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Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d’état

Trump Guilty of Obstructing a Coup d'étatHeed the call of the Woke Caucus and let them bring their articles of impeachment to the floor of the House. Political super-geniuses like Green New Deal Girl and the one who might have married her brother are totally in touch with the groundswell of popular support for impeachment—their constituents in New York and Mogadishu West are 100% behind it! —Kurt Schlichter “Come On Democrats, Impeach Trump!”

Well, okay, technically President Trump is not guilty of obstructing the Deep State’s attempt to frame him with bogus evidence…an attempt which, as I understand things, amounts to, at the least, Seditious Conspiracy by certain Deep State heavy hitters.

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Code Pink upset no one wants to join its pro-Maduro Venezuela sit-in

It’s not easy being a crazy leftist these days.

Word has gotten out about the mass starvation, crushing repression, and refugee crisis brought on by Venezuela’s brutal socialist dictatorship, and now no one wants to jump in to support Code Pink’s sit-in to defend the regime at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington.

Get a load:

 

 

The photo shows a whopping six Code Pinksters involved in this obnoxious little stunt, with only one of them, founder Medea Benjamin, in pink, something that raises questions about the commitment of the protestors. This group has so little public support it can’t even get its own people to put on the Pepto-Bismol pink. It suggests that even the Code Pinksters themselves (so very abundant in congressional yell-ins) are staying away from this particular protest like a bad smell.

They should. Starvation pictures now coming from Venezuela are horrifying. The latest news from the U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States, Carlos Trujillo, is that half the population of Venezuela – about 15 million people - are expected to flee the hellhole if Maduro retains power, meaning a hell of a refugee mass-migration crisis on the horizon.

And it doesn’t help Code Pink’s cause at all that people on the center-left, such as the writers for the Caracas Chronicle, who use all the language of the ‘woke’ such as ‘peace privilege,’ to denounce groups such as Code Pink. Here’s what one contributor on that high-traffic blog writes:

In these [social media] exchanges, “deniers” of the Venezuelan crisis (most of them tweeting from their peaceful lives in the U.S. or Europe, with no real clue about what it means to survive in present-day Venezuela) attack and provoke Venezuelan social media users. They, in turn, go to painstaking lengths to prove that what these “Starbucks communists” claim and what it takes to actually survive in Venezuela are not correlated.

With an essay like that, denouncing the crazies on the left, center-leftists have made opposition to the Chavista socialist hellhole regime a respectable position even among most leftists. Democrats running for president, seeking the Florida vote, know that Florida’s voters won’t look at a candidate who supports the Code Pink position. Even socialist Bernie Sanders, seems to be trying to distance himself from Venezuela’s failure, though he didn’t earlier when other people’s money was still around. No support from those quarters, either.

Life’s tough when you support odious pariahs. Code Pink didn’t get the memo. Now pariahs are about all they have left.  

It’s not easy being a crazy leftist these days.

Word has gotten out about the mass starvation, crushing repression, and refugee crisis brought on by Venezuela’s brutal socialist dictatorship, and now no one wants to jump in to support Code Pink’s sit-in to defend the regime at the Venezuelan embassy in Washington.

Get a load:

 

 

The photo shows a whopping six Code Pinksters involved in this obnoxious little stunt, with only one of them, founder Medea Benjamin, in pink, something that raises questions about the commitment of the protestors. This group has so little public support it can’t even get its own people to put on the Pepto-Bismol pink. It suggests that even the Code Pinksters themselves (so very abundant in congressional yell-ins) are staying away from this particular protest like a bad smell.

They should. Starvation pictures now coming from Venezuela are horrifying. The latest news from the U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States, Carlos Trujillo, is that half the population of Venezuela – about 15 million people - are expected to flee the hellhole if Maduro retains power, meaning a hell of a refugee mass-migration crisis on the horizon.

And it doesn’t help Code Pink’s cause at all that people on the center-left, such as the writers for the Caracas Chronicle, who use all the language of the ‘woke’ such as ‘peace privilege,’ to denounce groups such as Code Pink. Here’s what one contributor on that high-traffic blog writes:

In these [social media] exchanges, “deniers” of the Venezuelan crisis (most of them tweeting from their peaceful lives in the U.S. or Europe, with no real clue about what it means to survive in present-day Venezuela) attack and provoke Venezuelan social media users. They, in turn, go to painstaking lengths to prove that what these “Starbucks communists” claim and what it takes to actually survive in Venezuela are not correlated.

