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The Children Being Left Behind by America’s Online Schooling

13th May 2020

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Women and minorities hardest hit.

Racism suspected.

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Republicans Win First Democrat-Held California House Seat Since 1998

13th May 2020

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The Republican candidate in the special election Tuesday for the California House seat vacated by ex-Democratic Rep. Katie Hill has won the race with over 56% of the vote.

Perhaps we have reached ‘peak Democrat’.

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Republicans Accuse Pelosi of Using Coronavirus Cash to Fund Planned Parenthood

13th May 2020

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And every other damnfool Leftist idea she thinks she can get away with.

UPDATE: Sen. Cassidy: HEROES Act Is ‘Garbage’ to Fill a ‘Left Wing Agenda’

 

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Stelter on Stilts

13th May 2020

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David Rutz has put together a hilarious Washington Free Beacon SUPERcuts video of Brian Stelter calling out conservatives for their obsession with the Russia probe (via Twitter below). The video has struck a nerve; it has garnered more than 1.5 million viewers on Twitter. It is also posted here on YouTube. There are a lot of us out here laughing at and hating on Brian Stelter and CNN. This is an instant boomerang classic.

I’m still not convinced that Stelter isn’t a Seinfeld character that wandered into a CNN studio by mistake.

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Shootings In Chicago Increase Despite Stay-At-Home Orders

13th May 2020

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A lot of jogging going on in Chicago.

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‘Republicans Pounce,’ A Series

13th May 2020

Kevin Williamson examines a favored clerisy phrase.

The “Republicans pounce!” cliche is bad enough, but, if you’re going to write a “Republicans pounce!” story, shouldn’t you give one of them the opportunity to, you know, pounce?

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Thought for the Day: Carry This in Your Wallet

13th May 2020

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Racial Revenge?

13th May 2020

Steve Sailer does the reporting that the ‘mainstream media’ won’t do.

ast Friday, the day after two whites in Georgia were arrested in the vastly publicized killing of the black jogger/prowler Ahmaud Arbery, a young black gunman murdered two octogenarian whites, Paul and Lidia Marino, while they were visiting their son’s grave at a veterans’ cemetery in Delaware. After a six-hour firefight with the police, the shooter, a 29-year-old black man, was dead—whether at police hands or his own remains unknown.

In contrast to Arbery’s killing, this second interracial killing case has gotten virtually zero national media attention through Tuesday morning, even though it’s fairly spectacular in scale and quite curious in motive. For example, an eyewitness speculated that the killer appeared to have brought extra ammunition for his planned shoot-out to the death with the police.

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Utah Decriminalizes Polygamy

13th May 2020

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You knew it had to happen.

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

12th May 2020

Trump reveals the problem with our hero worship of the military  Washington Post.

A reporter questioned Trump and he told her to ‘ask China’  CNN. ‘Duh, what’s he mean by that, Martha?’

‘The Five’ shreds NBC’s Chuck Todd for airing selectively edited clip of Barr

It’s Only Monday: Liberal WH Reporters Peddle Fear, Impugn Trump’s Motives on Reopening, Testing

Brian Stelter: Trump Doesn’t Get ‘The Benefit Of The Doubt,’ His China Comment Was ‘Racist’

‘My Mistake Was Relying On The Word Of The FBI’: Trey Gowdy Explains What He Did Wrong In Russia Probe

CNN Calls Trump ‘Preposterous’ and ‘Pretty Shameless’ to See Politics from Democrats

Poor Joe Scarborough Whines: Pro-Trump Media So Mean to Me!  It’s because you’re a douche-bag, Joe.

Andrew Cuomo Has Blood On His Hands, Media Blames Trump

Colbert Asks Tapper: Is It Your ‘Role’ to ‘Encourage’ President to Act on Policy?  As if the President would take policy advice from any ‘journalist’, much less an anti-trumpet like Tapper.

‘The Outpouring Of Venom Was Disgusting’: Jimmy Kimmel Says He Received Death Threats After Showing Deceptively-Edited Clip Of Pence  Welcome to our world; Jimmy. Enjoy your visit.

HBO’s John Oliver: Trump Battle Plan for Corona Is ‘for Him to Live’ as ‘a Lot of Us Die’  If that lot includes you, John, I’m good with it.

Joy Behar Throws Tantrum Defending Reporters Against ‘Disgusting Racist’ Trump  They actually pay her to act like an arrested adolescent.

