[Wash Examiner] Hillary Clinton has forcefully denied reports that the FBI is expanding its investigation of her private email network to include allegations of "public corruption" involving the Clinton Foundation.
But thousands of emails made public by the State Department between May of last year and Friday indicate donors to the Clinton Foundation were often given personal meetings, generous contracts or special consideration that was seemingly not afforded to the same number of private groups that had not written checks to the charity.
The allegations that sparked the reported probe, which the FBI has yet to confirm or deny, focus simply on whether the State Department extended preferential treatment to Clinton Foundation contributors.
Below are nine examples of the type of State Department access Clinton granted to her foundation's top donors, as told by the private emails that have been made public so far by the agency. Anyone remember when it was just a stranger snoring loudly down in the Lincoln bedroom ?
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Those are the nine her staff missed when they deleted her "personal" e-mails.
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Hillary Clinton has forcefully denied reports that the FBI is expanding its investigation of her private email network to include allegations of "public corruption" involving the Clinton Foundation.
This forceful denial implies that if the allegations were true that it would be a very bad thing indeed. Now all we need is a tree . . . .
[WASHINGTONPOST] Kind of a no-brainer there, nor should it be hard since the Dems are the anti-white party. Bad mouth us for culture and skin color long enough and eventually we'll catch on. You know, "white people be like dat."
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They will try to act as politicians to steal away the diverse supporters of Trump but having been lied to so many times Trump supporters will not be so easily deceived. Meanwhile Trump will have moved on making their efforts meaningless. Being an original thinker adept at communication he is far more effective and actually perceived as a natural leader. The man for our times.
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No secure border (you had 8 years with George in the WH), rubber stamping even more H1Bs. Yep, the GOPe and Chamber of Commerce certainly knows how to appeal to the 'working class'.
[DEADLINE] With all of the Big 4 running it live, the very last State of the Union address of Barack Obama’s presidency saw jokes and barbs about those running to succeed him, a call to cure cancer, pleas to pass the big Pacific Rim trade deal and Paul Ryan’s debut in the Speaker’s chair over POTUS’ shoulder. Overall, the President also offered an optimistic assessment of the nation in his just over an hour speech but the incumbent conceded he hadn’t been able to overcome the harsh bipartisan battles that have characterized his term in office. I saw a few minutes of it. The man's voice makes my skin crawl. You're a brave man. A few minutes is a few minutes more than I could possibly stand... I boycotted the entire address, but it's not just the voice.
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I watched the whole thing so that as it ended I could celebrate a milestone on the way to the bammer's exit, stage right. I actually thought that as I tuned it in.
That man is living in an alternate universe. You can fool some of the people all of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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I can't stand anything about him or his administration. Whenever I hear him or see him, even in a 10 second spot on ESPN, I feel nauseated.
This regime is the antithesis of anything remotely American as I was raised to understand and love it.
I'm currently trying to avoid an ulcer thinking about what horrors he can inflict this year.
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You can fool some of the people all of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Obama has rewritten that little bit of wisdom in a most perverse manner. He fooled enough of the people enough of the time. Can't give him all the credit though. He had a lot of help from MSM and a complicit gang of Republicans.
And, yes, there are those of us who find that unbearable to watch no matter how much whiskey we drink.
[Wash Times] They were untouchable, having created a cult of personality rivaled (and surpassed) only by President Obama.
Until now.
And surprisingly, the issue that is currently unraveling their Wizard of Oz illusion isn't the allegations of massive fraud at the Clinton Foundation or her mishandling of classified material on her private email server. (More on both fronts to come, courtesy of the FBI).
No, the issue posing the greatest risk right now to a Clinton Restoration is the public's voiding of the deal it made with the Clinton Devil in 1992.
The conventional wisdom has long been that Mr. Clinton's lewd, abusive past is itself a thing of the past. His serial extramarital affairs, including the one with the barely legal intern, Monica Lewinsky, his textbook sexual harassment of subordinates like Paula Jones, his alleged assault of Kathleen Willey and the rape alleged by Juanita Broaddrick, were considered old news, episodes litigated in the court of public opinion and dismissed for three reasons: 1) His piggery was already widely known; 2) a strong economy absolved many of his sins; and 3) the public took cues from his wife. "Hey, if she's OK with his piggery, who are we to judge?"
This cleverly constructed protective shield is now crumbling because Mrs. Clinton, after enlisting her husband on the campaign trail in a retread of 1992's "two for the price of one" deal, is oblivious to the political ground shifting beneath her.
Republican candidate Donald Trump does not play by anybody else's rules, least of all Clinton-enforced ones, but apparently no one has informed Mrs. Clinton. So she gleefully and blindly launched an attack on his "penchant for sexism."
You could almost see Mr. Trump's rhetorical gun turret turn slowly toward her before he opened fire. "Be careful," he warned on Twitter. And then, on MSNBC, he blasted her husband as "one of the great women abusers of all time," adding, "I think Hillary is an enabler." He then released an Internet ad tying her to the sex scandals of her husband, former Rep. Anthony Weiner (husband of her closest aide, Huma Abedin) and Bill Cosby.