With an essay like that, denouncing the crazies on the left, center-leftists have made opposition to the Chavista socialist hellhole regime a respectable position even among most leftists. Democrats running for president, seeking the Florida vote, know that Florida’s voters won’t look at a candidate who supports the Code Pink position. Even socialist Bernie Sanders, seems to be trying to distance himself from Venezuela’s failure, though he didn’t earlier when other people’s money was still around. No support from those quarters, either.

Life’s tough when you support odious pariahs. Code Pink didn’t get the memo. Now pariahs are about all they have left.  

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Governor asks Trump to “intervene” against deep state

Somebody is having trouble with the deep state, and this time it’s not President Trump. Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy (R) is asking the president for help tackling what he views as entrenched workers in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (yes… I’m serious) who have been working to thwart oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Bet you didn’t see that one coming. (Government Executive)

A governor is asking the president to intervene with career federal employees, accusing them of “undermining” the sale of lands that would benefit his state.

In a letter to President Trump dated March 1, first made public by the Anchorage Daily News, Gov. Mike Dunleavy, R-Alaska, requesting relief from an array of activities various federal agencies are engaged in through his state. The appeals included many standard state-level concerns, such as more Medicaid funding and exemptions from forestry rules. In one case, however, Dunleavy castigated “career federal employees” he said were intentionally sabotaging efforts to sell off parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling.

“U.S. Fish and Wildlife career employees undermined seismic work this winter, so the sale will occur without valuable data, likely lowering the bids,” Dunleavy wrote. “These same U.S. Fish and Wildlife employees are working to undermine the lease sale.”

The bottom line here is that the ANWR leasing arrangement was part of the 2017 tax bill that President Trump signed. But you don’t just kick off a process like that overnight. In order for the states or the federal government to get top dollar for such leases, a number of studies have to be performed. Core samples are extracted and analyzed, and as with this case, seismic information is gathered. All of this allows energy companies to better understand the makeup of the terrain and predict how much oil and gas might be found there. The more solid (and positive) the data, the more they will be likely to bid for the lease.

In Alaska, some of those tasks fall to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. But nearly two years after the measure was approved, the studies have still not been completed and signed off on. That means that some of the leases either won’t happen or will bring in less money than they should. So is this the deep state in action?

You can shout about paranoia all you like, but Dunleavy (and Trump) have some valid concerns in this regard. Back in 2017, Politico’s Michael Crowley was already talking about the reality of the deep state, though he obviously saw it as more of a conservative, military industrial complex issue. He wrote, “There really is a kind of cabal that operates independently of elected officials in Washington—even if it’s not quite what Trump or his conservative allies think it is.”

There’s no reason that the Fish and Wildlife Service should be immune to this phenomenon. Any large government organization is composed of an army of people who largely stay in that department for much of their careers and they don’t get replaced every time a new administration comes into power. How the organization evolves in its earliest days will largely determine what its deep state attributes look like. Those who rise to middle and senior management positions will no doubt lean toward hiring and promoting new talent with a similar world view. And those new arrivals will, in turn, do the same thing when they advance. Over a sufficient period of years, you find yourself with an entrenched culture that is very resistant to change.

If the agency has a liberal tilt when a new conservative director is appointed by the next president, they can either lie low or perhaps even take quiet actions to thwart (or at least slow down) new policies of the incoming leadership. And if they wait long enough, another president from the other party will be elected sooner or later and they can return to business as usual. When you consider these patterns in hiring and retention and the sort of people who would likely be attracted to the Fish and Wildlife Service (environmentalists), are Governor Dunleavy’s accusations really all that shocking?

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Those filthy Teslas

A Tesla Model 3 emits more carbon dioxide emissions than a Mercedes C220d diesel sedan, according to a new study by German think tank IFO. That’s right, the supposedly ‘green’ electric car of the future so touted by the wealthy virtue-signalers, is actually filthier than your garden variety diesel-powered sedan.

The Wall Street Journal has an editorial about it, and the Daily Caller has some additional context. DC’s Michael Bastasch lays it out with:

When the CO2 emissions from battery production is included, electric cars, like Teslas, are “in the best case, slightly higher than those of a diesel engine, and are otherwise much higher,” reads a release from the German think tank IFO.

