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Rummaging through the Democrats’ moldy old toolbox

First, we find character assassination.  Near the beginning of Barack Obama’s meteoric rise to the top of the heap, we find a sneaky trick played in 2004 against his Republican senatorial opponent, Jack Ryan.  He got a crooked judge to unlawfully unseal the records of Ryan’s divorce.  Well, after all, it was in Illinois.  Much the same was tried against Pete Hegseth, but this time with disappointing results, as with the phony outrage over Elon Musk’s “Nazi” salute.  My, how the world has changed.

Another shopworn tool is pandering to identity.  In a socially fluid society such as America’s, identities ultimately tend to become blurred.  It is often said that the identity that is growing fastest is “mixed.”  When I come to “race” while filling out the Census form, I write in “human.”  Haven’t gotten the knock on the door…yet.

Fear has traditionally been one of the most useful tools in the box.  Fear of the unknown is particularly effective, since the unknowing audience can be easily tricked into taking the speaker’s word for describing the problem.  Take “climate change” for example.  Weather is typically chaotic, with various forces such as jet streams, ocean currents, high-pressure domes, and low-pressure cyclones constantly interacting to produce daily conditions, whatever they may be.  Climate history, however, is forbidden knowledge.  Ice ages and giant reptiles wandering all over the planet can only confuse the masses.

The mother of recent fear campaigns has to be the COVID “crisis.”  A virus that escaped from a test tube promptly unleashed a plethora of formerly closeted dictators.  Edicts were spewed left and right.  Twenty-second hand-washing, “social” distancing, and masking, just to name a few, somehow had the force of law.  Children, who were the least at risk, had their education and social development perhaps permanently retarded.  Why?  Because fear really works when it comes to controlling the behavior of even otherwise unruly individuals.

Herein lies the rub.  Being deceived over and over again — into higher taxes, devalued money, and increasingly dangerous local conditions — has begun to seriously influence the voting population.  Last year’s debacle has finally caused some within the Democrat universe to start making apt criticism.  None other than Rahm Emanuel, in nowhere else but the Washington Post, has laid out some serious issues.  Following is Jonathan Chait in The Atlantic.  This phenomenon can be described as being mugged by reality.

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DOGE Subcommittee Chair Rep. MTG Summons NPR and PBS Chiefs to Testify Over ‘Systemically Biased News Coverage’ Funded by Taxpayers

The leaders of NPR and PBS are set to be grilled on Capitol Hill as the newly formed Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), demands answers on why taxpayer dollars continue to fund these far-left media outlets.

Letters sent to NPR CEO Katherine Maher and PBS President Paula Kerger on Monday morning accused the outlets of producing blatantly biased content while still receiving millions in federal funding.

The move signals a direct challenge to what conservatives have long criticized as taxpayer-funded propaganda for the left.

In her letter to Maher, Rep. Greene highlighted NPR’s refusal to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in 2020, citing the outlet’s now-infamous statement:

“We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listeners’ and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.”

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Outgoing DNC Chair Unveils Democrat Party’s Rules for Leadership Positions – And It Will Make Your Head Spin

The Democrats still don’t understand why they lost.

The Democrat Party voted for a new DNC Chairman on Saturday after

Outgoing DNC Chair Jaime Harrison laid out the ground rules for leadership positions and he even confused himself.

“Because of our gender balance provisions on this next ballot, you will be able to vote for two candidates of any gender on the next ballot,” Jaime Harrison said. “Okay, so on this next ballot, you will be able to vote for two candidates of any gender on the next ballot.”

“The rules specify that when we have a gender non-binary candidate or officer, the non-binary individual is counted as neither male nor female and the remaining six offices must be gender balanced. With the results of the previous four elections, our elected officers are currently two male and two female,” Jaime Harrison said.

He continued, “In order to be gender balanced, we must elect one male, one female and one person of any gender. So again, this is what we have to do for this vice chair race. To ensure our process accounts for male, female and non-binary candidates, we conferred with our RBC Co-Chair, our LBGT Caucus Co-Chair and others to ensure that the process is inclusive and meets the gender balance requirements in our rules.”

“After a candidate is elected on the first ballot, we’ll have one officer of the three so then we will know which position is filled of the one male, one female, and one Vice Chair of any gender. Our second ballot will also be for any candidate of any gender,” Jaime Harrison said.

