[FOX] DiGenova & Toensing’s Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova discuss the FBI and Department of Justice’s defiant action to reportedly ignore President Trump’s order for the declassification of FISA documents.
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Appears the story of Page and Strzak being 'lovers' was likely a convenient 'cover for action' for the tens of thousands of anti-Trump messages sent btwn the two.
Rhetorical I suppose, but it makes one wonder if these two had any other mission or duties at the Bureau other than attempting to derail Trump.
[Hot Air] When the President made the decision to order the declassification and release of various documents from the Russia, Russia, Russia investigation, there was an immediate uproar.
The documents to be declassified included one section of the initial 2017 FISA application against Carter Page, as well as some of the FBI’s notes taken during interviews with Page and Bruce Ohr, having mostly to do with the Steele dossier. The strange aspect of the protests was the fact that they all seemed to be coming from one side of the aisle. Now, the most senior Democrats in Congress are trying to slam the brakes on the process by asking the Justice Department and the FBI to provide an "immediate briefing" to the Gang of Eight.
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Of course they don't want any additional info on Carter Page revealed. He was the designated decoy. After he departed the Trump campaign, all interest in Page immediately dropped, almost as if it never existed.
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Trump chose Sessions so the deep state could spend two years investing in the AG's incompetence. Next January will be a hoot.
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These two years could've been spent investigating Clinton Foundation and Obama's regime more egregious crimes. Instead they're spent by POTUS having to defend himself from accusations that everyone knows are bullshit.
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Sessions was an early and effective Trump supporter during the 2016 primaries and in the general election. His appointment to the AG post was certainly a reward for his loyalty. Now it seems it would have been a whole lot better if he had stayed in the Senate, especially after the Judge Roy Moore fiasco and Alabama's election of a Democrat to take the Senate seat formerly held by Sessions.
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Alinksy ‘em: choke them by making them live up to their own rules.
[Townhall] Juanita Broaddrick, whose Twitter profile reads, in part, "rape survivor of Bill Clinton," has been watching the allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh unfold and is surprised by the accuser's refusal to tell her story. Christine Blasey Ford, the woman accusing Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her in high school, has yet to accept the invitation to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. The committee has even offered her concessions and are willing to speak to her in her home state of California, but still she has not accepted.
Well, Broaddrick said Wednesday that if Ford is not willing to testify about her allegation, she sure is.
Broaddrick also noted how Ford wants an FBI investigation into the Kavanaugh incident. If Democrats are willing to honor Ford's request that the FBI open a 36-year-old case, why not take another look at her sexual assault allegation against President Clinton? Broaddrick has accused Clinton of raping her in a motel room in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1978 when he was attorney general.
[Mercer at Townhall] Adroitly, President Trump has optimized outcomes for the American Worker. His is a labor market like no other.
Long overdue in the U.S., a labor market is one in which firms compete for workers, rather than workers competing for jobs.
"For the first time since data began to be collected in 2000, there are more job openings than there are unemployed workers." By the Economist’s telling (Jul 12th 2018), "Fully 5.8 million more Americans are in work than in December of 2015."
Best of all, workers are happier than they’ve been for a long time. Not so business. For American business, it’s never enough. Big or small, business is focused on elephantine-like expansion.
Big and small, business is nattering about labor shortages: "Ninety percent of small businesses which are hiring or trying to hire workers report that there are few or no qualified applicants, according to the National Federation of Independent Business."
With blaring headlines, the megaphones in the financial press are amplifying a message of dissatisfaction:
"The shortage is reaching a ’critical point’ ... A lack of applicants for blue-collar jobs such as trucking and construction has received particular scrutiny, as have states like Iowa where the unemployment rate is especially low (it is just 2.7 percent in the Hawkeye state)."
[National Review] The Senate cannot let this wrong go unaddressed.
Regardless of the fate of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination, the Senate should censure the ranking Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee, Dianne Feinstein. Her deception and maneuvering, condemned across the political spectrum, seriously interfered with the Senate’s performance of its constitutional duty to review judicial nominations, and unquestionably has brought the Senate into "dishonor and disrepute," the standard that governs these matters. As a matter of institutional integrity, the Senate cannot let this wrong go unaddressed.
Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution provides that each House of the Congress may "punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour." Nine times in American history the Senate has used that power to censure one of its members. Feinstein has richly earned the right to join this inglorious company.
The senior senator from California not only disgraced herself personally in the underhanded and disingenuous way she dealt with the sex-assault charge against Judge Kavanaugh, but she also misused her position on the Judiciary Committee and broke faith with her fellow committee members. She was further, to quote the San Francisco Chronicle, no less, "unfair" to Judge Kavanaugh ‐ manipulating the public disclosure of the charge so as to maximize the adverse publicity Judge Kavanaugh received and minimize the judge’s opportunity to defend himself. Censure is appropriate in this case for the Senate to defend its procedures and institutional reputation.
