[DAILYSIGNAL] A veteran Democrat chief election official in Florida has conceded in court that noncitizens and felons possibly voted, in a case that could have national implications for how localities clean up voter rolls.
Broward County Elections Supervisor Brenda Snipes is defending her office against a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Rights Union, a conservative legal group that contends there are more voters registered on Broward’s rolls than there are eligible voters in the county.
Those rolls are said to be inflated with not only noncitizens and felons, but also other ineligible people who have voted illegally.
On July 31, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel newspaper reported that, in court, "Snipes acknowledged the processes her office [has] been using aren’t perfect and that some noncitizens and felons have voted despite not being eligible--especially right before major elections, when groups are actively registering new voters."
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I had to read this to see if this was Debbie Wasserman Schultz' district. Turns out it is.
[THEHILL] California would become the first state in the nation to legalize psychedelic mushrooms if a long-shot ballot initiative passes muster with voters next year. Like, wow, man!
The measure is backed by a legalization activist who says he kicked his heroin habit with the help of a mushroom trip in Death Valley. It would exempt Californians over the age of 21 from a state law that criminalizes mushrooms containing psilocybin, the compound that gives some mushrooms psychedelic properties. Like, lissen to the colors!
“There is a cultural fascination with mushrooms that goes really deep,” said Kevin Saunders, the activist behind the initiative. “The soccer moms are all pretty much, for lack of a better term, high now, and some of them are taking mushrooms.”
Saunders filed his measure with the office of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra (D) on Friday. Becerra’s office will review the initiative’s proposed language before issuing a ballot title and formal summary of the measure.
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Soccer moms high on psychedelics driving around town in a minivan full of kids with the stereo blasting and a glass of Chardonnay in their hands. What could go wrong?
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You forgot the mobile phone used to take selfies and twitter their activities in the other hand Abu.
In an case with all the Bullsh*t going on there - they would have plenty of fertilizer.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] President Trump plans to donate $1 million from his personal fortune to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday.
Trump "would like to join in the efforts that a lot of the people that we've seen across this country do and he's pledging $1 million of personal money to the fund," Sanders told news hounds at the White House.
"He's actually asked that I check with the folks in this room since you are very good at research and have been doing a lot of reporting into the groups and organizations that are best and most effective in helping and providing aid," Sanders added. "He'd love some suggestions from the folks here and I'd be happy to take those if any of you have them."
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Wonder how they will turn this against him?
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chris, they're already trying. They say that he won't really give the money and that it should be a lot more since he's so rich yada yada.
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$25 from The Beests' book: "What the fuck Happened"
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Look for those on the left to go ballistic and scream and gnash their collective teeth and claim it wasn't enough. Meanwhile, the SPLC ships $2mil+ to off-shore accounts in the Cayman Islands, perhaps for a bit of a scrub. Here.
[Daily Beast] Special counsel Bob Mueller has teamed up with the IRS. According to sources familiar with his investigation into alleged Russian election interference, his probe has enlisted the help of agents from the IRS’ Criminal Investigations unit.
This unit--known as CI--is one of the federal government’s most tight-knit, specialized, and secretive investigative entities. Its 2,500 agents focus exclusively on financial crime, including tax evasion and money laundering. A former colleague of Mueller’s said he always liked working with IRS’ special agents, especially when he was a U.S. Attorney.
And it goes without saying that the IRS has access to Trump’s tax returns--documents that the president has long resisted releasing to the public.
Potential financial crimes are a central part of Mueller’s probe. One of his top deputies, Andy Weissmann, formerly helmed the Justice Department’s Enron probe and has extensive experience working with investigative agents from the IRS.
"From the agents, I know everyone has the utmost respect for both Mueller and Weissmann," said Martin Sheil, a retired IRS Criminal Investigations agent.
And he said Mueller and Weissmann are known admirers of those agents’ work.
"They view them with the highest regard," Sheil said. "IRS special agents are the very best in the business of conducting financial investigations. They will quickly tell you that it took an accountant to nab Al Capone, and it’s true."
