Ol' Spackle-Face finally getting justice?
[France 24] Former Argentina president Cristina Kirchner, who has been accused of receiving tens of millions of dollars in bribes during her term in office, will go on trial for corruption, a federal court confirmed on Thursday.
Kirchner is accused of running a criminal network related to the infamous "corruption notebooks" scandal -- revealed through the meticulous records of millions of dollars in bribes paid by businessmen to government officials kept by a ministerial chauffeur.
The court accepted a request by judge Claudio Bonadio that Kirchner, now a senator, be held in pre-trial detention, but her partial parliamentary immunity prevents that from happening.
She is protected by lawmakers' immunity from imprisonment, but not from prosecution.
In August, the Senate voted to partially lift her immunity so that investigators could search her three luxury homes -- but unless it is entirely lifted, she cannot be jailed even if found guilty.
The court also seized 1.5 billion pesos ($38 million) worth of her assets and ordered former planning minister Julio de Vido to be prosecuted for his role in the illicit association.
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Geez, if the Argentinians can do this, why can't won't the US do something remotely similar to Hillary?
[LidBlog] Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson on Tuesday ruled that the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) could not use a FOIA request to access the tax documents from the IRS.
“No one can demand to inspect another’s tax records,” Henderson declared, noting that this applies to the protection of confidentiality for “the ordinary taxpayer and the President alike.”
[Townhall] The House of Representatives approved a spending bill Thursday that includes $5.7 billion to build President Trump's proposed wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. It passed by a vote of 217-185, with no Democratic "yeas." The legislation now heads to the Senate.
Among those who voted for the bill were the members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.
"Republicans in Congress have continually told the American people that we would fight for wall funding, and today the House of Representatives took its first step toward fulfilling that promise," the group said in a statement after the vote. "The Senate must follow our lead. It’s time we do what we said and work with President Trump and the American people to secure our borders."
The Freedom Caucus introduced an amendment Wednesday night and gave a series of impassioned speeches about how the president had a duty to keep his promise to the American people. To have border security, the likes of Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said, they had to fund the wall. He called it "common sense."
The Democrats don't see it that way. On Wednesday night the Senate passed a funding bill that does not include money for the border wall.
[DiogenesMiddleFinger] Rep. Speedy Gonzales Gutierrez (D-Ill) used his last few seconds of time in committee to get off a sound bite for the local news and the folks back home before heading back to his district for Christmas break. I cannot imagine the outrage from the media if a Republican member of congress were to speak to and act this disrespectfully towards a female Cabinet Secretary of a Democrat Administration like this. But, here we are.....
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Last time I checked, Mary and Joseph were complying with Caesar's orders to report to their home for the census/tax count. They were obeying the law, not breaking it.
[GatewayPundit] The two Democrat leaders were OUTRAGED at the president’s threat to shut down the government over the border wall.
They look panicked.
Democrats DO NOT WANT the American public to focus on border security and their unwillingness to protect this country.
"The Trump temper tantrum will shut down the government but will not give him his wall... It’s bad for the country... There’s still hope... It is a shame that this president who is plunging this country into chaos will not get his wall."
Pelosi then jumped in to hit President Trump:
"Maybe he thinks a shutdown means he can golf more. That’s not how it works."
Every Generation has its challenge. I believe we are now hip deep in ours.
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Doesn't that just mean the folks furloughed or contracts in flux - Can Just Blame their stress over the Holidays on DemoRats putting Illegal invaders over their government jobs?
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.
An example of classic democratic hypocrisy. 
