So General Wesley Clark shows up on Laura ingraham’s show today and states flatly that Condoleezza Rice caused 911 to happen.
My curiosity on this point is pretty much the same as someone watching a train wreck…. Apparently the general is struggling for relevance in a Post Obama world… But ultimately I only have one thing to say.
From Sarah Hoyt:
YES, INDEED, PEOPLE GET NOTORIOUSLY DEPRESSED IN BALMY WEATHER. THAT’S WHY EVERYONE IS MOVING TO NORTH DAKOTA FOR THE WINTER: Claim: Global warming to cause more suicides.
Well, let them. If nothing else it’ll resolve the question of the midterm elections. (Shrug)
The only people that are going to be worried about this enough to off themselves despite all evidence to the contrary, are people who’ve been buying the global warming scenario since it was global cooling.
Longtime online friend Ed Driscoll notes via instapundit that the New York Daily News is in effect going belly-up.
The fact of the matter is that the place has been swinging to the extreme left for some time now. As such it’s been going the way of the supposed mainstream media who has also been swinging left, just, unbelievably, not quite as far as the Daily News has.
When you get too far to the left to attract the attention and devotion of New York City types who just got through electing a socialist are not so long ago and went headlong for Hillary Clinton… You are at the very least doubly removed from reality.
With the fast demise of left-wing “newsrooms” around the country and the unbridled success of outlets such as Fox News, you would think they would take the hint by now.
Passed along by a reader…
A few days ago, Jack Minzey, sent what was to be the final chapter in the long line of books and treatises which he had written. Jack died on Sunday, 8 April 2018.
Professionally, Jack was head of the Department of Education at Eastern Michigan University as well as a prolific author of numerous books, most of which were on the topic of Education and the Government role therein. His interest in Conservative Politics was exceeded only by his intellectual ability. This is the last of his works.
Civil War
How do civil wars happen?
Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge. That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.
The Mueller investigation is about removing President Trump from office and overturning the results of an election. We all know that. But it’s not the first time they’ve done this. The first time a Republican president was elected this century, they said he didn’t really win. The Supreme Court gave him the election. There’s a pattern here.
What do sure odds of the Democrats rejecting the next Republican president really mean? It means they don’t accept the results of any election that they don’t win. It means they don’t believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by elections.
That’s a civil war.
There’s no shooting. At least not unless you count the attempt to kill a bunch of Republicans at a charity baseball game practice. But the Democrats have rejected our system of government.
This isn’t dissent. It’s not disagreement. You can hate the other party. You can think they’re the worst thing that ever happened to the country. But then you work harder to win the next election. When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don’t win, what you want is a dictatorship. Your very own dictatorship.
The only legitimate exercise of power in this country, according to Democrats, is its own. Whenever Republicans exercise power, it’s inherently illegitimate. The Democrats lost Congress. They lost the White House. So what did they do? They began trying to run the country through Federal judges and bureaucrats. Every time that a Federal judge issues an order saying that the President of the United States can’t scratch his own back without his say so, that’s the civil war.
Our system of government is based on the constitution, but that’s not the system that runs this country. The Democrat’s system is that any part of government that it runs gets total and unlimited power over the country.
If the Democrats are in the White House, then the president can do anything. And I mean anything. He can have his own amnesty for illegal aliens. He can fine you for not having health insurance. His power is unlimited. He’s a dictator
But when Republicans get into the White House, suddenly the President can’t do anything. He isn’t even allowed to undo the illegal alien amnesty that his predecessor illegally invented. A Democrat in the White House has ‘discretion’ to completely decide every aspect of immigration policy. A Republican doesn’t even have the ‘discretion’ to reverse him. That’s how the game is played That’s how our country is run. Sad but true, although the left hasn’t yet won that particular fight.
When a Democrat is in the White House, states aren’t even allowed to enforce immigration law. But when a Republican is in the White House, states can create their own immigration laws. Under Obama, a state wasn’t allowed to go to the bathroom without asking permission. But under Trump, Jerry Brown can go around saying that California is an independent republic and sign treaties with other countries.
The Constitution has something to say about that.
Whether it’s Federal or State, Executive, Legislative or Judiciary, the left moves power around to run the country If it controls an institution, then that institution is suddenly the supreme power in the land. This is what I call a moving dictatorship.
Donald Trump has caused the Shadow Government to come out of hiding: Professional government is a guild. Like medieval guilds. You can’t serve in if you’re not a member. If you haven’t been indoctrinated into its arcane rituals. If you aren’t in the club. And Trump isn’t in the club. He brought in a bunch of people who aren’t in the club with him.
Now we’re seeing what the pros do when amateurs try to walk in on them. They spy on them, they investigate them and they send them to jail. They use the tools of power to bring them down.
That’s not a free country
It’s not a free country when FBI agents who support Hillary take out an ‘insurance policy’ against Trump winning the election. It’s not a free country when Obama officials engage in massive unmasking of the opposition. It’s not a free country when the media responds to the other guy winning by trying to ban the conservative media that supported him from social media. It’s not a free country when all of the above collude together to overturn an election because the guy who wasn’t supposed to win did.
