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Trey Gowdy is Responding to James Comey's Demands For an Apology

Katie Pavlich  "Last week Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released an 83-page long report confirming fired FBI Director James Comey repeatedly violated FBI rules, protocol and the law by leaking official memos to the media. The memos contained details about his conversations with President Trump. 

" 'In a country built on the rule of law, it is of utmost importance that all FBI employees adhere to Department and FBI policies, particularly when confronted by what appear to be extraordinary circumstances or compelling personal convictions. Comey had several other lawful options available to him to advocate for the appointment of a Special Counsel, which he told us was his goal in making the disclosure. What was not permitted was the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive investigative information, obtained during the course of FBI employment, in order to achieve a personally desired outcome," the IG report states. 

"Despite these facts, Comey demanded an apology from those who accused him of being a leaker.
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 "Now, former House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy is responding to Comey's demands and isn't mincing words. "I never said Comey would or should go to jail. I'm certainly not going to apologize to anyone who violated FBI and Department of Justice policy, who violated an employment agreement, who shared sensitive information about an ongoing investigation, who sent classified information to an unauthorized person and then had amnesia when the FBI came to his home to try to retrieve government property. I'm not going to apologize," Gowdy said during an interview on Fox News. "What temperature is it in hell right now? Is it snowing? When it snows in hell, you let me know." . . .

Memo to Joe Walsh: Primary Challengers Never Win, And Neither Does Their Party

Issues & Insights "Any Republican supporting a primary challenge against President Donald Trump for the Republican nomination in 2020, if it is successful or even if it just hampers the primary process, is virtually guaranteeing the next president will be a Democrat.

Joe Walsh, friend of the Democrats

"And with it, Democrats will once again have all the trappings of the presidency, including nominating the next Supreme Court justices, signing laws and conducting foreign relations.

"In modern U.S. history of presidential elections since the nation’s first political primaries in 1912, no sitting president has ever been denied his party’s nomination at a nominating convention whilst standing for reelection. 2020 will be no different, wherein the Republican nominee for president will almost certainly be Donald Trump once again.

"Here’s another feature of those contests: Every single one of the one-term presidents of the 20th Century — William Howard Taft in 1912, Herbert Hoover in 1932, Gerald Ford in 1976, Jimmy Carter in 1980 and George H.W. Bush in 1992 — all faced strong primary challenges.

"Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson both withdrew their candidacies from the elections of 1952 and 1968 respectively in the face of a strong primary challengers. Truman lostthe 1952 New Hampshire primary and Johnson barely won the 1968 New Hampshire primary. One can quibble about whether these count as being ousted or not but they were not on the ballots at the conventions because they were not contesting the conventions at that point. They forfeited. Both conventions ended up being brokered, with none of the prime vote getters in the primaries obtaining the nomination.

How to Spot a Serious Gun-Crime Proposal

National Review

There is not much cause for a panicked crackdown on the legal sale of firearms through firearms dealers. But demagogues benefit from panic.

"There was another massacre, this one in Midland and Odessa, Texas. As usual, tragedy was followed by stupidity. 

"The New York Times, in its poetical mode, observed that the crime “clashed with the typically serene and dusty rural landscape of the region.” In reality, Odessa is the most dangerous city in Texas, with a murder rate about twice the national average. So much for “serene.” It is not particularly rural, either, though you pass through a good deal of rurality on the way there: Midland and Odessa effectively run together to form a city about the size of Madison, Wis., or Buffalo, N.Y. So much for “rural.” 

"It is dusty. 

"The killer was — see if this sounds familiar — well known to police, and well known to his neighbors as a raving lunatic who lived in a commercial shed without running water and at night fired his rifle into the darkness. 

"The usual ghouls were on their usual soapboxes before the blood had even dried. “Background checks!” they cried. Federal authorities then revealed that the killer already had been denied during an earlier attempt to purchase a firearm; our background-check system works when we work it. Which we do not always do: Sometimes, sales are approved when they should not be, as the result of delays in the background-check system; when the authorities become aware that such a sale has been wrongly approved, they make no effort at all to recover the firearms. It just is not done. Why? Bureaucratic inertia. 

