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-Lurid Crime Tales-
James Comer: 9 Bidens May Have Profited from Family Business
[Breitbart] House Committee on Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) announced Monday that a total of nine Biden family members may have profited from the family’s international business schemes.

Nine potential members profiting from the family business is six more than Comer had previously disclosed.

Through the Biden family’s suspicious activity reports (SARs), Comer discovered in March that a Biden associate received a $3 million wire transfer from a Chinese energy company, DEFC. In turn, four Biden family members — Hunter, James, Hallie Biden, and an unidentified “Biden” — received a collective $1.3 million cut from the $3 million wire transfer.

In a press release, Comer said further review of the SARs at the U.S Treasury has revealed a growing number of Bidens involved in the schemes. SARs “often contain evidence of potential criminal activities, such as money laundering and fraud,” according to a 2020 Senate report.

“Thousands of pages of financial records related to the Biden family, their companies, and associates’ business schemes were made available to members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability,” Comer said Monday. “The Biden family enterprise is centered on Joe Biden’s political career and connections, and it has generated an exorbitant amount of money for the Biden family.”

“We’ve identified six additional members of Joe Biden’s family who may have benefited from the Biden family’s businesses that we are investigating, bringing the total number of those involved or benefiting to nine,” Comer said.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  No worries! 'Top Men' at DoJ and the bureau are all over this one.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2023 8:17 Comments || Top||

#2  There are at least 150 suspicious activity reports on the Bidens receiving foreign money.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Sholugum4538 || 04/18/2023 8:25 Comments || Top||

#3  TOP men.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/18/2023 9:33 Comments || Top||


Six additional Biden family members 'may have benefited' from Hunter business dealings
[FoxNews] House Republicans viewed 'suspicious activity reports' at Treasury related to Biden family business dealings

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said Monday he has identified "six additional members" of the Biden family who "may have benefited" from Biden family business dealings and vowed to continue to investigate whether those dealings pose a "national security threat."

Comer, R-Ky., and members of the committee, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, R-Ga., visited the Treasury Department Monday to view financial records related to the Biden family and their past business associates as part of their investigation.

"Thousands of pages of financial records related to the Biden family, their companies, and associates’ business schemes were made available to members of the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability, which confirm the importance of this investigation," Comer said in a statement Monday afternoon.

"The Biden family enterprise is centered on Joe Biden’s political career and connections, and it has generated an exorbitant amount of money for the Biden family," Comer said.

After reviewing documents, Comer said the panel has "identified six additional members of Joe Biden’s family who may have benefited from the Biden family’s businesses that we are investigating, bringing the total number of those involved or benefiting to nine."

"The Oversight Committee will continue to pursue additional bank records to follow the Bidens’ tangled web of financial transactions to determine if the Biden family has been targeted by foreign actors and if there is a national security threat," Comer said, vowing to "soon provide the public with more information about what we’ve uncovered to date."

He added: "The American people need transparency and accountability, and the Oversight Committee will deliver much needed answers."

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The viewing of the additional financial documents came after the Treasury Department last month notified Comer that it would give the committee "in camera access" to suspicious activity reports (SARs) related to Hunter Biden and the Biden family’s foreign business deals.

The Treasury Department declined to comment on the matter, however, in past letters, the agency has noted this is law enforcement-sensitive data and protected by Bank Secrecy Act.

Last month, Fox News Digital reported that members of the Biden family received more than $1 million in payments from accounts related to Hunter Biden business associate Rob Walker and their Chinese business ventures in 2017, according to financial records subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee.

Those records were obtained after the committee subpoenaed Bank of America, which revealed that "at least three family members" received lucrative payments from a bank account belonging to Walker. That account is labeled as "Robinson Walker, LLC," and one of the family members is Hallie Biden, the widow of President Biden’s son Beau.

A spokesperson for Hunter Biden's legal team confirmed the payments last month, but stressed that the accounts "belonged to Hunter, his uncle and Hallie – nobody else."
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Might be easier to list Biden family members who have not benefited from graft and corruption.

