Thursday, April 23, 2026

Eventually, the Grift Does Get Exposed

"Finally, somebody is willing to do something about one of the most egregious grifts of the century." Little did we realize how disgusting Joe Biden's "white supremacy" schtick was.

The American Spectator | USA News and Politics  

"Especially when the Democrats have, since 2009, insisted that it was white supremacist rednecks in the red counties across America who represented the greatest terror threat. Not Antifa communists or transgendered lunatics or Islamist jihadis, who commit actual terrorism with nearly banal regularity, but instead neo-Nazi Neanderthals nobody seems to be able to find."


"Welcome to my favorite news story of the year. I’ll let Tyler O’Neil from the Daily Signal do the dirty work here:

The Southern Poverty Law Center has raised money for decades claiming to dismantle white supremacy, but it funneled millions of dollars to white nationalist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, according to a federal indictment handed down Tuesday.

The SPLC claims it was funding informants inside the extremist groups.

While the SPLC “purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred,” acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a press conference that “the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.”

Blanche highlighted one example from the indictment, where the SPLC paid a member of the leadership group that planned the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

"O’Neil has been wearing out the SPLC within the pages of the Daily Signal for a couple of years now. He deserves a lot of credit for exposing that organization for what it is.

"Namely, perhaps the most shameless, defamatory criminal syndicate ever to run the long con on the American polity.

"Everything about the Southern Poverty Law Center, at least in this century, has constituted a conspiracy against the public for ideological fun and profit. It’s an organization that was initially staffed up to fight the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama, or more to the point it was staffed up to raise money purportedly to take up that cause.

"Except the Ku Klux Klan’s influence in Alabama was already on the wane in 1971 when Julian Bond, Joseph J. Levin, Jr., and Morris Dees started the SPLC. Within a decade, it was an irrelevant organization as to its stated purpose — fighting white supremacists who were keeping black people down in the South.

"White supremacists haven’t had the power to do that to black people in the south for half a century. Truth be told, it’s mostly been black Democrat politicians, and northern white Democrat politicians, all of whom have assured us of the importance and relevance of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who’ve been most effective in immiserating the black community." . . .







Thinking Outside the Cooler on Crime

 Ann Coulter

The Times isn’t overly concerned with the fact that the cooler-throwing sergeant was defending himself and other officers from being run over by a 30-year-old drug-dealer coming directly at them on a gas-powered motorcycle. If they’d died or been injured, no big deal. Definitely not front-page material.

"There’s been some dissension recently about the three-to-nine-year prison sentence handed down by a New York judge to former police sergeant, Erik Duran, for throwing a plastic beverage cooler at a fleeing suspect in the Bronx. The cooler hit the perp in the arm, causing him to lose control of his motorcycle, crash and die. The harsh sentence was uncharacteristic for Supreme Court Justice Guy Mitchell, who a few years earlier gave only nine months to a guy who beat a homeless man to death." . . .

. . . "Most significantly, the judge said that sending Sergeant Duran to prison would be “a general deterrent.” I guess now police officers will think twice before trying to stop fleeing felons by throwing picnic items at them!

"This gave me an idea for how we might disincentivize psychopaths who commit violent, completely unprovoked attacks on innocent people, slash pedestrians with machetesrape women on subway platforms, push commuters onto train tracks and other piquant behaviors that have become commonplace in New York.

"Prison sentences might work as “general deterrent” on them, too.

"Last month, a transgender illegal alien pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old boy in the bathroom of a Harlem bodega — and was promptly released by Judge Michele Rodney. (Named “Jurist of the Year,” by the Caribbean American Lawyers Association!)

"Wouldn’t punishing the rapist, instead of letting him go, operate as a general deterrent to other men thinking of raping 14-year-old boys?

"Eighteen-year-old gang member, Steven Mendez, got probation for participating in a violent 2020 armed robbery and shooting — his second arrest for assault with a firearm. Not long thereafter, the extremely undeterred Mendez murdered a complete stranger, 19-year-old college student Saikou Koma, by shooting him in the head.

"Had Mendez gotten something a little rougher than probation for his earlier violent crimes, we would have had both specific deterrence — Mendez would have been in prison, not on the street shooting a college student in the head — but also general deterrence, for any other psychos considering shooting passersby for absolutely no reason.

