VICTORY OVER COMMUNISM! TEXAS DECRIMINALIZES LEMONADE STANDS

Power Line "I know I wrote here several years ago now about how the modern culture of bureaucracy—the imperatives of the administrative state—had filtered all the way down to most local governments, as seen by the number of instances where little kids’ lemonade stands were shut down for bureaucratic reasons. Police in Coralville, Iowa, for example,

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shut down 4-year-old Abigail Krstinger’s sidewalk lemonade stand because she lacked a $400 city permit—a feat duplicated in Midway, Georgia; Appleton, Wisconsin; McAllen, Texas, and more than three dozen other cities across the country that were reported in the media.Some parents were slapped with $500 fines for allowing their kids to sell lemonade without the proper (expensive) permits.  Local bureaucracies have even restricted or stopped annual Girl Scout cookie sales drives.

"So guess which state has stepped up to decriminalize Susie and Johnnie’s lemonade stand? Of course you don’t need to ask:

Great news, children of Texas: Your unlicensed lemonade stands soon won’t be criminal enterprises.Gov. Greg Abbott late Monday signed a bill that prohibits cities and neighborhood associations from enacting rules that block or regulate children trying to sell nonalcoholic drinks like lemonade on private property. The law targets local health codes and neighborhood rules that intentionally or unintentionally ban the stands or require permits for them to operate.Support for such a law in Texas began to grow in 2015, when police in the East Texas town of Overton reportedly shut down a lemonade stand by two young siblings who were trying to earn money to buy a Father’s Day present.

"Is it too soon to start the Abbott 2024 campaign committee?

"Reminds me a little of 1993, when Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan remarked that the most significant achievement of Congress that year was decriminalizing babysitting.

Video: The 2020 Dems’ Apology Tour…

Weasel Zippers

AOC spokesman tweets, then deletes, F-bomb rant against potential GOP challenger

NY Post

Valdes added that he never chased Ocasio-Cortez, but simply walked over to her.

"US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s spokesman sent a profane tweet to a potential Republican challenger as he ripped him for wanting to debate his boss.

“ 'Yo @RichValdes what in the actual f–k makes you think you’re entitled to a debate with AOC,” spokesman Corbin Trent tweeted Sunday at the conservative talk radio producer who’s mulling a run against the freshman congresswoman.
"Earlier that day, Valdes said he tried to challenge Ocasio-Cortez to a debate on the merits of capitalism versus socialism as they both marched in the National Puerto Rican Day Parade. Valdes claims the democratic socialist “jetted to the other side of street”when he tried to approach her.
"Trent told The Post after the missed encounter that Ocasio-Cortez didn’t run away from Valdes, and that she “doesn’t owe anybody a debate.' ” . . .

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The media’s shameful PR campaign for Elizabeth Warren, our national scold

The Spectator

She needed a rebrand. The mainstream press is doing it for her

"In recent weeks, Elizabeth Warren has emerged as the mainstream media’s favorite candidate – for now, at least.

"Warren’s polling has largely been stagnant over the course of the race for the Democratic nomination, but you wouldn’t know it from the fawning coverage – coverage that just so happens to consistently echo the Warren campaign’s exact talking points. The New York Times asks ‘Elizabeth Warren is running an ideas-first campaign. Will it work?’ The Washington Post writes, ‘Warren’s nonstop ideas reshape the Democratic presidential race — and give her new momentum.’ Apparently, the ‘self-admitted policy wonk who has put her meaty policy prescriptions front and center in the campaign’ is also approaching ‘a breakout with black voters,’ and ‘she is very good on the stump.’

"Should the mainstream press be quite so adoring of a political candidate? What’s concerning is that these articles – written by supposedly objective journalists – are stuffed to the brim with barely concealed Warren campaign talking points. ‘Ideas-first,’ ‘nonstop ideas’, ‘meaty policy prescriptions’ – most campaigns can’t buy coverage like that. Either directly or indirectly, the same writers and reporters whose job it is to cover and analyze the 2020 race objectively are ingesting the Warren campaign’s messaging and regurgitating it verbatim in the pages of their publications." . . .