Have no doubt, we’re in a civil war between conservative volunteer government and a leftist Democrat professional government.
“One of the penalties of not participating in politics is that you will be governed by your inferiors.” Plato
Via PowerLine, I notice Andrew McCarthy:
“I’m really embarrassed because I told people for months that this could never, ever happen….It’s astonishing. It’s as if they took the dossier and slapped a caption on it to give it to the judge. They ought to be looking at the judges who signed this stuff.”
What’s he talking about? About the FISA court and Carter Page of course.
It it turns out Devon Nunes was absolutely correct, that the court had been weaponized and, even in that context, abused by the Obama Administration, for the purpose of gaining political power.
In fairness to Andy McCarthy he was working on the assumption that we had a white house that gives a damn about the law. What we ended up with, the Obama Administration, is a group of people who were actually more corrupt then the Clinton Administration which is certainly saying something.
Isn’t it interesting that the warnings the Democrats gave us about the Bush Administration as regards the possible abuses of the court and other post 9/11 actions of the Bush Administration, never came to fruition but those abuses did in fact happen when Democrats had power?
Look, is there anybody who is seriously willing to consider that the Bush Administration initiated such tactics much less followed through with them? is there anybody who is willing to suggest that the FISA court was politicized by the Republicans?
No.
The fact of the matter is that the Democrat Party warnings of post 9-11 were true, except that it was the Democrats themselves that couldn’t be trusted with those post 9/11 powers. We now have proof that it was the Democrats who politicized those powers and use them to gain and maintain their own political power.
The only question remaining at this point is why these people are not in jail.
I’ve been saying for many years now that the more power government has, the more important it is that we put people of conscience, of value, and of Integrity into those positions of power. Clearly the Democrats do not meet that criteria. (There’s a number of Republicans that don’t either but let’s take this one crisis at a time, shall we?)
Let’s start out by placing members of the Obama Administration behind bars for the remainder of their existence on this planet. Including Obama himself, and Felonia Von Pantsuit.
The FBI redacted application to spy on US citizen Carter Page has dropped and it amounts to dog poop, from John Hinderaker, Power Line:
[T]he [FISA] application relies to an astonishing degree on anti-Trump news stories published in the Democratic Party press. Does the FBI really get surveillance warrants on the basis of partisan press accounts? Apparently so.
The FBI and the DOJ, attested to a federal judge that Carter Page was a Russian agent. not once but four times. Yet Fearless Leader, b/k/a Special Counsel Robert Mueller, has never charged Page with any such crime.
Rather what happened is that Dumbo, he of big ears and a small brain, b/k/a former President Barack Obama, weaponized the FBI to act as legal arm of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.
Has anyone noticed? For decades, the left hated the FBI, the CIA, and our intelligence people in general.
Now, suddenly, they’re DEFENDING them.
According to a report in the Washington Times, Donald Trump won the popular vote as well as the electoral votes.
This despite the vote fraud which the left has been claiming does not exist. Of course, that argument went out the window as well with this report, also from one of two newspapers in the DC area worth the paper it’s printed on, the Washington Times. (And no, the other one isn’t the Washington Post.)
One wonders what kind of reaction we are going to see out of the Democrats over this one…I wouldn’t expect to see this story in the New York Times or on CBS NBC ABC or that help us, CNN. They’re in full fledged denial these days.
Let’s face it, for the last several months they’ve been acting out of hysteria that makes Chicken Little look reasonable. They’re already set on volume 11. You don’t get louder than that.
Maybe they’ll start claiming that Donald Trump won only because of vote fraud. I’m making popcorn, myself.
Peter Strzok used more profanity that a full compliment of sailors on shore leave. Yet when tasked with investigating Mrs. Clinton use and abuse of her personal email server to handle government communications, Strzok wiffed, from IBD:
At one point during Peter Strzok’s congressional testimony last week, Rep. Louie Gohmert made a stunning claim: FBI investigators were told that Clinton’s emails had been surreptitiously forwarded to a “foreign entity.” And the FBI investigators who were allegedly conducting a thorough, unbiased, professional probe into Clinton’s mishandling of classified materials ignored it.
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So, in short, one of the lead investigators in the Clinton email case apparently learned that a foreign entity was getting all Clinton’s emails — including many that contained classified information — and … did nothing.
It seems that Strzok was so bent on clearing Mrs. Clinton and so obsessed with Russia, that he ignored anything which did not conform to his preordained narrative. And to think Strzok was claiming to run an investigation or two. If Tom Sawyer had only put so much white wash, he might have actually painted the fence.
Article III, Section 3: from Legal Information Institute:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
The British had a rather low definition of treason. For example, if you denied that God gave King George the right to rule over you, you were guilty of Treason. The Founding Fathers did not approve of such a whimsical definition, and codified a much higher definition, see above.
Evidently, if media/liberal complex ever read the Constitution, they don’t remember it. Note one John Brennan. a man who admitted to voting for a communist for President, from Investor’s Business Daily:
Former CIA Director John Brennan, in particular, sounded like someone in need of intervention in his tweet: “Donald Trump’s press performance in Helsinki rises to & exceeds the threshold of ‘high crimes and misdemeanors. It was nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots: Where are you???”
