends.” “The president walks in and hands that to the speaker of the House and to the vice president. Those are the official documents. He signs those.”

What does Nancy Pelosi care?

UPDATE: Newt Gingrich Slams Pelosi for Ripping Up Trump’s Speech

UPDATE: Kellyanne Conway: Nancy Pelosi Should ‘Be Censured’ For Her State Of The Union Behavior

UPDATE: Mike Pence Blasts Pelosi After SOTU: ‘I Wasn’t Sure If She Was Ripping Up The Speech Or Ripping Up The Constitution’

UPDATE: Pelosi Shredded After Tearing Up SOTU Speech; Offers Lame Excuse

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If, of course, that’s what you want to do.

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Although none of them had a  bad word to say about Obama’s ‘participation trophy’ Nobel Peace Prize.

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The Democrat Party, the party of the intellectual elite.

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She’s shocked, shocked I tell you, that there aren’t a lot of colored people People of Color in Iowa.

Maybe the Feds ought to bus some in, just to make it fair.

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The sham of the Other Left Coast Conservative Establishment is rapidly unravelling.

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Actually, I wasn’t all that curious.

CNN brings the racism.

On the other hand, is there anything that black students won’t say is ‘like a lynching’?

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Or, you could just go to a restaurant. Your choice.

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Repeat after me: COM U NIST DIC TA TOR SHIP.

Climate scientists are not priests or prophets  Vox.

Sea level rise accelerating along US coastline, scientists warn  The Guardian. Funny how people are neglecting to evacuate.

Oxford University: Best Response Ever to a Fossil Fuel Divestment Demand

Sea Level Rose at Almost All of US Coasts in 2019  You may have noticed all of the people evacuating.

‘Not serious on climate!’ Prince Charles slated for helicopter trip – ‘He’s not that busy’

Will Big Business Finally Reckon with the Climate Crisis?  Not until it’s real.

Why Donald Trump’s ‘Kansas’ mistake absolutely matters  CNN. Scraaaaaaape that barrel.

UNHINGED MSNBC: ‘Sociopath’ Trump Now Has Unlimited Power!

CNN’s Brian Stelter Crowned Winner Of Twitter ‘Liberal Hack’ Tournament  I was rooting for him.

As Libs Battle on MSNBC, Wallace Reminds: Trump Is ‘Real’ Enemy to Be ‘Killed’ Politically

MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace: Trump Is ‘The Enemy’

Murkowski: Trump ‘Shameful and Wrong’ But Can’t Vote to Convict Him  Murkowski looks like Elizabeth Warren’s bitter divorced older sister.

Spike Lee Cracks Himself Up Telling Rev. Sharpton Senate Republicans Will ‘Burn In Hell’

Brian Stelter Says CNN Not Invited To Lunch With Trump Before State Of The Union Address  Gee, I wonder why not.

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Going for help to a continent where the average IQ is 85 doesn’t bode well for their GPA.

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Blue State Proglodytes hoist with their own victim-loving petard.

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There’s a quote I’m sure you’ve heard, and it’s usually attributed to Einstein (although he was far from the first to say it, and even he said it different ways at different times): “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought. I know only this: World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

Well, here’s a quote with only one author (me): “I know not the source of the next extinction-level pandemic. I know only this: White people will not be allowed to discuss it.”

When the truly apocalyptic plague hits, it’ll be because someone in the nonwhite world ate a civet dick or fellated a corpse’s pustules. And the disease will be seen as the lesser of two evils compared with the racist white folks trying to contain it. There’ll be no way to fight the epidemic without passing judgment on the behavior or customs of nonwhites, and there’ll be no way to contain it without quarantining at least a few people of color. So we’ll all just die.

Steve Sailer fisks a tocsin from the Associated Press.

AP:

The blending of identity was further muddled by government forms, including the U.S. census.

Steve:

In other words, white people oppressed Iranians by declaring them white.

AP:

Many Iranian Americans have historically marked themselves as “white” when reporting their race for the census.

[Which, genetically, they are.]

Steve:

But the Flight from White is cranking up as Iranians figure out that there’s no upside in being officially white in America.

He has entirely too much fun with this stuff.

Steve Sailer.

These days, even Third World countries tend to have rapid vote counting, and when the process breaks down, such as in Bolivia recently, it’s a national crisis.

In contrast, America seems to have gotten slower at figuring out who won, with the closer you get to Silicon Valley, the slower. Good thing the presidential primary season doesn’t start in California or the results wouldn’t be final until April.

