#2
Rosenstein has shown himself to be snarky, evasive little prick whom Sessions should have fired a long time ago.
During his testimony, notice how he oftentimes avoided eye contact and never acknowledged the congress's right to review all material. Nor did he consent to provide any additional material, or suggest a separate document review in a classified setting.
This man should absolutely NOT be working for the Federal Government in any capacity.
#4
He would give Nome street cleaners a bad name. Out of respect for you and others of Jewish faith, I will refrain from using the correct identifying slur. His body language alone is evidence of obstruction and subterfuge. POTUS should quietly bring Sessions and the snarkascist Rosenstein into the Oval Office for an LBJ style sit-down followed by immediate termination of employment.
And yes, Sessions at least should be permitted to resign for "health" reasons. Helpless, blundering moron is surely a valid health reason.
#5
Meet the new interim Attorney General and his deputy (you pick), on temporary assignment from the Hill as an additional duty, whilst suitable replacements are found and approved.
Their first official act should be to replace the odious FBI Director, Mr. Christopher Wray as quickly as possible.
#8
Rosenstein was asked if POTUS declassifed the info and ordered it released, would RR follow that order? RR stumbled around trying to find an answer. Although he can't help it, RR has a Joseph Goebbel's look about him.
[The Federalist] Hillary Clinton’s days of political relevance may be behind her, but her scandals are not. While Clinton’s years at the State Department were marred by scandal after scandal, they pale in comparison to her time running for higher office.
In 2016, the Democratic presidential candidate may have presided over the largest campaign finance scandal in U.S. history. A lawsuit based on federal records alleges the Clinton machine laundered $84 million in excessive six-figure contributions through the Hillary Victory Fund, to dozens of Democratic state parties, on to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and ultimately to Clinton’s campaign.
Democrats and their media allies downplay the accusation as some partisan ploy, claiming the accusers are "fishing for publicity." They chalk it up to a Donald Trump supporter’s anti-Clinton bias. That’s when Democrats mention it at all, otherwise staying stunningly silent in the face of growing information that boggles the mind.
Yes, I’m a Trump supporter, but dodging the question doesn’t make it go away: Did Hillary Clinton, dozens of Democratic Party officials, and hundreds of liberal mega-donors break the law? The evidence‐built entirely from Democrats’ own Federal Election Commission (FEC) reporters and public statements‐clearly points to "yes."
The lawsuit is likely to result in many more public documents being aired about what really went on behind the scenes in 2016, which is already giving rise to negative news coverage. In recent weeks, news stories from around the country have implicated Democratic state parties in Delaware, Kansas, Maine, Nevada, and other states for their part in papering over excessive donations from mega-donors like fashion icon Calvin Klein and "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane to the Clinton campaign.
Reports say the Virginia Democratic Party, for example, was used to funnel nearly $2.4 million from the Hillary Victory Fund to the DNC during the 2016 election, retaining not a single penny from six-figure contributors who almost certainly understood how their money would flow. The Nevada Democratic Party is on the hook for roughly $1.6 million. Kansas Democrats, meanwhile, "can’t account for $900,000" in excessive funds.
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical
Charges have been filed against Democrat Maxine Waters after a video of her assaulting a journalist went viral on social media.
An assault complaint has been made by the victim, journalist Laura Loomer, who claims Waters physically assaulted her three times.
Loomer claims the incident took place when she asked Mrs. Waters for comment regarding last weekend's rally in which the Congresswoman called for violent riots and the use of violence against Republicans.
The alleged assault was caught on video which Loomer says she has shown to police as evidence of the crime.
h/t Instapundit
You probably never heard of the "Chevron Deference," and frankly, neither did I until just today. And no, it has nothing to do with gasoline stations. But with Justice Anthony Kennedy retiring, a new Supreme Court Justice just might help to defang this decision ‐ a good move towards smaller government.
The Chevron Deference, which came from a 1984 ruling, requires courts to defer to government agencies when it comes to interpretations of statutes, if the court finds a statute ambiguous. And even if a court finds that another interpretation is reasonable, it still must defer to that agency’s interpretation.
That sounds a bit like allowing the fox to guard the henhouse, doesn’t it?
...Justice Gorsuch is no fan of the Chevron deference. As a federal appellate judge, Justice Gorsuch wrote that Chevron allowed the Feds. . .
". . .to swallow huge amounts of core judicial and legislative power...in a way that seems more than a little difficult to square with the Constitution."
Of course that put big government advocates in a tizzy. Liberal Vox fretted that "Neil Gorsuch could rein in regulators like the EPA and the FCC."
And that would be bad because? Oh, wait. Say goodbye to the Left’s dream of ’net neutrality,’ along with other big government ambitions.