The Problem With Media Freakout Over Trump’s Latest Press Briefing

Bitter Jimmy Kimmel Lashes Out At ‘Lunatic’ Critics Calling Him Out for Misleading Pence Video

LAME: Chuck Todd Offers Mealy-Mouthed Apology for Deceptive Edit, Blames….CBS?

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

12th May 2020

Latest Estimates on Sea Level Rise by 2100 Are Worse Than We Thought  Perhaps because nobody is believing existing ‘estimates’.

As sea levels rise, are we ready to live behind giant walls?  Except that there is no actual evidence that sea levels actually are rising, just ‘estimates’.

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

12th May 2020

Sciencesplainer New - Dilbert by Scott Adams

Americans Renouncing Citizenship at Record Rates

Supreme Court appears likely to hand big victory to the religious right  Like upholding the First Amendment.

T0he pandemic has turned conservatives into their liberal boogeymen  Acutally, no, it hasn’t; it’s merely gotten the cucks to reveal their true allegiance.

5 common arguments for reopening the economy — and why experts say they are flawed  CNN. Because the ‘experts’ have been so right so far.

Colorado restaurant that illegally reopened without social distancing now ordered to close  Washington Post.

Tiny Alaskan Town Grocer Hailed as Hero For Sailing to Costco For Groceries in 14-Hour Round Trip

Grenell Gives DOJ List Of Obama Officials Involved In Flynn Unmasking Scandal; Waiting On Barr To Release

Michigan Judge Refuses to Sign Restraining Order Against Barbershop Owner

Cuomo Blasts Claims Virus Came from Lab, But He Reported It Last Month

Anti-Quarantine Protesters Spotted With Rocket Launcher In Downtown Raleigh

Hygienic Fascism: Turning the World Into a ‘Safe Space’ — But at What Cost?

Twitter adding labels and warnings to tweets with ‘misleading information’ about COVID-19  The Ministry of Truth has been outsourced.

Florida Case To Protect Second Amendment Rights Of Young Adults Moves Forward

Gretchen Whitmer Does Battle With Michigan Barber Who Refuses To Close Shop

Gyms Sue Ohio Department Of Health For ‘Impermissibly Vague’ Stay At Home Order

Seattle Cop Prepares To Be Fired After Refusing To Remove Viral Video Reminding Officers Not To Obey ‘Tyrannical Orders’

Facebook Puts Soros, Muslim Brotherhood, Activists in Charge of Censorship

 

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America’s Havana

12th May 2020

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On January 8, London Breed, San Francisco’s mayor, was sworn in for her first full term. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi congratulated her in a tweet, saying, “I look forward to working with you to continue San Francisco’s proud tradition of standing as a guiding light for progress across America.” I don’t know what definition of “progress” Pelosi is using, but any candid observer would rate the city a catastrophe. Mayor Breed was inaugurated on the same day that I moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles, after ten years working at the cutting edge of science and technology.

Even before the current Covid-19 pandemic, San Francisco was a deeply troubled city. It ranks first in the nation in theft, burglary, vandalism, shoplifting, and other property crime. On average, about 60 cars get broken into each day. Diseases arising from poor sanitation—typhoid, typhus, hepatitis A—are reappearing at an alarming rate. Fentanyl goes for about $20 a pill on Market Street, and each year the city hands out 4.5 million needles, which you can find used and tossed out like cigarette butts in parks and around bus stops. The city’s department of public works deploys feces cleaners daily—a “poop patrol” to wash the filth from the sidewalks.

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404 Error Page for Trump Campaign Shows Joe Biden With Caption ‘You’re as Lost as Me’

12th May 2020

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Now that’s comedy.

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Nasty Washington Post Compares Conservative Ron DeSantis to ‘Oafish’ Florida Man

12th May 2020

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The Washington Post on Tuesday unleashed a nasty broadside against Florida’s popular conservative Governor. Writer Ben Terris and Josh Dawsey compared Ron DeSantis to the “oafish” Florida Man satire of dumb people in the sunshine state. The online headline sneered, “Does Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis know what he’s doing? We’re about to find out.”

All the while supporting senile serial groper “Fingers” Joe Biden. Makes you wonder.

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Law School Sues San Francisco for Street Feces, Drug Dealing

12th May 2020

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A lawsuit alleges San Francisco fails to clear the streets in the Tenderloin district of the feces and pervasive drug dealing and overall “deplorable” conditions.