"After the Midland-Odessa shootings, Joe Biden brought to bear his trademark alloy of dishonesty, sanctimony, and stupidity, insisting that only scheming special-interest groups had prevented us from taking the obvious measure of banning “magazines that can hold multiple bullets” — which is to say, magazines, categorically, inasmuch as holding multiple bullets is what magazines do. A proposal such as Biden suggests would mean an effective ban on nearly all modern handguns and most rifles, along with a goodly portion of shotguns."  . . .

Demagogues love nothing better than a population that is ignorant and terrified, one that needs only someone to blame. Joe Biden, in his nearly pristine ignorance, is ready to supply whatever — whomever — suits on that front. Most Democrats and some Republicans are ready to go along with him. 

Seinfeld Star Rips ‘Will & Grace’ Actors for ‘Embarrassing’ Actions Against Trump Supporters

The Seinfeld star said that he found the entire notion that Hollywood can not accept a difference of opinion, as demonstrated by McCormack and Messing’s temper tantrum, to be “obscene.”

The Political Insider  "John O’Hurley, an actor best known for his role as Elaine Benes’ eccentric boss J. Peterman on the legendary NBC sitcom “Seinfeld,” tore into a pair of ‘Will & Grace’ actors calling for Trump supporters to be shunned and doxxed.

Eric McCormack, a Canadian actor who played the character Will Truman, called for a boycott of Trump supporters in Hollywood while Debra Messing, who played Grace Adler in the same series, called for donors to the President to be outed.

“ 'Please print a list of all attendees please,” Messing wrote in response to a Hollywood Reporter story on a Beverly Hills fundraiser for the President. “The public has a right to know.”

"That was shortly after McCormack demanded, “Hey, [Hollywood Reporter], kindly report on everyone attending this event, so the rest of us can be clear about who we don’t wanna work with.”

"O’Hurley praised both McCormack and Messing as actors before shredding their actions as “lunacy” and revealing he felt “embarrassed” by what they had done.

. . . 

“Let me just say I’m embarrassed for both of them because I know them both, I’ve worked with Debra before,” O’Hurley explained. “They’re both smart people … they do wonderful work.”

“But, they’re pushing a case that falls apart from the sheer weight of its lunacy, as though the Hollywood community needs to be purged of this social and intellectual hygiene problem called conservative thinking,” he added."

. . . 

"O’Hurley, one of the few outspoken conservatives in Hollywood, says it’s frustrating to work in an industry where your opinions are shunned.

“ 'It’s very difficult to be a conservative in Hollywood,” he said. “Even though there are many of us, you do feel you are an island fighting the storm.”

"He did, however, point out other famous actors such as Bryan Cranston and Michael Richards, whom he says have differing viewpoints than he does, but enjoy an actual intellectual conversation debating the issues." . . .

On Beto's F-Bombs and Tyranny

One must fear those American voters who cannot recognize what a silly man O'Rourke is.

Townhall  On Saturday, the United States witnessed another public mass shooting event. Exactly four weeks after the attack in El Paso, this shooting was Texas’ second in the month of August. When police stopped a car between the cities of Odessa and Midland, the gunman reportedly began firing at random, killing at least seven people and wounding over 20, including a 17-month-old girl.
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Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas Congressman who is struggling to gain traction in the Democratic 2020 primary race, is one such politician. To demonstrate the depth of the emotion he shares with those mourning, he dropped the infamous “F-bomb” on two occasions while discussing the shooting.
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"As opportunistic politicians such as Beto O’Rourke stand on the graves of tragedy and applaud the notion of unleashing governmental control to destroy individual liberty, they are attempting to usher in such a tyranny. Tyranny which the Second Amendment was written to defend against. 
"We should mourn the tragic deaths in Texas together, but we must remain vigilant of those who hope to use our tears in their ultimate pursuit of power."

Are any Democrats at all embarrassed by Bobby (Beto) Francis O'Rourke? (Language advisory.)