There's nothing that Joe Biden can't whip!

Is Joe Biden losing It?  . . . "Here are two recent headlines from RealClearPolitics:

Trump: "Sleepy Joe" Biden Is "Not Going To Be Able To Do The Job"

Trump: I'd Rather Run Against Biden, He's The "Weakest Mentally"

"It sounds like Trump is going to bat Biden around like a chew toy on the Democratic campaign trail. And this doesn't even get into the live matter of Biden's handsiness on the little girls at assorted campaign rallies in the past, something Joe says he's a reformed man on.

"Yet amazingly, Biden is the best the Democrats have to offer, the front runner, the guy who seems pegged for the number one spot. Roger Simon thinks it's so bad maybe Elizabeth Warren will eventually be the nominee, given this kind of performance. A fake Indian who gamed her way into ivy league teaching positions and now wants you to drink a beer with her.

"Bottom line, it's starting to get noticed all over that Joe Biden is an old old race horse whose better days are behind him. Maybe it's time for him to go."

Biden promises to 'cure cancer' if people elect him president  . . . "Is there anything Joe Biden can't do?

Joe Biden told an audience in Ottumwa, Iowa Tuesday that his White House would "cure" cancer should he beat President Trump in 2020.

"I've worked so hard in my career, that I promise you, if I'm elected president you're gonna see single most important thing that changes America, we're gonna cure cancer," Biden said to applause.

. . . "Presumably, Biden would also know that significant progress has been made as things are now, and there's no conservative conspiracy to halt cancer treatment or cures; conservatives are some of cancer research's top supporters. In fact, many kinds of cancer are being cured, not by government, but by talented medical practitioners on the frontiers of knowledge. No insertion of Biden into the matter is going to make a difference on that. We already know what inserting Biden does to the cancer-cure situation based on his past roles - which is zero." . . .

Rush Limbaugh: Trump needs to go to California, remind Americans what a Dem-run state looks like

Fox News  . . . "That's what conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh advised Trump to do Tuesday, saying he should start appearing periodically in California to remind Americans about the failures of Democratic policies in California.
" 'I think Trump ought to start going to California. I think he ought to go there once a month. I think the Republican National Committee ought to schedule a debate in California," Limbaugh said on his radio show. "I think the campaign should have ads showing and highlighting the homelessness in downtown Los Angeles and pointing out that this is what happens when Democrats run things with no opposition, no checks, no balances.' " . . .

Too Busy Mocking Obama To Enjoy The Joke

In any case, Obama may have thought he was addressing yet another typical Dem fundraiser Upper West Side audience desperate for gun control. He chose poorly.

Just One Minute  "Obama ran his mouth in Brazil recently, spouting nonsense about gun laws in the US:

"Some of you may be aware our gun laws in the United States don't make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon any time. Without much, if any, regulation, they can buy it over the Internet, they can buy machine guns," Obama told the audience.

"Machine guns?!? Yeah, yeah, nonsense. 

"But here's the kicker, and let's go to the videotape! Come in at the 40 second mark. What does the crowd do after Obama says "Anybody can buy any weapon any time"? They go nuts! What, did Brazil score a goal in the World Cup?

"Not really. It turns out Brazil has very restrictive gun laws and very corrupt police. The upshot proves the old adage that when you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Their gun homicide rate is roughly five times that of the US.

"The public is not happy. Back in 2006 they rejected by referendum an attempt to further limit civilian access to weapons. And their current President, a former paratrooper and law-and-order candidate, ran on a "Suns out, guns out" message: . . .

From May 31, 2019: Obama Tells Multiple Lies About Guns In The U.S. To A Crowd In Brazil  . . .