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Why Does the Mainstream Media Seem So Desperate to Keep the COVID-19 Lockdowns Going?

12th May 2020

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An attempt to answer the question that has been on the minds of many people during this whole amazing affair.

I had assumed that they were just playing parrot for the Crust, as they are wont to do, but have never felt comfortable with that opinion.

 

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The Legion of Time by Jack Williamson

12th May 2020

John C. Wright does an amazing classic piece of literary criticism.

 

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Trump’s Methodical Destruction of Obama’s Legacy

12th May 2020

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We’ve all seen footage of those carefully timed explosions that bring down antiquated buildings and clear the ground for new ones. A horn sounds, the detonations begin, the building shakes, suspended for a frozen moment, and then collapses in a vast cloud of dust. That, metaphorically, is what is happening to the Obama administration’s legacy.

The presidential edifice has come down in two episodes, and the dust has not yet settled from either one. The first wrecked President Obama’s most consequential policies: the Affordable Care Act and the Iran nuclear deal. The second, happening now, is crushing its reputation for integrity, for following the most basic rules for conducting free and fair elections.

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What Lies Beneath

12th May 2020

ZMan peels back the scab.

An axiom of politics is that scandals are about sex or money. The politician at the center of a scandal got caught with a live boy or a dead girl. The public loves those stories, so it becomes a scandal, even when the politician is from the inner party, as was the case with Bill Clinton. Alternatively, the politician confused his money with public money or someone else’s money and someone blabbed. This is almost always the heart of local political scandals, where political machines run on graft.

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Thought for the Day

12th May 2020

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NBC Calls Out Gov. Cuomo for Forcing COVID Patients into Nursing Homes

12th May 2020

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Denouncing it as “a path to disaster,” investigative correspondent Cynthia McFadden’s Monday report for NBC Nightly News called out Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo for forcing nursing homes in his state to take in coronavirus-positive patients just out of the hospital. On top of that, she pointed out how he had refused to give those facilities personal protective equipment (PPE). All of this, while ABC and CBS still refused to criticize their governor and bashed President Trump.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

11th May 2020

The Planet Is Probably in Worse Shape Than We Can Even Predict  Women and minorities hardest hit.

No climate alarmists, rolling back draconian EPA air standards to reasonable levels won’t make COVID-19 worse.

“Gasland” vs “The Planet of the Humans”… Too fracking funny!

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

11th May 2020

What If The Crisis Is One Without End… Like George Orwell’s Perpetual War

Guardian Pushes Covid-19 Food Supply Fear, Demands “Sustainable” Decentralised Meat Processing

One Nation, Under Lockdown, Divided by Pandemic

Is the chilling truth that the decision to impose lockdown was based on crude mathematical guesswork?

Photos of armed demonstrators at North Carolina Subway draw national attention

Watch: ‘Skynet’-Like Robot Dog Patrols Singapore’s Parks To Ensure Humans Are Social Distancing

Anti-lockdown Protesters Clash With German Police As Virus Spread Accelerates 

British Police Are Investigating People Who Post Tweets Critical Of Lockdown

Colorado Restaurant Defies Mandate to Serve Mother’s Day Crowds

‘Journalists’ Keep Finding New And Creative Ways To Be Awful Hacks

Obama Participated In Plot To Frame Flynn: Sidney Powell

“A Legal Nightmare”: In Latest European “Freakshow”, EU Threatens To Sue Germany Over QE Ruling

Chinese Leadership Corrupts Another UN Organization

HR 6666: Illinois Democrat Introduces $100 Billion Contact Tracing Bill

Even the State-Sponsored Karen Propaganda Network BBC Admits That Deaths Due to the Lockdown Will Soon Exceed Deaths Due to Covid that the Lockdown Is Intended to Prevent

DOJ Alumni: Barr Should Resign for ‘Repeated Assaults on Rule of Law’

Protecting Obama

Twitter Rolls Out COVID Misinformation Warning Labels. Will They Target Chinese Officials Who Blame US For Outbreak?