Expect O'Rourke to drop a couple of F-bombs in the debates; it gets cheers from youthful voices. I see no sigh of Democrats being capable of shame or embarrassment over anyone. Not Beto nor Auntie Maxine. TD

"Swearing doesn't make you sound hip or passionate. It makes you sound like you're trying too hard to sound hip and passionate as you're exploiting the deaths of shooting victims, whose bodies are still warm, for political purposes." *

Desperate for Attention, Beto Drops 'F-Bombs' All Over the Place to Describe Shootings in Midland-Odessa

Maybe Beto is trying to sound "working class"  . . . But let's face it, Beto doesn't look or sound "working class." He looks and sounds like a nerdy folk singer -- which is exactly what he was.

Beto's toilet mouth
. . . "But one thing stands out that's getting even more tiresome than that: Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke's reflexive use of foul language in his public statements. Here is what he tweeted for all to see:" 

Beto O'Rourke‏Verified account @BetoORourke

We don't know how many have been killed. We don't know the motivation. But here's what we do know: This is fucked up.

 . . . "Then he went on to spew the F-word on national television:

"It's far from the first time he's done it. See here, here, here, and here.

"Way to expose the kids, Beto.

Now, there's no need to be a prude about the use of the f-word on all occasions. Sometimes the use of the f-word as an intensifier is acceptable, within certain well-defined contexts.

"If a first-responder in an emergency, for example, or a military man in combat, or a firefighter fighting a monster wildfire, or an airline pilot in distress, uses that word, nobody considers that a problem. If a thug or a rabid leftist uses it, it's not good, but it's perfectly par for the course because it's expected. If a computer hacker uses it, O.K., because some of those people talk like that all the time (and Beto is a hacker whose f-bombs were nothing compared to his hacker record as a repulsive poet). If a writer for The Atlantic or some other high-quality literary organ uses the word, fine, so long it's within a carefully chosen context of words and their rhythms, precisely and sparingly used. Sometimes even a politican can use it, if the intensifier is the only word for to describe the situation or perhaps the word is heard in a private context, such as here, but once again, very sparingly and exceptionally.

"But here we have a guy who's on the national stage, presenting himself as presidential material, openly and publicly and copiously using that word, his mouth going like an overflowing toilet.  . . ."

Beto is just a 4-letter word . . . "So Beto is down to using four-letter words to express his anger.  Watch for Beto to drop another one at the debate.  It's all that he has left in the tank!"

*Beto Campaign Exploits Mass Shooting By Selling Obscene T-Shirt
. . . "As PJMedia's managing editor Paula Bolyard noted, "Swearing doesn't make you sound hip or passionate. It makes you sound like you're trying too hard to sound hip and passionate as you're exploiting the deaths of shooting victims, whose bodies are still warm, for political purposes." Apparently Beto didn't get the message because his campaign is now selling shirts with "This is f**ked up" on them in response to the shooting." . . .

Democrats often attack Trump for not acting presidential enough, so it is curious that Beto is taking what could have simply been explained as a single passionate moment of anger and turning it into merchandising opportunity. 

Edgy Beto Now Selling F-Bomb T-Shirts, Fundraising Off of Shooting Victims
"The comment elicited applause and laughter [from Democrats], distasteful to say the least." . . .   More here,

Why Harris, Booker, and Klobuchar (nor hopefully any other Democrat) will never be President

But it is clear that not one of them feels any shame over their wholly unfair condemnation of Kavanaugh.  They are proud of their talent for the politics of personal destruction; Democrats invented it, perfected it.  People like Harris, Booker and Klobuchar have existed since the founding era and will always be with us, but they should be shunned for their amorality, their willingness to grind their opponents into dust.