If there are any. I'm beginning to wonder.
Posted by: Tom || 04/18/2023 13:15 Comments || Top||


'Don't insult my intelligence!' Mother of Army veteran stabbed to death in New York scorches Democrat for claiming Republican crime hearing is all about Donald Trump
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Madeline Brame, who lost her son to a stabbing attack in 2018 and blames Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for going 'soft' on the perpetrators

  • Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman told Brame: 'Your experiences are devastating, but the problem is this is a charade to cover up for ... Donald Trump'

  • Brame boomed: 'You're trying to insult me like I'm not aware of what's going on ... That's why I walked away from the plantation of the Democratic Party!'
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lock Madeline and Alvin in a CONEX for 15 minutes. The Alvin problem would be over.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2023 8:08 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
Bill Clinton: Some ‘Are Compelled' to Let Kids Die to Keep Freedoms
That's gunshot deaths.
Not abortions.

[Breitbart] Former President Bill Clinton argues the so-called gun debate can only be solved if some kind of consensus is reached on how to do it.
Perhaps Midnight Bassetbaw?
During an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Clinton explained how he believed it would be done. However, he called the status quo “not rational.”

“One thing that is pretty clear is whatever we do, we need to it more together,” he said. “And I think we need to start talking across this divide.”

According to Clinton, those who broke away from long-held beliefs on Second Amendment issues faced consequences.

“It is not rational that we should have a dramatically higher death rate among school-aged children because of gun violence than any other country in the world,” Clinton added. “And you know, a lot of people get mad about this thoughts and prayers. But if you believe that you have to — if you believe you are compelled to let kids die in order to keep your freedoms, that’s sort of the way this debate is.”
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  CDCs Abortion Surveillance System FAQs
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2023 6:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Criminals do not obey gun laws.
Posted by: Elminens Chusorong3648 || 04/18/2023 7:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Eliminating the rights of law-abiding citizens will not hamper criminals.

Even the politicians know that.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/18/2023 7:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Like Old Timer's Day at Yankee Stadium. Bill can still tie on the cleats and lie up a storm for the fans.
Posted by: Cesare || 04/18/2023 7:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Bring back paddling. Starting with Bill. He's got a lot to answer for.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Sholugum4538 || 04/18/2023 8:02 Comments || Top||

#6  I am compelled to let you die to keep my freedoms.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/18/2023 10:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh, I thought he meant Madeline Albright, who thought the death of 500,000 Iraqi kids through sanctions was a price she was willing to pay to invade Iraq. "It was worth it."
Posted by: Hupainter Peacock1045 || 04/18/2023 11:30 Comments || Top||

#8  From the article just above this one:

Madeline Brame, who lost her son to a stabbing attack in 2018, blames Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for going 'soft' on the perpetrators.

Brame's son Hason Correa, a 35-year-old father of three and Army veteran, was assaulted by a group of people he did not know and stabbed to death during an altercation outside an apartment building.
Two of Correa's attackers struck a plea deal with Manhattan prosecutors and one has already been let off on time served - Mary Saunders pleaded guilty to a completely manufactured charge of assault with a shoe and sentenced to one year time served.

The stench of hypocrisy from Democrats is sickening.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/18/2023 12:08 Comments || Top||


Republicans on Judiciary Committee Playing Hardball Over Replacing Feinstein
[PJMedia] The continued — an increasingly curious — absence of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) from her duties in the upper chamber of Congress is becoming a growing thorn in the sides of the Democrats. Feinstein is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and her prolonged recovery from shingles has ground to a halt the Democrats’ ability to further pollute the judicial system with activist judges who have been nominated by Joe Biden’s puppeteers.

Over the weekend, Matt wrote a VIP column about Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asserting that the Republicans on the committee not let Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) get away with temporarily replacing Feinstein in order to proceed with the commiefication of the judiciary.

In a refreshing show of unity, Republican senators from various points along the GOP ideological spectrum are agreeing with Cotton. One of the first was conservative Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.):



Schumer is going to need some Republican defectors to make this work, which is why it was encouraging to see Judiciary Committee members Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) join Cotton and Blackburn in saying that they won’t go along with the Dems’ end-around.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good. Don't give them anything.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/18/2023 9:39 Comments || Top||

#2  GOP... Hardball....

My AI says "does not compute"
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/18/2023 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  The younger generation of GOP politicians are an entirely different species, Mercutio.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/18/2023 12:40 Comments || Top||

#4  TBD, TW.