Cuomo Refers To Wuhan Coronavirus As The ‘European Virus’

CBS Sides with China Commies Over America, Peddles Piles of Fake News on Coronavirus

‘Irresponsible And Cruel’: Democrats Demand Halt On Deportations To Haiti

Andrew Cuomo Flacks for the Chinese Communist Party, Repeatedly Calling Wuhan Virus “The European Virus”

Former Emory University Professor Pleads Guilty To Omitting Chinese Government Funding In Tax Returns

Politicians Keep Moving The Goalposts On When America Can Reopen

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

11th May 2020

Atlanta mayor: Ahmaud Arbery’s death is a result of Trump’s rhetoric giving ‘permission’ to racists

NBC admits Chuck Todd’s ‘Meet the Press’ deceptively edited Barr remarks on Flynn

Chris Hayes: Trump’s ‘Sociopathic Casualness’ on Virus Deaths Is ‘Almost Insanity-Inducing’  It certainly seems so in Hayes’ case.

Feminist on Jezebel: ‘I Will Personally Be Thrilled If Stephen Miller Dies of Covid-19’

Mika Brzezinski Calls President Trump a ‘Freaking Nut’ for Mother’s Day Tweetfest

Brian Stelter Fumes Over ‘Right-Wing Media’ And Its ‘Obsession’ With Flynn Vindication And Exposure Of Russia Collusion Hoax

George Soros Predicts Trump Will ‘Destroy Himself’

Soros-Funded Priorities USA Action Misleading Anti-Trump Ad Tops All Virus TV Ads for Week with 1,186 Airings

Rosie O’Donnell Confirms Reports That She’s Working On Michael Cohen’s Tell-All Book About President Trump  That will be comedy gold.

Sunny Hostin Calls White House ‘A Petri Dish’ As More COVID-19 Cases Arise

Flashback: Obama Ordered Comey To Conceal FBI Activities Right Before Trump Took Office

Chris Hayes: Why Yes, I Suppose There Is a Conspiratorial Subculture On the Left That Blames Everything on Russia, and I Suppose I’ve Been a Leader of That Conspiratorial Subculture. But You Know Who’s Really to Blame Here? Russia

Nets Seize on Obama Trashing Trump’s COVID Response, While Shilling for Biden

Mike Rapaport Tweets Horrendous Mother’s Day Message to ‘Useless’ Melania Trump

George Soros: ‘I Have Put My Faith in Trump to Destroy Himself’  But the money I’m spending ought to help….

 

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Coronavirus Has Shone a Light on Inequalities in Food System, Experts Warn

11th May 2020

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Women and minorities hardest hit.

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Lower Costs, Laid-Back Lifestyle Continue to Draw Tech Companies to Austin, Texas

11th May 2020

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And you’ll be surrounded by the same communists you knew in California.

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Texans Put ‘Welcome to Texas’ Signs Around Oklahoma So Californians Will Move There Instead

11th May 2020

Babylon Bee.

Still, it’s a really good idea….

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Springtime for Joggers

11th May 2020

ZMan looks at the latest race-pimp scam.

Thanks to the relentless anti-white animus, America and the world now has a new colorful euphemism for a certain element of society. The word “jogger” is now the preferred word of choice to describe the young black male creeping around in the neighborhood, looking for trouble. Over the weekend, the funnymen and meme makers had fun with the story of Ahmaud Arbery, the black male shot and killed by two white men in Georgia during a confrontation.

Ref: Suspect identified in deadly shooting of couple at Delaware Veterans cemetery

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Thought for the Day: Error Types

11th May 2020

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The Lynching of a Black Jogger

11th May 2020

Jim Goad.

According to a letter from the Waycross, GA District Attorney’s office:

The video made by William Bryan clearly shows the shooting in realtime. From said video it appears Ahmaud Arbery was running along the right side of the McMichael truck then abruptly turns 90 degrees to the left and attacks Travis McMichael who was standing at the front left corner of the truck. A brief skirmish ensues in which it appear [sic] Arbery strikes McMichael and appears to grab the shotgun and pull it from McMichael. The shot is through Arbery’s right hand palm which is consistent with him grabbing and pulling the shotgun at the barrel tip, the 2nd and 3rd wounds are consistent with the struggle for the shotgun as depicted in the video, the angle of the 2nd shot with the rear of the buttstock being pushed away and down from the fight are also consistent with the upward angle of blood plume shown in the video and that McMichael was attempting to push the gun away from Arbery while Arbery was pulling it toward himself.
The 3rd shot too appears to be in a struggle over the gun. The angle of the shots and the video show this was from the beginning or almost immediately became– a fight over the shotgun.