Here are a pair of tweets:

 

 

 

 

So it turns out the $35,000-at-the-low-end cars for rich people, rolling down places like Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills to virtue-signal all that greenness, courtesy of taxpayer subsidies and a $7,000 tax credit, are really rolling filth machines, dirtying up the air much worse than the average Joe buying his pudknocker Mercedes. IFO found that when you calculate the pollution cost of just manufacturing the electrical green car’s giant battery, the scale tips toward dirtier-than-thou, not a cleaner-than-thou, car. 

And the Journal notes that these cars, in Germany, which is failing to meet its virtue-signalling Paris climate targets up the wazoo, (unlike the U.S.), are heavily subsidized as well.

Berlin for years has offered thousands of euros in subsidies to electric-car buyers to get a million of them on the road. The European Union lets manufacturers claim an implausible zero emissions for electric cars under its strict emissions limits. They may have this exactly backward in some European countries.

These subsidies and exemptions inevitably divert consumer euros and corporate investment toward electric vehicles no matter their true environmental impact.

 No kidding.

What a fraud this whole rich man’s plaything is. And somehow, we don’t hear cries of ‘tax the rich!’ from leftist politicians over this pollution imposition on us. Rich leftists are dirtying our air so they can virtue-signal to us — and they’re making us pay for it, too. 

Bastasch notes that Congress is actually considering extending the electrical car tax breaks, so the virtue-signallers can keep their status symbols. Get ready for more pollution, then. Such a fraud.

A Tesla Model 3 emits more carbon dioxide emissions than a Mercedes C220d diesel sedan, according to a new study by German think tank IFO. That’s right, the supposedly ‘green’ electric car of the future so touted by the wealthy virtue-signalers, is actually filthier than your garden variety diesel-powered sedan.

The Wall Street Journal has an editorial about it, and the Daily Caller has some additional context. DC’s Michael Bastasch lays it out with:

When the CO2 emissions from battery production is included, electric cars, like Teslas, are “in the best case, slightly higher than those of a diesel engine, and are otherwise much higher,” reads a release from the German think tank IFO.

Here are a pair of tweets:

 

 

 

 

So it turns out the $35,000-at-the-low-end cars for rich people, rolling down places like Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills to virtue-signal all that greenness, courtesy of taxpayer subsidies and a $7,000 tax credit, are really rolling filth machines, dirtying up the air much worse than the average Joe buying his pudknocker Mercedes. IFO found that when you calculate the pollution cost of just manufacturing the electrical green car’s giant battery, the scale tips toward dirtier-than-thou, not a cleaner-than-thou, car. 

And the Journal notes that these cars, in Germany, which is failing to meet its virtue-signalling Paris climate targets up the wazoo, (unlike the U.S.), are heavily subsidized as well.

Berlin for years has offered thousands of euros in subsidies to electric-car buyers to get a million of them on the road. The European Union lets manufacturers claim an implausible zero emissions for electric cars under its strict emissions limits. They may have this exactly backward in some European countries.

These subsidies and exemptions inevitably divert consumer euros and corporate investment toward electric vehicles no matter their true environmental impact.

 No kidding.

What a fraud this whole rich man’s plaything is. And somehow, we don’t hear cries of ‘tax the rich!’ from leftist politicians over this pollution imposition on us. Rich leftists are dirtying our air so they can virtue-signal to us — and they’re making us pay for it, too. 

Bastasch notes that Congress is actually considering extending the electrical car tax breaks, so the virtue-signallers can keep their status symbols. Get ready for more pollution, then. Such a fraud.

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Trump Rocks The House At Annual NRA Convention

Despite the best efforts of the socialist left and their Parkland puppets, the National Rifle Association is alive and well…

The nation’s foremost defenders of the Second Amendment were targeted by an organized, well-funded and anti-American pressure campaign led by fascist punk David Hogg and his Twitter mob following the horrific massacre at a South Florida High School last year.

The media joined with the socialists to crush the NRA and while the organization suffered a series of body blows, they are still standing and on Friday, President Donald J. Trump addressed the annual convention in Indianapolis before a raucous crowd of enthusiastic patriots.

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The president also dealt another blow to the globalist gangsters when he announced that the U.S. would be pulling out of the United Nations arms treaty.

Via Reuters “Trump pulling U.S. out of U.N. arms treaty, heeding NRA”:

President Donald Trump told the National Rifle Association on Friday he was pulling the United States out of an international arms treaty signed in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama but opposed by the NRA and other conservative groups.