So far it's
"Full of sound and fury and signifying nothing".
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/18/2023 13:09 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Manhattan DA Bragg slammed by violent crime victims at House GOP's hearing in NYC
[JustTheNews] GOP Rep. Jim Jordan, the House Judiciary Committee chairman, said he panel's field hearing are to "highlight how soft on crime policies hurt families."

Victims of violent crime in Manhattan on Monday cast much of the blame on District Attorney Alvin Bragg and his policies, during a GOP-led House hearing in New York City on the matter.

"Repeat offenders are plaguing New York City," said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan. "Our plan this Congress, has been to include field hearings in some of our greatest cities to analyze and highlight how soft on crime policies hurt families, hurt communities, hurt small business owners. ... What better place to start than New York City where videos of violent, senseless attacks appear almost daily."

Democrats on the committee, as the have since the hearing was announced, continued to try to portray it as politically motivated, particularly since Bragg earlier this month filed a 34-count federal indictment against former President Trump.

"I am a willing participant," Madeline Brame, whose son was murdered roughly five years ago, said loudly in response to such accusations.

She also testified Bragg has left "all types of criminal elements free to do what they want, when they want, however they want, to whomever they want with no consequences, no deterrence."

Her son, Army Sgt. Hason Correa, was killed in a 2018 stabbing in New York City, and Brame argues Bragg botched the prosecution of his attackers.

"When Alvin Bragg came into office, he was handed a strong, trial-ready murder case and gang assault case against all four of the [accused], where this brutal savage homicide was captured on video.

"As soon as he took office, the case immediately began to unravel. He dismissed – completely dismissed – gang assault and murder indictments against two of the defendants clearly [seen] on video."

New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, the committee's top Democrat, was among those who accused Jordan of "doing the bidding of Donald Trump."

He also said committee Republicans "designed this hearing to intimidate and deter the duly elected district attorney of Manhattan, who has been doing the work his constituents elected him to do."

Committee member Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, argued that district attorneys with progress polices, particularly in major U.S. cites, and whose election campaigns were at least in part funded by progressive billionaire mega-donor George Soros, are too soft on crime, which included lighter punishments for violent offenders.

"Increasingly, George Soros is putting in upwards of $40 million to elect 75 DAs to be able to engage in these downgrades," Gaetz said. "And by the way, not only are they downgrading the violent things, they can't even win the cases they try."

He also said Bragg has "earned a reputation for caring more about the perpetrators of crime than the victims."
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:


Government Corruption
Guess Who's Behind the 51 Intel Officials Letter Dismissing Hunter Biden's Laptop?
BLUF:
[PJ] "It was all done with politics, and it looks like there was some real connections with the Biden campaign," Jordan said during an interview late last week on the John Solomon Reports podcast.

According to Jordan, his team of investigators has obtained valuable insights from transcribed interviews with two former CIA officials from the Obama era: Mike Morrell, who served as acting Director; and Nick Shapiro, a former adviser to ex-Director John Brennan. Jordan believes that Morrell played a crucial role in coordinating the effort to dismiss the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation, while Shapiro was involved in coordinating how the story was presented to the legacy media. "It’s becoming increasingly clear that Morrell and Shapiro were key players in this whole saga," Jordan stated.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2023 01:54 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  May cause chest palpitations and racing. Please be seated before reading.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2023 2:04 Comments || Top||

#2  A fawning news report:
Since leaving the U.S. Government in 2015, Shapiro and 10th Avenue Consulting have advised and led global crisis management for a myriad of high-profile individuals and companies. COVID-19 RESPONSE: When the most unprecedented crisis in modern times changed life as we know it, the Governor of California turned to 10th Avenue to guide the way. From March to June 2020, 10th Avenue advised Governor Gavin Newsom 24/7 on how he communicated with the public and responded to COVID-19. At the start of the crisis Governor Newsom had a 42% favorability rating, 4 weeks after hiring 10th Avenue, Governor Newsom's favorability shot up more than 40 points to 83% and he became the nation's most popular Governor. (Oh, really??)
Posted by: Slavising Unineting5672 || 04/18/2023 9:07 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Perhaps that is why everyone is leaving California ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2023 9:16 Comments || Top||

#4  From March to June 2020, 10th Avenue advised Governor Gavin Newsom 24/7 on how he communicated with the public and responded to COVID-19.