Now this summer President Trump will be nominating a new justice to the Supreme Court, and he intends to pick from the same list that gave us Justice Neil Gorsuch. Furthermore, some conservative pundits are predicting the nod will go to one of three women.
And Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says a vote on Kennedy’s successor will happen this fall:
h/t Instapundit
Anthony Kennedy sucked all the air out of the news cycle on Wednesday, but there’s another name in the political spotlight. Only this one might not be ready for prime time.
Her name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and as of late Tuesday night she was the new Democratic It Girl. It’s because she did what seemed impossible: beating Congressman Joe Crowley in a primary. Now this was a Big Deal, since not only is Crowley a 10-term Congressman from New York’s 14th District in Queens, but rumors were flying that he could take Nancy Pelosi’s spot as Democratic House Leader.
Yet the 28-year-old former cocktail waitress, Bernie Bro, and member of the Democratic Socialists of America prevailed. And she ran on these points which should give anyone to the right of Karl Marx some major heartburn. Abolishment of ICE, a jobs guarantee, Medicare for all, free college ‐ what could possibly go wrong?
...For starters, there was This Guy who showed up at her victory party: The guy behind Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is Thomas Lopez-Pierre, (circled) he ran for NYC Council last year against a Jewish Councilman, his campaign platform was to defeat the "greedy Jewish landlords."
https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.jpost.com/Diasp Probably an advantage with her constituency
...Ocasio-Cortez showed up on CNN on Wednesday morning after her big win and accused ICE of running "black sites" at the border.
Black sites?
Well, yeah, she says. The childhood facilities at the border protect the privacy of the children there, so that means they’re "black sites," or something.
...Yep, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a dumpster fire. But she’ll win in November, no doubt. The borough in Queens she hopes to represent is deep blue, so there’s little chance of a GOP victory. And it looks like New York’s 14th District just elected themselves a joke. Another cutie pie who build a career on being a cutie pie - without realizing this, and now thinks she's a genius --- universities (Israeli as well as American) are full of women like her.
#1
...What's almost as funny is Nancy Pelosi said last night that it means nothing because 'it's just one district'. This from the people who say that every isolated win for them is the end of the Trump terror.
Mike
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#2
Make a deal. We'll fund her and her supports move to Caracas for all the free stuff of socialism, in return we'll take 2 each Venezuelans per departee.
#3
To paraphrase Churchill: "After everything else has been tried, communists can be relied upon to try what has already failed abysmally again."
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#4
given the district, Alexandria will likely be the next representative no matter how much nonsense comes out of her in the next few months or how many anti Semites support her or how many of her supporters are arrested for criminal trespass against companies and orgs thought to be pro Trump
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#5
So the Democrat crack-up begins as the niave socialists divide from the Kleptocrats.
#2
You did indeed submit three separate posts, Raj. But for ease of reading, we cluster briefs on the same topic —and this way all the comments on the subject will be in the same thread.
Today we happen to have clusters by province in Iraq, too.
#5
I hope Trump sticks it to the unhinged left this time and nominates another justice like Bork to replace retiring justice Kennedy.
I would love for conservatives to fight back this time and to not cave in to the hate filled radicals this time like 1987 with justice Bork.
It is now very obvious what the leftist radicals were trying to do way back in 1987 by torpedoing justice Bork.
The leftist were attempting to legislate their lawless tyranny on the entire country at the hand of a few radical justices.
As soon as Trump was elected these leftist justices sprung into action in collusion with social justice groups throughout the country to make judicial rulings from the bench to block the executive branch from carrying out any of its administrative roles to keep the country safe from those who would seek to enter the country illegally and then carry out other crimes or simply by voting to give power to those leftist who would attempt to take over the country for their tyrannical purposes.
#7
Make them a deal. Congress has 90 days to either pass a Constitutional Amendment limiting judicial terms to 16 years or the Trunk senate can confirm his nominee. Taking a 'life' appointment out of the game would reduce the 'tension' of these games.
#10
#8 - yes, the states have to weigh in. The ones operating under judicial decrees that tell them how to spend their tax income, telling them how to gerrymander their districts, who gets standing to sue them, et al. It'll take about one to two state legislative sessions to get 2/3rds.
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#6 -- That's crazy talk, BP. It's, like, 100 years old or something.
A point not to lose sight of is that the nominee must have nothing, and I mean nothing, in his or her personal life that would provide a basis for blackmail.
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#12 #6 -- That's crazy talk, BP. It's, like, 100 years old or something.
Thank you Tommy Vietor
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When the confirmation hearings start, the pubs should put up a video screen and every time a dem blathers until their time is up, show that video clip of obutthole smirking "I won.." Then move on.
