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-Lurid Crime Tales-
O'Reilly: 'This Country Is Doomed' If 'Presidency Can Be Bought'
[Daily Caller] Fox News host Bill O'Reilly called for an FBI investigation into the allegations surrounding foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation on "The Five" Tuesday, saying the country would be "doomed" if the presidency could be bought in such a way.

"So what has to happen -- and this has to happen -- is the FBI has to look into this to preserve the sanctity of the electoral process," he said. "Because nobody is going to find the truth. The investigative reporters will find a little bit, but we don't have subpoena power. We can't subpoena."

"And because this is a presidential election issue now, the FBI has to go in," O'Reilly continued. "...They have no choice. They have to investigate this."
Bill, Bill, Bill.... PLEASE take a moment now and then and scan the Burg. At a minimum, get some new Blue Room analysts.
Host Eric Bolling suggested the Internal Revenue Service could investigate, but O'Reilly dismissed the idea. "The IRS, its been corrupted. We know that. It's politicized; people who run it take orders from whoever is in power."
Don't be absurd, Mr. O'Reilly -- they interpret directions in light of the zeitgeist when Democrats are running things, and do their best to hold the line when Republicans are on charge.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  See flic "Fall of the Roman Empire".
Posted by: borgboy || 05/07/2015 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  The criminal or felony bypass + circumvention = "sanctity" of the electoral process, thus by extension the US Constitution itself, was what the Monica Lewinsky affair + Bill Clinton's impeachment was covertly truly about.

FROM NO LESS AN AUTHORITY THAN POTUS BILL HIMSELF.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/07/2015 2:25 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: junkiron || 05/07/2015 4:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Ben Franklin should've said "A Republic, as long as we can keep it.".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2015 5:07 Comments || Top||

#5  Niiiiice, junkiron. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/07/2015 6:36 Comments || Top||

#6  Obviously, you missed the bus Bill. It's an oligarchy. Denial is not a river in Egypt. However, they need to keep the rubes compliant, so help them by not stating the obvious.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/07/2015 8:13 Comments || Top||

#7  The Clintons do believe you can buy the presidency. Bill [O'Reilly}, you should read, if you haven't, the recent book about the gnawing away and destruction of a Republic from within by Peter Schweizer entitled "Clinton Cash." It is about a power couple who feel they are entitled but immune from the laws for the rest of us little people.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/07/2015 11:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Do I get a Master of the Obvious award if I point out to Mr. O'Reilly that the FBI will never investigate as long as the DOJ is in the hands of the crooks?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 05/07/2015 12:40 Comments || Top||

#9  Is he really that naive? This administration has used subpoena as toilet paper for years to avoid tough questions. Bill should use his bully pulpit to get every one of his viewers to vote against Hillary no matter how imperfect the Republican candidate is on this or that issue. That is the only way we'll see an investigation. And judging by past performance that may not even be enough because the Republicans love to play nice with those that have declared them evil and lied and vilified them for decades.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/07/2015 15:02 Comments || Top||

#10  Spot on.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/07/2015 15:37 Comments || Top||

#11  Rj nailed it. Watsmore, they're all quietly sitting back and wondering if she will indeed win, and upset their individual carts in spite and retribution. A blindly flash of course, but these people can be very, very vindictive.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2015 15:57 Comments || Top||

#12  Buy it, hell folks, they are importing permanent one party rule as we speak (soon to be in Spanish) and nothing, not a Goddam F*cking thing is being done to stop it. They are't going to buy it, you are, your tax dollars as entitlements will pay these imported low skill, low education imports to vote democrat as if their checks depended on it, which they will!
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/07/2015 18:35 Comments || Top||

#13  At least the Roman Republic had vomitoriums.
Posted by: borgboy || 05/07/2015 21:31 Comments || Top||

#14  The best part of buying it... is that you can use other people's money!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/07/2015 21:47 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Top federal court rules against NSA's phone records program
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/07/2015 16:17 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Like the NSA will let a little thing like it being unconstitutional keep them from collecting records.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/07/2015 16:19 Comments || Top||

#2  This was done on statutory, not constitutional grounds, and the renewal legislation in Congress would fix that little problem. Go RINOs!
Posted by: Iblis || 05/07/2015 16:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Can we now flush out the judges that allowed this activity?
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 05/07/2015 18:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Does the Court have an enforcement mechanism (How many Divisions has the Pope?) No? So will anything change?
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/07/2015 19:34 Comments || Top||


Government
ObamaCare Exchanges Are A Model Of Failure
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/07/2015 11:59 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


CNN Host: Hillary's Horrible Poll Numbers Are '€˜The Equivalent Of A Five-Alarm Fire'
[Daily Caller] CNN chief national correspondent John King said on "New Day" that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's horrible poll numbers on trustworthiness and honesty are the equivalent of a "fire-alarm fire" that her campaign needs to address.