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Tire-biting 101 by Mueller will go on forever. There is an effort in the House to pull the plug on this investigation hunt for a crime. Rep. Ron DeSantis has legislation to cut off funding and to bring this Donk legal witch hunt and perversion of justice to an end.
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2500 of em packing heat vs 64 million who duly elected this president. Seriously out numbered.
The eternal revenue service is preditory. They have different rules of engagement based on how knowledgeable one is without representation or if one has representation in a tax situation and most recently political affiliation.
They are extraodinarily aligned with the Democrats. They have zero integrity. During the Zero regime anyone who criticize Zero or the ERS was audited. Especially high profile critics to teach the right a lesson.
The bonus system for these people is fuel for thier predictory nature.
[Wash Examiner] Senate investigators have had problems getting the FBI to reveal information about the Trump dossier. They're not the only ones. Outside groups filing Freedom of Information Act requests are running up against a stone wall when it comes to the dossier.
On March 8, Judicial Watch filed a FOIA request for documents regarding the bureau's contacts with Christopher Steele, the former British spy who dug for dirt in Russia on candidate Donald Trump in the months before the 2016 presidential election. Steele's effort was commissioned by the oppo research firm Fusion GPS, which at the time was being paid by still-unidentified Democrats who supported Hillary Clinton. Just weeks before the election, the FBI reportedly agreed to support Steele's oppo project -- an extraordinary action in the midst of a campaign which Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said raised "questions about the FBI's independence from politics."
So Judicial Watch asked the Justice Department for:
Any and all records of communications between any official, employee, or representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Mr. Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer and the owner of the private firm Orbis Business Intelligence.
Any and all records regarding, concerning, or related to the proposed, planned, or actual payment of any funds to Mr. Steele and/or Orbis Business Intelligence.
Any and all records produced in preparation for, during, or pursuant to any meetings or telephonic conversations between any official, employee, or representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Mr. Christopher Steele and/or any employee or representative of Orbis Business Intelligence.
The idea was that the records would shed light on the basic questions regarding the dossier. Just what did the FBI do? Why? And -- this is very important to Grassley -- did the FBI ever use the "salacious and unverified" (the words of former FBI Director James Comey) information in the dossier as a basis for applying for warrants to put Americans under surveillance?
The Justice Department's response to Judicial Watch was simple: No. And not just no: The Department would not even confirm or deny whether any such documents or communications even existed.
So on May 16, Judicial Watch filed suit, seeking to force release of the information. In response, the department told Judicial Watch to forget about it. "Plaintiff's claims are moot," Justice lawyers wrote, "because Defendant has notified Plaintiff of its decision to neither confirm nor deny the existence of any responsive records, and the reasons for that decision."
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Maverick and Buzzfead evidently have copies, as well as the copies in Soetoro's intelligence community distribution. Surely a copy can be found somewhere. Strange how things simply....disappear.
Now, two lawsuits — one in the United States and a second in the U.K. — are being brought by lawyers for Aleksej Gubarev, a Cyprus-based Internet entrepreneur whom Steele’s Russian sources accused of cyber spying against the Democratic Party leadership.
According to a new court document in the British lawsuit, counsel for defendants Steele and Orbis repeatedly point to McCain, R-Ariz., a vocal Trump critic, and a former State Department official as two in a handful of people known to have had copies of the full document before it circulated among journalists and was published by BuzzFeed.
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The dossier is a fake so why not bring it out and get to the bottom of the whole sordid mess--McCain's role, Hillary and the DNC's role, and the intelligence agencies involved both here and abroad?
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Republican Gov. John Kasich of Ohio and Democrat Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado on Thursday unveiled a plan to fix Obamacare's exchanges that includes injecting new funds into the controversial law.
No, thank you. That would just delay the inevitable while costing pots of money.
The plan calls for Congress to create a temporary stability fund that states can use for a reinsurance program, which reimburses insurers for major losses.