Trump told members of the gun lobby at an annual meeting he intends to revoke the status of the United States as a signatory to the Arms Trade Treaty, which was never ratified by the U.S. Senate.

“We’re taking our signature back,” Trump said to thousands of cheering attendees, many wearing red hats emblazoned with the Republican president’s “Make America Great Again” slogan.

On Twitter, Trump called the decision a defense of “American sovereignty.” In reversing the U.S. position on the pact, he wrote, “We will never allow foreign bureaucrats to trample on your Second Amendment freedoms.”

The NRA has long opposed the treaty, which regulates the $70 billion business in conventional arms and seeks to keep weapons out of the hands of human rights abusers. The lobbying group argues it would undermine domestic gun rights, a view the Obama administration rejected.

The agreement covers weapons exports, ranging from small firearms to tanks, but not domestic sales.

Trump said the United Nations would soon receive formal notice of the withdrawal.

The event wasn’t without controversy as some asshole hurled a cellphone at the POTUS, a stupid and futile gesture.

The culprit’s aim was as bad as his judgment and it didn’t take long before he was arrested.

The NRA along with Trump is a bulwark against the disarmament of millions of law-abiding Americans which is supported by Democrats led by Rep. Eric Swalwell who all understand that they will be unable to impose their vision of a totalitarian socialist utopia with themselves in command as long as the citizenry is able to fight back.

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FBI Raids Corrupt Baltimore Mayor’s Home As Scandal Explodes

Things just got real for Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, a Democrat who rules over a city that has become one of the biggest shitholes in America.

On Thursday morning, the FBI raided Pugh’s home as the scandal-plagued politician’s woes continue to mount over her alleged chicanery involving bulk sales of her self-published series of children’s books and kickbacks.

Pugh has been on an indefinite leave of absence for alleged health reasons and has faced numerous calls for her resignation although she continues to collect her paycheck.

On Thursday morning, things just got real for Mayor Pugh.

Via The Associated Press, “Searches by FBI, IRS add to Baltimore mayor’s mounting woes”:

Federal agents raided the homes and City Hall offices of Baltimore’s embattled mayor on Thursday amid dramatically widening investigations to determine whether she used bulk sales of her self-published children’s books to disguise kickbacks.

The multiple early-morning searches pushed the latest political scandal for Maryland’s largest city to a crescendo after weeks of uncertainty and mounting pressure for Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh to step down. The politically isolated first-term mayor, who has long been an avid runner, slipped out of sight April 1, citing deteriorating health, just as the governor called on the state prosecutor to investigate allegations of “self-dealing” by the embattled Democrat.

Gov. Larry Hogan joined calls for her immediate resignation after news broke of the Thursday morning raids, as agents with the FBI and the IRS criminal division carried boxes of evidence out of her City Hall suite. Agents also scoured her two Baltimore homes, the home of an aide and a nonprofit organization she once led.

As for Pugh? There are conflicting reports as to her whereabouts leading to speculation that she has gone on the lam.

According to the Washington Times, “Baltimore mayor whereabouts unknown as FBI, IRS raid her office, home”:

Since April 1, Ms. Pugh has been on a self-imposed, paid leave of absence “to recover from pneumonia.” She has denied any wrongdoing related to her financial dealings, and legal analysts noted that Thursday’s raids did not mean Ms. Pugh has been charged with any crimes.

But her absence has fed questions and rumors about her location. News anchor Rick Ritter for Baltimore’s CBS-TV affiliate WJZ said on Twitter that she had fled the state.

Pugh spokesman James Bentley told The Washington Times on Thursday that he did not know where Ms. Pugh was and would not comment “on speculation about the mayor’s whereabouts.”

Meanwhile, the Mayor’s Office of Public Affairs did not respond to phone calls or emails. A quick survey of its news websites revealed that no updates had been posted since April 1.

In a statement, Ms. Pugh’s attorney, Mr. Silverman, pushed back on the idea his office had been “raided” and said federal agents served a subpoena to collect her original financial records related to her children’s book work.

“We will continue to defend the Mayor, who is entitled to the presumption of innocence,” Mr. Silverman said.

His office told The Times they had no further comments to offer.

The city that was famously portrayed in HBO’s gritty crime series The Wire is every bit as much a sewer of incompetence and political corruption in real life and Pugh has been a major reason as her priorities have catered to those who are race-obsessed social justice warriors at the expense of productive citizens who are fleeing the city in droves.