"Clearly, we're seeing a candidate who right now isn't showing us transparency, accountability, or a high level of ethical standards," said National Journal editor Ron Fournier. "Those are things we should be factoring in as well. Especially reporters... the polls go her way, that doesn't necessarily mean we should stop reporting on it."

"And the Clinton people shouldn't take solace in these polls, because they haven't gotten beyond those fundamental questions of leadership," he concluded.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2015 05:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  poll numbers on trustworthiness and honesty are the equivalent of a "fire-alarm fire" that her campaign needs to address

Not everything is a meter of presentation, John.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2015 7:59 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, they can run on the campaign slogan - Vote for the Crook.

That'll cover for at least 25% of the electorate. Hey, when she and other were mouthing redistribution just who do you think were going to get the redistribution?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/07/2015 8:18 Comments || Top||

#3  1- We must elect a woman.

2- Hillary is a woman.

3- Therefore, we must elect Hillary.

What part of this are you guys not getting?
Posted by: Matt || 05/07/2015 8:59 Comments || Top||

#4  The left and that includes the MSM such as CNN still have that attitude that she in the "inevitable candidate" who is entitled to the presidency. They are merely biding their time and waiting for the coronation of Queen Hillary--carrying water for her when they can. IMO that the Clintons are awful and ruthless people who should never be near the seats of power. I wouldn't mind so much if they were terrible, awful, ruthless people towards our enemies but often times it is directed towards the American people (Waco). They are strictly in it for themselves. Hillary is bytch on steroids from what rumors I've heard from people whom I know in the LE community.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/07/2015 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Hillary is a woman?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/07/2015 10:19 Comments || Top||

#6  bumper stickers

She's only a sleazoid, not a convicted felon.

America needs someone who can deceive without a conscience.

Vote Hillary because Honesty: What is it good for?
Posted by: lord garth || 05/07/2015 11:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Given that Democrat voters don't need to go to the poles to cast votes, this is a non issue. All the necessary Democrat votes will be there on election day. The party makes sure it is so.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 05/07/2015 11:48 Comments || Top||

#8  American needs a black President, so we elect Obama and he bungles things so badly we guarantee he's the last black President for a long, long time.

America needs a female President...

Perhaps folks should think that through a bit longer.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/07/2015 15:09 Comments || Top||

#9  rjschwarz, I'm afraid that many of the people who voted for the first black or will vote for the first woman are like the high school students who think it would be cool to vote for a dog or pig for homecoming king or queen. It just that kind of mentality--no thinking involved.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/07/2015 15:42 Comments || Top||

#10  Makes no difference. Hillary will be the closest to the middle politically of all democratic challengers. The DNC might even run Fidel Castro to make their point that Hillary is not a 'leftist'.
Posted by: airandee || 05/07/2015 22:06 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
FLOTUS: Museums Don't Make Young Minorities Feel Welcome
[Daily Caller] Are art museums welcoming enough to minorities? While it's probably a question that never occurred to you since, if you are so inclined, you simply pay the admission and enter, it it apparently a pressing issue to some people.
Photograph of the family at the right from the many on display at the museum in Appomattox.
One of those people to whom this though has occurred is first lady Michelle Obama.

At the opening of the new $420 million Whitney Museum in New York City, the first lady spoke of a "feeling of not belonging" in museums when she was a growing up on the south side of Chicago.

"You see, there are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and they think to themselves, 'well, that's not a place for me, for someone who looks like me, for someone who comes from my neighborhood.' In fact, I guarantee you that right now, there are kids living less than a mile from here who would never in a million years dream that they would be welcome in this museum.

And growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I was one of those kids myself. So I know that feeling of not belonging in a place like this. And today, as First Lady, I know how that feeling limits the horizons of far too many of our young people."