Patricia McCarthy  "The calculated Russia hoax devised to bring down a presidential candidate, president-elect and then president, is the most serious and egregious political scandal in US history.  Second may be the Kavanaugh hearings.  So determined to not let Brett Kavanaugh be seated on the Supreme Court, the demented Left decided to invent an equally monstrous lie to prevent the confirmation of Trump's choice for the Justice to replace Anthony Kennedy. I think that every Democrat on that committee had to know that the accusations against Kavanaugh were false, that Blasey-Ford was a plant, a willing dupe in the Democrat scheme to destroy a good man for their political purposes.  The entire fiasco was so unspeakable that in a just world, all the perpetrators would be in prison for fraud, Diane Feinstein among them."
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. . . "There is little doubt that had Biden, Warren, O'Rourke, and the rest of the Democrat candidates been on that judiciary committee, they would have been equally vicious toward Kavanaugh.  They too would have relished devastating a good man for political purposes.  This emptiness of soul is why Harris, Booker and Klobuchar, will all lose.  They are a menace to America as is the rest of the left. "
Emphasis mine, TD

Ariel Dumas, a writer for CBS’s “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” declared that “Whatever happens, I’m just glad we ruined Brett Kavanaugh’s life.”

HuffPost and Senior Reporter Sued Over Kavanaugh Story  . . . "Evans insists that there were no sources to support that story and that HuffPo’s conduct was so egregious that it satisfies the higher standard of New York Times v. Sullivan. That standard requires a showing of “actual malice,” or either knowledge that a representation is actually false or reckless disregard of the truth of the representation." . . .  Jonathan Turley

Official Democrat Party Magazine Discovered!!!

Doug Ross Journal  "Veteran summer intern Biff Spackle (on Twitter @BiffSpackle) has an uncanny sense of breaking news.
"Seldom has a junior employee at a major, national periodical broken so many important news stories. After all, there's, well, there are certain to be important scoops we could discover if we ever went back and checked the archives.
"Without further ado: we are proud to announce, after seven full years of summer internship, that Biff has been promoted to Junior Associate Clerical Analyst III.
"This promotion is in recognition of his outstanding work on graphic arts, literary critiques and similar outstanding work that is simply outstanding.
"With all that said, here is Spackle's latest scoop, a secret copy of the Democrat Party's official magazine. You didn't get this from us."
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Western Movies

. . . “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” A country without such larger-than-life legends is a land without a soul. It says something sad about America that Hollywood doesn’t make many westerns nowadays. It says something hopeful that so many of us still love the ones we already have.

National Review

"My wife and I watch a lot of old movies together, and we have in common what you might call a “default position” on choosing the ones that we see: Whenever we can’t make up our minds about what to watch, we’re more than likely to put on a western. In recent weeks, for instance, we’ve watched Colorado Territory, Hondo, The Man from Laramie, Seven Men from Now, Tombstone, and The Westerner, each of which we’d seen many times before and each of which satisfied us just as much the umpteenth time around.

"What is it about westerns that keeps Mrs. T and me coming back for more? Part of the pleasure they give arises from their clarity of conception. George Balanchine, the great Russian-American choreographer, also loved westerns, a taste that puzzled his highbrow admirers, to whom he replied that he liked them because “there is nothing superfluous in them. Simple things without pretensions. . . . You watch a western and think, Ah! There’s something to this.”

"But that “something” also has to do with the moral clarity of the Hollywood western. I’m talking not about black and white hats, but about the fact that the characters in every great western are forced to make moral choices that are always clear but rarely easy, especially since they live in a world in which sheriffs and jails are few and far between. In a world without laws or lawmen, we must all choose between the moral integrity of the old-fashioned hero and the moral cannibalism of the self-willed villain. Such stark choices are the essence of the classic western, which is why the genre and its three brightest stars, Gary Cooper, Randolph Scott, and John Wayne, continue to retain their near-mythic hold on the imaginations of American moviegoers.

"I just used the words “mythic” and “American,” which brings us to the heart of the matter. Taken together, the best Hollywood westerns come as close as anything ever has to comprising America’s creation myth, a tale of brave men and women who rode toward Monument Valley to make better lives for themselves and their children. Of course we all know it wasn’t as clear-cut as that, which is what makes their story mythic: It’s what we want to believe about American history. But if it isn’t all true, neither is it all false, and there is something both beautiful and vitally important in the perfect simplicity of the story that these films collectively tell. An all-American tale, if you like — and I do.