The governors don't give an exact figure for the stability fund. But they pointed to a recent failed Obamacare repeal bill that would have given states $15 billion a year to address issues in Obamacare's individual marketplaces.
"We recommend funding the program for at least two years and fully offsetting the cost so it does not add to the deficit," according to the letter outlining the plan. The letter was sent a week before Congress returns and starts work on a bipartisan stabilization plan.
The Kasich-Hickenlooper plan also aims to boost rural insurer competition by exempting the health insurance tax for any insurer that offers plans in counties that have only one carrier. It would allow residents to buy into the Federal Employee Benefit Program, which gives rural residents the same healthcare access that federal workers get.
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Hickenblooper? I think TW just killed any chance of him running in 2020. Or ever, for that matter.
Failure isn't very original guys. Now if you had said you would shoot all the people that wrote, voted for and keep voting to keep it in place, now that would be original.
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Kicking the can down the road for two years. The FEBP is a program I wish I had instead of what I pay for Medicare and a Supplemental policy. Those who go on FEBP won't like getting off at the end of two years. In Washington, "fully-offsetting the costs" means robbing another fund.
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But they pointed to a recent failed Obamacare repeal bill that would have given states $15 billion a year to address issues in Obamacare's individual marketplaces.
Did they consider that the key point here was 'repeal of the law', or did they just overlook it somehow?
[DAILYCALLER] House Speaker Paul Ryan ...U.S. Representative for Wisconsin's 1st congressional district, serving since 1999. He is a member of the Republican Party. He proposed an alternative to President Obama's 2011 budget and made himself the target of both Democrat and Republican verbal pies... condemned violent leftist Antifa ...the armed wing of the Democratic Party... protesters Wednesday a day after House Minority Leader Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace... condemned the group.
"Speaker Ryan believes, as is obvious, these individuals are left-wing thugs, and those who are committing violence need to be tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! and prosecuted. Antifa is a scourge on our country," Ryan’s spokeswoman AshLee Strong said in a statement provided exclusively to The Daily Caller.
Speaker Ryan has been criticized by many conservatives for what was viewed as a weak response to the violent activists. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... blamed "many sides" for the violence surrounding a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., but Ryan said in a statement, "There are no sides."
"That is why we all need to make clear there is no moral relativism when it comes to neo-Nazis. We cannot allow the slightest ambiguity on such a fundamental question," the House speaker said.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan condemned violent leftist Antifa protesters Wednesday a day after House Minority Leader Nancy “San Fran Nan” Pelosi condemned the group.
Sounds about right. When the swamp Dems begin to spin, right on queue the swamp RINOs pick it up and croak it too.
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Kabuki theater. Got to go after who is enabling and funding it. By enablers, I'm saying our 'esteemed' institutions of 'higher learning', not just the Soros like financiers.
"But one of the internal assessments acknowledged several significant “intelligence gaps,” including an inability to penetrate the groups’ “diffuse and decentralized organizational structure,” which made it difficult for law enforcement to identify violent groups and individuals. Authorities also “lack information to identify the travel patterns linking U.S. and foreign anarchist extremists,” the assessment said."
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including an inability to penetrate the groups’ “diffuse and decentralized organizational structure,” which made it difficult for law enforcement to identify violent groups and individuals. Authorities also “lack information to identify the travel patterns linking U.S. and foreign anarchist extremists,”
Total Rubbish! Detain two or three for interrogation, you'll learn what you need to know. 'Intelligence gap' of your own making.
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I've had no problem watching antifa. So the lie that aw enforcement cant access antifa is par for the course these days. Simply do an online search with the key words "antifa" and a major city or university near you within or outside of facebook and you wil see them up close and personal. They use facebook to announce meeting times and locations. They use facebook during head bashing events as a communications channel. They are actual very visible there.