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What’s next in the Flynn case?

11th May 2020

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The Washington Post’s editors argue that Sullivan should not dismiss the case against Flynn. Their editorial does not address or acknowledge the legal standard for denying the DOJ’s motion. Instead, it argues the merits of the case against Flynn.

The Post does so in a one-sided and less than fully honest way. The title of the editorial (paper edition) is “A blow to impartial justice.” Yet, the Post doesn’t mention the evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, described in detail in the DOJ’s motion, that underlies the Department’s decision. That evidence shows that Flynn did not receive “impartial justice” from the FBI. In my view, the FBI’s misconduct was so egregious and so plainly motivated by political considerations as to justify dismissing this case in the interest of justice.

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

10th May 2020

Court Halts Ban on Mass Gatherings at Kentucky Churches

“Your Every Move Will Be Watched”: Post-COVID Offices To Resemble China’s Social Credit System

Singapore releases the robot hounds to enforce social distancing in parks

“The first day was really hard”: Life as a contact tracer

Illinois Governor: No End In Sight For Masks, Social Distancing

Gowdy Identifies Reporters Who Allegedly Peddled Misleading Adam Schiff Leaks

The Price of Covid Freedom May Be Eternal Spying  Bloomberg.

These Are The Most Outrageous Coronavirus Restrictions

Brian Watt: How Aussie Police Celebrate Mother’s Day

 

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

10th May 2020

The Targeting of Willie Soon

Cold Air Rises – How Wrong Are Our Global Climate Models?

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

10th May 2020

‘AM Joy’ Panel Blames NRA, the ‘Rise of Trumpism’ for Ahmaud Arbery Murder

Obama Lashes Out at Trump: ‘Absolute Chaotic Disaster’  Getting ready for the election we are.

On PBS, Mark Shields Slams Bill Barr for Ruining Himself, Becoming ‘Trump’s Roy Cohn’

I Knew Nothing! Obama Official Evelyn Farkas Admitted She Lied On MSNBC About Collusion

NBC Cheers Task Force Quarantines as a Rebuke of Trump and Reopening

Atlanta Mayor Lays Blame On White House For Ahmaud Arbery Shooting  Trump was right there! He pulled the trigger! Look at the video!

Trump Snaps Over Obama Criticism, Says Swine Flu Response Was A ‘Disaster’  Two can play that game.

Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Trump Tax Returns Cases

Fox Media Panel Slams HuffPost for ‘Irresponsible’ and ‘Petty’ Trump Coverage

 

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53 Transcripts: The Forrest Gump of Campaigns

10th May 2020

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A few days ago, the House Intelligence Committee finally released transcripts of 53 interviews it conducted in 2017-18 regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. Though the Committee had voted in November 2018 to release the transcripts after national security reviews for classified information were completed, new chairman Adam Schiff refused to do so until now because he had repeatedly lied to the media and public about what was said in those interviews and releasing the transcripts would show he was lying.

Under pressure from Acting DNI Richard Grenell, who publicly announced release was fine from a national security perspective and threatened to release the transcripts himself, Schiff finally relented.

I’ve now read 19 of the 53 interviews and will write at more length when finished but wanted to pass along some fascinating quotes. And, by the way, it’ll come as no surprise there is absolutely no evidence, direct or indirect, in what I’ve read so far of any collusion between the Trump campaign or Trump personally with the Russians.

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Stelter: ‘Right-Wing Media’ Trying to ‘Downplay’ Virus Deaths By Covering Flynn Case

10th May 2020

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And the left-wing media are trying to obscure the injustice done to Flynn by handwaving hysteria about virus deaths.

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Connecticut Senator Claims COVID-19 Pandemic Has Killed “70 Million Americans”

10th May 2020

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I guess being able to read and to count are not a requirement for Senators from Blue states.

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“We Sent Them Samples of a Goat, a Papaya & a Pheasant”: Tanzanian President Catches WHO in Epic Lie

10th May 2020

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As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases explodes across Africa, the creeping involvement of the WHO has made some leaders suspicious of the NGO. Tanzanian President John Magufuli was growing suspicious of the organization, so he reportedly decided to investigate whether the organization was as trustworthy and reliable as it claimed to be.

He played what the local press described as “a trick” on the organization: He sent the WHO samples of a goat, a papaya and a quail for testing.