IOW, Newsom hasn't the vaguest clue how to do his job so he relies on ex-CIA operatives to tell him.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/18/2023 12:29 Comments || Top||


Congressional probe uncovers tie between Biden campaign, security letter dismissing Hunter laptop
[JustTheNews] Republicans now believe the letter that falsely portrayed laptop as disinformation was a consequential interference in the last presidential election.

Aided by two Obama-era witnesses, congressional investigators led by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan have developed the first evidence that a letter from security experts that falsely dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop as Russian disinformation during the 2020 election had ties to Joe Biden's presidential campaign.

Jordan told Just the News he expects to release a report from the House panel on weaponization of government later this month that lays out out evidence and the players behind the letter, which many Republicans now say was a consequential interference in the last presidential election.

"It was all done with politics, and it looks like there was some some real connections with the Biden campaign," Jordan said during an interview late last week on the John Solomon Reports podcast, declining to be more specific because there are more witness interviews being conducted this week.

For most of the last two years, the letter from 51 national security officials has been portrayed as an organic effort from the intelligence community to raise concerns that the emergence of Hunter Biden's laptop in fall 2020 could be tied to a foreign power. The laptop has since been proven authentic, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has said it did not involve a foreign disinformation campaign.

But before the letter was debunked, it was used to censor stories online in the New York Post, Just the News and other outlets in what has been described by former President Donald Trump, Jordan and many others as an interference in the election that kept voters from understanding influence peddling allegations surrounding the Biden family.

Jordan said his investigators have derived valuable information from transcribed interviews from two former CIA officials from the Obama era: former acting Director Mike Morrell and Nick Shapiro, a former adviser to ex-Director John Brennan.

"It seems to me that one of the key players here was Michael Morell, that he was one kind of coordinating this, working this together," Jordan said. "And then there are a few other folks. We have talked to Nick Shapiro. Mr. Shapiro, I think, was the one kind of coordinating the outreach to the legacy media and how they wanted this story presented."

Morell currently works as a contributor at CBS News. A spokesman for CBS News did not immediately return an email seeking comment from Morell or the network.

Shapiro, who worked as former President Barack Obama's national security spokesman before rising to deputy CIA director under Brennan, did not immediately respond to a request for comment at his consulting firm.

Jordan said the specific ties to the Biden campaign will be divulged in the interim report after additional transcribed interviews are completed.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Politix
Dazed and Confused Fetterman Returns to Capitol Hill After 2-Month Absence Looking Like a Slob (VIDEO)
[Gateway] Democrat Senator John Fetterman (PA) on Monday returned to Capitol Hill looking disheveled and confused after a prolonged absence during which he received treatment for severe depression.

Fetterman, 53, spent two months at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center receiving treatment for clinical depression.

The dazed and confused Senator looked like a slob as he arrived to Capitol Hill.

This is the same guy who was supposedly sponsoring bills from a psych ward.

"It’s great to be back," Fetterman told reporters at the Capitol.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2023 01:46 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Looking like a slob"

For good reason, it would appear.


Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2023 1:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Friends don't let friends miss leg day...
Posted by: Bangkok Billy || 04/18/2023 5:06 Comments || Top||

#3  "Looking Like a Slob"

What better indicator that he's back to "normal" (for certain values of normal)
Posted by: Mercutio || 04/18/2023 9:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Must have been that lightning storm a few days back.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/18/2023 10:13 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ Wonder how he reacts to pitchforks and torches?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/18/2023 11:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Nothing new about Fetterman looking like a slob.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/18/2023 12:34 Comments || Top||

#7  A poorly-dressed version of Dr. Frankenstein's monster.
Posted by: SteveS || 04/18/2023 13:13 Comments || Top||

#8  So, no visible change?
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/18/2023 13:17 Comments || Top||

#9  He looks just like he is: a big, fat mental patient. The Pig Man suits Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Regular joe || 04/18/2023 14:14 Comments || Top||

#10  I confess, this merely confirms this walking vegetable as pure farce, and his Puppet Masters as clueless about protecting the credibility of this stage prop. That it gets to vote on matters governing our nation, words fail....
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 04/18/2023 16:30 Comments || Top||

#11  his Puppet Masters as clueless about protecting the credibility of this stage prop.


