Saturday, August 20, 2022

WND

Canadian man with a history of depression euthanized over 'hearing loss'


Hot Air

 A U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled on Friday that the Department of Justice must turn over an Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) memo that was sent to former Attorney General William Barr indicating the position that former President Donald Trump did not ‘obstruct justice’ in his response to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian collusion claims.

Daily Mail

Scientists working on the most authoritative study on climate change were urged to cover up the fact that the world’s temperature hasn’t risen for the last 15 years

D. W. Wilber

Michael Hayden is a Threat to Democracy, Not Trump Supporters

New York Post

Margot Cleveland / The Federalist

Jacobin Magazine

The Democratic Base Keeps Getting Richer and Whiter

Jonathan Turley

Inspector General: The U.S. Government Left More Than $7 Billion in Military Equipment to the Taliban

Gateway Pundit

FBI Agent Pleads Guilty to Destroying Evidence to Frame Pro-Trump Political Prisoner

Former Gorsuch law clerk Mike Davis:

President Trump had the constitutional power to declassify any record he wanted, per Supreme Court’s 1988 decision in Navy v. Egan. And he had the sole statutory authority to determine what was presidential v. personal record, per 2012 DC District Court ruling.

1984 update:

The editorial board of the University of Virginia’s newspaper has called to remove references to University founder and Founding Father Thomas Jefferson.

Friday, August 19, 2022

USA Today

The climate measure President Joe Biden signed Tuesday bypasses the administration's concerns about emissions and guarantees new drilling opportunities in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska. The legislation was crafted to secure backing from a top recipient of oil and gas donations, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin, and was shaped in part by industry lobbyists.

ABC News

In June of this year, seven weeks before the FBI raided former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in search of classified materials, former Defense Department appointee and outspoken Trump loyalist Kash Patel vowed to retrieve classified documents from the National Archives and publish them on his website.


Trump had just issued a letter instructing the National Archives to grant Patel and conservative journalist John Solomon access to nonpublic administration records, according to reporting at the time.


Patel, who under Trump had been the chief of staff for the acting defense secretary, claimed in a string of interviews that Trump had declassified a trove of "Russiagate documents" in the final days of his administration. But Patel claimed Trump's White House counsel had blocked the release of those documents, and instead had them delivered to the National Archives.

A majority of Americans say President Joe Biden is allowing a southern border invasion, according to a poll commissioned by the left-of-center, taxpayer-supported National Public Radio

The 54 percent “Invasion” majority includes 76 percent of Republicans, 46 percent of independents, and even 40 percent of Democrats.

Jonathan Turley rips Lawrence Tribe's latest claim that Trump has committed a "slam dunk" crime

Thursday, August 18, 2022

Henry Olsen via Breitbart

Democrats Tout ‘Rule of Law’ but Celebrate Illegal Migration

Jonathan Turley 

Democrats Add 87,000 new IRS Agents to Pursue $204 Billion in Tax Fraud While 500 IG Agents Struggle to Investigate $160 Billion in Covid Fraud

Vandals attacked another pro-life center in Massachusetts. They left behind the message: “If abortions aren’t safe, neither are you!”

The alleged move has prompted the head of recruitment for the Royal Air Force (RAF) - herself a senior female officer - to resign in recent days in protest.

Byron York: Liz Cheney's civil war

Will Selber/Bulwark: It's been a terrible year after leaving friends behind in Afghanistan

Paul Sperry

The FBI division overseeing the investigation of former President Trump's handling of classified material at his Mar-a-Lago residence is also a focus of Special Counsel John Durham's investigation of the bureau's alleged abuses of power and political bias during its years-long Russiagate probe of Trump.

Just The News

Judge ruled in 2012 that a president's discretion to declare records "personal" is far-reaching and mostly unchallengeable.

Washington Times: John Bolton says Biden’s concessions to Iran would border on treason

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Minneapolis school district defends deal to lay off White teachers ahead of minority teachers

Law Professor William Jacobson

Media To Judge: Unseal Mar-a-Lago Raid Affidavit Since The Feds Already Leaked So Much To Us

"Having turned on the leak fire hose full blast just three months from national elections, it’s pretty cheeky for the feds now to claim everything about the circumstances leading up to the raid has to be kept under seal."

Former top spy Gen. Michael Hayden says GOP are worst people in the world. Is he alone among his professional class?

Kash Patel says Trump was going to publish Russiagate documents but FBI raid will now prevent Trump from doing so

Zero Hedge

There Is No Climate Crisis: History Shows Us That The Earth Has Seen Far Worse

Newsweek Sources In Effect Claim FBI Raid Was Cover for DOJ to Retrieve Russiagate Evidence Held by Trump

Rich Lowry

Merrick Garland Is on a Path to the Abyss

An indictment of Trump would be one of the most consequential acts by the Justice Department in decades, and Garland has a flagrant conflict of interest.

Matt Taibbi

Sweeps Week on FBI TV!

National news media and federal law enforcement are now as indistinguishable in America as in any autocratic country anywhere

Althouse

Liz Cheney's concession speech was "self-dramatizing and self-aggrandizing. Ironically, by contrast, Trump seems modest and self-effacing."

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

The Federalist

America’s Disastrous Afghanistan Withdrawal Last Year Was Entirely Biden’s Fault

Sen. Rand Paul wants to repeal the Espionage Act after the Mar-a-Lago raid

Just The News

Former top FBI official says search appears to have been overly broad and gives Trump lawyers an avenue for appeal.

Mike Davis / Newsweek Opinion

Garland, Wray Must Be Impeached for Unconscionable Trump Raid

Jonathan Turley 

Why the Case Against Donald Trump Remains Incomplete

Julie Kelly 

It’s Inevitable: Trump Will Be Indicted

Americans should prepare for the spectacle of Donald Trump pleading not guilty to charges brought by the Biden Justice Department.

Peter Navarro

The Clown Prince of Pennsylvania Avenue

Jared Kushner did more damage to the presidency and the Trump agenda during his four year reign of error than anyone.

Los Angeles County reported Monday that over 27% of the signatures submitted on petitions to recall District Attorney George Gascón were invalid — after reporting that less than 1% of mail-in ballots were invalid in the 2020 election.

Monday, August 15, 2022

CNBC

Homebuilders say U.S. is in a ‘housing recession’ as sentiment turns negative

House GOP report accuses Biden of knowingly misleading public about Afghanistan exit

via ZeroHedge

New York Post

The mom of the New Jersey man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie says her son was a basement-dwelling loner who barely worked, never had a girlfriend — and “changed” after visiting the Mideast.

Rigged election?

CNBC: Starbucks is asking the federal labor board to suspend all mail-in ballot union elections nationwide, alleging misconduct in the voting process by the board’s personnel and the union organizing its baristas.

Sen. Rand Paul

COVID-19 gain-of-function research too dangerous for Fauci to work with China

Totalitarian governments like China can't be trusted partners for viral research like COVID-19

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has predicted the likelihood of a downturn in the U.S economy and warned that “something worse” than a hard recessioncould be on the horizon.