 "Former President Barack Obama told multiple lies on Thursday to a crowd in Brazil while discussing gun laws in the United States — something that he repeatedly did during his presidency.' . . .'Everything stated by Obama was a blatant lie."Stephen Gutowski, a Second Amendment reporter for The Washington Free Beacon, highlighted some of Obama's in a series of tweets on Friday." 'Former President Obama just straight up lied about America's gun laws while at an event in Brazil--a country with strict gun laws and an unfathomably-high gun murder rate," Gutowski tweeted. "Former President Obama told the Brazilian crowd 'anybody can buy any weapon any time without much, if any, regulation' of our gun laws which is just plain false on its face. A complete lie.' " . . .

When did Congressional testimony become performance art?

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Victor Davis Hanson: Anti-Trump figures could face 'boomerang effect' as Mueller probe concludes 

. . . "Hanson recommended that President Trump in 2020 campaign heavily on the state of the economy as the post-Mueller news cycle continues."You mention the good economy," he told host Laura Ingraham. "That's something Trump needs to focus even more on.""We have a big annual deficit and Trump might be vulnerable there, but the Democrats don't have a reputation for fiscal sobriety," he added. "In areas that Trump might be vulnerable, they offer no alternative vision but the Green New Deal and reparations." . . .

When you address a committee, you are competing for attention and influence on the internet  . . . "To note that he was showboating is not meant as a criticism. Stewart has campaigned for proper health coverage for the first responders for over a decade and knows many of them personally: these were not the vainglorious platitudes of another celebrity chump.
"But it is also worth noting that Stewart did not have to – as a YouTuber might put it – ‘DESTROY’ the committee as much as he did. He could have made his points without the ‘EPIC’ anger; without all the zingers (‘al-Qaeda didn’t shout “death to Tribeca”‘); without constantly fiddling with his pen the way he used to on The Daily Show. He could – probably – have got what he wanted without making the whole process of committee hearings look dull, antiquated and inhumane." . . .

Want To Guess Which Republican Sided With Democrats On AG Barr's Contempt Vote? . . . "And now, the war between House Democrats and the Trump White House had reached a new level. Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) was the sole Republican to vote with Democrats (via NYT):

Time To Start A Recall Process For California

Noisy Room  "Recalling a governor has been done before (Gray Davis) in California for reasons not nearly as serious as those under present Governor Gavin Newsom. Procedures are here.

"Let’s take a look, shall we?

1. He pardoned several felons just last month including those that committed grand theft, solicited a murder for hire operation in a street gang network, and even forgery.
2. There is a growing homeless problem that is so far out of control the Center for Disease Control should declare several cities/counties a threat to public safety for disease control and prevention. In fact, the CDC spends more than $3 million out of their California office and most of that is earmarked for Los Angeles. 

3. Remember that boondoggle of a high speed rail system? Well, the federal government kicked in $2.5 billion and canceled a balance of $930 million since Newsom, for the most part, terminated the rail construction. There is some chatter about restarting the high speed rail construction where the cost would blow up to $77 billion. But hold on… there is more about this. California owes landowners under eminent domain. Seems many of those landowners moved away for nothing, literally nothing. Businesses wonder too about their financial sacrifice. Others could not sell their real estate that was not part of the rail system or eminent domain because it was too near the proposed rail project and the land was essentially declared worthless.

. . . 

4. Now, Governor Newsom has declared undocumented immigrants will get state-paid healthcare. The state already has financial obligations it has not paid and must honor to make things right for her citizens before he can go spend $98 million. Where did that number even come from in the first place? Oh, another detail is a fine on people who don’t buy healthcare insurance, known as the individual mandate. He included in this budget (state budget is $214 billion) an additional $450 million over 3 years to fund insurance subsidies. Don’t forget that water tax too, it is still on the table while the state power companies are toggling power to users to save dollars. Sounds like a third world country more every day. Can the state even fund the $7.8 billion in the state employee pension fund? Oh, all diapers and menstrual products are tax exempt, there is rental assistance, and a major housing shortage. Swell eh?  