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#6
Is McConnell going to exercise the Harry Reid Senate rule that curbs the filibuster (the nuclear option) in making this appointment? This would set Harris' and other Dem's hair on fire.
[SpaceNews] JWST (James Webb Space Telescope) suffers another launch delay, breaches cost cap!
NASA announced yet another launch delay for the James Webb Space Telescope June 27, pushing the flagship observatory’s launch to no earlier than late March 2021 while breaking a cost cap set by Congress.
NASA said it was now aiming for a launch of the telescope on March 30, 2021, nearly a year later than the May 2020 date that the agency announced three months earlier. That date came after a delay announced last September that moved the mission’s launch from October 2018 to the spring of 2019.
NASA also announced a new development cost estimate of $8.8 billion, which is 10 percent above the $8 billion cost cap established by Congress during a “re-plan” of the mission several years ago. The overall lifecycle cost of the mission, which includes operations after launch for at least five years, is $9.66 billion.
Before the announced slip last year to March-June 2019, JWST had been slated to launch in October 2018 – a date itself that was 11 years after the originally planned launch target of 2007 when the project was first conceived in 1997.
#1
Now what. One thing I don't get about the JWST is just why it was designed with the primary mirror at basically a right angle to the sun shield. If everything had been co-axial I would have thought it would make things a lot simpler to construct. To test. And to launch. Of course is this delay related to the never ending abbrtion that the SLS has turned into. Congress gets a lot of the blame for that. Reconfiguring the Suttle External Tank into a heavy launch vehicle should have been fairly simple. Instead it seems to be a jobs program for Marshall Space Center and Lockheed. Reminds me of the X-33. When Lockheed was having problems getting the compossite tanks to hold up they offered to just build the tanks out of Al-Li alloy. At least then the project could have proceeded to the test flight phase. Or when NASA took over the DC-X from the SDI and proceeded to destroy the vehicle. If this is due to problems related to the SLS screw NASA. Just sign a launch contract with Space X. At least they fly hardware
#3
SLS is a separate boondoggle. This POS is going up on that non-American rocket the EU's Ariane.
Even worse there are no delays on the EU side of this deal. It's all on the US side. some JSWT background
Moreover, these
are not the first issues to face the James Webb Space Telescope project in the last nine months. Following NASA’s announcement in September that the telescopes launch was slipping from October 2018 to NET (No Earlier Than) March-June 2019, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) warned in February 2018 of dangers of additional slips beyond the realigned date due to ongoing issues with integration and testing operations and prime contractor [Northrop Grumman] optimism.
The report was particularly scathing toward Northrop Grumman, highlighting the company’s work on JWST as the project’s critical path toward being able to launch at the end of the window in June 2019 as well as Northrop’s continued “optimism” for schedules and underestimation of time needed to complete work.
Moreover, the GAO identified five specific areas that posed threats to the March-June 2019 launch schedule, including:
“resolving lingering technical issues from the OTIS (Optical Telescope & Integrated Science Instrument Module) cryovacuum test and preparing and shipping of OTIS to the Northrop Grumman facility in California for integration with the spacecraft,
Completing integration of spacecraft hardware, and conducting spacecraft element environmental tests and remaining deployments of the spacecraft and sunshield – activities which, to date, have taken considerably longer than planned,
Integrating the completed OTIS element with the spacecraft element and testing the full observatory in the fifth and final integration phase, which includes another set of challenging environmental tests,
Mitigating approximately 47 remaining tracked hardware and software risks to acceptable levels and continuing to address the project’s 300+ potential single point failures to the extent possible, and
Preparing and shipping the observatory to the launch site and completing final launch site processing, including installation of critical release mechanisms.”
As a result, the GAO warned that JWST was at risk of exceeding its $8 billion formulation and development cost cap prior to launch.
#5
The same Northrup that will now have a monopoly on solid fuel rockets for ICBMs. That doesn't sound promising on any level. See the other post today "Let's play monopoly".
#6
Oh and it's the shape it is because it was designed to first fold for the space shuttle then for the Ariane.
A non-folding design would have had much less trouble.
A non-folding one couldn't fit on the shuttle or Ariane but could on a FH or Delta V with custom fairings with much less cost and hassle. Of course it's too late for that kind of common sense at this stage.
#12
Hell, by 2021 the BFR will be coming online. With that monster rocket they could almost launch an earth based observatory with a robot operators for the vacuum of space. Palomar to space?
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.
Meet the new interim Attorney General and his deputy (you pick), on temporary assignment from the Hill as an additional duty, whilst suitable replacements are found and approved.
[The Federalist] Hillary Clinton’s days of political relevance may be behind her, but her scandals are not. While Clinton’s years at the State Department were marred by scandal after scandal, they pale in comparison to her time running for higher office.