All three samples reportedly tested positive. When the president heard the news, he reportedly confronted the WHO, then kicked the organization out of the country. Though, to be sure, the WHO has yet to comment on the situation.

UPDATE: Has The WHO Done Anything Correctly? One More Example Of their Incompetence…Or Malfeasance (You Be The Judge)

 

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The Basic Problem of Democracy

10th May 2020

Walter Lippmann in 1919.

From our recent experience [WWI and Woodrow Wilson] it is clear that the traditional liberties of speech and opinion rest on no solid foundation. At a time when the world needs above all other things the activity of generous imaginations and the creative leadership of planning and inventive minds, our thinking is shriveled with panic. Time and energy that should go to building and restoring are instead consumed in warding off the pin-pricks of prejudice and fighting a guerilla war against misunderstanding and intolerance. For suppression is felt, not simply by the scattered individuals who are actually suppressed. It reaches back into the steadiest minds, creating tension everywhere; and the tension of fear produces sterility. Men cease to say what they think; and when they cease to say it, they soon cease to think it. They think in reference to their critics and not in reference to the facts. For when thought becomes socially hazardous, men spend more time wondering about the hazard than they do in developing their thought. Yet nothing is more certain than that mere bold resistance will not permanently liberate men’s minds. The problem is not only greater than that, but different, and the time is ripe for reconsideration. We have learned that many of the hard-won rights of man are utterly insecure. It may be that we cannot make them secure simply by imitating the earlier champions of liberty.

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Harden Not Their Hearts (or Minds)

10th May 2020

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Immigration restriction comes to mind. When someone tells me that I hold my positions because of racism, despite my having laid out my actual reasons, then my heart and my mind closes. There is no conversation anymore, there is no compromise, there is only strife. War. Pick your issue — abortion, same-sex marriage, gun control, whatever. When my interlocutor insists that I want to impose racism, control women’s wombs, or see people die, I stop caring what they say because they obviously don’t care what I’m saying. I stop listening to them because they’re obviously not listening to me. When that happens, there is no way we can have any sort of exchange or even come away with a mutually agreeable plan. On the other hand, people can and do change minds when we’re actually talking about the same things and not mischaracterizing others. At least we understand each other and can continue with love and trust.

Exactly so. This, I think, points up the difference between Left and Right. The Right think that the Left are wrong. The Left think that the Right are evil. You can argue with someone you think is wrong, but there is no arguing with evil.

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Our Garbage Media

10th May 2020

Steve Hayward at Powerline does a little venting.

There’s no shortage of examples of our garbage media at work, but now and then a few examples start to pile up to the point it trips my annoyance threshold.

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

9th May 2020

Greenwashing Is Real—Here’s How to Avoid It  Architectural Digest does some virtue-signaling.

Potentially fatal bouts of heat and humidity on the rise, study finds  The Guardian. It’s a study, so it must be right. Science!

An Ancient Type of El Niño Could Awaken Because of Climate Change  It could! It could!

Mexico’s President Is Betting Big AGAINST Renewables

Prediction tool shows how forest thinning may increase Sierra Nevada snowpack

NY Times Whines: GOP Science ‘Denialists’ ‘Seized’ on Wacky Green New Deal

The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance

Is Online Grocery Shopping Better for the Planet?  Wired ‘Science’ (Only if you don’t use Amazon because Jeff Bezos is a child of Satan or Trump, whichever is worse)

 

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Today in Progressive Totalitarianism

9th May 2020

No, there’s nothing ‘tyrannical’ about wearing a mask now  NR Cuck Jonah Goldberg. Guess what, Jonah:The tyranny is not in wearing the mask, it is requiring that the mask be worn.

The EU has admitted it let China censor an op-ed by the bloc’s ambassadors

$2,000 Per Person Plus $2,000 Per Child: Monthly Economic Crisis Support Act Would Send Payments To Over 90% Of Americans  ‘Never let a crisis go to waste.’

Defense Secretary Esper stood beside World War II veterans — without a mask  Washinton Post. The horror! The horror!

Chicago Murder Rate Soars Despite Stay-At-Home Orders, Activists Blame “Lockdown Segregation” 

Beware Of Plans To “Build Back Better”

Authoritarianism In The Age Of Pseudoscience

California Sues Energy Companies For Gas Price Gouging After Voters Nearly Revolted Over Fuel Taxes

Does YouTube Consider Chinese Communist Party to Be an ‘Authoritative Source?’