Among Pugh’s priorities have been the use of taxpayer money to fund the defense of illegal immigrants, banning styrofoam containers, getting rid of civil war monuments and authorizing city resources to send 60 busloads of student activists to last year’s David Hogg lead anti-Second Amendment rally in D.C.

Now just when it looked like she had become a serious player in Democrat machine politics, she is fighting for her survival.

Sometimes life comes at you fast.

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MALKIN: Beware Soros-Funded Hijacking Of US Census

“Are you a U.S. citizen?”

Only in self-defeating, sovereignty-eroding America is the idea of asking whether people living in America are American citizens for the American census a matter of controversy.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether the Trump administration can include a citizenship question on the high-stakes 2020 Census questionnaire. Thank goodness, the conservative majority indicated support for allowing it. There’s already such a question on the annual American Community Survey administered by the Census Bureau. It was asked in long-form questionnaires sent to a sample of households in 2000. And it was regularly asked in historical census forms from 1820-1950.

But we live in a Trump-deranged age, so now it’s tantamount to an international human rights crime to ask anyone about citizenship status at any time for any reason. Heaven forbid we inconvenience or discomfit legal noncitizens or illegal immigrants with a question!

Open borders activists, left-wing immigration lawyers and identity politics radicals exploded on cue:

—Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder decried the “unconstitutional and irresponsible action” to “suppress the count in minority communities.”

—The Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee fumed about the “political stunt that unfairly targets immigrant communities throughout our country in an attempt to SILENCE immigrants and benefit Republicans.”

—Histrionic social justice actress Alyssa Milano called it an “attack on immigrant communities and our democracy itself.”

—Jorge Luis Vasquez Jr. of LatinoJustice, funded by George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, vented that a citizenship question would “damage all our daily lives for decades.”

—Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, another Soros-funded outfit, which sued over the citizenship question, blasted the “scheme to hijack the 2020 Census.”

—The Soros-funded Asian Americans Advancing Justice lobbying group condemned Trump as “racially and politically motivated.”

Let’s all practice our deep pranayama breathing and ground ourselves in reality. It’s the radical left, much of it fueled with Soros’ money, that has hijacked the U.S. Census, not President Donald Trump. “No Illegal Immigrant Left Behind” is crucial to their strategy. Why?

Remember: The Census is used to divvy up seats in the House as a proportion of their population based on the head count. The redistribution of power extends to presidential elections because the Electoral College is pegged to the size of congressional delegations. More people equal more seats. More illegal immigrants equal more power. Indeed, the Center for Immigration Studies determined that in the 2000 election cycle, the presence of noncitizens (illegal immigrants, temporary visitors and green card holders) caused nine seats in the House to switch hands. California added six seats it would not have had otherwise. Texas, New York and Florida each gained a seat. Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin each lost a seat. Montana, Kentucky and Utah each failed to secure a seat they would otherwise have gained.

Our Founding Fathers explicitly warned against the perils of foreigners manipulating representation by overwhelming the country. Immigration scholar and author Daniel Horowitz points to Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story’s prophetic admonition: “If aliens might be admitted indiscriminately to enjoy all the rights of citizens at the will of a single state, the Union might itself be endangered by an influx of foreigners, hostile to its institutions, ignorant of its powers, and incapable of a due estimate of its privileges.”

Statesman Roger Sherman similarly emphasized the need to “guard against an improper mode of naturalization” by states adopting “easier terms.”

Too late. Multiple illegal immigrant amnesties, coupled with massive legal immigration, failure to deport visa overstayers and the metastasis of sanctuary policies, have taken their toll. Moreover, our constitutionally mandated decennial count has become a full-employment program for ideologically driven liberal interest groups cashing in on the census-gathering process and reshaping the electoral landscape. During the last census under President Barack Obama, with $300 billion in federal funding at stake, social justice groups from Soros-funded ACORN to Soros-funded Voto Latino to the Soros-allied SEIU were enlisted to count heads and help noncitizens feel “safe.”

The Census boondoggle has become a tax-subsidized national future Democratic voter outreach drive. Soros’ operations, along with 77 other liberal foundations, have invested $30 million to make illegal immigrants count. The Open Society Institute’s grantees and partners on coopting the Census for Democrat gains include the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Miami Workers Center, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Southwest Workers Union, New York Community Trust, New York Foundation, Center for American Progress, People for the American Way and the Funders Census Initiative. A recently leaked internal board document revealed that the Soros network has coordinated efforts for the past four years to “influence appropriations for the Census Bureau” and add new racial and ethnic categories.

