Author Archive: Mark Tapscott

MEET HILLARY’S OTHER, MORE POWERFUL OPPO RESEARCH FIRM: You didn’t think Clinton would only have Fusion GPS, did you? Those guys are amateurs compared to this London-based bunch of former British intel veterans and their buddies from around the world.

HERE’S THE ESSENTIAL PROGRAM TO TRACK THE FBI SCANDAL: If you aren’t reading The Last Refuge, spend 10 minutes with this and you will be henceforth and forever more. Or until Sundance retires.

THIS IS HOW CLINTONS THANK CALIFORNIA? Deadlines for disclosing charitable donations from governments are for the little people. More from master Clinton Foundation sleuth Charles Ortel. And he’s just getting warmed up. Things are about to get very hot on this front.

YOU CAN’T SAY THAT! YOU MUST SAY THIS: The Supreme Court this term is hearing a potential landmark First Amendment case from (where else?) California. It poses the issue of whether California law can require pregnancy centers to provide information about the availability of abortion services. The Ninth Circuit upheld the law as a reasonable information requirement.

But Villanova University law professor Michael Moreland told LifeZette’s Brendan Kirby and other journalists on a conference call hosted by the Federalist Society that such a claim “is a very tough argument for the government to prevail on. So I think the plaintiffs have, I think, good reason to be optimistic that it might even be more than 5-4.” One might wonder why such a case would ever be anything less than 9-0, but moving right along …

BIG STORM BREWING IN CALIFORNIA FOR CLINTON FOUNDATION: It may be Weird Central but California happens to have some tough charity rules. And telling California one thing about your foreign government grants and something else to Uncle Sam isn’t smart, according to Charles Ortel in this morning’s LifeZette.

UH-OH, JEFF SESSIONS MAY BE TRAPPED ON THE HORNS OF A FRIDAY DILEMMA: He’s got to decide by tomorrow whether to fire a key figure in the FBI scandal and deprive him of a lucrative federal pension. But wait, there’s more, so very much more. Did I mention there’s still yet more to this one?

YOU REALLY MUST SEE THIS: A “global advocacy” group’s campaign for gun-control includes littering Capitol Hill with “shoes for the dead.” Once you see it, you won’t be surprised to then learn Chelsea Handler and Bette Midler are among the project’s most prominent supporters.

BELIEVE IT OR NOT, HILLARY HIT NEW LOW IN UNREALITY: Came over the weekend during an on-stage interview in India. The Indian audience apparently loved it, but it is clear she has things completely “backwards” (pun fully intended).

YOU CAN’T SAY THAT IN THIS CLASS! But that’s not all Indiana University of Pennsylvania administrators are telling religious studies major student Lake Ingle, who had the temerity to tell classmates there are only two genders. He also can’t attend the “Self, Sin and Salvation” course that is required for him to graduate, according to LifeZette’s Elizabeth M. Economou.

IUP claims on its web site that its official policy is “to promote the growth of all people in their academic, professional, social, and personal lives. Students, faculty, and staff join together to create a community where people exchange ideas, listen to one another with consideration and respect, and are committed to fostering civility through university structures, policies, and procedures.” Apparently civility does not extend to students who state the obvious about males and females.

HERE’S WHY THE 2020 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE WILL BE …Who else, but the ultimate victim, Hillary Clinton.

SCOTT KILLS FREE SPEECH ZONES IN FLORIDA: Well, isn’t that a refreshing idea – the First Amendment applies everywhere, so college administrators are no longer permitted to limit free speech to designated areas of Florida campuses, thanks to legislation signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott. The measure faced some significant legislative hurdles but LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst explains how they were overcome.

OAKLAND COFFEE SHOP SAYS ‘COPS NOT WELCOME:’ It’s the Hasta Muerte Coffee shop and it’s owned by its employees. The name in Spanish means “until death.” Since every Oakland thug – both those legally and those illegally present in the city across the bay – know cops won’t be inside during a robbery, that name might have more relevance than any of the employee-owners realize.

HOW MANY PRO-HILLARY HUSBAND-WIFE TEAMS DOES FUSION GPS HAVE? House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence investigators appear to have found another Obama administration inside-outside duo linked to Hillary’s favorite political mud drilling team, Fusion GPS.