. . . 

How to get rid of Trump? Somebody help!

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Pelosi says she’s ‘done’ talking about Trump, but admits Dem caucus ‘not even close’ on impeachment  . . . "Pelosi, who served in Congress during the impeachment process for former President Bill Clinton, has warned that moving forward with efforts to impeach President Trump will only tear the nation part.
“ 'There is nothing as divisive in our country, in my view, than impeachment,” she said Tuesday, although she reportedly recently told Democrats that she would rather see Trump “in prison.' ” . . .



Even Democrats Aren’t Sure Whether John Dean Did Them Any Good  . . . "After the four-hour hearing wrapped on Monday, though, not all Democrats were reveling in the testimony of Watergate’s star witness. Some were even wondering if anyone had bothered to watch." . . .

'The Return of Dean,' or another sign that they got nothing on Trump  . . . "The bottom line is that Nadler and company have nothing on President Trump, or at least nothing that can be turned into an article of impeachment that the country will believe.

At the same time, they can't look at the camera and admit that the Mueller chapter is over and it's time to fix real issues, such as the border crisis." . . .

If you saw a helicopter crash instead of John Dean's testimony yesterday, here's the 11.5 minutes you want to watch

Beto O’Rourke Vows to Prosecute Trump When He Becomes President  . . . "I would want my Justice Department, any future administration’s Justice Department to follow the facts and the truth and to make sure at the end of the day there’s accountability and justice, without this, without that, this idea, this experiment of American democracy comes to a close." . . . Video here.

Is America Now a One-Party Country?

David Kamioner  "There was a time, perhaps last in the mid-1960s, when this country had two viable political parties that represented two practical views of government. Both had many principles in common and both regularly were granted executive power from the voters.
"Since that time one party, the Republicans, in its befuddled and often frustrating way, has continued to represent at least some semblance of a cogent set of ideals and practical political arrangements.

"The Democrats, no longer an actual political party as we commonly understand the term, has devolved into a rabid alliance of grievance mongers more concerned with getting federal loot than they are in the welfare of the nation as a whole.
"We won’t count the Libertarian Party, because really . . . who does?
"The Democrats have achieved this status by cleverly exploiting the resentment and bitterness of groups that at one time had bona fide grievances with American society. To name two, blacks and women.
"Of course, African Americans and women have gotten raw deals in the past. But it’s also the case that both groups have seen many unfair biases wither away, more as a result of gradual societal edification and maturation than of government intervention. That is not enough for the gripe groupies. It never could be.
"They pursue a successful two-track strategy of crying oppression to keep up loyalty to the cause while at the same time encouraging their clients to believe in equality of result, which is an impossible goal. When parity of results fails to occur (because it’s impossible) this in turn further fuels the resentment and bitterness that alights the grievance engines and enriches its engineers.
"The ironic part is the Democrats largely have been effective in securing for their charges many of the unethical thumb-on-the-scales perks they once decried as racism and sexism when they applied to white males as recently as a generation ago.
"The main cases bear examination." . . .

Ilhan Omar Refuses to Comment on Terrorist Recruitment in Her District

PJ Media

"WASHINGTON — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) declined to address a report that found the highest level of terrorist group recruitment has taken place in her congressional district.

According to a Fox News report from February, “More men and boys from a Somali American community in Minneapolis have joined – or attempted to join – a foreign terrorist organization over the last 12 years than any other jurisdiction in the country.” The city of Minneapolis is located in Omar’s district.

“ 'FBI stats show 45 Somalis left to join the ranks of either the Somalia-based Islamic insurgency al-Shabab, or the Iraq- and Syria-based ISIS combined. And as of 2018, a dozen more had been arrested with the intention of leaving to support ISIS,” stated the report.

"Omar, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, was asked about the report's findings on Capitol Hill." . . .