They don't care. He votes the way they want so it's a win for them.
Posted by: AlanC || 04/18/2023 18:07 Comments || Top||


Dem Rep. Porter: 'Congress Absolutely Can and Should Police the Supreme Court'
[BREITBART] Representative Katie Bat Girl Porter
...Dem law professor, attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s 45th congressional district (Orange County) since 2019. Katie takes her job and her personal dignity so seriously she once showed up for a committee hearing dressed as Batman....
(D-CA) said Monday on ABC’s "The View" that "Congress absolutely can and should police the Supreme Court."

Co-host Ana Navarro said, "Clarence Thomas, the Supreme Court justice under fire for reportedly accepting lavish trips ... from my wealthy conservative donor, without disclosing it, that he had done so. There are also reports that that same donor may have purchased properties from the judge. He says he intends to amend his financial disclosure form now to reflect the real estate deal, but some are calling for his impeachment. The problem is how do you police the Supreme Court?

Porter said, "Congress absolutely can and should police the Supreme Court. Residual power for our government is in Congress, not in the executive branch, not with the president, not with the Supreme Court. That is because we are the closest to the people. People elected and unelect us every two years. Congress can pass judicial code of ethics for the Supreme Court. When we do we need to learn from our own mistakes with our congressional codes of ethics. We’ve seen the exact same play which is it, ’Oops I’ll tell you about it later,’ and people get off the hook for it. What that does is it erodes trust in government makes people think that Congress is corrupt, and they can’t trust their federal officials."
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#2  "Even worse, Justice Thomas is a Conservative Black Man™. The horror. The horror."
Posted by: Frank G || 04/18/2023 7:24 Comments || Top||

#3  No they shouldn't
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/18/2023 8:48 Comments || Top||

#4 
#2 "Even worse, Justice Thomas is a Conservative Black Man™. The horror. The horror."
Posted by: Frank G 2023-04-18 07:24


I have a bad feeling that the Left is just getting wound up on Justice Thomas - they are capital-D DESPERATE to get Biden a SCOTUS pick before the election, and they've settled on Thomas as the target.

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 04/18/2023 8:54 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ It is their modus operandi.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/18/2023 12:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Think she's ever read the Constitution?
Posted by: AlanC || 04/18/2023 14:15 Comments || Top||


NY Gov. Kathy Hochul accused of racism, anti-immigration in bitter housing spat
[NYPOST] Housing screeching muppets privately raged that Gov. Kathy Hochul is a "racist" who "does not like immigrants colonists" during a mass "virtual call" to discuss deadlocked state budget negotiations.

The April 11 strategy session was sponsored by Housing Justice for All, which is pushing for "good cause" legislation to limit rent hikes in apartments across the state and back a new housing access voucher program, to aid the homeless and tenants facing eviction.

The screeching muppets claimed Hochul, who has her own plan to spur the construction of 800,000 affordable housing units statewide, is holding up their pet pro-tenant programs.

"Governor Hochul doesn’t like [Housing Justice For All] because she doesn’t want everyone who’s included in this program to be included. That includes people who are undocumented, people with felony convictions," said organization staffer Ritti Singh, according to a recording of the event by a participant that was provided to The Post.
Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  CommunistsHousing screeching muppets privately raged that Gov. Kathy Hochul is a "racist" who "does not like immigrants colonists" during a mass "virtual call" to discuss deadlocked state budget negotiations.


Tell it like it is.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/18/2023 12:38 Comments || Top||


Rep. Elise Stefanik fires back at Dems who claim House panel hearing is payback for Trump indictment
[NYPOST] The House Judiciary Committee is setting its sights on New York because the state is a hotbed of failed left-wing criminal justice policies, Rep. Elise Stefanik said in a new interview.

New York’s top Republican in Congress fired back at Democrats who claim Monday’s hearing by the GOP-led panel is only payback for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg
...Soros-financed, -owned, and -operated woke Manhattan DA. A prosecutorial loose cannon who feels entitled to pick and choose which laws to enforce and can't be bothered to respond civilly to Congressional inquiries unless they're from Dems...
’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
— saying it’s really about the state’s soft-on-crime laws.