"Speaking of deterrence, shouldn’t Sergeant Duran be commended for dissuading bikers like Duprey from ignoring the helmet law?" .

"I think I’ll run my breakthrough idea up the flagpole with the new mayor, citing Justice Mitchell as my inspiration." . . . Full article...

Hospice fraud persists in state despite alarms

  California Political Review  

But those shuttered hospices represent a sliver of the massive industry in L.A. County. The county is home to 1,584 hospices, more than half of the entire state’s hospice industry as of March.

"California authorities had pledged to crack down after a Times investigation in 2020.

"Officials have failed to halt pervasive fraud in the hospice industry despite promises of reforms five years ago after learning of widespread corruption that targeted vulnerable patients.

"California authorities promised to crack down after a Times investigation in late 2020 revealed that a cohort of mostly older Americans was being targeted by unscrupulous providers who would bill Medicare for hospice services and equipment for patients who they said were terminally ill, but who were in fact not dying.

"The hospice industry, particularly in Los Angeles County, had exploded in size, outpacing public need.

"One of California’s first moves was to put a moratorium on issuing new hospice licenses to give officials time to strengthen oversight. State officials and industry representatives crafted emergency regulations that they said would address gaps in hospice licensing requirements to weed out bad actors.

"But years later, those regulations have still not been enacted. And problems that have plagued the industry persist despite highly publicized enforcement efforts by the state and federal government, experts say.

"The Trump administration has seized on California hospice fraud in recent months with a series of new arrests while blaming state officials for dropping the ball. California rejects the criticism but last week announced a major investigation of providers that officials said bilked taxpayers out of more than $260 million.

“'This is not a red versus blue issue,” said Sheila Clark, president and chief executive of the California Hospice and Palliative Care Assn. “This is not political. … We care about the beneficiary and the benefit, full stop. That is who we are protecting.”

"Although fraud has been present in the industry for years, the scope of the problem became clear five years ago, with reporting by The Times and a subsequent state audit in response." . . .More...


The devil wears Kagan

 Don Surber  

"Another mean girl liberal icon treats staff like, well, you know what"



"Mollie Hemingway is promoting her new book, Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution.
"But the biggest revelation in the book is how Justice Elena Kagan bullies her staff. Hemingway discovered Kagan and to a lesser extent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, have a reputation for being mean girl bosses.
Hemingway alleges that several of Kagan’s former clerks, along with others at the Court, have described her as “emotionally abusive,” “demanding, demoralizing, demeaning,” and “a hard a**.”’
‘Kagan’s clerks had fear in their eyes,’ Hemingway said someone who clerked for a different justice recounted to her.
Other former aides speculated that there is ‘something psychological going on there,’ Hemingway writes.
Other clerks compared Kagan to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, moving from ‘extremely kind to extremely angry,’ Hemingway claims.
Another former staffer said Kagan is ‘like Klobuchar’—a reference to Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, who was the subject of a New York Times article about her alleged poor treatment of her staff.

"Ah yes, Senator Klobuchar (horse whinnies).

"That NYT story from 2019 said:

Most of those interviewed for this article—describing memories that span from shortly after her election in 2006 to the much more recent past—discussed their time with Ms. Klobuchar on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal from the senator. These concerns were not idle, they said. Saving potentially damaging emails from Ms. Klobuchar became something of a last-day ritual, the aides said, in case they ever needed evidence of her conduct for their own reputational protection.

She was known to throw office objects in frustration, including binders and phones, in the direction of aides, they said. Low-level employees were asked to perform duties they described as demeaning, like washing her dishes or other cleaning—a possible violation of Senate ethics rules, according to veterans of the chamber. . ..

The Daily Mail reported:

Justice Clarence Thomas, a conservative, Hemingway says, is among the most beloved by staff.

‘He knows everybody’s name. He doesn’t just know their name. He knows when they’re having a new grandchild or where they grew up. He really, really cares about people,’ Hemingway writes.

Turning to the subject of her book, Justice Alito, Hemingway said that he’s more reserved than people expect, but still ‘very kind to the staff and clerks at the Court.’    

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