"That’s what John Ford meant when he put these oft-quoted words into the mouth of one of the characters in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” A country without such larger-than-life legends is a land without a soul. It says something sad about America that Hollywood doesn’t make many westerns nowadays. It says something hopeful that so many of us still love the ones we already have." . . .

Does Joe Biden Want to Be Doing This?

ENMNEWS.COM  . . . "Mr. Biden’s campaign has been jackhammering home the premise that he is best suited to winning a general election against an incumbent who must not be re-elected.

“He doesn’t think you need a revolution here,” said Anita Dunn, a Democratic media strategist working for the Biden campaign. His enterprise is built more on a strategic bet: that given the possibility of another four years of Mr. Trump, Democrats will gravitate to the familiar and reach for this stitched-up old teddy bear of a candidate.

“There is a situation where the electability argument within the context of this primary becomes self-perpetuating,” said Dan Pfeiffer, a Democratic strategist who served as a top campaign and White House aide to Barack Obama. “Everyone thinks Biden’s the most electable, therefore voters tell pollsters that he is more electable — and therefore more people think that, and it sort of all goes around the circle.”

"Clearly, other candidates have far more identifiable “whys” attached to their enterprises. Supporters of Ms. Warren would readily point to her fight against a corrupt political system rigged in favor of moneyed interests. Supporters of Mr. Sanders have been hearing his protest against the scourge of economic inequality in America for decades. Supporters of Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year old mayor of South Bend, Ind., would extol him — as he does himself — as a force for the generational change that Washington begs for.

"Those are the rallying cries with which Mr. Biden’s “play it safe” selling point is competing. And as strong as that point might be, his superpower of perceived electability coexists with a lingering question about why, exactly, he has decided to jump back into this delirium pen.

"Asked another way: Would he be doing this if a more conventional Republican (a Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush) were in the White House?

“ 'Um, I’m not sure, to be quite honest with you,” Mr. Biden said. “I hadn’t planned on running again.' ” . . .

Here’s What People Who USED To Be TRANSGENDER Are TELLING The Supreme Court

Socio-Political Journal  "The Supreme Court will hear a pivotal case in October on sex, gender identity, and discrimination: R.G. and G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. 
As both sides build their cases, numerous influential organizations and individuals have filed amicus (friend of the court) briefs to aid the members of the Supreme Court in their understanding on this topic.
One brief in particular stands out. It’s so powerful, it should not only persuade the Supreme Court but influence people on both sides of the transgender debate, particularly the mainstream media.

Shupe and wife.

There Is No Such Thing as Gender Fluidity

"The brief examines the personal testimonies of the following people, all of whom identified as transgender at one point, then reverted to affirming their sex: Walt Heyer, Jamie Shupe, Linda Seiler, Hacsi Horvath, Clifton Francis Burleigh Jr., Laura Perry, Jeffrey Johnston, Jeffrey McCall, and Kathy Grace Duncan. While regular Federalist readers may be familiar with regular contributor Heyer, the other names may be unfamiliar. Yet their stories are just as powerful.

"For starters, each of these people now believes, due to counseling, therapy, and personal experiences, that there is no such thing as gender fluidity or transgender. They now believe it is a fantasy many people try to make real.

"Take Shupe, American’s first person to secure legal recognition of a nonbinary, transgender identity. He is a former hero of the left. His transgenderism “became the driver for over a dozen states to adopt an X marker in addition to male and female on driver licenses.” He first identified as a “transgender woman,” then as nonbinary.

"The brief reads, “Publicly acknowledging that he is male and that his sex changes were a legal fiction has led to Mr. Shupe being shamed by the LGBTQ community for his beliefs that sex is binary and that those who struggle with gender identity issues need therapy and compassion, not to identify as a third gender.”

"Laura Perry is a former female to male transgender person who underwent hormone treatment and a double mastectomy. “Ms. Perry enjoyed the transition process at first, and she entered into a relationship with another transgender individual,” says the brief. “They attended LGBT events together but stopped when the members of the community developed hatred for her partner who was conservative." . . .