The Census Bureau will need 500,000 temporary workers to conduct the count in what will already be a hyperpolarized election year. However the Supreme Court rules on the citizenship question, the Trump administration must ensure that Open Borders Inc. does not co-opt the enumerator corps. As SorosWorld well understands:

Power lies not just with who is being counted, but who’s doing the counting.

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Wrong Again Joe Biden: Obama Admin So Corrupt 70 Inspector Generals Urged Congress to Stop Obama IG Crackdown!

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Joe Biden said his proudest moment of Obama’s Presidency was that there was not “one whisper of scandal”.

What a crock! Nearly six dozen federal inspector generals approached Congress to ask lawmakers to step in and stop Obama’s crackdown on their efforts to audit and investigate the corrupt Obama Administration. And, Hillary’s department didn’t even have an inspector general!

Joe Biden, former Obama VP and Democrat candidate for President stated that his proudest moment of the Obama administration was that it had not “one whisper of scandal.”

But looking back, the Obama administration was arguably the most corrupt in US history for many reasons.

For example, FOXNews reported –

Nearly six-dozen watchdog agencies are asking Congress to step in after the Obama administration clamped down on access to government records they say are vital for their investigations into waste, fraud and abuse.

The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency sent an Aug. 3 letter to congressional leaders ahead of a hearing scheduled for Wednesday where they will ask lawmakers to pass legislation reversing a controversial decision made July 20 by the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel. The OLC is now requiring investigators to get permission to review sensitive documents from the very agencies they are monitoring.

This decision, the letter said, “represents a serious threat to the independent authority” of all inspectors general.

IGs are assigned to audit and conduct internal reviews of federal agencies, and recently have been responsible for investigating the IRS targeting scandal, TSA security gaps, personal email use at the State Department and other issues.

The council represents about 70 IG offices across the government, including for the Federal Communications Commission, the National Security Agency and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. While the July 20 ruling applies to the DOJ, some are worried it will prompt other departments to set similar restrictions.

In addition to this, it should come as no surprise but during Hillary Clinton’s entire tenure as Secretary of State in the Obama administration, President Obama never nominated nor filled an Inspector General position.

The Wall Street Journal reported in 2015 –

The State Department had no permanent inspector general—the lead watchdog charged with uncovering misconduct and waste—during Hillary Clinton’s entire tenure as secretary, leaving in place an acting inspector who had close ties to State Department leadership.

President Barack Obama didn’t put forward a nominee to lead the inspector general’s office while Mrs. Clinton led the State Department, making it the only agency with a presidentially appointed inspector general that had neither a confirmed nor nominated head watchdog…

Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg.  History will show that the Biden – Obama – Clinton administration was the most corrupt and criminal administrations in history!

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Florida Sanctuary City Ban Forges On, Likely to be Signed by Gov. DeSantis

The Florida state Senate approved legislation to ban sanctuary cities that shield criminal illegal aliens from being deported, a plan that is now likely headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) desk.

On Friday, the Florida state Senate passed the sanctuary city ban on a 22 to 18 vote, with only one Republican, state Sen. Anitere Flores, voting against the measure along with every elected state Senate Democrat.

The sanctuary city ban, one of DeSantis’s leading initiatives since becoming governor, comes with strict enforcement mechanisms designed to prevent localities and counties from shielding criminal illegal aliens from being deported by federal immigration officials.

For example, the plan includes a fine of $5,000 that the state can impose on a jurisdiction for every day that they have a sanctuary policy in place.

The sanctuary city ban now heads back to the state House, where it was already approved, for passage with new amendments and is likely to soon head to the desk of DeSantis to be signed into law.

Should Florida implement a sanctuary city ban, they will be only the second state with one of the largest foreign-born populations in the country to do so. The first state with a significant foreign-born population to ban sanctuary cities was Texas last year.

Today, Florida has the fourth largest foreign-born population in the county, with more than 4.1 million illegal aliens, legal immigrants, and foreign-born naturalized citizens. California, Texas, and New York continue to have the largest foreign-born populations in the county. California, a sanctuary state, has almost as many foreign-born residents as New York, Texas, and Florida combined, with more than 10.5 million illegal aliens, legal residents, and foreign-born naturalized citizens living in the state.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 

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Kirk: 7 Years Later Shows Me Why I Am Thankful for Breitbart

April 27 marks the seven-year anniversary of the first op-ed piece that I had published. Not surprisingly, the platform willing to accept something from a conservative high school senior was Breitbart. Then as now, Breitbart was willing to provide a place for otherwise unheard voices to be expressed.

