THERE: I FIXED IT. From Ed Driscoll’s earlier posting, I’m surpised they didn’t catch this.
Oh, wait…no I’m not.

IT’S ALWAYS PROJECTION WITH THESE PEOPLE: Just the News does a deep dive into what Matt Taibbi called “a stunt”, namely, the plea to U.S. military servicemembers to join the “Resistance” against Trump.

It’s one thing to say that POTUS is issuing “illegal orders,” but if you say that, you need to be able to show what you’re talking about. But Just the News pointed out that Democrats had made the allegation, but when asked for an example, whiffed badly:

“When asked to give an example of a current illegal order by Trump, [Rep.] Crow did not give one, saying, “He has a history of doing this, and if we wait until the moment that he gives a manifestly unlawful order to a young soldier, then we have failed them. We have to start that conversation now and get people thinking about the distinction, which is exactly what we did.”

Crow wasn’t the only Democrat to make the baseless allegation and then later admit they had no idea what they were talking about:

“[Rep.] Slotkin said on Sunday on This Week on ABC “to my knowledge, I — I am not aware of things that are illegal” that had been ordered by Trump, “but certainly there are some legal gymnastics that are going on with these Caribbean strikes and everything related to Venezuela.”

The methodology of mendacity seems to have permeated the mindset of Democrats for quite a while. I’m reminded of the episode when then Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid flat-out lied, claiming that Mitt Romney “never paid taxes.”

When caught out, The Washington Post noted that Reid expressed no contrition, and glibly replied: “Romney didn’t win, did he?”

No action is immoral if it obstructs Bad Orange Man.

I KNOW, YOUR “SHOCKED” FACE IS GETTING TIRED: Just the News moved a story this morning that gets to the heart of the sh*tshow that is Obamacare.

“The 42-day federal shutdown forced by Democrats thrust the economics of Obamacare into the limelight, and exposed an uncomfortable truth: An insurance industry whose executives are increasingly liberal donors has seen its earnings soar with the injection of taxpayer-funded subsidies that propped up Barack Obama’s signature health program from collapse.”

The gaslighting and laziness of mainstream media is a stunningly bad combination.
Bad Orange Man wants to starve children!
Since when did the Dems become the Wu-Tang Clan?

PRETTY GOOD HEADLINE, SO I’LL ALLOW IT: “Whoa: 2nd Circuit Issues Stunning Decision on Trump’s NY Criminal Case.”

RedState’s Susie Moore writes a nicely wrapped file about the reversal and remand on the question of removal of NY criminal cases against him to federal court.

I can’t remember having dealt with Judge Hellerstein, and he’s been around for quite a while, and is too old to care about being reversed. That said, if Trump’s papers are well laid-out I’d say 75/25% chance Hellerstein reverses himself. But he doesn’t have to.

A MERE OBSERVATION: As the hooligans and heartthrobs coagulate ever more thickly until that Glorious Day of Election, we shall be bombarded with all manner of b’legs and emails for money.

OK, Fine.

But without doing any research, I’d bet very good money that no politician of any stripe has ever sent out communications saying:

“STOP! We reached our goal. Don’t send us more money!

Ever. Not even Eugene Debs.

When we are “shocked” by someone’s outrageous comments, sometimes a look at their history says it all.

JustTheNews reports on the details of Jay Jones:

“Jones pushed for police reforms which echoed the “Defund the Police” mantra of BLM, and repeatedly claimed that he personally felt the knee on his neck and the bullets in his back when watching videos of Floyd and Blake. Jones frequently spoke of the “systemic racism” and the “remnants” of Jim Crow in Virginia, and pushed to get a Virginia cop fired for donating to the legal defense fund for Kyle Rittenhouse.”

Here’s hoping that “Vote for me because I’m a member of an aggrieved group” has run its course.

BREAKING: YouTube agrees to pay $24 million settlement in Trump lawsuit over suspension.
I’m sure it was just him “bullying” the media. /sarc/

THIS JUST IN — BREAKING: Just the News is reporting that they have a suspect in Charlie’s killing. To be updated.