[The Federalist] The leading Democratic figures during Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings were presumed 2020 presidential hopefuls Kamala Harris and Cory Booker. Both grandstanded to great applause from Democratic partisans, but failed to nick the nomination. The two young guns made a lot of noise, but it was an older, wiser woman who with a single shot turned a hopeless situation for Democrats into a big potential political win.
Dianne Feinstein was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992, the original "year of the woman." During the previous year, Clarence Thomas had been confirmed to the Supreme Court despite Anita Hill’s allegations that he had sexually harassed her. The Democrats used the anger many women felt at those proceedings to elect a record number of women to Congress. It’s a play that Feinstein knows well and helped invent. This week, she called that play again.
The timing of Feinstein’s release of information regarding the initially anonymous woman accusing Kavanaugh of sexual assault was simply impeccable. Democrats knew they had no reasonable chance of stopping his confirmation, but Feinstein, a savvy and old-school politician, found a way to turn lemons into lemonade. Feinstein may have wrought a political masterpiece.
It is very likely that Feinstein knew in July, when her constituent sent the allegation to her, that it was so lacking in any kind of detail and backup that it could not derail Kavanaugh. But that didn’t mean that the allegations from Christine Blasey Ford could not be politically useful.
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The Democrats used the anger many women felt at those proceedings to elect a record number of women to Congress. It’s a play that Feinstein knows well and helped invent. This week, she called that play again.
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The very rare realistic woman is not a factor in electoral politics. All humans are emotional and women are more emotional than men. Expecting rationality among them is irrational.
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[Kim Strassel - WSJ] A Kavanaugh defeat would demoralize the Republican base, not energize it.
As the battle over Brett Kavanaugh rages on, pundits continue to speculate about what an unproven sexual-misconduct claim might mean for the future makeup of the Supreme Court, for subsequent nominations and for the credibility of the #MeToo movement.
In the halls of Capitol Hill, the question centers on a much more immediate and political question: the fate of the Republican Party. The overwhelming verdict‐on right and left‐is that if Judge Kavanaugh goes down, so too does the GOP in the upcoming midterms.
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Seems to me most of them (Pub Pols) want to get rid of Trump and go back to business as usual - whether that will be possible after Democrats went so far successfully, I leave to the gentle reader.
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It's a plain fact that "sitting out" an election is a loser. How many wars has pacifism stopped? Yeah, right.
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Democrats seem to have a great deal more party discipline than Republicans. Are there any Democrats as eager to break ranks with their party as Flake, Murkowski and Collins are to break ranks with the Republican Party? These people need discipline. Hey, Collins, want something for Maine? Forget it!
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They are prepared to release most of their rage over any Kavanaugh defeat on the Republican Party.
Which is exactly where it belongs. We know about Democrats. We expect better from Republicans and we'll be damn disappointed if we don't get it.
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A Kavanaugh defeat would demoralize the Republican base, not energize it.
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NYT headline that Rosenswine wanted to wear a wire in meeting with Trump, we are in open revolt by the Deep State and the demonrats against the duly elected President of the United States. Hold the damn vote Grassley, there are trials to be started....
[KC Star] Paul Kalchik, a priest at the Resurrection Catholic Church in Chicago, says he has twice been sexually assaulted in his life.
A neighbor first sexually assaulted him as a child, Kalchik said, and it happened again with a Catholic priest when he was just 19, according to The Chicago Sun-Times. For Kalchik, the answer seems clear: Sexual abuse in the Catholic church is "definitely a gay thing."
Now, the Catholic priest is facing controversy after he burned a rainbow flag at his church on September 14 in what he described as a "prayer of exorcism," according to NBC News. Kalchik originally planned to burn the flag on September 29, the outlet reported, but the Archdiocese of Chicago told him he couldn’t when it heard about the idea.
Despite being warned against it, Kalchik cut the flag into seven pieces on Friday and then burned it "in the same fire pit that we used for the Easter vigil mass," NBC News wrote.
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Sociologists and psychologists (the usual suspects) have seizures when anyone collates gay with pedophilia. Of course, that proud old faggot William S. Burroughs used to say "Young boys needs it special..."
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h/t Instapundit
[MichaelZWilliamson] And socialists, their passive aggressive cousins.
The most retarded thing I saw recently was a Pious with a bumper sticker, "If you don't like socialism get off my public road."
Um, shit for brains...roads date from the Palace Economy of the Bronze Age and were invented for the purpose of bringing TAXES into the palace. They happened to increase trade and wealth, which also increased TAXES. They weren't done for your benefit.