This feeling of not belonging has, according to her speech, caused her and President Barack Obama to "open up the White House to as many young people as possible, especially those who ordinarily wouldn't have a chance to visit."
Campfire Talk - Life of the Common Solider, June 4 through September 18. Admission free. Kids welcome. Tell the Ranger you're visiting the Campfire Talk.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2015 05:08 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Discrimination is everywhere.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/07/2015 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  So, maybe FLOTUS should organize and lead some museum field trips for minorities?

Oh, that's right, it's easier to pontificate than to do - if she weren't so irritating, she'd make a good arts critic.
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 || 05/07/2015 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  She's just like The Once. Everything is about her.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/07/2015 8:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Visit to the Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago and tell me how well behaved the neighborhood 'yoots' are in and around the exhibits, please. These kids were never taught to respect the rights and properties of others.

Any Art Museum display in that particular area would have to be heavily secured to a wall or column and bulletproof.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/07/2015 8:46 Comments || Top||

#5  Oh, really? If they never went any place they weren't welcome, they sure wouldn't be at the mall.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/07/2015 8:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Remember Asians are the new 'whites' and do not qualify as a minority.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/07/2015 8:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Maybe the reason you don't feel welcome is because you are a completely spoiled bitch who's sense of entitlement alienates everyone near you.....

Nah. Gotta be racism.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/07/2015 9:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Stirring up trouble where none exists. Maybe FLOTUS should go see a therapist about these feelings. "Normal or nuts?" I'm going with nuts. She is a similar to the former erstwhile FLOTUS, Hillary.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/07/2015 10:24 Comments || Top||

#9  An attempt to extort 'donations'? Give us some cash or we'll send armies of misbehaving children to annoy your regular patrons.

Don't schools take the kids on exciting field trips to museums, plays and sewage treatment plants any more?
Posted by: SteveS || 05/07/2015 11:51 Comments || Top||

#10  Could it be that museums are generally where you need at least a rudimentary ability to read reason and a background education of basic history and science? The things there connect with those and expand on them unless you don't have them. Then they are just annoying buildings full of the proof of white privilege.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 05/07/2015 12:19 Comments || Top||

#11  This is the clearest thing she's said ever.

Basically she is saying feelings of persecution and being an outsider are self-ingrained in blacks. Long after the "White's Only" signs were thrown away they have a lingering effect.

MLK would cry to hear such a thing. He'd encourage far more field trips (and proper behavior) to encourage young blacks to erase that nonsense from their heads.

Posted by: rjschwarz || 05/07/2015 15:16 Comments || Top||

#12  Basically she is saying feelings of persecution and being an outsider are self-ingrained in blacks.

'Self-ingrained,'.... who knows. But it certainly appears to be is a highly desired end state.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2015 16:04 Comments || Top||

#13  Put a liquor store sign in front of a broken window at the museum entrance. Now that appears welcoming.
Posted by: Airandee || 05/07/2015 16:06 Comments || Top||

#14  Airandee, I believe you've got something there. Maybe stick a drug dealer near the entrance too.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/07/2015 16:12 Comments || Top||

#15  Ah... Mrs. First Lady Ma'am. Have you ever walked the first six or so blocks of San Francisco's Mission Street before? The one with the dozen or so museums dedicated to minority groups on it? No? Does that not fit the narrative?
Posted by: Secret Master || 05/07/2015 16:30 Comments || Top||

#16  Same shit, different day. Why does anyone invite her to anything to hear the same old spiel?
But maybe she was just afraid none of the museums doors were wide enough for her gigantic ass to get through them...
Posted by: tu3031 || 05/07/2015 18:03 Comments || Top||

#17  Ditto TU. I anxiously await the day they depart the WH and we [hopefully] never hear from either of them again.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/07/2015 18:06 Comments || Top||

#18  All those masterpieces by dead white males need to come with a trigger warning.
Posted by: charger || 05/07/2015 19:36 Comments || Top||

#19  But charger, lots of those dead white male artists were GAY, which should make their art acceptable, right?
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/07/2015 19:41 Comments || Top||

#20  First Cultural Commissar Michelle Obama,
Wanting the welcome for waifs to be warmer,
Invited them in with torch, sickle, and hammer
To serve as exhibits in her Wunderkammer.
Posted by: Shuting Gurly-Brown7975 || 05/07/2015 23:55 Comments || Top||



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