"New York is being targeted because you have radical left-wing Democrats who have put failed bail reform in place," Stefanik told The Post.

"That includes [Gov.] Kathy Hochul, that includes politicians in Albany, that includes defund-the-police Democrats in New York City, as well as radical, far-left district attorneys like Alvin Bragg."

The upstate representative charged that New York "is the epicenter of the catastrophic crime crisis happening across our country."

"Not just families in New York City, but broadly, even in my district in upstate New York."

Stefanik, 38, will sit on the Congressional panel that will convene at the Jacob Javits Federal Building in Lower Manhattan on Monday morning to probe Bragg’s lefty policies, as well as rampant crime in New York City and the Empire State overall.

Bragg has been under fire since taking office in January 2022 and announcing that his office would not prosecute many non-violent mostly peaceful crimes and would reduce some felonies to misdemeanors.

Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Because getting even for slavery is best served by letting criminals run free.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/18/2023 10:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Slavery is nothing more than an entitlement crutch. The 'evils of Afrikan colonialism'.....same, same.

Yes, there really is a pattern.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2023 10:24 Comments || Top||


Chicago's mayor-elect warns against 'demonizing' rampaging teens after unrest
[NYPOST] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson responded to this weekend’s violent mostly peaceful "teen takeover" of the Windy City’s downtown area by urging the public not to "demonize" the hordes of rampaging young people who set cars on fire, clashed with cops and damaged private property.
They voted for him.They deserve him.
Johnson, a progressive Democrat and former teachers union organizer who was elected mayor earlier this month, released a statement Sunday reacting to the disorder in his city that resulted in a shooting and more than a dozen arrests.

"In no way do I condone the destructive activity we saw in the Loop and lakefront this weekend. It is unacceptable and has no place in our city," Johnson stated. "However,
it's easy to be generous with someone else's money...
it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities."

He continued: "Our city must work together to create spaces for youth to gather safely and responsibly, under adult guidance and supervision, to ensure that every part of our city remains welcome for both residents and visitors."

Johnson, 47, added that it is his goal as mayor to "improve public safety and make Chicago livable for everyone."

Two nights of unrest, which were organized on social media, saw packs of out-of-control teens clash with cops, brawl with one another, vandalize property, and break into and set cars on fire.

One video showed several youngsters jump and dance atop a city bus.

Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:



Why Chicago's Perfect for DNC
[NYPOST] Joe "Biden is right," snarks the Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Stiles. "reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
is a great choice to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention." It will highlight "the country’s ’historic progress’ on his watch" via "rampant crime" — "the city’s murder rate has jumped nearly 40 percent since 2019" under "George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
-backed district attorney" Kim Foxx. Don’t forget "crippling taxes." Or that it’s "routinely rated the most corrupt city in America," and its "residents (and businesses)" are fleeing "at a rapid pace." There’s no "more fitting location" to showcase Biden’s "vision for America’s future."

Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One Party system Chicago is the model that the Dems are hoping to achieve nation wide. A "Green Zone" of safety will be established for attendees and the media. Welcome to the New Theresienstadt.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/18/2023 6:22 Comments || Top||

#2  It's one possible way to narrow the field.
Posted by: Helmuth, Speaking for Sholugum4538 || 04/18/2023 8:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Chicago and the DNC deserve each other, the same way two mating vipers do, and for the same reasons.
Posted by: ed in texas || 04/18/2023 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  A "Green Zone" of safety will be established for attendees and the media.

I dunno, B. They don't have Dick Daley anymore, the Chicago police are certainly not what they were in 1968 and, IIRC, even then Hubert Humphrey got a whiff of tear gas. Better stock up on popcorn.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/18/2023 12:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Peace Plank Defeated
As things heated up in Grant Park, they also heated up on the convention floor. The peace plank was defeated, a huge blow to the peace delegates and millions of Americans who wanted the Vietnam War to end, and the delegates erupted into chaos.

In the words of one delegate, “We were desolate. All of the work that we had done, all of the effort we had made had, it seemed to us, come to naught…our hearts were broken.”