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Mayor of South Fulton, Georgia Under Fire for Spending $26,000 on City Credit Card, Including Trip to Africa – Councilwoman Slams Mayor for Crying Victim: “You Took Your Black Behind to Africa for 20 Days”

The City Council of South Fulton, Atlanta, has voted to audit South Fulton Mayor Khalid Kamau’s expenditures after making over $26,000 worth of purchases, including a trip to Africa. 

The Mayor, who plans to legally change his name to Kobi, was previously arrested while serving as Mayor in 2023 on charges of first-degree burglary and criminal trespassing. Kamau reportedly entered somebody’s lake house before 7 am one morning and got into a heated confrontation with the owner of the house before police arrived.

Upon being arrested for trespassing and attempted burglary, he told a reporter, “I just wanted to see the house… I thought it was abandoned.” He continued, “I hope that the spotlight that is on our city right now will highlight some of the inequities that have been happening.”

“I think that’s for the voters to decide,” he responded when asked if he was guilty.

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The Arbitrary Hypocrisy of American “Justice”

US Democrat Senator Bob Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was sentenced to eleven years in prison by federal district judge Sidney Stein for acting as an illegal agent for Egypt and accepting cash and gold bars as payment.

How does this differ from the $1,417,811 bribe that Big Pharma pays in campaign contributions to Senator Bernie Sanders or the $821,941  campaign contribution Big Pharma pays to Senator Elizabeth Warren?  If you think these sums don’t make Sanders and Warren agents of Big Pharma, you are out of your mind.  Warren is doing her Big Pharma assigned job by trying to block Robert Kennedy’s confirmation as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Congress is up for sale, and it is purchased with campaign contributions. Everyone in Washington knows that members are purchased by lobby groups, such as Big Pharma, the military/security complex, agribusiness, energy, the Israel Lobby, and so on.  A corrupt or stupid Supreme Court legalized the purchase of the US government by lobby groups.  This is the reason that Congress does not represent the people who elect Congress. You can blame your lack of representation squarely on the US Supreme Court. One can’t help but wonder if there were under the table payoffs.

An uninformed person might answer that Menendez was paid personally, whereas campaign contributions are not personal money.  But, in fact, retiring members are entitled to take their election war fund with them.  Those planning to retire pay attention to building up their re-election funds.

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There Is No Such Thing as “Settled Law”

Much of the debate over so-called “birthright citizenship” is over interpretations of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US constitution. Most of the people currently in power claim that the text means every baby born to every foreign national on American soil is an automatic US citizen. Others—like myself—believe that this interpretation is dubious and has always been a matter of debate.

In commentary on this topic, however, one often encounters assertions to the effect that rulings by the US Supreme Court provide the “definitive” or “final” interpretation. Or, put another way, there is an idea that once SCOTUS makes a ruling on something, then the ruling is “settled law.” Even worse, some people think that once the Supreme Court has ruled on something, there is no point discussing it or challenging the currently popular interpretation of the law.

In truth, there is no such thing as settled law and the US Supreme court’s interpretations are hardly definitive. In politics nothing is ever settled or permanent. No cause is ever won or lost permanently. Beyond the short term, everything is up for grabs.

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How lawfare destroyed liberalism; Democrats abandoned politics for legalism

In Henry VI, Part 2, a character named Dick the Butcher utters one of the more famous lines William Shakespeare wrote: “The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.” To return to national power and get things done for the nation, Democrats need to adopt something of the spirit of Dick the Butcher: no, not literal murder of the lawyers who dominate the party — but a departure from the lawfare that has blinded Democrats to what politics is all about.

Perhaps the pace at which President Trump has opened his second term will put them on notice. Trump opened the week with an Office of Budget and Management guidance that would freeze some $3 trillion in federal grants across executive-branch agencies. He also offered federal employees a buyout, in keeping with his plan to downsize the bureaucracy. He used the threat of tariffs to pressure Colombia over deportation flights. He mused about relocating the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by the war in Gaza.

You may not agree with these moves — I certainly don’t — but on some level, you do have to admire the relentless focus of this new administration. The same can’t be said for its opponents. Tangled in legal arguments, mentalities, and procedures, Democrats have forgotten how to fight. Worse yet, they have forgotten what and whom they are fighting for.