Authorities detain person of interest in Charlie Kirk killing.

BREAKING NEWS: New York Post reporting “Charlie Kirk shooter is of ‘college age,’ used since-recovered high-powered bolt-action rifle”

More TK.

ANY RED-PILLED YOUNG LAWYERS IN THE NYC AREA?: I get these job alerts from the NYCBar, and I thought this one was hilarious. I’m not tight with O’Keefe or Varitas, but I swear to god that a red-pilled white would have two chances at this: slim and none. If they got to the interview stage, that would be a scream.

Also, (and no, I don’t have the time to do this) if legal, someone should make two applications: one all CRT-based from a Black kid and the other a Crimlaw-based white guy.

Bets on what would happen? 

FUN FACT: The screaming woman arrested in Newport (h/t Ed Driscoll) who accompanied that Democratic “AG” who insisted that “police are required to turn off their body cams upon request” while she was being filmed tossed out of a restaurant, is carrying a Chloé Woody Medium Canvas Tote.

It sells for $1,390.00 at Bloomingdale’s.

She apparently claims to be some kind of “Diversity” champion.

“Nice work if you can get it…and you can get it if you try.”

I’M TIRED OF THE WORD “BOMBSHELL,” BUT… JustTheNews breaking an outstanding story evolving from info gleaned from IRS Whistleblower suits.

“Years after the FBI was forced to shut down multiple corruption probes of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s charity, the IRS under President Donald Trump began a criminal tax investigation into the Clinton Foundation and its dealings with other players on the global charity stage, but then abruptly stopped working with whistleblowers in spring 2019, according to IRS memos and internal emails reviewed by Just the News.”

The net-net is that for years, IRS agents all over the country seriously considered and looked into allegations of monkey business at the Clinton Foundation. At one point an IRS agent reportedly described the Clinton Foundadtion as a “fraudulent enterprise.”

Then suddenly, the entire investigation was roadblocked from somewhere at the top.

Most notably, after participating with whistleblowers for quite some time, the medium to top level dogs at the IRS suddenly said “We cannot talk about the CF” referring to the Clinton Foundation.

We can guess at who ordered what, but guessing ain’t reporting.  The whistleblowers’ case is a bit complicated, and the Trump admin is moving to dismiss on procedural and administrative grounds — not the merits — but the insiders say the Tax Court judge is inclined to let the case continue as the feds were not forthcoming on discovery.

We shall see what we shall see. 

OBAMA’S DOJ ON INVESTIGATION INTO CLINTON FOUNDATION: “SHUT IT DOWN:” I supposed I’m required to make a “shocked face” reference here, but would rather let the facts speak for themselves. JustTheNews is reporting details about the Clinton Foundation and Obama’s DOJ handcuffing (or just outright suffocating) proper investigations.

“The effort by the IRS to thwart the whistleblower case from going to trial was filed the same week Just the News reported that a bombshell memo recently uncovered by FBI Director Kash Patel shows the Obama Justice Department and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe roadblocked three separate probes into possible pay-to-play corruption allegations against the Clinton Foundation.

“Shut it down,” Obama Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates was quoted as saying in March 2016 in the memos.”

To be sure, there is a bit of irony in the fact that the current DOJ is opposing the whistleblowers’ lawsuit. But as a litigator, IMHO the opposition is not based on any weird motive to “save” Hillary, but instead arguing that because the IRS and DOJ never followed through on investigations (on the direct orders of Sally Yates and Andy McCabe) procedurally, the case is not yet ripe for review.

To me, the important thing is that there will sooner or later be a reckoning of the allegations made against the Clinton Foundation:

ORANGE JUMPSUIT FOR SHIFTY? PJ Media published an item today that raises the question of Adam Schiff’s potential criminal liability for playing games with mortage applications.  Most notably, the story mentions Sen. Cornyn’s proposed bill:

“Sen. John Cornyn has introduced the Law Enforcement Tools to Interdict Troubling Investments in Abodes—or the LETITIA Act, pointedly named after the New York AG herself. But this isn’t just a symbolic jab. The bill represents a serious move to expand criminal liability and, more importantly, stiffen penalties for public officials who abuse their positions for personal gain—specifically through shady dealings like mortgage or tax fraud.”