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As you no doubt are aware, the liberal Snopes.com web site has repeatedly “fact checked” satirical stories on the Babylon Bee, America’s foremost satire site, or–as Glenn Reynolds says–America’s paper of record. In a related development, and consistent with the hypothesis that liberals undergo an initiation in which any possible sense of humor is surgically removed, CNN reacted angrily to President Trump’s joke that Michael Bloomberg was looking for a box to stand on in the Democratic debates (to which, by the way, he apparently is being admitted via a rule change as part of the DNC’s “stop Bernie” hysteria).

Steve Sailer tracks ’em down.

On the New York Times op-ed page, yet another People of Identity writes about how she is oppressed by not being on TV enough:

Steve Sailer blows the whistle.

From Penn State:

“Instead, nearly 20 percent of Hispanic students go to preschools where 90 percent or more students are of their same race/ethnicity,” the researchers wrote in the report.

Steve responds:

It’s almost as if there are now a lot of Hispanic children in the U.S.

Imagine that.

According to Proglodyte Magic Dirt Theory, non-white kids won’t learn anything unless there are a certain percentage of white kids in their classrooms. I guess it’s cooties or something.

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Not that anybody cares.

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Let’s all look for the quid pro quo….

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The coronavirus outbreak that is raging all over China right now has been making headlines on a daily basis all over the globe, and rightly so. At this point we don’t know if it will ultimately become a horrifying global pandemic that will affect tens of millions of people, but what we do know is that the virus spreads very easily and the number of cases has been rising at an exponential rate. Meanwhile, three other plagues have also been marching across Asia, and most people in the western world don’t even realize that this is happening. What I am about to share with you in this article is quite chilling, and the months ahead will be very dark if these plagues continue to spread.

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That’s what happens when your Party is run by Democrats.

The Guardian peers behind the curtain.

Well-paying work for the colored people People of Color who wag the finger, I’ll bet.

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An international team of researchers has discovered the hydrogen atoms in a metal hydride material are much more tightly spaced than had been predicted for decades — a feature that could possibly facilitate superconductivity at or near room temperature and pressure.

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Waits for care in Canada’s government-run health insurance system, the closest analog to “Medicare for all” in the world, are spiraling. The remedy for those waits, according to a new report from the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute? A dose of U.S.-style private insurance.

Right now, Canada is the only high-income country with universal health coverage that bans its citizens from purchasing private insurance for anything deemed “medically necessary.” “Medicare for all” would make the U.S. the second.

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Evolution is an ongoing process, although many don’t realize people are still evolving. It’s true that Homo sapiens look very different than Australopithecus afarensis, an early hominin that lived around 2.9 million years ago. But it is also true that we are very different compared to members of our same species, Homo sapiens, who lived 10,000 years ago — and we will very likely be different from the humans of the future.

Weekly Climate and Energy News Roundup #397

Losing coastal plant communities to climate change will weaken sea defences  If it actually happens.

Swedish Lawmakers Nominate Climate Activist Greta Thunberg For A Nobel Peace Prize  Because nothing promotes peace like a teenager scolding adults.

Warming oceans could cause Antarctic Ice Sheet collapse, sea level rise  ‘could’

Attenborough’s Arctic Betrayal: New video reveals that terrorizing young children about climate began with polar bears

Climate Models Are Running Red Hot, and Scientists Don’t Know Why

Permafrost Is Thawing So Fast, It’s Gouging Holes in the Arctic

Stephen King Calls for Susan Collins’ Ouster From the Senate Following Impeachment Trial

The new class war: did a liberal elite pave the way for rise of Trump? The Guardian.

Sen. Joni Ernst: Republicans Could Impeach A ‘President Biden’

TV Buries 2020 Democrats Under Avalanche of Impeachment News

Of Course Twitter Tried To Censor Donald Trump’s Campaign Ad During The Super Bowl – Here’s What We Know

Jill Biden Promises To Get Rid of DeVos If Husband Elected

Impeachment Dreams Deflated, Desperate ABC Calls for Senate to Censure Trump  Let’s see them censure the House.

Mike Bloomberg Ad Uses Obama-Era Footage Of Caged Migrants To Criticize Trump

NY Times: Trump Groups Spent $1.7M At His Private Interests

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This is God telling you that smoking is a very bad idea.

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No ordinary citizen can legally carry a gun in New York City, yet shootings are up 59.6 percent over this time last year. On Sunday, a pregnant woman was shot while sitting in her own car in front of her home in Queens. This is becoming the new normal in New York after the memo has gone out to criminals in the city that politicians fear growing the prison population more than they fear crime.

According to NYPD crime data, in addition to the 59.6 percent spike in shootings over this time last year, robberies increased 32.8 percent and grand larceny auto crimes were up a whopping 62.8 percent. Burglaries rose by 17 percent. This is just for the first 26 days of 2020.

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

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Have you noticed that these shootings tend to happen in Blue states like California?