These days we build them to increase COMMERCE which also increases wealth and taxes. Still not done for "the people." In fact, around here, we're trying to GET them to widen a road that's needed it for 70 years and they're holding off because they're hoping for federal money...for a road that starts and ends in town. If it was being done for THE PEOPLE it would have been done 70 years ago.
Also, it wouldn't be YOUR road, it would be OUR road, and you're admitting that if I refuse to play your game, you'll cut me out of your society until I starve. Thus confessing you don't care about people, you only care about the state.
And this is why we should still talk about killing Communists. Because human lives are more important than Communist lives.
[NYSun] Many of the latest headlines boil down to a conflict about nationalism. Great Britain’s exit from the European Union. Presidentr Trump’s attempt to erect a border wall and to renegotiate the terms of international trade agreements. Russian meddling in American politics. Even public marches by avowed racists wind up being described in the press, accurately or inaccurately, as actions by "white nationalists."
Into this fray comes Yoram Hazony, president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, with a new book, "The Virtue of Nationalism," just published by Basic Books.
Mr. Hazony argues that nationalism ‐ "when nations are able to chart their own independent course, cultivating their own traditions and pursuing their own interests without interference" ‐ is preferable to the alternative of imperialism, of "uniting mankind, as much as possible, under a single political regime."
...The most vivid argument of Mr. Hazony, though, may be his least abstract one.
"I have been a Jewish nationalist, a Zionist, all my life," Mr. Hazony writes.
Mr. Hazony quotes David Ben-Gurion, a founder of the state of Israel, speaking in November 1942 bemoaning that Jewish children and elders were being "buried alive in graves dug by them," "because the Jews have no political standing, no Jewish army, no Jewish independence, and no homeland."
Though Zionism long predated the Holocaust, the Holocaust became important to Jewish nationalism. For most Jews, in other words, the absence of a Jewish state ‐ not enough nationalism ‐ led to the Holocaust. Yet as Mr. Hazony notes, there’s a competing, "almost perfectly irreconcilable" view in which German nationalism led to the Holocaust. "According to this view, it is not Israel that is the answer to the Holocaust, but the European Union," Mr. Hazony writes.
It’s that juxtaposition that is Hazony’s strongest case. To most Jews the answer to this one is self-evident. It doesn’t require reading a lot of abstract philosophical tracts. It’s a simple choice. Safety and survival and freedom are far more likely to come from having a land with borders and a military under the control of one’s own people ‐ a nation ‐ than by relying on a distant bureaucracy in Brussels or at the United Nations that emits lofty language about universal ideals and liberal internationalism. Reminded me of Anderson's No Truce with Kings
On the way back from Europe, there was a woman on the plane, who embodied pretty much all that had gone wrong with women in the West. She was 30-ish and as we were boarding, she found that the overhead bins were full in the front. She had no place to put her three carry-on items. Of course, if she had been more punctual, this would not have been a problem, but there she was in the aisle, throwing a tantrum, demanding the cabin crew rush to her aid. She managed to hold up the boarding process for ten minutes.
I was struck by the sense of entitlement. It was not because she was a beautiful women who knew all men desire her either. She was quite plain. Further, the women who work for Wow airlines are stunningly gorgeous. More important, they like being women that are stunningly gorgeous. To be blunt about it, the contrast between the beautiful Icelandic women and this American feminist underscored the fact that feminism is about dining out on appetizer looks. It’s bland women demanding unearned attention from men.
Watching this unfold in front of me, I started to think a big part of what makes American women so unpleasant now is that they are haunted by this reality. Not so much that they are average looking, but that they know the feminist lunacy in their heads is not true and that the old realities of sex roles are forever realities. If they were polite and decent, minding their own business as feminists, no one would pay any attention to them. The result would be a class of barren spinsters that live on the local university campus.
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The zman is like zerohedge after a dry out session. I like most of his stuff, but he sure likes to stand with his toes hanging over the cliff.
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Most men lament the dire shortage of women they would want to have as a wife or the mother of his children.
This struck me; the guy friends I have without progeny are good guys who hit wall after wall of arfing crazy. Selfish conceit followed closely by lack of emotional control seem to be the sins. Can't imagine what the younger generation is going through, having to contend against the additional vanity and kommisar like inquisition of the 'smart phone'.
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.
[Mercer at Townhall] Adroitly, President Trump has optimized outcomes for the American Worker. His is a labor market like no other. 
[National Review] The Senate cannot let this wrong go unaddressed.
[KC Star] Paul Kalchik, a priest at the Resurrection Catholic Church in Chicago, says he has twice been sexually assaulted in his life.