He dared to go where no traditional politician would -- hitting the Clintons' grotesque hypocrisy -- and made it acceptable to question both Clintons' character and judgment on women's issues. Suddenly, Mrs. Clinton -- self-styled champion of women and girls -- came under criticism, particularly from news organizations such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, MSNBC and others that have long protected both Clintons.
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This cleverly constructed protective shield is now crumbling because Mrs. Clinton, after enlisting her husband on the campaign trail in a retread of 1992's "two for the price of one" deal, is oblivious to the political ground shifting beneath her.
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I can't help but think of that scene in THE LONGEST YARD with Burt Reynolds when they're playing football but the other inmates think Burt is scum so they stop blocking for him and he gets hit hard a few times.
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having the leftists beaten up by the further left leftists in the USA is essentially the same phenomenon as Islamists killed by more Islamic Islamists in Syria, afghanistan, etc
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There is a downside: if Shrillary does the perp walk, Bill Clinton will be a free man.
Oh well, maturity consists of being content with what one CAN get.
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That pic of the Hildabeest is start and so revealing of her character. Somebody has to photoshop a couple of Dracula fangs on and it would be perfect.
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[BLOOMBERG] Maryland Governor Larry Hogan held a sidewalk presser last week in Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood. He promised to revitalize the city by spending $75 million to tear down 4,000 vacant houses. Baltimore's population is dropping, a result of years of Democrat machine government. The blocks of vacant houses are festering civic sores.
"Fixing what is broken in Baltimore requires that we address the sea of abandoned, dilapidated buildings that are infecting entire neighborhoods," he said. It's a city that's infested by junkies, with falling property values and taxes that are twice what we pay in the counties.
Then the yellow paw of a Komatsu excavator ripped the face from a nearby row house, and Baltimore joined a growing club of declining U.S. industrial hubs that have decided they have more housing than their populations can support. The logic is that removing blighted sections of the city will help the larger body thrive, eventually clearing the path for redevelopment. The hard part is conceding that some areas are beyond short-term redemption. Just look for the burned out CVS pharmacies.
"When you demolish with no plans for new residential development, you're admitting that right now there's no demand for this block, this neighborhood, this city," said Erika Poethig, a fellow at the Urban Institute. "It takes a certain amount of political courage to do that." It's a city that tore down filthy abandoned housing projects along Martin Luther King Boulevard (somehow that's always where you find decayed housing projects) and built new housing at $300K a pop and sold them for a third that price. Drive by any time, wave to the bums, and read the graffiti.
Efforts to eliminate derelict homes in the U.S. were turbo-charged in 2013 when the U.S. Treasury allowed six states that had received money from a pool known as the Hardest Hit Fund to use some of it for tear-downs, in addition to other foreclosure prevention initiatives for which it was originally earmarked. The reasoning behind the move, which made $370 million available for the demolition of residences, is that vacant homes lower the value of neighboring properties.
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Never let a crisis go to waste. Detroit mayor tries to explain ever-higher prices for vacant home demolition. Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan defended the rising costs of tearing down blighted homes Tuesday, just hours after the Detroit Land Bank Authority that oversees the demolitions fired its executive director for undisclosed reasons.
Duggan spoke before the City Council to explain why the average cost for tearing down vacant homes in the city has increased to $16,400 each, compared with about $10,000 in 2013. The Detroit land bank oversees the auctioning and demolition of vacant, abandoned and foreclosed properties.
It has experienced some trouble in selling its "Rehabbed and Ready" homes. Those homes are taken from abandoned to rehabbed — often pouring more money in the renovation than the house is worth — with the help of Home Depot and Quicken Loans. Only a few have sold since the inception of the program this summer.
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If you listen, you can hear this loud sucking sound. It is the redistribution of wealth from Montgomery and Howard counties into the city of Baltimore.
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See "The Wire"
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Nuclear demolition might be a viable option, if the northerlies and easterlies were cooperative.
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When son did mortgage re-titling on repos (1000s a month) he found Baltimore to be the most impossible city in the nation to deal with.
They don't allow turning off utilities (most owned by the city). The payments for the utilities can be purchased as a lien against the home. This makes cleaning up titles hard. To make it worse Baltimore only allows that clean up once a year for a few hours payable only by cash at the courthouse. No checks, no debit cards no credit cards only cash. The son damn near went nuts on this (as he was not even in Maryland) until he made a deal with a bail bondsman across the street from the courthouse. So whenever one of the homes whose title he was trying to clean got its date at the Baltimore court he would call his bail bondsman to rush dollars across the street. Baltimore needs to be punished by the nation for this sort of outlook.
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
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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.
[DEADLINE] With all of the Big 4 running it live, the very last State of the Union address of Barack Obama’s presidency saw jokes and barbs about those running to succeed him, a call to cure cancer, pleas to pass the big Pacific Rim trade deal and Paul Ryan’s debut in the Speaker’s chair over POTUS’ shoulder. Overall, the President also offered an optimistic assessment of the nation in his just over an hour speech but the incumbent conceded he hadn’t been able to overcome the harsh bipartisan battles that have characterized his term in office.
[Wash Times] They were untouchable, having created a cult of personality rivaled (and surpassed) only by President Obama. 