It was that lawyerly frame of mind that compelled Democrats to expend an enormous amount of time and energy over the past decade trying to get Donald Trump through various avenues of lawfare: from the #Russiagate craziness to the first impeachment over his “beautiful” phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart, from Jack Smith’s classified-documents probe to Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s hush-money case. And what do they have to show for it all? The satisfaction of calling Trump a “convicted felon” on cable news, and not much else.

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Chicago Mayor’s Office Improperly Blocked Access To Lavish ‘Gift Room’: Inspector General

Chicago’s Inspector General dropped a bombshell report revealing that Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office improperly blocked public access to a special room within City Hall containing gifts to the city – including designer handbags, cufflinks, and a personalized Mont Blanc pen.

A new report from Inspector General Deborah Witzburg’s office concludes that Johnson’s office violated a city ethics policy requiring that any gifts valued at more than $50 and “accepted on behalf of the city” be logged into a book that is made available to the public on the 5th floor of City Hall.

But when two undercover investigators from the IG’s office visited the mayor’s office last June, they were denied access to the log, and instead told to file a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see it.

Then, when the IG’s office filed a FOIA request, the mayor’s office refused to respond to it on time – only to provide an incomplete spreadsheet of the gifts more than a month after the request was filed.

“That’s certainly concerning to me,” said Witzburg. ” Where there’s anything of value being exchanged, we would absolutely want to know whether those gifts are coming from people looking for influence in some way — whether those are lobbyists, or people doing business with the city.”

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America’s Most Crooked Sec of State Jocelyn Benson Accused of Breaking The Law AGAIN—This Time, While Announcing Her Ridiculous Campaign For MI Governor

Last week, America’s most dishonest Secretary of State, Jocelyn Benson (Soros Democrat), held a press conference at the Richard H. Austin building in Lansing, MI, to announce her candidacy for governor.  The unpopular Democrat SOS is running to replace Michigan’s equally unpopular Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who is term-limited.

The problem is, as she has done so many times before, it appears Jocelyn Benson violated the law. Benson’s announcement to run for governor violated Michigan campaign finance law when she announced her candidacy from a public, taxpayer-funded building, something that a woman who likes to flaunt her Harvard law school degree should have known was against the law.

On Jan. 22,  the Soros-funded SOS shared a video on X that depicted her as a caring mom and compassionate public servant as she ran through the streets of Detroit in a campaign video to announce her run for governor in 2026. For the record, Detroit Police clearly stated there were no visibly armed protesters outside her home after the 2020 election, yet Jocelyn Benson continues to perpetuate this lie. Unfortunately, there are no honest journalists in Michigan willing to call her out on this often-repeated lie that paints her as an imaginary victim.

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Delusional Attempt to Impeach Trump Already Underway

For those of you pining for the sturm und drang of Donald Trump’s first term, I’m the bearer of good news: The first attempt to impeach the newly minted president is already underway.

Sure, as political pseudoevents go, it’s about as anticlimactic, low profile, and ill-conceived as a Limp Bizkit reunion album. But #TheResistance 2.0 has to begin somewhere, and it’s apparently beginning with leftist interest group Free Speech For People.

The group — whose website looks like it dates from the era where Daily Kos’ site interface looked positively cutting edge — bills itself as a “non-partisan campaign, but is focused on a bevy of leftist issues, including stopping “voter suppression” (read: preventing anti-voter fraud initiatives), eliminating dark money in politics (unless it comes from George Soros, one assumes), and tackling “corporate abuse of power.”

It’s perhaps best known for its opposition to the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which ruled independent campaign expenditures counted as free speech. (Floyd Brown, founder of The Western Journal, was also the founder of Citizens United, the plaintiff in that case.)

But now, the group has a more important mission. Free Speech For People — which apparently knows about as much about what “high crimes and misdemeanors” are as it does about using definite articles to make their organization’s name sound less awkward — began a campaign to impeach Trump on the day he was inaugurated.

The group’s petition is “calling on the U.S. Congress to initiate an immediate impeachment investigation into Donald Trump’s violations of the Emoluments Clauses and into his unlawful, corrupt campaign practices.”

“Trump’s return to the White House poses an unprecedented threat to our democracy,” says John Bonifaz, organization president.

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