How Many Lives Will Politicians Sacrifice In The Name Of Fighting COVID-19?

“Contact Tracer” And “Disease Investigator” Jobs Spring Up Across The Country

China Asked The WHO To Help Cover Up Coronavirus, German Intelligence Concludes

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

9th May 2020

What It Means When Trump Doesn’t Wear A Mask  The psychics at NPR do some mind-reading.

A single Kayleigh McEnany quote gives away the game  Washington Post. Of course there has to be a ‘game’.

Bill Maher: Liberal Media Has Allowed ‘Joe Biden, Sex Monster’ To Overshadow ‘Donald Trump, Lethal Incompetent’

Jimmy Kimmel Offers Backhanded Apology After Viral Mike Pence Joke Gets Debunked

Trump made Florida his official residence. He may have also made a legal mess.  Washington Post.

NPR’s Michel Martin Cues Journalist to Hint Trump Voters Are Racist

MSNBC Claims Putin Was Behind Dropping the Michael Flynn Case  Really, you can’t make this shit up.

The Nation: NFL Part of Trump Re-election Campaign, Risking Players’ Lives

Tucker Carlson: Every Time Adam Schiff Said He Had Evidence Of Russia Collusion ‘He Was Lying’

Did Obama Defense Deputy Lie To Protect Her Fraudulent Russiagate Sources?

FLASHBACK: NBC Prez Declared We Are Winning War With White House (Fired One Week Later)

Obama, Biden Oval Office Meeting On January 5 Was Key To Entire Anti-Trump Operation

Obama Claims ‘No Precedent’ In Flynn Dismissal — There Is, And His Own AG Eric Holder Used It

MSNBC’s Melber Refuses To Confront Schiff About Transcripts

Source Finds Nasty Anti-Kushner NY Times Story Didn’t ‘Fully Reflect My Experience’

Barack Obama criticises Donald Trump’s handling of pandemic calling it a ‘chaotic disaster’  As if he could have done half as well.

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Musk Rails Against California’s ‘Ignorant’ Health Officials, Says He’s Moving Tesla’s HQ To Texas

9th May 2020

Read it.

Took him long enough.

UPDATE: Tesla’s Musk Suing California County for Blocking Reopening

 

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Lockdown Skeptics

9th May 2020

Check it out.

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Thought for the Day

9th May 2020

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Today in Global Warming Hysteria

8th May 2020

9 of the World’s Most Unique Eco-Friendly Buildings

Hundreds of non-recyclable fiberglass wind turbine blades are pictured piling up in landfill

Green hydrogen’s time has come, say advocates eying post-pandemic world

“Predictive models” rarely are predictive  They just pretend to be.

Shocker: Thick ice in Hudson Bay portends a good year for Polar Bears

 

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Today in Trump Derangement Syndrome

8th May 2020

‘Sickening!’: Juan Williams Says Flynn Dismissal Is ‘Politicization Of Law’ To Save Trump  Black is White, Up is Down, Freedom is Slavery; the Ministry of Truth has spoken.

CNN, MSNBC Suffer EPIC Meltdowns Over ‘Nuts,’ ‘Terrifying’ Flynn Decision; ‘The Fix Is In!’

ABC Meltdown Over Justice Department ‘Blowing Up’ Flynn Case So He ‘Walks Free’

Joy Behar Says She’s Staying Home ‘At Least Until November When Trump Is Out Of Office’  And there was much rejoicing.

Jimmy Kimmel (Almost) Apologizes For Spreading Fake News About Mike Pence

Journalists Rush to Share Debunked Jimmy Kimmel Clip of Pence Delivering Empty PPE Boxes

Whoopi Goldberg Says She’s Staying On ‘The View’: ‘Someone Needs To Stand Up’ To The President  He might even notice.

Jimmy Kimmel’s Doctored Video Of Mike Pence Labeled ‘Manipulated Media’ By Twitter

Melinda Gates Gives Trump a “D” For His Response to Coronavirus  And of course she has the expertise to grade the President, having become rich and important by … marrying a rich guy.

1. Democrat Operative With History of Fake News Tweets Lie. 2. Trump Deranged Chubby Clown Jimmy Kimmel Blasts It Out. 3. Alleged “Journalists” Retweet It Without Any Fact-Checking.

 

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