By nightfall, a standoff had ensued in front of the Hilton between thousands of angry protestors and thousands of police officers. No one knows who or what triggered the first blow, but soon police began clearing out the crowd, pummeling protestors (and innocent bystanders) with billy clubs and using so much tear gas that it reportedly reached Humphrey some 25 floors up as he watched the bedlam unfold from his hotel room window.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/18/2023 14:50 Comments || Top||


GOP-led House panel opens hearing on DA Alvin Bragg's 'pro-crime' policies
[NYPOST] The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee began holding a hearing Monday on what Republicans are calling Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg
...Soros-financed, -owned, and -operated woke Manhattan DA. A prosecutorial loose cannon who feels entitled to pick and choose which laws to enforce and can't be bothered to respond civilly to Congressional inquiries unless they're from Dems...
’s "pro-crime, anti-victim politics" — after a preemptive rebuttal from Democrats dismissing the move as a "sham."

The field hearing, titled "Victims of Violent Crime in Manhattan," is taking place near the offices of Manhattan’s top prosecutor, who charged former President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
with 34 felony counts of business fraud earlier this month.

Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), a committee member, last week tweeted that Bragg "turned NYC into a wasteland" and "lawlessness is completely out of control."

But Democrats say the hearing is nothing more than a partisan stunt orchestrated by the leader of the House panel, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a staunch Trump ally, to get back at Bragg for the ex-president’s indictment.

As Bragg arrived to work at his nearby office Monday morning, he ignored news hounds’ questions about the controversial congressional hearing.

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Sen. John Fetterman to return to the Senate tonight after six-week hospitalization
[MSN] Sen. John Fetterman
the brain-damaged Dem U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania
is to return to the Senate this evening for the first time since mid-February, after a six-week hospitalization for clinical depression.

The Pennsylvania senator is expected to join a roll call vote to advance a nominee for deputy under secretary of defense, Radha Iyengar Plumb,
If that's not an alias it should be...
to a confirmation vote. He’ll cochair a panel hearing on Wednesday.

The highly routine moment will likely be met with outsized attention, given the Democrat’s path to the U.S. Senate — suffering a stroke, winning a politically coveted open seat, and then sharing his struggles with depression and seeking treatment at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

Fetterman hasn’t voted in the chamber, where Democrats have a razor-thin majority, since Feb. 15. Few major legislative decisions, however, have come before the Senate in the weeks he was away. Senators have spent almost all their time on confirmation votes, mostly on noncontroversial nominees who have enough support to advance even without Fetterman.

A U.S. senator openly seeking treatment for mental health is rare. So is staying 44 days in a Pa. hospital for depression.

Fetterman left the hospital March 31 and returned home to Braddock, Pa., where his wife, Gisele, shared updates of him spending time with the family and enjoying Easter.

His staff released a letter from doctors at Walter Reed that described his depression as in remission. It also provided new information on Fetterman’s physical health.

Posted by: Fred || 04/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Depression "in remission"? So what/how much is he doped up on?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/18/2023 12:50 Comments || Top||

#2  He was more likely in drug rehab. Dems will never admit their brain damaged elected officials. Like Feinstein still has Shingles or Biden is alert.
Posted by: Airandee || 04/18/2023 19:25 Comments || Top||


HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra to Oversee Biden Scheme Opening Obamacare to DACA Illegal Aliens
[Breitbart] Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra will oversee a scheme by President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
to open Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare
...aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
, and Medicaid rolls to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

This week, Biden announced a plan to open Obamacare and Medicaid rolls, both subsidized by American taxpayers, to nearly 600,000 illegal aliens currently enrolled in DACA — the program created by former President Obama, via executive order, that has shielded more than a million illegal aliens from deportation through the years.

Becerra, whom Breitbart News reported has long reviewed opening taxpayer-funded health coverage options to illegal aliens, will oversee the scheme — proposing a federal rule by the end of this month which, if finalized, would make DACA illegal aliens eligible for Obamacare and Medicaid.

"Of the nearly 580,000 DREAMers who arrived in this country as children and currently have DACA protections, an estimated 34 percent do not have health insurance coverage ... [this] rule would change that," Becerra said in a statement.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/18/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgce06Yw2ro
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/18/2023 12:56 Comments || Top||

#2  You lie!
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/18/2023 14:38 Comments || Top||



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