The headline for that 2012 column was “Liberal Bias Starts in High School Economics Textbooks.” 

I pointed out that Krugman’s Economics for AP, written by Margaret Ray and David A. Anderson, and adapted from Paul Krugman and Robin Wells’ Economics (Second Edition), was being used as the textbook to teach the principles of economics to our supposedly best and brightest young people.

In that text, Krugman, who never met a free market he wished to remain free, dismissed the success of Ronald Reagan’s economic policies without any presentation of arguments to the contrary.  In my 2012 editorial I wrote:

Throughout the entire textbook, there are historical, factual, and statistical distortions. For example, Chapter 36 (“The modern macroeconomic consensus”) contains 16 sweeping generalizations such as: “Nearly all macroeconomists now agree… There is now a broad consensus… Today, most macroeconomists believe… Almost all macroeconomists now accept…” (pp. 355-58). None of these assertions are backed up with even a single citation. If a student were to submit an essay with such disregard for basic evidence, it would ensure a failing grade.

I enjoyed looking back at that piece and reading the brief bio line at the end that identified me as a “…high school senior who will be attending Baylor University.” It also identified me as the co-founder of SOS Liberty. I could not have imagined then that Baylor and SOS were a dream and that Turning Point USA would become my reality. Much has changed in the past seven years.

And much hasn’t changed at all.

In an April 23 article on a Powerline blog titled, AP History Textbook Calls Trump “Racist,” Questions his Mental Stability, Paul Mirengoff reports that by 2020 AP high school students will be reading from a text that characterizes the President as someone whose opponents questioned his mental health, and as someone who ran a campaign that permitted racists to come out of the American shadows.

Mirengoff exposes the textbook author’s intent in citing “Clinton supporters’” concerns about Trump as opposed to citing objective facts as “a device to plant the idea that President Trump is mentally unstable, a proposition for which there is no basis other than raw hatred of the man.”

Mirengoff’s contention reads almost exactly the same as mine offered seven years ago.

This issue has been studied over time and across curricula. In 2017, Intellectual Takeout reported on a study of psychology texts that showed political bias in  favor of team left’s politically correct models of human behavior. Historian Dr. Burton Folsom, retired from Hillsdale College in 2016, has been pointing out examples of liberal bias in textbooks all the way down to the elementary level for decades.

It is one thing for a teacher to present a set of facts to a student and then attempt to persuade them as to how they should be interpreted. While it stands opposed to the goals of education, at least this practice allows someone else to counter the teacher’s efforts in indoctrination by pointing out different conclusions that could be drawn from the facts.

When the facts themselves are misrepresented, we are dealing with a very different form of treachery. This masks the indoctrination. Consider the following two hypothetical examples, derived from my 2012 column on Krugman and Reganomics:

In the first case, a professor could make the following statement: Reagan implemented large tax cuts in the 1980s. The decade also experienced significant economic growth and an increase in tax revenue. However, neither of these events had anything to do with Regan’s tax cut and the positive economic developments happened despite Reagan.

That’s a teacher taking facts and indoctrinating his student by forcing his personal opinion on them.

Now consider this not-so-hard-to-imagine excerpt from a textbook: The 1980’s evidenced a significant growth in tax revenue and GDP despite an attempt by President Reagan to create the exact opposite effect by cutting taxes.

This is what the authors of textbooks are up to. They want to make it appear as though the teachers aren’t trying to influence the students.  They are just teaching them facts right out of the textbook! 

The best indicator that one is about to engage an intelligent mind is by finding a sign that says “open” hanging at its entrance. An open mind is one that is willing and able to accept and contemplate facts as they are presented. The surest way to trick an open mind and turn it into a closed one is to corrupt the input of facts.

This is the intent of liberal educators and textbook authors in the United States and elsewhere in Western nations today. It is the reason why all conservatives need to heed the warnings and whistle-blowing of people like Paul Mirengoff, Burt Folsom, and others.  We need to be involved in school boards and curriculum committees so that the education establishment can’t get away with the unchallenged alteration of history.

Dishonest curriculum being forced upon high school students is what motivated me to write my first op-ed piece seven years ago today. It is the reason I apparently need to keep writing.

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