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Antifa mostly arrives in cities friendly to their cause, which means cops stand down and arrests are minimal. I suspect those that the members of Antifa that know anything the cops would want to know are pretty well indoctrinated to not say anything except I want my laser. The rest of Antifa are just useful idiots with issues.
While you're at it Senator, please see what you can find out about those alleged FBI's payments to that 'former' MI6 agent Mr. Steele. You know, the fellow with the Donald Trump dossier about Russian whores and such. Yes, that would be Christopher Steele, the same Christopher Steele who appears to have somehow recently disappeared.
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The three biggest conservative think tanks, AEI, Cato, and Heritage, all receive funding from Google. AEI and CATO have “Google Policy Fellows”. All three have recently defended Google against antitrust enforcement.
Also of note, CATO is also more or less defending Google and Big Tech on James Damore and censorship.
Other right-leaning think tanks that have received Google funding also push Google’s agenda on antitrust. These include: Competitive Enterprise Institute, Mercatus, [and] R Street Institute.
[STARTRIBUNE] The tough-talking sheriff of Milwaukee County, David Clarke, resigned without explanation Thursday, capping a tumultuous year for the divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... , provocative lawman whose unabashed support for President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and in-your-face personality earned him a national following among some conservatives.
Clarke submitted his resignation in a one-sentence letter to the county clerk that gave no reason for his departure more than a year before his term is up. In a brief statement a couple of hours later, Clarke also didn't explain.
"I have chosen to retire to pursue other opportunities," the statement said. "I will have news about my next steps in the very near future."
The national spotlight shone on Clarke during the Republican National Convention last year, when the cowboy-hat-wearing sheriff took the stage as one of the few African-Americans to speak in support of Trump's candidacy.
But while Clarke gained the admiration of conservative backers of Trump, he faced lawsuits back home and criticism over the operations at the county jail he oversaw, where four inmates died last year. One of the inmates died of dehydration because jail staff shut off water to his cell as punishment.
Clarke's many liberal foes welcomed his departure.
"After years of abuse at his hands, the people of Milwaukee can sleep soundly tonight," state Sen. Lena Taylor, a Democrat from Milwaukee and a frequent Clarke critic, said in a statement.
Voces de la Frontera, an advocacy group for immigrants colonists and low-wage workers, had sharply criticized Clarke for seeking authority for his deputies to perform the functions of immigration agents. The group called his departure "a victory for the people of Milwaukee County and the state of Wisconsin" and claimed credit for driving him out of office.
Clarke's most recent Twitter post from Thursday afternoon showed him posing with law enforcement officers at the National Fraternal Order of Police convention in Nashville.
The firebrand ...firebrands are noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments... sheriff made himself a darling of the political right through his brash social media presence, his staunch support for Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and his support for patrolling Moslem neighborhoods.
Besoeker gives us articles from Think Progress and Fox News listing some of Sheriff Clarke's issues, and Think Progress adds:
Clarke’s departure re-opens the prospect, widely rumored in the spring, of the authoritarian-minded right-wing lawman joining President Donald Trump’s cabinet. Clarke had previously accepted a middle-management job in Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, only to rescind that decision weeks later without explanation.
The top job at DHS is open again, after former secretary John Kelly moved into the White House to replace Reince Priebus as Chief of Staff in late July. Clarke was rumored to be a short-lister for the job before Trump named Kelly earlier this year.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[DAILYSIGNAL] A veteran Democrat chief election official in Florida has conceded in court that noncitizens and felons possibly voted, in a case that could have national implications for how localities clean up voter rolls.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] President Trump plans to donate $1 million from his personal fortune to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday.
[Daily Beast] Special counsel Bob Mueller has teamed up with the IRS. According to sources familiar with his investigation into alleged Russian election interference, his probe has enlisted the help of agents from the IRS’ Criminal Investigations unit.
[Wash Examiner] Senate investigators have had problems getting the FBI to reveal information about the Trump dossier. They're not the only ones. Outside groups filing Freedom of Information Act requests are running up against a stone wall when it comes to the dossier.
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