SO HOW DO YOU LIKE THE AMERICA WHERE EVERYBODY IS A VICTIM: Former Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich isn’t real thrilled with it, either, as he explains in LifeZette.

 

HERE’S WHY JEFF SESSIONS MAY BE THE SLYEST FOX IN WASHINGTON, D.C.: Words can also be used to hide things right out there in front of everybody. Sometimes you need a smart guy named “Sundance” to figure it out. And an Okie to translate.

FIRST AMENDMENT NOT WELCOME AT TWITTER? Not if you are tweeting in defense of unborn babies, it appears. Live Action founder and president Lila Rose says Twitter has blocked her and her advocacy group “from all advertising and promotion.” Should this be called “censostrangulation” or maybe “stranglsorship”?

FBI’S AUSSIE TIPPER LINKED TO CHINESE FIRM LONG DISTRUSTED BY U.S. INTEL: So the FBI’s two chief sources for probing allegations of Trump-Russia collusion against Hillary Clinton in the 2016 campaign includes Christopher Steele, a former British spy obsessed with beating Trump, and Alexander Downer, the Australian politico closely tied to Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications firm all six U.S. intelligence chiefs just warned Congress about last month.

WILL SWEDEN BE NEXT TO INVESTIGATE CLINTON FOUNDATION? President Donald Trump meets today at the White House with Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Löfven. Both men’s countries would be better off, according to Charles Ortel, without the long string of globalist abuses by the Clinton Foundation.

IS AN ANTI-DEPRESSANT THE COMMON FACTOR IN SCHOOL SHOOTINGS? This doctor tells LifeZette Paroxetine is the villain and he cites a bunch of studies, medical and otherwise, to make his case.

HOLLYWOOD’S ELITE SHOULD BE ASHAMED: That’s the consensus of opinion among 20 everyday Americans when asked about tonight’s Oscars awards, according to LifeZette.

 

HERE’S WHY YOU’RE LIKELY READING TRUMP’S SESSIONS TWEET THE WRONG WAY: David Blackmon, a very sharp energy guy from Texas, explains the right way in LifeZette. The right way comes to a completely, totally, absolutely opposite conclusion than the MSM’s talking head legion about the meaning of it all.

WAS OBAMA A PARTNER IN CRIME OR UNWITTING VICTIM OF CLINTON CORRUPTION? Here’s the threshold observation in answering that question, according to Charles Ortel, writing today in LifeZette:

“The deep and intertwined extent to which loyalists of Bill and Hillary Clinton were immediately inserted into the Obama administration after the 2008 presidential election has never been fully exposed or adequately explained …

“But we have yet to learn the real story — one that explains why, for example, so many Obama appointees would allow Hillary Clinton to mishandle classified information, while also letting the Clinton Foundation run riot soliciting billions of dollars (including affiliates) in contributions for patently unauthorized causes, and flouting so many strict laws in the process.”

LESSON FOR NRA BOYCOTTERS: Cave to the politically correct pressures, then watch customers disappear into the mist.

ARMED TEACHERS WILL STOP ‘DERANGED MADMAN KILLING DEFENSELESS KIDS:’ That’s the view of Colorado’s Laura Caro, chief of a citizen’s group known as FASTER. The group is behind the campaign that has put armed and highly trained teachers in dozens of Colorado schools.

“What happens in these mass killing events, is on average one person is shot every 17 seconds,” Carno said Wednesday, according to LifeZette’s Kathryn Blackhurst. And “if that’s your kid in the hallway, in the cafeteria, in the classroom, how many 17-second intervals are you OK with if you have a school resource officer running toward the scene or a police officer being called to the scene?” Every parent knows the answer to that question.

WHERE ELSE BUT LA-LA-LAND? San Diego State University (SDSU) are now offered a course entitled “Trump: Impeachment, Removal or Conviction?” This must be an offering from the moderate wing of the SDSU faculty. The radicals would call it “Trump: Racked, Drawn and Quartered or Burned at the Stake.” LifeZette’s Michelle Blood has more of the gory details of PC run amuck on yet another college campus.