I’m not a criminal defense lawyer, and as much as I’d love to see that weasel in the pokey, I have to wonder out loud whether applying it to that disgusting slime ball  would be an ex post facto application. I suppose if the fraud is ongoing, that might solve the issue, but (again, not being a criminal defense lawyer) if the law contains a “scienter” requirement (that’s “knowingly” for laypeople) it would seem that he can’t be held liable for crimes that weren’t really crimes at the time he fudged his mortage app.

Of course, it seems to me there’s pretty good evidence rising to probable cause that he’s already broken laws such as mortgage fraud and wire fraud, but I leave that to sharper minds…

PROFESSOR VOLOKH SAYS: “N.Y. Appellate Court Rejects Addictive Design Theory in Lawsuit Against Social Media Defendants Over Buffalo Shootings“

I’m so old, I remember (different context, of course) “The Twinkie Defense.”
That didn’t go so well, either, IIRC.

REMEMBER WHEN THEY SCREAMED “NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW”? My pals on the left screamed “No one is above the law!” for quite a while and suddenly…no more. I wonder why that is? Just the News is reporting that:

“Fannie Mae’s Financial Crimes Division concluded that [Schiff] engaged in a sustained pattern of possible mortgage fraud.”

Perhaps some folks pretending to hold the high moral ground are in fact outcome-determinative when it comes to those ethics and understanding of law. What say you?

Will John Brennan face the music? JustTheNews published a long take on the recent Ratcliffe report about the Biden-era’s weaponization of the intelligence community, and in particular John Brennan’s potential criminal liability for lying to Congress:

“[Matt] Gaetz had questioned Brennan during a House Judiciary Committee closed-door interview in May 2023, where Brennan had denied playing any role in pushing the dossier into the ICA. […] The Steele Dossier went from being the centerpiece of FISA warrants, the centerpiece of investigations, to now being something so soiled and so tainted as an abuse of intelligence that everyone wants to claim it was someone else who put the Steele Dossier in this critical assessment regarding Russian election interference,” Gaetz said Monday. “CIA Director John Ratcliffe has now said that in fact it was Brennan who made an adjudicatory call that this would be included.”

Lying to Congress can be a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 1001, which forbids making false statements to the federal government, including Congress. Unlike perjury, it is not limited to statements made under oath, but the statement must be “materially false” and made knowingly and willfully.

Kash, are you listening?

Apologies for typos in titles, but here’s a little clip some of you might enjoy. If it triggers you, well…suck it up, buttercup. God bless the USA. There, I said it.

The Penny Drops: (From Justthe News): “Climate change influencer once chums with Greta Thunberg now calls the movement a ‘scam’

“While her fans cheered her on, Biggers told Just the News that her beliefs in a “climate crisis” took a toll on her mental health. That’s true of many young people. The most recent poll on the topic, published in the renowned medical journal The Lancet, surveyed over 15,000 people aged 16-25 in the U.S. about their thoughts and emotions about climate change. The poll found that 85% are moderately worried about climate change, and nearly 58% are very or extremely worried. Nearly 43% said it impacts their mental health.”

IT’S OK TO SAY: “All men are created equal.”

From Just the News:

“A federal judge ordered the University of Oregon to pay $191,000 to Portland State University professor Bruce Gilley to cover his legal fees in a successful First Amendment challenge…”

BREAKING: “One person killed in shooting at ‘No Kings’ protest in Salt Lake City: police” according to Just the News….

“PISSED OFF?” Probably, but not for the reasons they gave. The New York Post reports that:

“ABC News staffers ‘pissed’ at Terry Moran over ‘stupid’ verbal assault on Trump aide Stephen Miller: ‘He should be fired’”

They claim to be pissed that Moran had biases, but I deeply suspect that what they are really pissed off at is that he got caught.

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Interviews and discourses with a wide range of bright minds, including Steven Fry, Sebastian Gorka, and Tom Holland are guests on various episodes.

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