So maybe the Brennan standard, such as it is, holds that while it is permissible to vote for a communist it is treasonous to actually talk to one.
Now how do you suppose this happened?
At least 21 papers were duped last week, including big-market brands like the Dallas Morning News and The Washington Times. They ran identical letters over a four-day period, each signed by a different person.
The effort is an example of public-relations ‘astroturfing,’ a technique meant to simulate genuine grassroots support for an idea or cause.
The form letter is one small piece of the message minefield erupting around Kavanaugh as he prepares for a brutal confirmation process that will end with scant support from Democrats.
Well, first of all, I suppose it should be noted that the claim in the AstroTurf letter is that the appointee to the Supreme Court will supposedly work against everything America stands for. Only in the mind of a rabid leftist is actually holding to the original intent of the Constitution anti-American.
It used be universally held that a national leader’s primary goal was to act in his nation’s best interest. Not so anymore, from Clarice Feldman, American Thinker:
It’s all Alice in Wonderland stuff, isn’t it? Democrats and anti-Trumpers think it’s perfectly fine for European leaders to put their own national interests first while criticizing the president for promoting and defending ours while calling out our allies’ hypocrisy. For them, it’s fine for the special counsel to waste time and money by indicting foreign nationals, over whom he lacks jurisdiction, for hacking unsecured communications made in violation of national security regulations, while he’s never going after the perpetrators here, including Hillary Clinton, who made such hacking possible and likely.
If the dolt’s of National Review think it is important to maintain NATO to protect Europe, why don’t they all profess that it is important for our so-called European allies to contribute their own share to their own self-defenss?
Eric questioned Fearless Leader’s, b/k/a Special Counsel Robert Mueller timing Mark Tapscott questions Fearless Leader’s motives, from Lifezette:
The point of the indictment is to set the predicate for Mueller’s forthcoming case that Trump’s campaign knew in advance about the staged releases and prepared campaign strategy accordingly. And that will be called “collusion.”
Can anybody explain how “attempted hacking” can be established without ever having access to the computer systems alleged to be targeted? Might be time to start a Go Fund me page to bring over the twelve Boris Badinoff’s?
So now, Muller comes up with 12 more indictments against Russians.
It’s the “now’ part that gets me.
Does anybody suppose that this wasn’t specifically time to draw attention away from Strzok, and the link to uranium, Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama?
Here’s another interesting little tidbit… these 12 Russians are charged with hacking into DNC servers and Hillary Clinton’s private email server when, so far, no government official involved in this investigation has dared even look at those servers.
Go ahead. Tell me this whole thing hasn’t been staged as a part of a cover-up of immense proportions.
Let’s start with Billy Beck:
#Strzok: A performance that would make Alger Hiss take professional notice.
Then, Roger Simon:
Watch #PeterStrozk testify is like watching a Soviet apparatchik testify at a Stalin purge trial.
Yeah, pretty much. But let’s take this a step farther.
It strikes me as absolutely true that the smirk you see here is that of a made man… Someone who believes at the center of his being that he’s not going to be seeing the inside of a jail cell. Let’s examine why.
It turns out that six of Strzok’s family, are involved in uranium.
Unless you’re absolutely brain-dead that immediately brings to mind the uranium one deal, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama.
Oh… there’s another connection of course. It turns out that on his last day in office Barack Obama pardoned one of Strzok’s family, and Obama has had a good relationship with that family since 1988.
Add all of this up and one gets the decided impression that there is something major on the verge of being exposed here… Beyond even what has been exposed already. Between the uranium one thing, Strzok, his girlfriend, and the faked Russia collusion investigation somebody is desperately covering their tracks… and it apparently goes right to the Obama White House and to the Democrat Party.
I personally think that our country would be far better off with Trey Gowdy as Attorney General. The man was absolutely on fire at the hearing and his “take no prisoners’ attitude is precisely what is needed for finally getting to the bottom of all this.
Whatever, the bit with uranium is the key here. The linchpin that holds all of this together. The Democrats have been very sensitive indeed to any investigation going down that particular road and I think it’s about time we were ripped the cover off of it. And I think Trey Gowdy is the man to do that.
This Uranium One thing, and our government handling of it subsequently, has the bouquet of an Aborigines armpit. These links between Clinton Obama and Strzok are not accidental.
Does anyone seriously believe that there was no bias in this FBI investigation?
Ann Coulter:
Peter Strzok’s wife threatened to leave until he explained that not once did he let his affair with Lisa Page affect any specific actions he took in their marriage.
One gets the impression that if the American people ever really understood all of this, we would see demands for jail time. This is a level of corruption that most people can’t even imagine happening in our government, and it has happened.
Let me be the first. I want people in jail over all this… For the rest of their natural lives… and then dig them up and put them in jail again.
There is no trusting our government until such time as we put these people in jail, permanently. That message needs to be sent to Washington, now.
